Here, here, master; how it puns and quibbles in the glass!
The ancient riddles seem to have been generally of a descriptive character, and not to have turned upon quibbles of words, like those of the present day.
His quips, and quirks, and quibbles are of his age, but his copious pleasantry still enlivens; these smoothed the brow of Henry, and relaxed the rigid muscles of the melancholy Mary.
It is well that a true feeling of religion does not depend on the quirks and quibbles of human reasonings, or, what are as fallible, on masses of fanciful erudition.
Admitting that Plato puts forward sophistical quibbles with the word [Greek: phi/los], he tells us that this is suitable for the purpose of puzzling the contentious young man Menexenus.
They might have insisted that petty quibbles set forth by the lawyers of Paris should not defeat the eternal laws of retribution set forth by the Lawgiver of the Universe.
This was the last and worst of the quibbles put forth to gain time while Austria was making progress toward Belgrade.
He's no worse than the rest of his clan; the city government's rotten straight through except for a few honest judges and they're helpless before the quibbles and intricacies of law.
At present men were occupied in discussing its logicalquibbles and paradoxes, and in balancing its claims to cogency against those of its rivals.
In his day philosophy had sunk to an endless series of disputes about words [56] Frivolous quibbles and captious logical proofs, comprised the highest exercises of the speculative faculty.
The arguments of Zeno may therefore be regarded as strictly arguments in kind; quibblesif you please, but in answer to quibbles.
I have no quibbles to utter, and I shall stoop to answer none; but, with full faith in the sufficiency of a plain statement of facts and reasons, I submit the subject to the discernment of my audience.
I leave the quibbles by which such persons would try to creep out from under the crushing weight of these conclusions to the unfortunates who suppose that a reply is equivalent to an answer.
All these pros and cons, these quibbles and hair-splittings were but a misfit attempt to cloak the truth.
In comparison, the points Ocock was going to advance shrank to mere legal quibbles and hair-splitting evasions.
Many amusing and exasperating legal quibbles occurred in the courts between judges, who were determined to sentence for neglect of public worship, and defendants, who were equally positive of their rights.
If we meet him on the common ground of necessity, he will snap all such quibbles like threads of tow, and overwhelm us with the floods of irony and scorn.
They might have insisted that the petty quibbles set forth by the lawyers of Paris should not defeat the eternal laws of retribution set forth by the Lawgiver of the Universe.
He was adroit at finding flaws in ancient titles, skilled in all the feudal quibbles of fine and recovery, and ready to employ the secret dagger where hard swearing and fabricated documents might fail to make good his title.
Neither doth it avail them anything to use quibbles and evasions, and weak conjectures, since they are often unanswerably confuted even by some of their brethren, who are more dexterous than they in expounding of Scriptures.
We've quips and quibbles heard in flocks, But none to beat this paradox!
But the whole scheme was rooted and grounded in falsehood, and Ireland had yet to learn how far sufferings by the quibbles and devices of law might exceed the disasters of open war.
Mere technicalities and lawyers' quibbles should not have the weight with judges that for some reason they seem to possess.
The quibbles and technicalities that make our laws a good deal of a joke to-day have nothing much on that.
He did come back, but with the quibbles of the Sophist, the rhetorician cavilled against his mother.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quibbles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
