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Example sentences for "quarreled"

Lexicographically close words:
quare; quarell; quarels; quarenta; quarrel; quarreling; quarrell; quarrelled; quarrelling; quarrels
  1. They quarreled last night," said Lottie Day.

  2. If he has quarreled with Miss Clarke, so much the better.

  3. So 't is the same Barbara I quarreled with so oft, is it?

  4. But sleep and I have quarreled for to-night.

  5. But Uncle Benny had not trusted Henry; he had been suspicious of him; he had quarreled with him.

  6. Recently Corvet's moroseness and irritability had very greatly increased; he had quarreled frequently and bitterly with Spearman over business affairs.

  7. He seems to have been excited and troubled all day; he talked queerly to you, and he quarreled with Henry, but apparently not about anything of importance.

  8. Not long after his return from Troy, he quarreled with Minerva for the possession of the then recently founded city of Athens, then nameless, and entered into the memorable contest in which he was signally defeated (p.

  9. Antigone, no longer needed by her unhappy father, slowly wended her way back to Thebes, where she found that the plague had ceased, but that her brothers had quarreled about the succession to the throne.

  10. Accordingly the brothers began to trace the outline of their city limits, and, in doing so, quarreled over the name of the prospective town.

  11. She had quarreled forever with a man who had said that Rossetti's women resulted from tuberculosis of the imagination.

  12. Now that they had quarreled their voices cut the still night air in anger.

  13. And they quarreled among themselves, too, before they parted.

  14. One of the primary objects of the gaysing is to cement friendship between the parents, and it is frequently held after they have quarreled and pressure has been brought to bear to cause them to become friendly again.

  15. That time they quarreled and agreed to split the child in two.

  16. Perhaps it has come out about their marriage, and he has quarreled with his uncle?

  17. You worry him, and he and his wife have quarreled about some old love of his or other, and she has actually left him," she said.

  18. May had had a slight disagreement with her husband, and, like a foolish girl, quarreled with him.

  19. We quarreled and she has left me," said Temple, forcing himself to utter the words.

  20. The worst of it is, they quarreled mortally a little while ago; and now, if an artist has Sophia, Amelia won't come to him.

  21. We quarreled aboard ship; and when we got into port, he went his way and I went mine.

  22. Jack and I quarreled about his membership in a new club.

  23. It seems that this girl had quarreled with the man to whom she was engaged, and a week later she received a letter addressed in his handwriting.

  24. By the way, I hear that she has quarreled with Jack Bittersweet again.

  25. But Stiggall and Emerson never quarreled with each other.

  26. The fact is that old Tom Gaylord, in the autumn previous, had quarreled with Mr. Flint about lumber rates, which had been steadily rising.

  27. Do--Do you know what they quarreled about?

  28. Gray had been Walpole's traveling companion in France and Italy, and the two had quarreled and separated, but were afterward reconciled.

  29. We quarreled again, would you believe it?

  30. He had told me the main idea three days before, and we began quarreling about it at once and quarreled for three days.

  31. It is easy, therefore, to believe Champlain's report that monk and minister quarreled incessantly and sometimes came to blows over religious questions.

  32. La Salle and the ship-captains, who could not endure his haughty manners, quarreled incessantly.

  33. The Dutch were still hopeful of finding another route to India, and when Jacques le Maire quarreled with the directors of the East India Company, he planned to form a separate corporation and seek a route south of the Straits of Magellan.

  34. The chief of the forestry service, Gifford Pinchot, quarreled openly with the Secretary of the Interior, Richard A.

  35. The Constitutionalists, succeeding him, quarreled shortly among themselves, but the danger from Mexico appeared to be lessening as the year advanced.

  36. To-night I was with them at Martell's, and I quarreled with them about you girls.

  37. Then we quarreled and I got up from the table and almost ran out of Martell's.

  38. I don't know what you two quarreled about, but I do know that when she saw you on the stage at the first rehearsal she became so greatly afraid that you might eclipse her that she immediately began to lay plans for your undoing.

  39. Cabinski, still red and trembling from the abuse that had just met him, quarreled with everybody and swore and wanted to pay only the usual installments.

  40. We quarreled twenty times a day and the children cried and I thought I was going mad.

  41. I want to know what you quarreled about, Mr. Degger," she said.

  42. We quarreled intensely over her friends and were pleased with ourselves in the process.

  43. As he grew stronger she read the paper to him each morning, and they quarreled with keen relish over the news events of the day.

  44. In the rooms above mine lived a man and wife who quarreled half way through the night.

  45. She can't have disappeared into thin air, thin space," Hayes quarreled back.

  46. The Sodus Bay Socialists quarreled about religion, and when they broke up, some decamped in the night, with as much of the common property as they could lay hands on.

  47. There were rival leaders in the Ohio Phalanx, and their respective parties quarreled about constitutions till they got into a lawsuit which broke them up.

  48. Instead of engaging in any practical attempt to realize his social theories, he quarreled with the only experiment that was made by his disciples during his life.

  49. To this day I’m ashamed because I quarreled with Jake that way.

  50. He did not have to marry my mother, and all his brothers quarreled with him because he did.

  51. As the couple grew older, they quarreled more and more about the ultimate disposition of their “property.

  52. They quarreled from the moment Cutter came into the house until they went to bed at night, and their hired girls reported these scenes to the town at large.

  53. Once when they had quarreled about household expenses, Mrs. Cutter put on her brocade and went among their friends soliciting orders for painted china, saying that Mr. Cutter had compelled her “to live by her brush.


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