Give me but virtuous actions, and I will not quibble and chicane about the motives.
Tell my friendQuibble I was here before ye and keep this for yourself.
Hawkins if he could land Gottlieb & Quibble in jail for subornation of perjury, would he--eh?
The client by virtue of this auricular demonstration of our friendly relations with the bench would be instantly convinced that his success was assured and that Gottlieb & Quibble were cheap at any retainer they might choose to name.
It may cost me dear if Quibble hears of it, but a man must live, and I work at starvation wages.
It is easy to see how the Elizabethan tendency to word-quibble and equivoque would help to give currency to the Latin form.
Or there may be a quibble involved in connection with 'mettle' in the next line.
A quibble is perhaps intended between bate, the term of falconry, and abate, i.
Portia mentions it with a quibble in "The Merchant of Venice" (i.
That manufacturer of, quibbles, St. Paul, if he wrote the books that bear his name, has helped this quibble on by making another quibble upon the word Adam.
They must have discriminated in your favor; I saw no such things, though to be sure I was afraid to quibble over the waitress's suggestions.
I am not one to quibble over the efforts of man to supplement the work of nature, so that I confess without shame that the Croton lakes, to my cockney eye, merge flawlessly into this landscape.
A quibble poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight, that he was content to purchase it, by the sacrifice of reason, propriety and truth.
A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.
A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation.
A quibble is to Shakespeare, what luminous vapours are to the traveller; he follows it at all adventures, it is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire.
To his amazement, they liked it, saw its possibilities and, after proper investigation, bought for cash with never a quibble over the price.
Why quibble about that when the peace of one's family is at stake.
A quibble is to Shakespeare, what luminous vapours are to the traveller; he follows it at all adventures it is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to ingulf him in the mire.
This entertaining quibble (suitable to five o'clock teas in Bayswater) can be applied to other topics.
With this ingenious quibble the Amusing Rattle can wish himself a Merry Christmas, and the remainder of the world a Happy New Year.
Should we waste our time to quibbleabout dates, or days, or hours?
And it seems to me, Monsieur, that you are already so far beholden to Monsieur de St. Gre that you cannot quibble about going a little more into his debt.
I made a swift resolve never to quibble with this man.
But I will not palter with them: I will not cite them to-day in order to serve one turn, and quibble them away to-morrow in order to serve another.
They started at once in full cry, and the quibblebecame to them what Dr.
Following his employer, Mr Broughton, into the petty law courts at Barnham, he saw how the right and the wrong, the sorrow or the joy of human beings depended almost upon the quibble of a word, the incident of a slip of the pen.
Quick of observation and comprehension, he saw that even this game of argument, and precedent, and quibble was not conducted honestly.
What was there for Webster, what was there for Clay to quibble about?
The story that he offered payment for the slaves--so often affirmed and denied--is in either case but a quibble with the actual facts.
The same persons shall cry up for admirable the cold quibble from Virgil about the broken Cremona;[1] because it is made out in all its parts, and leaves nothing to the imagination.
The play, however, is interesting, and subtle enough to furnish material for quibble and discussion not only among critics, but among interpreters themselves.
The authors have arrived at that fine point where they can only compare authorities and quibble about details.
A quibble is to Shakespeare, what luminous vapours are to the traveller; he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire.
A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.
But I don't care about a quibble in regard to words.
The substance of Johnston's claim on which was founded this malignant clique in Richmond was the merest quibble about the date of his commission to the rank of full general.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quibble" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
