stickle

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

No, Harey," he continued, "I won't stickle for knives, or even pistols.

From Jack of Both Sides The Story of a School War by Pearse, S. B.

Do you think a Silenus would hesitate and stickle and scruple over a point of honor; though some of us have seen Silenus blunder into a paradise which he promptly transformed into a sty?

From The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)