He was willing to exonerate Penny and Clint from the charge of throwing stones, but insisted that it always took two to make a quarrel and that if Penny had chosen to observe the rules of the school he could have done so.
He had it in for me because--for something that happened a while back, and he got Beaufort to pick a quarrel with me.
The famous quarrelwith the President de Brosses about the fourteen cords of firewood is a worse affair.
Between a youth of bold, vivacious, imaginative disposition, and a father of the temperament proper to a notary with many responsibilities, there could be no sympathy, and the two were not long in coming to open quarrel without terms.
Gladly at this moment would Mac-Ivor have put their quarrel to a personal arbitrament;--his eye flashed fire, and he measured Edward as if to choose where he might best plant a mortal wound.
Of his quarrel with Sir Hew, he said nothing more, than that it was settled in a fitting manner.
I am at a loss even to guess at your meaning, Colonel Mac-Ivor, unless it seems plain that you intend to fasten a quarrel upon me.
This, by the way, pretty well explained the cause of quarrel between the Baron and his Highland ally.
Edward told his story at length, suppressing his quarrel with Fergus; for being himself partial to Highlanders, he did not wish to give any advantage to the Colonel's national prejudice against them.
As to the cause for which he is disposed to fasten a quarrel upon me, I am ignorant of it, unless it be that he accuses me, most unjustly, of having engaged the affections of a young lady in prejudice of his pretensions.
The quarrel which ensued between Edward and the chieftain is, I hope, still in the remembrance of the reader.
And so illogical and useless is this sentiment of remorse, that I was ready, at a word or a look, to quarrel with somebody else.
Give me your opinion on my quatrain, or I vow we shall have a quarrel of it.
With no idea as to the rights of the quarrel or the probable consequences of the encounter, I was as ready to take part with my two drovers, as ever to fall in line on the morning of a battle.
Even a quarrel in which I had been the victor had no pleasant reflections for me.
Isn't it possible that there was some mistake in the matter of the quarrel between Thornton and Poodles?
He declared that Poodles and Pearl had been frightened into their confession, and persisted in saying that I had caused the quarrel on the pier.
All there is to his story is that he and the girl had a quarrel before the marriage eventually took place.
One night a middle-aged man of respectable appearance, evidently the host of a party of "sightseers," got into a quarrel with a member of the mentioned gentry.
It came with the first bitter quarrel he and Amy had.
He may quarrel with individuals in that class, he may quarrel with individuals in another class, or with the whole of it; but he may not break with the whole of his own class.
There had been, of late, a revival of popular clamor against insurance companies, which the previous investigation, started by a quarrel among the interests and called off when that quarrelwas patched up, had left unquieted.
Who would dare quarrelwith such a liberal provider of the best worms?
The quarrel had so far advanced that Saturday night was the logical time for the climax in sentimental reconciliation.
If any quarrel should arise amongst us, I am able to answer neither of them, his Iron and Steel tongue is as hard as the t'others Latine one.
Out with it: The devils are got together by the ears, who shall have it; And here they quarrel in the clouds.
A quarrel arising between the people of this state and the neighbouring Phocians, the latter invaded Doris, and captured one of its three towns [189].
A quarrel ensued, however, between the Persian general and the governor of Miletus.
A large portion of the people took advantage of the quarrel between the brothers to assert that they would have no king but Jupiter.
Let Ann and the dragon quarrel as to who should conquer the nomes, if they liked; Shaggy would let them try, and if they failed he had the means of conquest in his own pocket.
There is a standing quarrel between the professional--I mean now the official--sanitarian and the unsalaried agitator for sanitary reform over the question of overcrowded tenements.
If I am prepared for the chief evil, I shall not quarrel with details.
And you call it love to grudge and quarrel and pick faults?
Whilst thequarrel is going on the moll walks off with the booty.
This quarrel agitated Europe to its center, and deluged her fields with blood.
And now Frederic and Albert began to quarrel at Vienna.
Province after province fell before the resistless invaders, and Venice would have fallen irretrievably had not the conquerors began to quarrel among themselves.
In those dark days of violence and of blood, every petty quarrel was settled by the sword.
A quarrel for ascendency among the beauties of his harem had involved the empire in a civil war.
They were in a continued quarrel contesting the preeminence.
This encouraged the emperor, and forgetting his quarrelwith Louis XII.
The mark was a birth-mark, and I was assured that it corresponded exactly with one that had been given to the man by his wife in just such a quarrel as the one the little girl described.
Lady Mary,' says Byron, 'was greatly to blame in that quarrelfor having encouraged Pope.
He was as unthrifty as Goldsmith, whom in many respects he resembles, and his warm, impulsive nature was allied to a combativeness and jealousy which sometimes led him to quarrel with his best friends.
It is necessary to add here that the whole story of the quarrel comes to us from Pope, who is never to be trusted, either in prose or verse, when he wishes to excuse himself at the expense of a rival.
Tickell's translation of the first book of the Iliad led to the quarrel already mentioned in the account of Pope.
We are fond of distinctions; we place ourselves in opposition, and quarrelunder the denominations of faction and party, without any material subject of controversy.
How you quarrelabout a man and cling together against a man!
Not that he had shown any inclination for violence toward her, though he had long been irritable and disposed to quarrel on slight provocation.
The action of the Sauk convinced Deerfoot that his enemy had no friends in that section, for, if any were within call, he would have summoned them before the quarrel had gone so far.
He loves them all, and He hides his face with grief when he sees them quarrel and try to kill each other.
The last taunt forced the quarrel to the exploding point.
This precipitated a fierce quarrel between the two, the upshot of which was that Ogallah, and a number of followers, drew off from the main tribe and began "keeping house" for themselves.
The abbot sets one of his convent to quarrel with him, and with some scandalous reproach or other to defame him before company, and then to come and complain first, the witnesses were likewise suborned for the plaintiff.
A second [2483]"fears every man he meets will rob him, quarrel with him, or kill him.
The only explanation which the first admits of, is, that Bothwell was afraid lest Mary should afterwards quarrel with him, and resolved therefore not to destroy the evidence of her participation in the murder.
As for the cadets, Granby soon showed these interfering persons that two things in connection with his quarrel with Noel must be laid to heart by them.
It was as foolish and ridiculous a matter as could well be imagined to found a standing quarrel upon; yet a breach was made, and Granby's constitutional obstinacy stood in the way of its healing.
The first was, that the said quarrel was no affair of theirs, and that interference or attempted peace-making, by trickery or otherwise, was dangerous.
Pickle (May 11) reported the quarrel with Lord Marischal to his employers.
Charles, in fact, picked a new quarrel with France on the score of his daughter.
There must have been a greatquarrel with Madame de Talmond, outwearied by the exigencies of a Prince doomed to a triste solitude after a week of London.
Some big Prussian will box your ears,' said the Earl Marischal, after Voltaire's famous quarrel with his Royal pupil.
I don't see why we should quarrel about Nobili's marriage.
Go and quarrelwith Malatesta, if you like, but leave me alone.
He dared not quarrel either with the marchesa, Trenta, or the count, by whose joint support alone he could hope to plant himself firmly in the realms of Lucchese fashionable life--a life which he felt was his element.
