pushful

Example Sentences

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This action clearly certified the future of super-industry in Alabama and endorsed the condition Birmingham has in mind when, like pushful Chicago, Detroit and Los Angeles, it calls itself "Greater Birmingham."

From Time Magazine Archive

Wells, like the pushful tradesman he is, has the very thing in his pocket.

From The Secrets of a Savoyard by Lytton, Henry A.

He was pushful, meant to get on, and had set up white spats as a part of his stock-in-trade.

From Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough by Gardiner, A. G. (Alfred George)

They had a pushful bustling “wide-awake” firm of solicitors, who let not a point escape. 

From Bardell v. Pickwick by Fitzgerald, Percy Hethrington

Close astern of her comes War Ordnance, her pushful young captain having taken heed of the sounds of Standard's weighing.

From Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war by Bone, David W. (David William)