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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

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 John Stephen Farmer

I was born under the nose of St. Dunstan's steeple, just where the conflux of the eastern and western inhabitants of this twofold city meet and justle in friendly opposition at Temple-bar.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

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

Mr. Reflector,—I was born under the shadow of St. Dunstan's steeple, just where the conflux of the eastern and western inhabitants of this twofold city meet and justle in friendly opposition at Temple-bar.

From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Charles Lamb

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 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

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

Zwounds! how has he the leisure to be sick In such a justling time?

From King Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare

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

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

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)

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