Propositions" are expressly devised for quibbling between realities and beliefs.
To spend his life quibbling over trifles with other lawyers was not what he wanted.
To have his place in life fixed by his ability in quibbling seemed to him hideous.
There's no chance for any legalquibbling in that--IS there?
Many a case as strong as this has been lost, just by legal quibbling and ignorance of how to handle it properly.
The sorrow of "Collatine and his consorted lords" is portrayed in laboured and quibbling speeches.
But whereas Petrarch's style is simple and pure, here we have far-fetched turns of speech, quibbling appeals, and expressions of admiration suggested by the intellect rather than the feelings.
You said you were only going to ask me one question, instead of which you go on quibbling without end.
Now you are just trying to spoil my story with these quibbling objections.
But, gentlemen, it would take up all my time to meet all the little quibbling arguments of Judge Douglas to show that the Missouri Compromise was repealed by the Compromise of 1850.
Why does he stand playing upon the meaning of words and quibbling around the edges of the evidence?
At the outset there was quibbling of course, and a deal of playing for position.
The quibbling lawyers and phrase-mongering diplomatists were busy at work in wordy fence, each trying to force upon the other the technical responsibility of beginning the war by some act of forcible aggression.
It would have been to ignore the most obvious facts in modern history and to substitute a lot of lawyers' quibbling prevarications for the modern world's greatest wonder story of war.
The wolf devours the lamb, and is no worse a wolf for it; but if he seek, as in the fable, to give quibbling excuses for his wolfishness, he becomes a byword for hypocrisy.
I am no rascal; and as for quibblingwith words--suppose I did!
Almost the first scene of our history has to do with just such an instance of shameless quibbling about sacred things as that we must now record.
Laura," he cried, "let us end this fencing and quibbling once and for all.
A spiritual, truly religious conception of Judaism was supplanted by legal quibbling and subtle methods of interpretation.
Throughout the land schools were established, in which the Talmud was taught by the Pilpul, an ingenious, quibbling method of Talmudic reasoning and discussion, said to have originated with Jacob Pollak.
He did not wear his art upon his sleeve: he outwardly conformed, but inwardly his soul towered over every petty annoyance, and all the vain power of the fearing and quibbling little princes touched him not.
Wiggling, jiggling, piggling individuals with quibbling proclivities, and an incapacity for distinguishing between fact and truth, may maintain that there was no Rhode Island in the year Ten Hundred Seven.
I do not know where else one can find such grotesque absurdities, such utter topsy-turvydom of argument, as in the quibbling modern brutality which gives sophisticated reasons for perpetuating savage customs.
Grep: "Thou art thought to be as full of quibbling as a cock of dirt.
They wasted months in quibbling about the words of that false and childish Declaration of Rights on which they professed to found their new constitution, and which was at irreconcilable variance with every clause of that constitution.
In support of this strange doctrine, Gorgias adopted the quibbling method of argument which had been applied with some success to dialectical purposes by Zeno, Melissus, and others (see above, pp.
