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
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
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
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
I am no longer patient of the public eye; nor am I of force to win my way and to justle and elbow in a crowd.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
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
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
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
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
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)
It is, more than this, the whole world's map, which you may here discern in its perfectest motion, justling, and turning.
From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin
At the next justling turn you may readily amend that fault, and so complete your reckoning of sixteen.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Peter Anthony Motteux
There was nothing but justling, scrambling, pulling, snatching, struggling, scolding, and screaming.
From The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett
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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