My cousin Philip was forever carping and criticising my Greek and Latin, and it was impossible not to feel his sneer at my back when I construed.
But not a feathered parrot in the carping lot of them could deny that Miss Manners had beauty and wit enough to keep them all at bay.
Any temporary relief from the carping tyranny of Brown was welcome.
The carpinggrumbler who may here and there go forth will find few to listen to him.
One who is critical beyond measure or reason; a carping critic; a captious censor.
Resemblance to Zoilus in style or manner; carping criticism; detraction.
It is in no carping spirit of criticism, however, that the following views are expressed.
Who are they that, carping and quarrelling, in their jesuitic most moderate way, seek to shackle the Patriotic movement?
It was, indeed, an ungrateful place, since their exploits afforded its old ladies much of the carping conversation they loved.
It was sometimes said of the Twins by the carping that they never knew when to stop; but in this case it was not their fault that they went on.
Evidently you're no so good at fishing as blackmailing," said Sir James in a nasty carping tone, for the fact that they had worsted him still rankled in his heart.
Carping souls often said that Tom Cobb had never done an honest day's work in his life.
For it was only of late that he had fallen into such carping ways, and that the real breach was apparent.
I have not been a good daughter to him; I have been carpingand disagreeable; I have presumed to sit in judgment on my own father; I have separated myself and my pursuits from his, and alienation was the result.
This is simply a carping objection, and the expression used about St. Stephen is quite in keeping with the usus loquendi of Scripture.
XLI "Because perceiving vantage there was none In the male cheer by which she was misled, The damsel held it wise, reproach to shun, Which might by any carping tongue be said.
We can hardly be mistaken in concluding that these last are symbolical representations of envious and carping critics.
The poor, he goes on, will always have a carping word to say, or, if that outlet be denied, nourish rebellious thoughts.
Whitman hates doubt, deprecates discussion, and discourages to his utmost the craving, carping sensibilities of the conscience.
This was twelve hundred years ago; and since that time the English race has enjoyed the reputation (subject to some carping criticism, due to the self-love of other peoples) of being the handsomest in the world.
The stereotyped answer of the disappointed dramatist and carping newspaper critic used to be "legs"; but that answer will not do now.
The carping strain and the stiffness of method, that we cannot overlook in him, were the note of his generation.
So the name of poetry is odious to them; but neither his cause, nor effects, neither the sum that contains him, nor the particularities descending from him, give any fast handle to their carping dispraise.
Carping criticism of Spain has been pushed to such an extent that it is time to swing to the other side: where there can be no joy, no admiration, there can be no stimulus.
But I suppose this carping comparison is just the never-ending tendency to look on a previous day as better than one's own.
It contains, amid much prefatory matter, a note to the "carping and scornefull Sicophant," in which he attacks his enemies with small courtesy and much alliteration.
One is described as a "carping careless cankerd churle.
The matter would then be brought forward in no carping spirit, and you would be enabled, through Mr. Finn, to set the matter at rest.
To his thinking, public virtue consisted in carping at men high placed, in abusing ministers and judges and bishops--and especially in finding out something for which they might be abused.
So I must silence these carping and spiteful scribblers at any price, and that is why I give you till the day after to-morrow.
These newspaper scribblers are always covertly carping at us for giving our whole attention to the Palm Tree.
These newspaper scribblers are always covertly carping at us.
The grief is in my breast, because I have not always been as kind As woman should, by nature's laws, But showed sometimes a wilful mind, Carping at straws.
So meek is art, that (when it comprehends) It loves the carping of its dearest friends.
His words fall into two parts, of which the former puts a meaning into Mary's act, of which she probably had not been aware, while the latter meets the carping criticism of Judas.
Jesus wept,' and all that the lookers-on felt was astonishment that He should have cared so much for a dead man of no importance, or carping doubt as to the genuineness of His grief and the reality of His power.
