"Push back" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... moist place put a few Jack-in-the pulpits. This flower is much like a child's jack-in-the-box. It is so different from most of our plants that it has the effect of the joker in a pack of cards. Push back the flap over Jack's face and you will see a club like a policeman's billy. Along this club the inconspicuous flowers are borne. Later, in the fall, the fruit forms, and inside, instead of rather uninteresting flowers, are ...
— The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. • Ellen Eddy Shaw
... voice with an accent which made Ben drop his load and push back his hat, to see Pat's red head looking over ...
— Under the Lilacs • Louisa May Alcott
... beachhead of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor, not a new balance of power, but a new world of law, where the strong are just and the weak secure ...
— United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches - From Washington to George W. Bush • Various
... in dishevelled masses over her shoulders, forming a species of mantle. Being alone, she was afraid of entering the cave, but stopped for a moment on the outside, and knelt down in order to see better into the tomb. She was endeavouring to push back her long hair, which fell over her face and obscured her vision, when she perceived the two angels who were seated in the tomb, and I heard one of them address her thus: 'Woman, why weepest thou?' She replied, in a voice choked ...
— The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ • Anna Catherine Emmerich
... McLaws, but Hooker again became irresolute; so this large Union force was detained at the Furnace without a definite object, and the works it had occupied were vacant. While Sickles was not allowed to strike the flank, Slocum's two divisions under Geary and Williams were sent to push back the fortified front of the enemy in the woods; a much more difficult operation. Geary attacked on the plank road, but made no serious impression, and returned. Williams struck further to the south, but was ...
— Chancellorsville and Gettysburg - Campaigns of the Civil War - VI • Abner Doubleday |
