Tired of longbickerings with his uncle, Bishop Beaufort of Winchester, and the other members of the council of regency, Humphrey had resolved to go off on an enterprise of his own.
Long and fruitless bickerings and negotiations with Lewis VII.
The bankers had contrived, by ingenious excuses, to keep the drafts from going to protest until the minister's arrival, but the gazettes were full of the troubles of Congress and the bickerings of the states, and everybody was suspicious.
If Theodosius had been less easy-going and good-hearted he must have sent away either his sister or his wife, but he long contrived to dwell affectionately with both, though their bickerings were unending.
It was accepted everywhere as the meeting by champion of the two factions; and the bickerings of many months, the final poison of that day's events, rushed a savage zest into the appetites that waited the encounter.
Here and there bickerings were assuming an ugly note.
He had reached his aim: the strife was over; diplomatic bickeringswere at rest; the small as well as the great war was ended; peace was gained at last!
Then came the amiable displays and the bickerings of this love-couple, and afterward their progeny.
Doreen would have refused if she had dared, for these covert bickeringsconstantly renewed upon topics which moved her so strongly, were wearing to the nerves.
Charles and his party abroad, watching the continual bickerings of their enemies in England, put in motion all their machinery to create confusion, and to seize the opportunity of taking every possible means of procuring a revolt amongst them.
Ticknor, with whom Jefferson had gotten acquainted through Mrs. Adams, had refused to leave Cambridge although disgusted with the petty bickerings of his colleagues.
The bickerings and insubordination of the French marshals had now become notorious, but they were fully offset by the discord and inefficiency of the Russian generals.
It remains to be added that in the subsequent bickerings over the discovery--such bickerings as follow every great advance--two other names came into prominent notice as sharers in the glory of the new method.
Endless bickerings sprung up between the Huguenots and Catholics, each sensitive and jealous of their rights.
Contentions and bickerings had been incessant, and subversive of peace and good neighborhood.
Just at the time Garfield succeeded Garesche as Rosecrans' chief-of-staff, that officer was having a series of bickerings with the War Department.
The young woman, having gained great favour in the eyes of her master, did not submit tamely to the control of the older one, so the result was that there were constant bickerings and quarrels.
Men and women far and wide were gossiping and passive, the squabbles and bickerings of the day forgotten.
XLVII Cause of Quarrels Among Rivals What, I, Marquis, astonished at the new bickerings of your moneyed woman?
I foresaw the bickerings between the Countess and her rival, and I predicted they would end in an open rupture; I also guessed that the Marquise would not espouse the cause of the Countess, but would take up the other's quarrel.
The progress of salutary laws had been impeded, sometimes by bickerings between the Whigs and the Tories, and sometimes by bickerings between the Lords and the Commons.
In all the bickerings the sources of information are partisan and cloudy with prejudice, so that it is easier to see the disgraceful scuffle than to find the culprit.
Many bickerings ensued in the community, the particulars of which are not known.
Hereupon bickerings arose, which began with personal feeling and ended in wide-spread dissension.
Perhaps, however, it should be admitted that the Americans made up for the self-restraint which they practised in conference by the disagreements and bickerings in which they indulged when consulting among (p.
Then placing our feet on the solid Rock of Ages, we call to those in the valley below to cease theirbickerings and come up higher.
Since she had lost caste by taking up the cause of 'Independent Ireland' the ape had been discarded, and the same result achieved by occasional bickerings with the police.
Life in the great world--it was thus that he thought of the bickerings of the Dublin Nationalists and the schoolboy enthusiasms of college students--was not a very simple thing.
Notwithstanding temporary bickerings have taken place with France, she has still a strong hold on the affections of our citizens generally.
Godwin and his wife bickered barely up to the standard of Wiltshire morals; and their recorded bickerings are never without indications of a homely (albeit quite unromantic) liking for one another.
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