City people always appear to be hurrying to get where they are going, restlessly seeking attention in a store, or elbowing others as they try to complete their shopping.
And I knew after the first couple of days that word had gotten around about me, because every once in a while, I'd catch a kid elbowing his friend as they passed me, or talking behind their hands as I walked by them.
As the guards withdrew, the men in the room rushed towards the troughs, elbowing each other aside and striking each other to scoop up and eat as much of the red jelly as possible.
Arabella waited a few minutes; and the two women went along, elbowing their way through the stream of fashionable people pouring out of Cardinal meadow, and being nearly knocked down by the carriages.
This is not the first English-language history of the city, but in a curiously thin field, it is the most ambitious chronicle of a city elbowing its way to Europe's front rank.
But very few love-affairs had been known in the establishment amidst the various hostilities and friendships between the men and the women, the constant elbowing from department to department.
I know there's obviously network rivalries, but when you're on-screen talent, are you kind of nudging and elbowing people to get out of the way for those opportunities?
The strong pushing aside the weak, the cunning creeping past the foolish; those behind elbowing those before; those in front kicking, as they run, at those behind.
As their new president rode horseback to the White House, the crowd followed, sweeping down the avenue, bursting past startled doormen into the executive mansion, fighting, scrambling, elbowing, scratching all the while.