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

We hold the plant; we’ve got the connection; we can afford to go higher than any outsider: there’s two million dollars in the ring; and we stick at nothing.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Oh, the fellow's a desperate swindler—he'll stick at nothing.

From A Castle in Spain A Novel by De Mille, James

There’s a man there will stick at nothing.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV by Stevenson, Robert Louis

He would stick at nothing whatever!' she cried, rising to her feet, and taking her cloak from a peg in the storeroom outside the dairy.

From The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Banks, Mrs. G. Linnaeus