jostled
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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)
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
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 Motteux, Peter Anthony
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
