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How to use stickling in a sentence
"All the caves you want," said Bernel, scornful at such unusual stickling on the part of his chum.
A Maid of the Silver Sea | John OxenhamThis is seen in their way of stickling for accuracy when others repeat familiar word-forms.
Children's Ways | James SullyWhy, man, I found them fastened on him myself; and there was odd staving and stickling to make them 'ware haunch!'
Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete | Sir Walter Scott
The artists fought this influence, stickling a long time for the severer classicism of ancient Greece.
A Text-Book of the History of Painting | John C. Van Dyke"This will be brought to you by stickling," the note said; but who stickling was Vavasor did not know.
Can You Forgive Her? | Anthony Trollope
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