justle

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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 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

I was in those doldrums which beset the politician when rivals justle him from his little eminence.

From Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic by Quick, Herbert

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

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 Whyte, Alexander