Every year I have some seven such hopefuls whom, to express it in the students 'slang, I "chivy" or "floor.". From Wordnik.com. [The Wife, and other stories] Reference
They are not in a hurry, nor "chivy" over their work either; the tides rise and fall slowly, and they work in correspondence. From Wordnik.com. [The Open Air] Reference
They can lead you a pretty dance if you chivy them. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, July 18, 1891] Reference
Benlo wanted more than a boy to chivy his flock to Carcosa. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
You sit up there like a warlord and chivy us all along unmercifully. From Wordnik.com. [In the Fifth at Malory Towers]
Though when I tried to chivy him along, he ignored it just as stubbornly as everybody else did. From Wordnik.com. [Two For The Lions]
And as husbands and wives we are to encourage, grow, chivy and take care of each other in any number of ways. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference
We'll chivy your herds through your crops till they've run all their fat off and there's not a blade still standing. From Wordnik.com. [The Unicorn Trade]
Before he had gone a hundred paces Sharak caught up to him, using his staff like a switch to chivy his shaggy mount along. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Unconquered]
Seeing that the human was steadily expanding the distance between them, Jemunu-jah did his best to chivy the Deyzara forward. From Wordnik.com. [Drowning World]
One man mounts a white pony, and galloping before the elephant, induces him, as he readily does, — firearms being unknown, — to charge and “chivy.”. From Wordnik.com. [First footsteps in East Africa] Reference
Little Monsters has been sitting on the shelf for months in proof copy, but it took a tempting review over at John Self's Asylum and the arrival of an actual published version of the book to chivy me into action. From Wordnik.com. [47 entries from February 2008] Reference
I let the first class off easily, but the second I chivy through a whole year. From Wordnik.com. [The Wife, and other stories] Reference
After your soda and brandy take a good chivy in the open air, and you'll be all right by dinner-time. From Wordnik.com. [Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities] Reference
I don't exactly wish they'd blow up Mr Gladstone, but if a mad bull would chivy him there, and he would never come back any more, I should not be sorry. From Wordnik.com. [The Way of All Flesh] Reference
I remembered that the tribes near Bond Street are credulous enough to support many magicians, and that there is no fiery and earnest-minded Franciscan to chivy them away. From Wordnik.com. [High Albania] Reference
I had to get up in the 'mirk midnight' and chivy round to pull the bedstead out of the drip -- and it was one of those solid, old-fashioned beds that weigh a ton -- more or less. From Wordnik.com. [Anne of the Island] Reference
Like the bill that will probably emerge from Congress, the Massachusetts reform mainly relies on a combination of regulation and subsidies to chivy a mostly private system into providing near-universal coverage. From Wordnik.com. [ModerateVoters.org] Reference
Why, it was only yesterday, I think -- though the time goes so rum here, where one sleeps so much -- he come to see me, and one of the Malay chaps as was taking him to the water tried to drive him away, and, my word, you should have seen him chivy the chap off and call him a hinterfering blackguard, in helephant!. From Wordnik.com. [Trapped by Malays A Tale of Bayonet and Kris] Reference
Britannia ', and try to chivy me out of the hall where I'm speaking. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Devil's Paw] Reference
"Do you suppose I'm going to chivy Jimmy about without doing anything to help him?. From Wordnik.com. [The Belfry] Reference
Every year I have some seven such hopefuls whom, to express it in the students’ slang, I “chivy” or “floor.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Wife] Reference
And by rights this week’s G-20 summit ought to be an occasion for Mr. Obama to chide and chivy European leaders, in particular, into pulling their weight. ". From Wordnik.com. [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference
"It's so tactless to continually chivy people about their health, but I own that I can scarcely resist saying to the child every time I see her, 'Are you any better today?' or, 'Have you any cough?' or, 'How is your appetite?'. From Wordnik.com. [Robin] Reference
I chivy through a whole year. From Wordnik.com. [The Wife] Reference
I wur right to chivy him, arter all. From Wordnik.com. [Stephen Archer and Other Tales] Reference
"With a hey-ho chivy. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Plays of John Galsworthy] Reference
We’re saved if we can chivy Laputa till morning. From Wordnik.com. [Prester John] Reference
Firearms being unknown, -- to charge and "chivy.". From Wordnik.com. [First Footsteps in East Africa] Reference
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