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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
stickle .
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Examples
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The dorsal fin is partly replaced in the whole family by strong spines or "stickles," which differ in number in the different species.
A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. Various 1891
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He shouts for liberty, stickles for equality, and is horrified at a Southern planter who keeps slaves.
Archive 2008-04-01 Athanasius 2008
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He shouts for liberty, stickles for equality, and is horrified at a Southern planter who keeps slaves.
Orestes Brownson on the oppression of "Free Labour" Athanasius 2008
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This card has a unique but simple fold that I find myslef using more and more. hard to see in this pic are the little glitter touches stickles on the flowers... so great!
Ten Amazing Cards by Ten Amazing Bloggers! Sarah Moore 2007
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And don't miss the glitter PUNCH she added with stickles around the pink medallion focal image... what a perfect match to the teal velvet ribbon from the Flirty ribbon original series.
Blogger Valentines :: 1 of 5 Sarah Moore 2007
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This card has a unique but simple fold that I find myslef using more and more. hard to see in this pic are the little glitter touches stickles on the flowers... so great!
Archive 2007-05-01 Sarah Moore 2007
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And don't miss the glitter PUNCH she added with stickles around the pink medallion focal image... what a perfect match to the teal velvet ribbon from the Flirty ribbon original series.
Archive 2007-01-01 Sarah Moore 2007
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This is more than Peal can say, to whomb I applied for a barnetcy; but the primmier being of low igstraction, natrally stickles for his horder.
Burlesques 2006
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Many persons will call this description low; I do not envy them their gentility, and have always observed through life (as, to be sure, every other GENTLEMAN has observed as well as myself) that it is your parvenu who stickles most for what he calls the genteel, and has the most squeamish abhorrence for what is frank and natural.
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This is more than Peal can say, to whomb I applied for a barnetcy; but the primmier being of low igstraction, natrally stickles for his horder.
The diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., with his letters 2006
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