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justle

[juhs-uhl] / ˈdʒʌs əl /




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As Men are forc'd to justle in a Crowd.

From 'Of Genius', in The Occasional Paper, and Preface to The Creation by Pahl, Gretchen Graf

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 Rhys, Ernest

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

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

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 Browning, William Ernst

I do not discommend or derogate from those other studies; I should betray mine own ignorance and weakness should I do so; I only wish they might not altogether justle out and exclude this.

From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William

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

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

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 Northcote, Rosalind

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

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

There was nothing but justling, scrambling, pulling, snatching, struggling, scolding, and screaming.

From The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Smollett, T. (Tobias)

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 Benham, William

Reluctant, E stalk’d in; with piteous race The justling tears ran down his honest face!

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

The host, who presently believed the story, directed them, and instantly the captain and poet, justling one another, ran up.

From Joseph Andrews, Volume 2 by Fielding, Henry

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 Burns, Robert




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