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
No, Harey," he continued, "I won't stickle for knives, or even pistols.
From Jack of Both Sides The Story of a School War by S. B. Pearse
The water was of a clear, limpid green, new-flushed with the tide, with a faint stickle moving down it, carrying the white, fallen petals of the may.
From Joanna Godden by Sheila Kaye-Smith
You called my court’s love worthless—so it turned: I threw away as dross my heap of wealth, And here you stickle for a piece or two!
From Dramatic Technique by George Pierce Baker
"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
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 widow Bevis indeed stickled hard for me.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 5 by Samuel Richardson
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
You may remember, Sam, that your poor father always stickled for a roast leg of lamb at Easter.
From Shining Ferry by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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
Call it by another name, then—if you prefer stickling about terms.
From The Finger of Fate A Romance by Mayne Reid
If you don't see why, then you do not know the stickling of a Briton's sense of law and a Scotchman's conscience.
From The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
At last the Senate sent to make terms with Cinna; but while they were stickling about acknowledging his title of consul, he advanced to the gates.
From The Gracchi Marius and Sulla Epochs of Ancient History by A.H. Beesley
