justle
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
Example Sentences
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Their cries soon waken all the dwellers near; Now murmuring noises rise in every street; The more remote run stumbling with their fear, And in the dark men justle as they meet.
From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James
The nobles justle one another to get nearest to the king's elbow, and wear gold chains of that weight and bigness as require no less strength to carry than they do wealth to purchase.
From In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Erasmus, Desiderius
The chariots rage in the streets, They justle one against another in the broad ways: The appearance of them is like torches, They run like the lightnings.
From Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature by Moulton, Richard Green
I do not discommend or derogate from those other studies; I should betray mine own ignorance and weakness should I do so; I only wish they might not altogether justle out and exclude this.
From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William
But when I knock, O how they bustle; The hostler yawns, the geldings justle: If the maid be sleepy, O how they curse her; And all this comes, of, Deliver your purse, sir.
From Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] by Farmer, John Stephen
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