justle
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
Example Sentences
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The grave old man he makes a bustle, And his wise sentence in must justle.
From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)
But when I knock, O how they bustle; The hostler yawns, the geldings justle: If the maid be sleepy, O how they curse her; And all this comes, of, Deliver your purse, sir.
From Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] by Farmer, John Stephen
As Men are forc'd to justle in a Crowd.
From 'Of Genius', in The Occasional Paper, and Preface to The Creation by Pahl, Gretchen Graf
Methought this word able was spoke so loud unto me and gave such a justle to my fear and doubt as I never had all my life either before that or after .
From Bunyan Characters (1st Series) by Whyte, Alexander
The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
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