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

Oh, the fellow's a desperate swindler—he'll stick at nothing.

From A Castle in Spain A Novel by De Mille, James

Once they have been driven by stern necessity to combine together and choose their leader they will stick at nothing and attempt almost anything.

From Russian Life To-day by Bury, Right Rev. Herbert

He would stick at nothing whatever!' she cried, rising to her feet, and taking her cloak from a peg in the storeroom outside the dairy.

From The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Banks, Mrs. G. Linnaeus

He was the sort of man to stick at nothing, and Koulikoff showed that his scent was good, when he pitched on this man to be an accomplice in his flight.

From The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor