It cometh neither for strife nor war, nor for acts of mischief or of shame; it is neither for quarrelling with other Faiths, nor for conflicts with the nations.
Molly, never taking to her kindly, was for quarrelling ten times a day, but the girl only laughed back again.
And there was I, yesterday afternoon, taking your part and quarrelling with my father.
There's nothing but quarrelling with the women; it's my belief they like it better than victuals and drink.
They were constantly quarrelling among each other to decide who should rule the city.
He was wildly violent, and I had to dismiss him precisely because he was always quarrelling with the other servants.
They also numbered two popes among their forerunners, yet this had not prevented Prince Matteo from lending support to the Quirinal without quarrelling with the Vatican.
I heard loud, angry quarrelling and scuffling going on, and father's voice was among the rest.
Lina heard them coming, as well she might, for they were talking and quarrelling loud, and gave her master warning.
As soon as the servants were gone, quarrelling and accusing all the way, they returned and finished their supper.
I introduced her into the house-party for the express purpose of concentrating the feuds and quarrellingthat would otherwise have broken out in all directions among the womenkind.
You are wrong in quarrelling with our great Rabbi and with the members of the kahal.
It never was long, for it was scanty and passed in gloomy silence, interrupted only by quarrelling and the biting remarks of the father of the family.
Through the windows came the mixed noise of singing and praying in male voices, the quarrelling of women and the screaming of children.
Though now an inconsiderable village it was said in Saxon days to have been a fair-sized town, and as a borough its reputation for corruption and quarrelling is black even compared with the other rotten boroughs of the county.
In Bishop Sparrow's report of July 1671, on Sancreed Church, a curious state of affairs came to light, for the parish was quarrelling over precedence in church sittings!
They have pulled down a bullock, boys, and they are quarrelling over it.
It enraged him; but policy counselled a quiet behaviour in this place, and no quarrelling with his pawnbroker.
Barraclough lost his temper for inadequate reasons; the Prince shut himself in his room morosely, for I shall come to that presently; and Lane growled and grumbled so that it was difficult to avoid quarrelling with him.
They don't know where we are; and, besides, they are quarrelling among themselves.
Their time was passed in vociferously quarrelling among themselves during the day, and in close conference with the vakeel during the night, the substance of which was reported on the following morning by the faithful Saat.
Koorshid's camp was a scene of continual uproar, the men quarrelling over the division of the spoil.
No sooner had she fallen, than the Makkarikas rushed upon her in a crowd, and seizing the fat, they tore it from the wound in handfuls, the girl being still alive, while the crowd were quarrelling for the disgusting prize.
The Turks were scattered about in the neighbouring lanes, their time passed in drinking merissa, and quarrelling with the natives and with each other.
The whole of the night was passed by the rival parties quarrelling and fighting.
On arrival at the grassy plain at the foot of the mountain, there was a crowd of the trader's ruffians quarrelling for the shade of a few large trees that grew on the banks of the stream.
Feemy, "you wouldn't bequarrelling with Thady about nothing?
By speaking to Captain Ussher you mean quarrelling with him, and that's not what'll do Feemy any good.
I had seen him roused several times on the road, quarrelling with postmasters and thumping postillions, but I had never before seen the full development of that extraordinary head of hair.
The place was kept by a Jew, who, with his wife, or some woman belonging to the establishment, old and weatherbeaten, was running about serving and apparently quarrelling with all the wagoners.
I woke the next morning under a shed, horses harnessed, postillion on the box whipping, and a Jew at their head holding them, and the two bipeds quarrelling furiously about the stabling.
The Prussians and Austrians were depicted, accurately enough in view of the sequel, as bandits quarrelling over their spoil, and this free criticism was bitterly resented throughout Germany.
Far from quarrelling with the desired monopoly, in the cause of music we heartily rejoice at it.
How are they to go to school with those people quarrelling in the doorway?
I suggested to the War Office authorities that instead of quarrelling with my dog for talking his own language, they should train their sergeants to use English.
I am not quarrelling for a moment with the proposition in the abstract; I am quarrelling with your method of carrying it out in your local machinery.
David Rosselin had replied with his genial laugh: 'Ah, mon cher, I have had all the time that I should have spent in quarrelling with my wife if I had had one!
Why does most love end so drearily in a sudden death by quarrelling or in a lingering death by tedium?
Ignorance, idleness, and dissipation were the characteristic of the wealthier classes, and a meeting of the ‘gentry’ could seldom take place without quarrelling and bloodshed.
Hel and Mesmer subsequently quarrelling about the prior discovery of each, the latter discontinued the use of the plates, and substituted his fingers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quarrelling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
