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  • We all boo'd and shoo'd first, thinking that if it were a beast of any sort it would scoot at the noise; but it didn't stir an inch or make a sound.

    Queensland Cousins Eleanor Luisa Haverfield

  • Common cam 'doon an' shoo'd the loons awa 'frae pappin' Sandy wi 'duds, an' we got hame withoot any farrer mishap; but a 'forenicht I heard

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • She shoo'd her big husband away with a single wave of her arm and marshalled Nan into the bedroom.

    The Moon out of Reach Margaret Pedler

  • I should like to have shoo'd away the crowd and let him call me Jake just for a few minutes to get the point of feeling of this young man -- though he is nearly 50 -- on how it feels to be Premier without a general election.

    The Masques of Ottawa Domino

  • She had admirers of her own, but she soon grew tired of them -- would have grown tired sooner if Joanna had not clucked and shoo'd them away, thus giving them the glamour of the forbidden thing.

    Joanna Godden Sheila Kaye-Smith 1921

  • The wailing iteration vexed him, and he shoo'd the birds away with his arms.

    The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies John Buchan 1907

  • There was more of it -- more whining explanations artfully tinctured with abuse, more terse commands to depart, the whole concluding with scraping footsteps, diminuendo, and another perfunctory, rattle of the knob as the bobby, having shoo'd the putative evil-doer off, assured himself that no damage had actually been done.

    The Black Bag Louis Joseph Vance 1906

  • He ought to be headed off ... make him feel he's to be shoo'd outside!

    Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Marie Conway Oemler 1905

  • He would have defended my slumbers before a charge of cavalry; but one elderly lady shoo'd him aside like a chicken.

    The Red Planet William John Locke 1896

  • An 'shoo felt all that day as shoo'd ne'er felt afore,

    Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems Frederic William Moorman 1895

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