stick at nothing

Example Sentences

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You appear to people who don't know you as a most conventional man. but you really stick at nothing and regret little.

From Time Magazine Archive

At any rate, I tell you this: I'll stick at nothing, if you neglect the advice I give you gratis.

From Submarine U93 by Gilson, Charles

Lord Sheffield will stick at nothing to remove you.

From The MS. in a Red Box by Hamilton, John Arthur

His crazy jealousy and anger might stick at nothing, and Wulfrey looked forward to a watchful night as a necessity.

From Maid of the Mist by Oxenham, John

But as soon as he was safe in the hospital he began blowing his trumpet again, and said he would stick at nothing now, and that they should soon see what he would do.

From The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor