justle

Example Sentences

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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

Some wag observes me thus perplex'd, And, smiling, whispers to the next, "I thought the Dean had been too proud, To justle here among a crowd!"

From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 by Browning, William Ernst

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 Burke, Edmund

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

From The Tempest by Shakespeare, William

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 Baldwin, James