- a variation of jostle.
justle
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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 Ernest Hartley Coleridge
Mr. Reflector,—I was born under the shadow of St. Dunstan's steeple, just where the conflux of the eastern and western inhabitants of this twofold city meet and justle in friendly opposition at Temple-bar.
From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Charles Lamb
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 Herbert Quick
I was born under the nose of St. Dunstan's steeple, just where the conflux of the eastern and western inhabitants of this twofold city meet and justle in friendly opposition at Temple-bar.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
Thou liest, most ignorant monster: I am in case to justle a constable.
From The Tempest by William Shakespeare
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
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
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
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
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
There was nothing but justling, scrambling, pulling, snatching, struggling, scolding, and screaming.
From The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett
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
