jostling

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There's no occasion for jostling, there's room for everyone.

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  • More laughter, jostling, and nudging as the party scrambled in. —  The Guinguette By The Seine - Maigret 11 - Georges Simenon
  • Now I looked upon something like the jostling, crowded—terribly crowded—erections those tri-dees had shown. —  Norton, Andre - Uncharted Stars (v1.0) (html).html
  • Here Mr. Brooks has sacrificed to literalness an opportunity to sort the confused clauses and stop their jostling: this may be done without diluting the sentiment, and is within the translator's liberty It always seemed to us that the finest part of "Hesperus," and one of the finest passages of German literature, is contained in the Ninth Dog-Post-Day and some pages of the Tenth. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865
  • Then came another, tumbling one upon the other, wedging and jostling, and speedily rising in a huge pile several feet high. —  Sunset Pass or Running the Gauntlet Through Apache Land
  • For four long hours the mob pushed through the palace, jostling, apostrophising, the King and Queen. —  The French Revolution A Short History
 

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