stickle
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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
You called my court’s love worthless—so it turned: I threw away as dross my heap of wealth, And here you stickle for a piece or two!
From Dramatic Technique by George Pierce Baker
Steep, applied to hills; rapid, applied to water: a stickle path, is a steep path; a stickle stream, a rapid stream.
From The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire by James Jennings
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
"You may even say, My Lord," replied Athos, who stickled for propriety.
From The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas père
You may remember, Sam, that your poor father always stickled for a roast leg of lamb at Easter.
From Shining Ferry by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Sawkins' men taunted him with "backwardness" in that engagement, and "stickled not to defame, or brand him with the note of cowardice."
From On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. by John Masefield
He stickled as little against mere forms as for them; only, if they stood between the soul and Christ or between a Christian and his brethren, then he was their uncompromising opponent.
From The Life of St. Paul by James Stalker
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
If you don't see why, then you do not know the stickling of a Briton's sense of law and a Scotchman's conscience.
From The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
I really think I could give you a commission without much stickling of my conscience.
From Vivian Grey by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
The artists fought this influence, stickling a long time for the severer classicism of ancient Greece.
From A Text-Book of the History of Painting by John Charles Van Dyke
