- a variation of jostle.
justle
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
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The grave old man he makes a bustle, And his wise sentence in must justle.
From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
As Men are forc'd to justle in a Crowd.
From 'Of Genius', in The Occasional Paper, and Preface to The Creation by Gretchen Graf Pahl
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
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 William MacGillivray
The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
The artificers and manufacturers of such mercantile states, therefore, would immediately be rivalled in the market of those landed nations, and soon after undersold and justled out of it altogether.
From An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
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
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 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
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
You, bustling, and justling, Forget each grief and pain; I, listless, yet restless, Find ev'ry prospect vain.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
There was nothing but justling, scrambling, pulling, snatching, struggling, scolding, and screaming.
From The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett
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
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
The host, who presently believed the story, directed them, and instantly the captain and poet, justling one another, ran up.
From Joseph Andrews, Volume 2 by Henry Fielding
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