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Thus, though we conventionalise practice, we never conventionalise dogma. Here, indeed, we stickle for the letter most inflexibly; yet one would have thought that we might have had greater licence to modify the latter than the former. If we say that the teaching of Christ is not to be taken according to its import why give it so much importance?
Was old Mo an invalid, who never went out? "No fear!" said Michael. "He's all to rights, only a bit oldish, like. He spends the afternoons round at The Sun, and then goes home to supper." The interview ended with a present of half-a-bull to Micky from the convict, which the boy seemed to stickle at accepting.
A pickled minnow is very good if you catch him in a stickle, with the scarlet fingers upon him; but I count him no more than the ropes in beer compared with a loach done properly. Being resolved to catch some loaches, whatever trouble it cost me, I set forth without a word to any one, in the forenoon of St. Valentine's day, 1675-6, I think it must have been.
All this while, God be thanked, our people were in very good health, onely one young man excepted, who dyed at sea the fourteenth of this moneth, and the fifteenth, according to the order of the sea, with praise giuen to God by seruice, was cast ouerboord. This onely I thinke, that the like before was neuer seene: and in this place we had very stickle and strong currents.
They had also that great appetite which does not stickle for the quality of its food, so only there be quantity that healthy appetite to which all music is good, and the more substantial the better it sees no difference between Brahms and Beethoven, or between the works of the same master, between an empty concerto and a moving sonata, because they are fashioned of the same stuff.
"Honoré," said he, as they joined hands on the banquette beside the doctor's gig, to say good-day, "if you think there's a chance for you, why stickle upon such fine-drawn points as I reckon you are making?
Captain Morgan, a Welshman by birth, "having had some experience that those lewd fellows would not much stickle to swear falsely in points of interest, commanded every one to be searched very strictly, both in their clothes and satchels and everywhere it might be presumed they had reserved anything.
As two men, measuring-rods in hand, quarrel about their boundaries in a field that they own in common, and stickle for their rights though they be but in a mere strip, even so did the battlements now serve as a bone of contention, and they beat one another's round shields for their possession.
"I would not stickle about hours, but the money and the drink are very just." "If Hell-house yard is astir," said Waghorn, "there will be a good deal to be seen yet." "It's grave," said Master Nixon. "What think you of a deputation there? It might come to good." "I should like to hear the top-sawyer from London," said Juggins.
Birkin looked up at them. Ursula hated him for his cold watchfulness. But he said nothing. 'Shall we be going? said Hermione. 'Rupert, you are coming to Shortlands to dinner? Will you come at once, will you come now, with us? 'I'm not dressed, replied Birkin. 'And you know Gerald stickles for convention. 'I don't stickle for it, said Gerald.
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