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justle

[juhs-uhl] / ˈdʒʌs əl /




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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

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

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 Edmund Burke

The grave old man he makes a bustle, And his wise sentence in must justle.

From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

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 William Ernst Browning

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

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

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

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

But this was taken in so ill part that at my coming out of the court gate, with justling together, it was my chance to be thrust into the arm.

From Fair Em by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

It is more than this, the whole woorlde's map, which you may here discerne in its perfect motion, justling and turning.

From Old St. Paul's Cathedral by William Benham

Zwounds! how has he the leisure to be sick In such a justling time?

From King Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare

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




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