chivvying

• I wish now that we had not waited so long before chasing him up, but Pythias has been on the staff for some time and one dislikes the idea of chivvying and harassing a sick man. —  No Winding Sheet-Gladys Mitchell-Bradley 65
• Oh! Twickenham town is a sacred old place†™ [6]; or his account of Mrs Fribble, where we can almost see Nicholson chivvying his writing self along as we read: ‘Mrs. —  The Valve
• Jackson's was marked by an exclusionary zeal: By chivvying nearly every Native American in the East onto the forced, genocidal march called the Trail of Tears, —  Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com
• Labour government must be the form-filling man, who was rewarded with a lavish salary for monitoring and chivvying others. —  The Guardian World News
• Conservative government was the aspiring man, who was freed to buy his home and start his business, the classic beneficiary of the 1997 Labour government must be the form-filling man, who was rewarded with a lavish salary for monitoring and chivvying others. —  British Blogs

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