- a variation of jostle.
justle
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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
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
The Coachmen took care to meet, justle, and threaten each other for Way, and be intangled at the End of Newport-Street and Long-Acre.
From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Ernest Rhys
T after s is silent in listen, glisten, hasten, chasten, christen, fasten, moisten, thistle, whistle, bristle, castle, nestle, pestle, gristle, jostle, justle, hustle, bustle, rustle, epistle, apostle, mistletoe, forecastle.
From Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy. by Mary E. Mann
The chariots rage in the streets, They justle one against another in the broad ways: The appearance of them is like torches, They run like the lightnings.
From Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature by Richard Green Moulton
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 Peter Anthony Motteux
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
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
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
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
At the next justling turn you may readily amend that fault, and so complete your reckoning of sixteen.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Peter Anthony Motteux
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 Thomas Carlyle
There was nothing but justling, scrambling, pulling, snatching, struggling, scolding, and screaming.
From The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett
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 Lucy Aikin
Zwounds! how has he the leisure to be sick In such a justling time?
From King Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare