When the ground is soaked with moisture, when the wind is in the east Scent lies best,-the south wind doesn't suit the "thruster" in the least.
"A Cotswold Village"
J. Arthur Gibbs
To do him justice, he was in no wise a thruster.
"Foe-Farrell"
Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
And it is not by any means the cheery hail-fellow-well-met type, or the thruster, or the sportsman, who always pool the most votes when the judging starts....
"Men, Women and Guns"
H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile