Truckles

Also packed in the hold were some truckles of Cheddar cheese, Sheppy's Cider, Smiles Ales and Bath Oliver biscuits. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Her husband hates her mortally; but, although the brute is sometimes so very powerful in him that he will have his own way, he generally truckles to her dominion, and dreads, like a school-boy, the lash of her tongue. ❋ Unknown (2004)

A _Truckle-bed_, is a small bed placed upon truckles, so that it may be readily moved about. ❋ James Jennings (N/A)

When a man truckles to him he is angry at his insincerity; when the other disputes his statements, or even offers other views, he finds himself confronted by one who has taken deep offense. ❋ Unknown (1921)

A judge who on the bench either truckles to the mob or bows down before a corporation; or who, having left the bench to become a corporation lawyer, seeks to aid his clients by denouncing as enemies of property all those who seek to stop the abuses of the criminal rich; such a man performs an even worse service to the body politic than the Legislator or Executive who goes wrong. ❋ Unknown (1913)

But he knows that if he truckles to the Curse of Versatility, ❋ Frederick Spencer Hamilton (1892)

A judge who on the bench either truckles to the mob or bows down before a corporation; or who, having left the bench to become ❋ Theodore Roosevelt (1888)

Connoway fought many a losing fight that his small citizens might wriggle with delight on their truckles. ❋ Unknown (1887)

The butler indeed, tries to be proud and risks ruin, but the mussaul truckles to her, and the cook, who can spoil her dinner, and has some control over her, trims between her and the butler. ❋ Edward Hamilton Aitken (1880)

Not only our reason, but also our conscience, truckles to our strongest impulse -- the tyrant in us. ❋ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1872)

Conservative party of Norway, which runs the errands of the king and truckles to Sweden, hates him with a bitter and furious hatred; the clergy denounce him, and the official bureaucracy can scarcely mention his name without an anathema. ❋ Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen (1871)

Folks don't like the man that truckles to 'em, whether it's in the sellin 'of a box of pills or a principle. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)

'Where the devil your understanding truckles, if you have any, I don't know,' he muttered. ❋ George Meredith (1868)

'Oh! She's pretty, you know; besides, she makes herself a regular slave to him, and truckles to him in everything, as I could never do.' ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)

"Not, couldst thou offer me all Mercia as her dower, would I wed the daughter of Algar; and bend my knee, as a son to a wife's father, to the man who despises my lineage, while he truckles to my power." ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

I, who never believed there would be war, keep my prophetic stocks up to par, and my consolation still higher; for when Spanish pride truckles, and English pride has had the honour of bullying, ❋ Horace Walpole (1757)