Factious quarrels within the Province itself now threatened the safety of the settlers.
At the same time Pennsylvania was torn by internal quarrels concerning what were called the "Territories" or Delaware.
Bickering and quarrels continued; Indian attacks were occasionally met and dealt with; but the southern Spaniards were an ever present danger that made Smith's rule no sinecure.
His temper had never been calm, and it is said that by the end of his period of office he was engaged in violent quarrels with every man of importance in the province.
There is therefore not only a lack of romance, but there is too a pettiness in the quarrels which continually occurred in these colonies.
And then, your private behaviour--all the quarrels that have been here since you came, have been long of you.
From the moment of the Treaty of Utrecht Acadia was the source of quarrels and intrigues which were entirely due to the interference of French Canadian priests.
In fact so bitter did these quarrels become that a settler, Mathews by name, as leader of the popular party, seized Harvey in 1635, and placed him upon a vessel where he was kept in honourable confinement until the old country was reached.
Little Girl that Beat her Sister Go, go, my naughty girl, and kiss Your little sister dear; I must not have such things as this, Nor noisy quarrels here.
Eliza Cook The Little Girl That Beat Her Sister Go, go, my naughty girl, and kiss Your little sister dear; I must not have such things as this, Nor noisy quarrels here.
Home Peace "Whatever brawls disturb the street There should be peace at home; Where sisters dwell and brothers meet Quarrels should never come.
But his quarrels do not appear to have entered deeply into his soul, or indeed usually to have lasted long.
Hence the combativeness which involved him in so many quarrels in his earlier days, and which jarred so harshly upon the less militant and in some respects more pedantic nature of Drummond.
Saintliness includes goodness and sacrifice, and excludes all the earthly impure spirits of selfishness, pride, quarrels and conquests.
To mention no more of their impertinent Predictions, What have we to do with their advertisements about pills, or their mutual quarrels in verse and prose of Whig and Tory?
Walter de Brienne quarrels with the Catalans and is defeated and slain by them; they conquer the duchy of Athens and appoint Roger Deslau grand duke.
At last even the French peasantry were roused; and the French nobles forgot their private quarrels and turned a united front against the invaders.
His triumph was crowned in this year, when, by skilful use of quarrels among the Visconti princes, he succeeded in recovering Bologna.
Thus bees, when their prince appears, compose their quarrels and unite in one swarm.
When so many quarrels are to be settled the public will not fail to be informed all about the origin of them.
South Carolina has since assumed a similar hostile attitude to the Union, but it yet remains to be seen whether she would not sink her private quarrels when the national rights were struck down and the country wasted by a common foe.
Commercial quarrels were even more bitter than political.
One other route remains, discovered by the English, left wholly to them and to the Dutch, and only used by them because of commercial quarrels with the rulers of the Baltic.
Intellectual bickerings further and heighten the happiness of congenial society, just as lovers' quarrels are a renewal of love, and fisticuffs a necessity of Marionette operas.
Sometimes she opposes and quarrelswith her, if the mother has less tact than arbitrariness.
One of our quarrels with the Advanced Women of our generation is the hysterical parade they make about their wants and their intentions.
Avoid getting into any quarrels or broils, and especially observe the names writ up on the corner of the houses, in order that you may learn the streets and so be able to find your way about should I send you with messages or goods.
I forbid this quarrel to go further; until the king's enemies are wholly defeated there must be no quarrels between his friends.
Day by day the feeling in the city rose higher, as the quarrels at Westminster between the Independents, backed by the army and the Presbyterian majority, waxed higher and higher.
According to her, amours and quarrels were carried on calmly and almost good-temperedly.
The intimacy between Lady Mary and Pope is especially interesting because it culminated in one of the most famous quarrels in the literary annals of this country, and second only to that between Pope and Addison.
Two persons with such impish humour could not but frequently find themselves at loggerheads, but their liking for each other's society was genuine, and quarrels were followed by peace-making.
Pleased with the successful issue of this negotiation, Henry was preparing to return with joyful haste to England, when his peace was disturbed byquarrels originating in his own family.
Neighbours' quarrelsare a mutual reproach, and yet a stick or a straw is sufficient to promote them.
Nor were we without our little tiffs--those lovers' quarrels that reveal what a terrible civil war can rage within the heart that rebels against itself.
There's no appeal the public respond to with the same certainty as that of the man who quarrels with his relations for the sake of his principles, and whether it be a change in your politics or your religion, they're sure to uphold you.
On this account all these races became discontented with the Chinese; and as it is usual with the latter for their hearts to swell as they grow richer, quarrels ensued, and disputes continually took place between the parties.
Thus the brother, on the death of his parents, was permitted to dispose of the hand of his sister; and a deviation from this course was deprecated, as laying a foundation for quarrels and dissensions.
She continued long to feel the quarrels of her nobles and her people; and kept open the gates of Janus, to remind those parties of the duties they owed to their country.
The pacific citizen had little concern in the quarrels of sovereigns; the violence of the soldier was restrained by discipline.
The quarrels of individuals, indeed, are frequently the operations of unhappy and detestable passions, malice, hatred, and rage.
What interest had he, or the bones of his father, in the quarrels of princes?
In this distribution of parties, not only the feuds of clans, but the quarrels of families, even the differences and competitions of individuals, are decided by force.
Many obtained their wives by abduction, and this was the cause of many of the inter-tribal quarrels in which they were so constantly engaged.
Trial by combat is frequently resorted to, not only to determine private disputes, but to settle quarrels between petty tribes.
Living in a state of constant war, arising out of familyquarrels or aggressions made into each other's territories, they were not unskilled in military tactics.
Quarrels 'are settled by boxing, the parties sitting down and striking blows alternately, until one of them gives in.
Quarrels are generally put off for these occasions, but, as the wives have carefully hidden all weapons, recourse is had to the fist, with which the combatants exchange blows in turn until one has had enough.
Quarrels among relatives and friends are unheard of among them.
The Nootka tribes were always at war with each other, hereditary quarrels being handed down for generations.
He went about warning the people that God would send upon them a new flood of foreign tongues and wild nations, if they would not stop their quarrels and put an end to their curses.
As to Mustafa Kemal’s bickerings and petty quarrels with several German generals during the war, they seem to have had no other cause than a divergence of views on technical points.
Our quarrels in the last days were something terrible, and the more astonishing because they were followed by a brutal passion extremely strained.
While the heads of the families were trying to have their troubles settled in court, their home quarrels were constant, and frequently resulted in hand-to-hand encounters.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quarrels" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
