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I was in those doldrums which beset the politician when rivals justle him from his little eminence.

From Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic by Quick, Herbert

Thou liest, most ignorant monster: I am in case to justle a constable.

From The Tempest by Shakespeare, William

But when I knock, O how they bustle; The hostler yawns, the geldings justle: If the maid be sleepy, O how they curse her; And all this comes, of, Deliver your purse, sir.

From Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] by Farmer, John Stephen

The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

He will sometimes propend to us upon the reading a good writer, and at Bellarmine recoils as far back again; and the fathers justle him from one side to another.

From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by Earle, John

The artificers and manufacturers of such mercantile states, therefore, would immediately be rivalled in the market of those landed nations, and soon after undersold and justled out of it altogether.

From An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Smith, Adam

Cotton stuffs justled my lady’s satins, and the half-world stared at short range into the faces whose owners claimed coronets.

From The Bondwoman by Ryan, Marah Ellis

By the virtue of Acheron, he justled, bulled, and lastauriated in one day the third part of the world, beasts and people, floods and mountains; that was Europa.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

It seems, as if the Cyclades again Were rooted up, and justled in the main; Or floating mountains floating mountains meet; Such is the fierce encounter of the fleet.

From The Aeneid English by Virgil

The horses, whose reins the King slackened by bending towards the front of the car, rushed furiously forward, the wheels went round like whirlwinds, the brazen plates justled, the heated axles smoked.

From The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt by Sumichrast, Frederick C. de (Frederick Caesar de)

It is, more than this, the whole world's map, which you may here discern in its perfectest motion, justling, and turning.

From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Aikin, Lucy

Till at length, from the outer gates, is heard a rustling and justling, shrill uproar and squabbling, muffled by walls; which testifies that the hour is come!

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

You, bustling, and justling, Forget each grief and pain; I, listless, yet restless, Find ev'ry prospect vain.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

There was nothing but justling, scrambling, pulling, snatching, struggling, scolding, and screaming.

From The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Smollett, T. (Tobias)

Then how, unharm'd, he pass'd the Syren-coasts, The justling rocks where fierce Charybdis raves, And howling Scylla whirls her thunderous waves, The cave of death!

From The Odyssey by Pope, Alexander