"Push aside" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... peeling a pear, which he had taken from a dish upon the table, and he laid down his knife for a moment to push aside ...
— The Wheel of Life • Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
... command of the detachment himself, and, forgetting for that moment the teaching of Paul touching love for one's neighbor, he pressed and cut the throng in front with a haste that was fatal to many who could not push aside in season. He and his men were followed by curses and a shower of stones; but to these he gave no heed, caring only to reach freer spaces at the earliest. Still he advanced with the greatest effort. People who had encamped would ...
— Quo Vadis - A Narrative of the Time of Nero • Henryk Sienkiewicz
... monitory tap on the knee. Page, in fact, was a great and incessant talker; hardly anything delighted him more than a companionable exchange of ideas and impressions; he was seldom so busy that he would not push aside his papers for a chat; and he would talk with almost any one, on almost any subject—his secretaries, his stenographers, his office boys, and any crank who succeeded in getting by the doorman—for, in spite of his lively warnings against the breed, Page did really love cranks ...
— The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II • Burton J. Hendrick
... push aside the little flap of skin and put into the stomach any kind of food that he pleased, and then watch to ...
— Child's Health Primer For Primary Classes • Jane Andrews
... find no more diplomatic answer than that "the King would do very ill in sending him, and the Duke would do much worse if he desired to go." Charles took the easiest course for one who wishes to push aside unpalatable advice: "the matter was decided, and there was nothing for it but to prepare instructions." Hyde was not to be turned aside; Ormonde, he urged, was needful to the King in London, and would be useless in Ireland. Hyde ...
— The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon V2 • Henry Craik
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