When the little French girl announced this, Jane again fancied that she read satisfaction in the sharp features of the quarrelsome freshman.
Jane and Adrienne instantly followed suit, leaving the quarrelsomefreshman alone in her glory.
The convicts laughed at him; but they feared him, on account of his susceptible, excitable, andquarrelsome disposition.
He is neither a drinking man, nor a quarrelsome man, nor a frequenter of wine shops; the best thing you could do would be to take him for a model.
But you have the reputation, in the quarter, of being a noisy, quarrelsome fellow, and of drinking rather hard, too.
Among the Italians, there exists an old superstition that the possession of a Rampion engenders among children a quarrelsome disposition, and excites their anger to such a degree, that unless checked, murder would result.
Giovanna felt herself grow sick with dread; she was afraid of the rapidly approaching darkness, of the solitude that enwrapped the common, of the presence of these two men whom wine had turned into quarrelsome beasts.
Mr Denniss learns from his servant that Mr D's dog was no more in fault than Mr B's, which latter is of a very quarrelsome and savage disposition, as Mr Denniss can himself testify, as well as many other people.
With respect to Mr Denniss' recrimination on the quarrelsomedisposition of his harmless house-dog, Mr Borrow declines to say anything further.
Your father's been at his old tricks all day, and he's just quarrelsome enough now to snap your head off if you say a word.
At the time I was the worse for liquor, and to the best of his belief was in a very quarrelsome condition.
As I have intimated above, Andrew Jackson was the most conspicuous example of this quarrelsome spirit, and for this reason he is wholly inferior to Lincoln as a type of democratic manhood.
He had arrived in a quarrelsome mood, pitching into everyone he came across, and talking about all sorts and kinds of subjects in the most unexpected manner, so that it was impossible to discover what it was that was really putting him out.
He had been turned out in disgrace, eventually, and this was the cause of his bad night and quarrelsome day, which ended in his sudden departure into the street in a condition approaching insanity, as recorded before.
A few minutes later he was aware from the noisy voices in the drawing room, that the conversation had become more quarrelsome than ever after his departure.
I apologize for my seeming slight to your quarrelsome abilities, and I concede your will and strength to fight your own battles.
He was brought back to the town on the day before the ships of the fleet, which had brought so many quarrelsome people, were to sail for England.
Perhaps I can manage the quarrelsome sons of the dragon's teeth as well as Cadmus did.
At first, to be sure, the workmen showed a quarrelsome disposition.
The life of Jesus unites all our types of labor in a divine purpose and rebukes that quarrelsome spirit which so often sets the manual laborers and the mental and moral laborers in opposition.
He does not insist that the quarrelsome shall live amid their brawls; but he does insist that they shall not go into another experiment that degrades a sacred covenant.
It is not bloodthirstiness, because they are neither savage nor quarrelsome dogs: a bulldog will go all his life without a fight, unless put into a ring.
Be not quarrelsome in breweries, for fear that thou mayest be denounced forthwith for words which have proceeded from thy mouth, and of having spoken that of which thou art no longer conscious.
At the same time, he was a crusty, dogmatical and quarrelsome man, who had many enemies, but also many admirers.
In one of his novels he introduces a quarrelsomegrammarian of the Hebrew language, a verbal critic who takes the field in grammatical campaigns, and is accompanied by a marvelously beautiful woman.
But instantly the pity of God for Moses was awakened, and He said to Hadarniel: "You angels have been quarrelsome since the day I created you.
They are regarded as quarrelsome and untruthful, and as tyrannical landlords.
The Koshtis are quarrelsome and addicted to drink, and they have generally been the chief instigators of grain riots when prices rise.
Porcupine's quills are sharp and prickly, and crow's feathers are perhaps efficacious because the crow is supposed to be a talkative and quarrelsome bird.
According to his own account, the quarrelsome and debauched friars no longer felt any of the solicitude they had previously entertained lest the knowledge of their excesses should deter him from embracing a "religious" life.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quarrelsome" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
