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Jostling   /dʒˈɑsəlɪŋ/  /dʒˈɑslɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Jostle  v. t.  (past & past part. jostled; pres. part. jostling)  (Written also justle)  To run against and shake; to push out of the way; to elbow; to hustle; to disturb by crowding; to crowd against. "Bullies jostled him." "Systems of movement, physical, intellectual, and moral, which are perpetually jostling each other."






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"Jostling" Quotes from Famous Books



... and Dinah indignantly correcting somebody for jostling her, rather delayed this operation; so, at a nod from the Master, Jim Barlow made a bee line for the vehicle and stoutly held it as "engaged!" against ...
— Dorothy's House Party • Evelyn Raymond

... capital take place of those who are coming from it; this seems to be founded on some idea of dignity of the great city, and of the preference of the future to the past. From like reasons, among foot-walkers, the right-hand entitles a man to the wall, and prevents jostling, which peaceable people find ...
— An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals • David Hume

... fro, jostling each other as the passers increased; the street looked lively and gay with such a variety of costumes. Among them were several figures walking slowly along; they were enveloped in white sheets from head to ...
— Harper's Young People, July 6, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

... had never before heard anything so like what one might fancy it must have been when that great crowd of workmen broke up, and left building their tower, in a confounding of language and misunderstanding of speech. For the men who went to and fro in these docks, each his own way, jostling and yelling to each other, were men of all nations, and the confusion was of tongues as well as of work. At one minute I found myself standing next to a live Chinaman in a pigtail, who was staring as hard as I at some swarthy supple-bodied sailors with eager faces, and scant clothing wrapped ...
— We and the World, Part II. (of II.) - A Book for Boys • Juliana Horatia Ewing

... long enough in Glenoro, he might have witnessed a condition of affairs which would have surprised him. Could he have seen the boys he had taught in the school, grown to men, pushing and jostling each other in their jealous and frantic efforts to be of the glorious chosen few who marched away to uphold the old flag on the African veldt, could he have foreseen that the disloyal young Neil, who had been the first on that shameful Dominion Day to throw away his flag and ...
— Duncan Polite - The Watchman of Glenoro • Marian Keith


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