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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
push .
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Examples
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Further afield, he might be tempted to visit New Quay or Dollish (Dawlish), Lime Regis (Lyme Regis), or Sutton Cold Field (Sutton Coldfield), one of the pushest (poshest) parts of Birmingham.
Why Are E-Books So Poorly Proofed? | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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Further afield, he might be tempted to visit New Quay or Dollish (Dawlish), Lime Regis (Lyme Regis), or Sutton Cold Field (Sutton Coldfield), one of the pushest (poshest) parts of Birmingham.
Why Are E-Books So Poorly Proofed? | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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Sir Bull! when they tie thee to thy stinking manger, thou pawest the ground with thy forehand and rashest out with thy hind hoofs and pushest with thy horns and bellowest aloud, so they deem thee contented.
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Hamdir answered, “Little didst thou praise Gunnar and Hogni, whereas they slew Sigurd, and thou wert reddened in the blood of him, and ill were thy brethren avenged by the slaying of thine own sons: yet not so ill a deed were it for us to slay King Jormunrek, and so hard thou pushest on to this that we may naught abide thy hard words.”
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"Take care whom thou pushest against!" cried a great, burly friar to one of these men.
The Adventures of Robin Hood Howard Pyle 1882
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Hamdir answered, "Little didst thou praise Gunnar and Hogni, whereas they slew Sigurd, and thou wert reddened in the blood of him, and ill were thy brethren avenged by the slaying of thine own sons: yet not so ill a deed were it for us to slay King Jormunrek, and so hard thou pushest on to this that we may naught abide thy hard words."
The Story of the Volsungs Anonymous 1873
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Now hearken to me, Sir Bull! when they tie thee to thy stinking manger, thou pawest the ground with thy forehand and rashest out with thy hind hoofs and pushest with thy horns and bellowest aloud, so they deem thee contented.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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_ Go on, go on: thou pushest thy own breast against the sword.
Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Walter Savage Landor 1819
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Quick, quick, help me out of my prison; if thou pushest back the bolt of this glass coffin, then I shall be free.”
Household Tales 2003
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Meanwhile, worthiness, though reared by priests, Thou pushest thyself away from the temples decisively. "
The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt Boles��aw Prus 1879
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