"Shove off" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Chantel swore in one tongue, and in another cried to the boatman—"Shove off, if they won't come!" He seized the woman roughly and pulled her on board; but she reached out ...
— Dragon's blood • Henry Milner Rideout
... this, her first sky ride of any distance. For a moment, as she looked over the side of the machine, she had a distinct impression, not that she was going up, but that some one had pulled the earth down from beneath her and, at the same time, given her a shove off into space. Such is the first sensation of going aloft. Then the rush of air all about her, the slightly swaying motion of the craft, and the vibration caused by the motor took her attention. But the sensation of the earth dropping away from beneath ...
— Tom Swift and his Air Scout - or, Uncle Sam's Mastery of the Sky • Victor Appleton
... canoes were on the bank, one was already in the water smaller than the others. Kendo pointed it out to Charley and me, and entreated us to jump in, observing as he did so: "Wife dare." We thought that he was about to follow, but instead of doing so, he gave the canoe a shove off with all his might into the middle of the stream, and then assisted Harry and the ...
— The Two Supercargoes - Adventures in Savage Africa • W.H.G. Kingston
... better," admitted Walters a little reluctantly, "but he hasn't got that tremendous shove off the stretcher that makes the other so useful a man to follow. Besides, he has too much temper to be able to nurse and humour the lame ducks and bring them on as Durend ...
— Two Daring Young Patriots - or, Outwitting the Huns • W. P. Shervill |
