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

They talked into the small hours of the morning, formulating plans by which to defeat Quelch, who, they knew, would stick at nothing.

From Pink Gods and Blue Demons by Stockley, Cynthia

Zouroff was evidently a scoundrel of the deepest dye who would stick at nothing.

From The Intriguers by Le Queux, William

He was the sort of man to stick at nothing, and Koulikoff showed that his scent was good, when he pitched on this man to be an accomplice in his flight.

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

"Then in such a case you will stick at nothing to plow your way out?"

From The Blind Mother and The Last Confession by Caine, Hall, Sir