stickle
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile in London His Majesty's Government continued to stickle for the oath in a sharp note to the Irish Free State, so sharp that last week neither sender nor receiver would divulge the contents.
From Time Magazine Archive
To all of them�pro-Nazi, anti-Nazi, pro-French or pro-League�the present seems no time to stickle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Classicists from Nick's, who stickle for the traditions of the Chicago Style, nodded their heads in austere approval.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were wise not to stickle about rules, for Peter's eyesight and nerve were as good as those of any boy of twenty.
From Mr. Standfast by Buchan, John
They fell as thick as harvests beneath hail, Grass before scythes, or corn below the sickle, Proving that trite old truth, that Life's as frail As any other boon for which men stickle.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
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