- a variation of jostle.
justle
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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 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 Richard Green Moulton
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 James Baldwin
Methought this word able was spoke so loud unto me and gave such a justle to my fear and doubt as I never had all my life either before that or after .
From Bunyan Characters (1st Series) by Alexander Whyte
Thou liest, most ignorant monster: I am in case to justle a constable.
From The Tempest by William Shakespeare
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
Reluctant, E stalk’d in; with piteous race The justling tears ran down his honest face!
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
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