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Definition of Jostlings
1. jostling [n] - See also: jostling
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jostlings
Literary usage of Jostlings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"... and jostlings by which selfish men push on ; he bore life's disappointments,
and he was disappointed in some reasonable hopes and anticipations, ..."
2. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral by Mary Wollstonecraft (1891)
"... they should be sent to school to mix with a number of equals, for only by the
jostlings of equality can we form a just opinion of ourselves. ..."
3. The works of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens (1891)
"... involved himself in a tempest of buffetings and jostlings from the other
passengers in the street: of which, in the pursuit of the one paramount idea, ..."
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