"Elbowing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Suddenly his eyes fell upon the little hand-bag which she carried. On one end, in small white letters, was: "Ruth Nelson, Kentucky, U.S.A." He watched her until she was lost to view, then he turned eagerly back into the crowd. Elbowing his way forward, he seized ...
— Sandy • Alice Hegan Rice
... the hotels—the big marble-paved chambers of informal reunion which offer to the streets, through high glass plates, the sight of the American citizen suspended by his heels. Here, amid the piled-up luggage, the convenient spittoons, the elbowing loungers, the disconsolate "guests," the truculent Irish porters, the rows of shaggy-backed men in strange hats, writing letters at a table inlaid with advertisements, Selah Tarrant made innumerable contemplative ...
— The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) • Henry James
... Coblenz's engagement reception, an event properly festooned with smilax and properly jostled with the elbowing figures of waiters tilting their plates of dark-meat chicken salad, two olives, and a finger-roll in among the crowd, a stringed three-piece orchestra, faintly seen and still more faintly heard, played ...
— Gaslight Sonatas • Fannie Hurst
... the first time, his gay self again—at least on the surface. It was as though, knowing what he was going into, he would leave with Sara Lee no feeling, if he never returned, that she had inflicted a lasting hurt. He was everywhere in the little house, elbowing his way among the men with his cheery nonsense, bantering the weary ones until they smiled, carrying hot water for Sara Lee and helping her now and ...
— The Amazing Interlude • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... of God is man in the image of his [1] Maker; the last infirmity of evil is so-called man, swayed by the maelstrom of human passions, elbowing the con- cepts of his own creating, making place for himself and ...
— Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 • Mary Baker Eddy
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