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 Moulton, Richard Green

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 Burke, Edmund

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

But when I knock, O how they bustle; The hostler yawns, the geldings justle: If the maid be sleepy, O how they curse her; And all this comes, of, Deliver your purse, sir.

From Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] by Farmer, John Stephen

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 Erasmus, Desiderius