See stickle in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:",
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"english": "The New Arcadia",
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"ref": "1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:",
"text": "When he [the angel] sees half of the Christians are already killed, and all the rest in a fair way to be routed, [he]stickles betwixt the remainders of God’s host, and the race of fiends.",
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"ref": "1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:",
"text": "Fortune, as she’s wont, turned fickle, / And for the foe began to stickle.",
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"ref": "1684, John Dryden, To The Disappointment:",
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"text": "Which [question] violently they pursue, / Nor stickled would they be.",
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"text": "When he [the angel] sees half of the Christians are already killed, and all the rest in a fair way to be routed, [he]stickles betwixt the remainders of God’s host, and the race of fiends.",
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"text": "Fortune, as she’s wont, turned fickle, / And for the foe began to stickle.",
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"ref": "1684, John Dryden, To The Disappointment:",
"text": "for paltry punk they roar and stickle",
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