stickle

Example Sentences

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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

To all of them�pro-Nazi, anti-Nazi, pro-French or pro-League�the present seems no time to stickle.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Jennings, James

Theer ’s my shadder ’pon the bank a mile behind you; an’ I didn’t ope my mouth till you’d fished the stickle to the bottom and missed two rises.”

From Children of the Mist by Phillpotts, Eden