Having discovered his niche, the pushful Smith soon had his fingers in several other pies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference

Of a surety not in the pushful set of jobbers and tricksters he was condemned to live amongst.    From Wordnik.com.  [Australia Felix] Reference

He was invaded by a set of soft, pushful feelings and wishes, such as he had not dreamed were in him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Tales of Old Strasbourg] Reference

Herbert, a young officer in the ant A.S.C. When we first knew Herbert (or "'Erb" as he was known in those days), he was an impudent and pushful private.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 7, 1917] Reference

Major Mallaby-Kelby was a keen pushful officer, immensely eager to maintain the well-known efficiency of the Brigade while the colonel was away; but he took me into his confidence on another matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference

The house had long been looked upon as something of a white elephant in the theatrical jungle; but Lumley, being pushful and knowledgeable, soon built up a valuable following and set the establishment on its legs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference

Dr. Chaptman is pushful, enterprising and progressive.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Louisiana Negro Baptists From 1804 to 1914] Reference

He was a big man with a hard, pushful face and a great under jaw.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ghost Girl] Reference

I wonder if the other people we saw are as pushful as 'Mamma' and.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Chinkie's Flat" 1904] Reference

They had a pushful bustling "wide-awake" firm of solicitors, who let not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bardell v. Pickwick] Reference

What a strong, pushful, resourceful hand it is when it is endowed with healthy vitality!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Things That Matter Most: Devotional Papers] Reference

No wonder the Fifth Symphony appeals so much to our virtuous and pushful middle-class audiences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Impressions and Comments] Reference

Bishop J.W. Wells is found among the young clergymen of North Louisiana, energetic, aggressive, and pushful.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Louisiana Negro Baptists From 1804 to 1914] Reference

Being pushful he studied at home by the light of the old-time tallow candle and pine-knot, and made his way to the front.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Louisiana Negro Baptists From 1804 to 1914] Reference

The typical qualities of dissent became a certain pushful exertion by which the external criteria of salvation could be secured.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham] Reference

And that when he was simply seeking an all-round nervous stimulant to bring languid people up to the stresses of these pushful days.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories] Reference

Servia and Greece have long watched the rapid and uninterrupted progress of their pushful neighbour with mixed feelings of fear and envy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bulgaria] Reference

There are rushful, pushful people from "the States," stiff-tongued Germans, ginger-headed Icelanders, Galicians, Norwegians, Poles, and Frenchmen, all of whom are rapidly becoming irreproachably Canadian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janey Canuck in the West] Reference

He met Gluck, who a little later was quite inaccessible to the most pushful of young men; also Dittersdorf and Wagenseil, who, whatever we may think of them, were very high and unapproachable musicians in their time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Haydn] Reference

Though personally I knew nothing about Rhodes, and was inclined to like an adventurous, pushful spirit, it was clear to me that, holding the views I did as to the functions of the journalist, I had no choice but to bark my loudest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography] Reference

My object was to encourage the new Paul -- the sensible, practical, pushful Paul, whose career began to look promising; to drive away from interfering with me his strangely unlike twin -- the old childish Paul of the sad, far-seeing eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Kelver, a Novel] Reference

Meredith, or even Oscar Wilde, would increase and grow brighter with time, till, in one hundred or five hundred years, no one would dream of comparing pushful politicians like Gladstone or Beaconsfield with men of genius like Swinburne or Wilde.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oscar Wilde]

Swinburne, Meredith, or even Oscar Wilde, would increase and grow brighter with time, till, in one hundred or five hundred years, no one would dream of comparing pushful politicians like Gladstone or Beaconsfield with men of genius like Swinburne or Wilde.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oscar Wilde His Life and Confessions]

Yet when a lieutenant is asked to state what it is really like being along with the B.E.F. when it is in its pushful mood, he sedulously eschews heroics, and will not commit himself to saying more than that it's all right -- that he doesn't think there is any cause for anxiety.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Punch's History of the Great War] Reference

For fifteen or twenty years, Germany was, as Bismarck said, "sated"; but with the coming of the youthful, pushful, self-assertive Kaiser, her aggressive instincts re-awakened and she fell to brooding over the idea that her incomparable physical and spiritual energies were cabin'd, cribb'd, confined.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gems (?) of German Thought] Reference

"I trust not," said Larcher; "but he's one of the pushful sort.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of Murray Davenport A Story of New York at the Present Day] Reference

I shall make a list of my most really obstinate, pushful friends to help me. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions] Reference

I do believe she’s going to take him,” from Car, holding tight to the glasses and warding off the pushful with her elbows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sister Ann] Reference

"The Tanglefoot," continued Sheila, while a sigh of sheer rapture rose from the crowd, "is pre-eminently the car for a medical man or pushful undertaker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-31] Reference

Later, you will find, perhaps, that all along he has been the real Paul -- the living, growing Paul; the other -- the active, worldly, pushful Paul, only the stuff that dreams are made of, his fretful life a troubled night rounded by a sleep. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Kelver, a Novel] Reference

Among others I stemmed a pushful policeman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 27, 1920] Reference

"passed over" by younger and more pushful rivals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The King's Post Being a volume of historical facts relating to the posts, mail coaches, coach roads, and railway mail services of and connected with the ancient city of Bristol from 1580 to the present time] Reference

N. - pushful, ambitious person.    From Wordnik.com.  [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference