The widow Bevis indeed Stickled hard for me.
"Clarissa, Volume 5 (of 9)"
Samuel Richardson
Amongst this merry youthfull trayne A Forrester they had, 30 A Fisher, and a Shepheards swayne A liuely Countrey Lad: Betwixt which three a question grew, Who should the worthiest be, Which violently they pursue, Nor Stickled would they be.
"Minor Poems of Michael Drayton"
Michael Drayton
It was not, with her, mere ready deference to the will of a superior; she might have Stickled at that, and found words to express a wish for her old haunts and old habits of life.
"When Ghost Meets Ghost"
William Frend De Morgan