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
"Don't stickle, dear old partner," said Bones testily.
From Bones in London by Edgar Wallace
Good God, man!" he blazed; "are you plumb daft to stickle for little niceties now?
From Where the Trail Divides by Will Lillibridge
This onely I thinke, that the like before was neuer seene: and in this place we had very stickle and strong currents.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. by Richard Hakluyt
"You may even say, My Lord," replied Athos, who stickled for propriety.
From The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas père
"One party of English soldiers stickled not to contravene these commands, being tempted with the desire of finding victuals."
From On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. by John Masefield
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
The widow Bevis indeed stickled hard for me.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 5 by Samuel Richardson
Other critics have not stickled to assert that it has mischievously affected the volume of the Colony's industries, a statement which is simply untrue.
From The Long White Cloud by William Pember Reeves
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
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
When I recall his last look, resigned and yet smiling in his misery, that look said: 'Innstetten, this is stickling for principle.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 by Various
It was certainly ridiculous for man who had once so selfishly consulted his own interests to be stickling now about the rights of others.
From The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells
