justle
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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
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
Thou liest, most ignorant monster: I am in case to justle a constable.
From The Tempest by William Shakespeare
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Zwounds! how has he the leisure to be sick In such a justling time?
From King Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
You, bustling, and justling, Forget each grief and pain; I, listless, yet restless, Find ev'ry prospect vain.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
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
