Why," said he to the two heroines, who I am told are not upon the best terms imaginable, "should you squabble and scratch?
Helen and Lucy were too interested to squabble at all and so were getting on splendidly.
She felt when they were once off that she could rest, if only Cousin Lizzie would not complain too much and if Helen and Lucy would not squabble and if dear little Bobby would not poke his head too far out of the window.
Helen and Lucy would squabble over their crowns and harps in Heaven," said the peace-loving Nan.
Railways and roads they wrought, For the needs of the soil within; A time to squabble in court, A time to bear and to grin.
I was not pleased, because I wished to go to sleep, not to squabble with loafers.
The Berlin news is nothing more than the common story of a squabble between Mistress and Favourite, in which, contrary to custom, Favourite has this time got the better of Mistress.
It is not worth his while to get into a squabble and risk his own life.
The rascal, who knew all the dead man's little secrets, guessed what a fix his master was in from overhearing a few words of the squabble with Madame Cardot.
I am glad he is not, after all: though I wish you chaps would not squabble over the picture.
You go out and meddle with everything you can think of that doesn't concern us--politics and big talk--instead of doing your work properly and leaving the fools to squabble among themselves!
Others organized debating societies, and began in weighty speech to squabble about the new ideas--which none of them knew anything about.
This being both sensible and unanswerable, the party scattered to improvise old castles of Ellangowan, and to squabble for what was to them the only wholly desirable part, that of Dirk Hatteraick.
But don't you two squabble over it; I will do Hatteraick myself!
It was a world-penance for a world to see, and paltry indeed it made appear that earlier penance, barefooted in the snow, of an emperor to a pope for daring to squabble over temporal power.
It ill-befits your dignity to squabble over poppies," they said.
If you fellows are going to squabble there'll be nothing done at all," put in Holt impatiently.
What they want is a squabble and a fuss: and that they can have if we explain; and they cannot have it if we don't.
We would have heard the noise of a squabble if he had been captured, an' I have stood watch ever since he left," Sergeant Corney said, decidedly.
To squabble about how to call him, after having praised and supported him after the Coup d'État, seems to me very kleinlich and inconsistent, and I think our conduct throughout has been much more dignified.
But say what one will, it is he again who indirectly gets us into a squabble with France!
Shans are recognized to be a peaceful people, but a village squabble outside Chin-ch'eng, in which I took part, is one of the exceptions to prove the rule.
As I have said before I did not follow the course of the nasty squabblevery closely, and was quite indifferent as to the result.
Besides, the whole squabble will come to an end the minute old man Titus puts up the back million.
She keeps complaining that she has no one to squabble with.
I shall make you a present of them both, to show that I don't bear malice, and as a compensation for the trouble and squabble you had about Thorwaldsen's.
I have forwarded to Mr. Douglas Kinnaird the documents on a squabble here, which occurred about a month ago.
On this the Battle of the Organs became a squabble between the two Temples; and the outside public, laughing over the quarrel of the lawyers, expressed a hope that honest men would get their own since the rogues had fallen out.
Chancellor," the musician was unaware that the squabble was still at white heat whilst Jeffreys occupied the woolsack.
After the squabble had been protracted through many months, Harris created a diversion by challenging Father Smith to make additional reed-stops within a given time.
The squabblewith the bride was not slow to come, but Matilda and I fell out first.
She also became rather irritable, and had more than one squabble with Madame about this time.
I cannot tell you how this little squabble has made me suffer, and what a night I have passed.
Brougham has been getting into a squabble with the military.
The dinner was agreeable, and enlivened by a squabble between Lady Holland and Allen, at which we were all ready to die of laughing.
There is a furious squabble between the Grand Chamberlain and the Earl Marshal (who is absent and has squabbled by deputy) about the box of the former in Westminster Abbey.
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