stickle

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Classicists from Nick's, who stickle for the traditions of the Chicago Style, nodded their heads in austere approval.

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

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

But he was disposed to stickle for the hereditary rights of the crown, both public and private, and he greatly disliked the details of his expenditure being scrutinised by a parliamentary committee.

From The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) by Brodrick, George C. (George Charles)

The world is wondrous fickle; But lately it would stickle For Progress by Exam.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 30, 1891 by Various