And with tactful feeling he indicated the gesture of propelling an antagonist over the side of a precipice rather than allude to the disagreeable contingency in spoken words.
"Kai Lung's Golden Hours"
Ernest Bramah Commentator: Hilaire Belloc
The sun was setting one day when Ten-teh reluctantly took up his propelling staff and began to urge his raft towards the shore.
"Kai Lung's Golden Hours"
Ernest Bramah Commentator: Hilaire Belloc
When the torpedo is dropped into the sea the water, pouring into this opening, sets the propelling mechanism in motion and the projectile goes tearing away on its errand of destruction precisely as though fired from the torpedo-tube of a submarine.
"Italy at War and the Allies in the West"
E. Alexander Powell