- a variation of jostle.
justle
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
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Some wag observes me thus perplex'd, And, smiling, whispers to the next, "I thought the Dean had been too proud, To justle here among a crowd!"
From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 by William Ernst Browning
He will sometimes propend to us upon the reading a good writer, and at Bellarmine recoils as far back again; and the fathers justle him from one side to another.
From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by John Earle
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 Desiderius Erasmus
T after s is silent in listen, glisten, hasten, chasten, christen, fasten, moisten, thistle, whistle, bristle, castle, nestle, pestle, gristle, jostle, justle, hustle, bustle, rustle, epistle, apostle, mistletoe, forecastle.
From Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy. by Mary E. Mann
I was in those doldrums which beset the politician when rivals justle him from his little eminence.
From Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic by Herbert Quick
The horses, whose reins the King slackened by bending towards the front of the car, rushed furiously forward, the wheels went round like whirlwinds, the brazen plates justled, the heated axles smoked.
From The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt by Frederick C. de (Frederick Caesar de) Sumichrast
It seems, as if the Cyclades again Were rooted up, and justled in the main; Or floating mountains floating mountains meet; Such is the fierce encounter of the fleet.
From The Aeneid English by Virgil
By the virtue of Acheron, he justled, bulled, and lastauriated in one day the third part of the world, beasts and people, floods and mountains; that was Europa.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Peter Anthony Motteux
Cotton stuffs justled my lady’s satins, and the half-world stared at short range into the faces whose owners claimed coronets.
From The Bondwoman by Marah Ellis Ryan
It has been already mentioned that he fought in the Spanish wars, and in milder moments he distinguished himself at 'justs and tournaments now justled out of fashion by your carpet knights.'
From Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts by Rosalind Northcote
Till at length, from the outer gates, is heard a rustling and justling, shrill uproar and squabbling, muffled by walls; which testifies that the hour is come!
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
Zwounds! how has he the leisure to be sick In such a justling time?
From King Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
But this was taken in so ill part that at my coming out of the court gate, with justling together, it was my chance to be thrust into the arm.
From Fair Em by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
Then how, unharm'd, he pass'd the Syren-coasts, The justling rocks where fierce Charybdis raves, And howling Scylla whirls her thunderous waves, The cave of death!
From The Odyssey by Alexander Pope
It is more than this, the whole woorlde's map, which you may here discerne in its perfect motion, justling and turning.
From Old St. Paul's Cathedral by William Benham
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