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Usage examples of jostling.

It was in the leather goods department some quarter of an hour later that Adela Chemping caught sight of her nephew, separated from her by a rampart of suit-cases and portmanteaux and hemmed in by the jostling crush of human beings that now invaded every corner of the great shopping emporium.

The firm that he worked for saw fit to send him one day on a prosaic business errand to the far city of Vienna, and, having sent him there, continued to keep him there, still engaged in humdrum affairs of commerce, but with the possibilities of romance and adventure, or even misadventure, jostling at his elbow.

The plate-glass doors swung open and the trio plunged bravely into the jostling throng of buyers and loiterers.

The convoy started forward again, jostling in the cold shadows of the narrow streets.

They galloped in a knot, horses all but jostling together as they ran.

As the little male threw himself at the alpha, Alacrity wondered how much a night and a day of jostling and wrangling had weakened the contenders, and who had the edge.

But now she stood for a long time holding the pages in her hand and looking out of the window through a screen of blazing bougainvillea to where the distant domes and minarets and jostling roof-tops of the Indian city met the intense blue of the Indian sky, her thoughts four thousand miles away .

Here of course there was no need to collect the money, a sesterce or two, in advance, but one of the toadfeced bodyguards should have hulked at the entrance to prevent jostling and to jerk out of the crib any soldier who made excessive demands on the whore or her time.

The name conjured up a jostling world he had left behind in a different life, and he thought nostalgically of Kyale and his wife.

Then, as if realising that the game was up, he jumped up onto the parapet and stood there, glaring down at the jostling mob below.

Caught by the drama of the moment, Laintal Ay followed, with Oyre, Dol, and the other women behind him, jostling on the narrow steps.

They stood within the tent, scratching or jostling each other as they awaited his arrival.

Other humans, women and striplings mostly, were crowding and swirling around, jostling each other for a chance to see.

It is crucial to emphasize at the outset that our discussion is not concerned with how the mechanical elements of a particular clock happen to respond to shaking or jostling that might result from bumpy motion.

Regions of minimal or no jostling are where peaks from one slit coincide with troughs from the other, resulting in a cancellation.