stick at nothing

Example Sentences

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You appear to people who don't know you as a most conventional man. but you really stick at nothing and regret little.

From Time Magazine Archive

At any rate, I tell you this: I'll stick at nothing, if you neglect the advice I give you gratis.

From Submarine U93 by Gilson, Charles

We hold the plant; we’ve got the connection; we can afford to go higher than any outsider: there’s two million dollars in the ring; and we stick at nothing.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

A hard riding set of men who stick at nothing.

From With Edge Tools by Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield)

I am fully satisfied of that," says the merchant; "but as this is a rogue who will stick at nothing, what can we say?

From The Fortunate Mistress (Parts 1 and 2) or a History of the Life of Mademoiselle de Beleau Known by the Name of the Lady Roxana by Defoe, Daniel