stickle

Example Sentences

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Maine's doughty Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith, 59, stickles without compromise about active-duty requirements for military promotion.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nor it arn’t a salmon, you see, cause it’s got all them stickles on its back.

From Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle by Forestier, A.

I imagine that it was the founder of the house who paved his river bed with marble slabs, smoothing the stickles into a long clear slide.

From The Tragic Bride by Young, Francis Brett

I'm for deep water on cold days; I shall begin with the stickles up above.

From Tom Brown at Oxford by Hughes, Thomas

He stickles at nothing, from simple phlebotomy, As our friend Sidney said, to a case of lithotomy: And I'll venture to say, that this latest specific, When taken, will prove to be no soporific.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 by Various