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Example sentences for "quarrelled"

Lexicographically close words:
quarenta; quarrel; quarreled; quarreling; quarrell; quarrelling; quarrels; quarrelsome; quarrelsomeness; quarrie
  1. Thy kinsman is beneath my resentment; and besides, why shouldst thou think I had quarrelled with any one whomsoever?

  2. Casting a glance over the order of the march, it will be seen that the desirable places, concerning which everyone put forth his own special claims, possessed a value which make the persistency with which they were quarrelled for excusable.

  3. It is easy to believe that such a connection was not likely to last long, and the two ministers quarrelled over two proposed laws.

  4. I suppose they have quarrelled terrifically,' said her brother, as soon as she was gone.

  5. Purely on this account he quarrelled violently with his brother's widow, and from that day the two families kept apart.

  6. My father has never been very fortunate, and many things have happened to make him bitter against the men who succeed; he has often quarrelled with people who were at first his friends, but never so seriously with anyone as with Mr Fadge.

  7. Perhaps I have been a little prejudiced against her since Reardon quarrelled with me on her account.

  8. He and my father quarrelled soon after we went there to live.

  9. Mendelssohn returned and made Hiller leave, and Hiller boasted of having quarrelled with him.

  10. For, after a while, the two sisters quarrelled bitterly, and I had the very unpleasant experience of living for a whole year in the same house with two relatives who neither saw nor spoke to each other.

  11. About the same time my brother-in-law, Wolfram, having quarrelled with the director Bethmann and cancelled his contract with him, also went to the Konigstadt theatre to fulfil a special engagement.

  12. Conroy quarrelled with the latter and got her dismissed, and this Lehzen never forgave.

  13. The Duke of Sussex has quarrelled with the Government on account of their refusal to apply to Parliament for an increased allowance, and his partisans are very angry with Melbourne, and talk of withdrawing their support.

  14. Melbourne, very soon after the commencement of the session, openly, avowedly, and intentionally quarrelled with Brougham and set him at defiance.

  15. For Lanassa had quarrelled with Pyrrhus because he paid too much attention to his barbarian wives, had retired to Korkyra, and, as she still wished to be a queen, invited Demetrius to take possession of her person and of the island.

  16. Of these Titus appointed Scipio to be President of the Senate, as being the first man in the state, but he quarrelled with Cato for the following reason.

  17. The latest accounts from the Soudan state that Ibn en Najoomi has quarrelled with Mahomed el Khair on account of his peculations.

  18. The Baggaras had quarrelled with the Mahdi regarding the booty taken at El Obeyed, and had seized and carried off some of it.

  19. It might have been possible that John Erskine or any of the gentlemen of the country-side had quarrelled with Tinto and meant mischief; but Rolls could not have meant anything.

  20. It was another sort of "asylum" to which he should have been admitted, for he quarrelled with his benefactor.

  21. When we quarrelled he grew like all you English, haughty and sneering--ah!

  22. He quarrelled with Ted and Ted lost his temper and told.

  23. Man quarrelled with wife, left house, has been gone four hours.

  24. The soldiers quarrelled amongst themselves, and the officers, finding themselves helpless, restored the Rump a second time.

  25. How bitter the Irish feeling was against England is shown by the fact that the other Ulster chiefs, who usually quarrelled with one another, now placed themselves under O'Neill.

  26. Then Seraphine, who was extremely egotistical and avaricious, quarrelled with her husband and drove him away.

  27. Nearly a quarter of an hour elapsed before the child could be revived, and meantime the distracted parents quarrelled and shouted, accusing one another of having compelled the lad to go out walking that morning in such cold, frosty weather.

  28. Thus the authority of the popes crept in upon the town, and authority of some kind became every year more necessary as the voice of the people grew and strengthened and as the exiled nobles quarrelled outside the walls.

  29. Spoleto was Ghibelline in spirit, made incessant wars with neighbouring towns which favoured the Pope, and quarrelled constantly with the popes themselves.

  30. He admitted having quarrelled with the deceased and left him, but totally denied the murder.

  31. She was the sweetest old soul I ever knew, indeed, and what on earth he could have quarrelled with her about I never could fathom.

  32. It is said that Sir Baldwin Wake, a former proprietor, quarrelled with his brother about a lady of whom they were both enamoured, and, giving out that he was insane, imprisoned him till real madness ensued.

  33. According to the custom of that time, they drank a good deal together: they quarrelled over their wine, they fought, and Mr. Thomas was killed.

  34. Father and I quarrelled with him all day long.

  35. Was that what he and Uncle Merton quarrelled about?

  36. In the third week of the honeymoon Sir Charles paid his father-in-law a visit, and quarrelled with his bride about a game of whist.

  37. The draught was from the river Lethê; and immediately the combatants had tasted it, they forgot not only the cause of the quarrel, but even that they had quarrelled at all.

  38. He quarrelled with his brother on the subject of their two children’s hypothetical marriage; but the brothers were not yet married, and children “were only in supposition.

  39. This pleased not Etzel's chamberlains, and they had gladly quarrelled with them, had they dared before the king.

  40. Fourteenth Adventure How the Queens Quarrelled One day, before vespers, there arose in the court of the castle a mighty din of knights that tilted for pastime, and the folk ran to see them.

  41. If we quarrelled with all the people who abuse us behind our backs, and began to tear their eyes out as soon as we set ours on them, what a life it would be, and when should we have any quiet?

  42. So this couple were unhappy, and the Duke and Duchess quarrelled with one another like the most vulgar pair who ever fought across a table.

  43. His brother Hobson, though the Colonel had quarrelled with the chief of the firm, yet remained on amiable terms with Thomas Newcome, and shared and returned his banquets for a while.

  44. Eh, being in London once, she had the idea to make herself a Quakre; wore the costume, consulted a minister of that culte, and quarrelled with him as of rule.

  45. The more readily perhaps because he had quarrelled with his nephew Sir Barnes, Thomas Newcome went to visit his brother Hobson and his sister-in-law; bent on showing that there was no division between him and this branch of his family.

  46. She and her sister have quarrelled about this very affair with Lord Highgate.

  47. Sir Barnes quarrelled with his mother and drove her out of the house on her last visit--think of that!

  48. She always tells my uncle--afterwards--after she has quarrelled with you and grown tired of you!

  49. Although many of the Colonel's old friends had parted from him or quarrelled with him in consequence of the ill success of the B.


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