justle

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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 Burke, Edmund

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 Browning, William Ernst

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 Quick, Herbert

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 Earle, John

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 Farmer, John Stephen