justle

The nobles justle one another to get nearest to the king's elbow, and wear gold chains of that weight and bigness as require no less strength to carry than they do wealth to purchase.

From In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

I am no longer patient of the public eye; nor am I of force to win my way and to justle and elbow in a crowd.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

As Men are forc'd to justle in a Crowd.

From 'Of Genius', in The Occasional Paper, and Preface to The Creation by Gretchen Graf Pahl

Their cries soon waken all the dwellers near; Now murmuring noises rise in every street; The more remote run stumbling with their fear, And in the dark men justle as they meet.

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by James Baldwin

Methought this word able was spoke so loud unto me and gave such a justle to my fear and doubt as I never had all my life either before that or after .

From Bunyan Characters (1st Series) by Alexander Whyte

It has been already mentioned that he fought in the Spanish wars, and in milder moments he distinguished himself at 'justs and tournaments now justled out of fashion by your carpet knights.'

From Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts by Rosalind Northcote

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 Frederick C. de (Frederick Caesar de) Sumichrast

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 Marah Ellis Ryan

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 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 Adam Smith

Zwounds! how has he the leisure to be sick In such a justling time?

From King Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare

But this was taken in so ill part that at my coming out of the court gate, with justling together, it was my chance to be thrust into the arm.

From Fair Em by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

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 Alexander Pope

The host, who presently believed the story, directed them, and instantly the captain and poet, justling one another, ran up.

From Joseph Andrews, Volume 2 by Henry Fielding

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

From London in Modern Times or, Sketches of the English Metropolis during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. by Unknown