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Classicists from Nick's, who stickle for the traditions of the Chicago Style, nodded their heads in austere approval.

From Time Magazine Archive

Meanwhile in London His Majesty's Government continued to stickle for the oath in a sharp note to the Irish Free State, so sharp that last week neither sender nor receiver would divulge the contents.

From Time Magazine Archive

The well-born and amusing people of the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century did not stickle at the question of the marriage.

From The Countess of Albany by Vernon Lee

This onely I thinke, that the like before was neuer seene: and in this place we had very stickle and strong currents.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. by Richard Hakluyt

No, Harey," he continued, "I won't stickle for knives, or even pistols.

From Jack of Both Sides The Story of a School War by S. B. Pearse

"Ten to one as a County magnate he stickled for it, and the High Sheriff put him on the panel to keep him amused."

From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

"One party of English soldiers stickled not to contravene these commands, being tempted with the desire of finding victuals."

From On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. by John Masefield

Other critics have not stickled to assert that it has mischievously affected the volume of the Colony's industries, a statement which is simply untrue.

From The Long White Cloud by William Pember Reeves

We readily perceived that they were close dealers, stickled much for trifles, and never closed the bargain until they thought they had the advantage.

From First Across the Continent The story of the exploring expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 by Noah Brooks

Ammon stickled for the eternal principle of righteousness, and contended that it had been violated in the first instance.

From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by E. N. Elliott

The film, which was made largely with a $20,000 grant from the Wikimedia Foundation, spends time showing what has been lost to Wikipedia because of stickling rules of citation and verification.

From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2011

After the "Schweinehund Speech," however, it was clear that Briand and Poincare are one in stickling for cash.

From Time Magazine Archive

Why, man, I found them fastened on him myself; and there was odd staving and stickling to make them 'ware haunch!'

From Waverley by Sir Walter Scott

Months elapsed before it was clear to him that his grievance was nothing but idle trifling which originated in his over-anxious stickling at words.

From Dame Care by Bertha Overbeck

This is seen in their way of stickling for accuracy when others repeat familiar word-forms.

From Children's Ways by James Sully