Weapons from the dead men were being squabbled over, even fought over.
Evelyn was struggling helplessly while two Ragged Men held her arms, grinning as only devils could have grinned, and others squabbled and watched with a fascinated attention some cryptic process which could only be the drawing of lots.
Gradually the noisy birds followed the intruder to the far end of the slope; then, returning to their roosting places, they squabbled for the choice of sheltered perches among the ivied boughs.
However, we did n't say much more about them, and squabbled most of the way home over the subject of popularity.
And so, while the Western races had squabbled and fought, and world-adventured against one another, China had calmly gone on working at her machines and growing.
We fought and squabbled over the division like savages.
I've known lots of boys, and I never squabbled with any of them before.
When I squabbled with your Cousin Theodora," Billy said oracularly; "I generally felt I had done my share, and I left her to do the making up.
Or else they’d never have made so much trouble, and never squabbled so much.
Mama Thérèse cultivated a temper that grew day by day more vile, Papa Dupont displayed new artfulness in the matter of sneaking his daily toll of drink and showed it; the two squabbled incessantly.
The tits aloft in the bare branches chatted together in little splinters of song, and the woodpigeons squabbled over clusters of unripe ivy berries.
The squirrels and oxeyes squabbled in the hazels, and the badgers went harvesting when the moon rose.
When it was so dark that the shrews could only be located by their voices as they squabbled in the dead leaves, there came a rustle at the 'earth' mouth, and a striped snout was poked out.
Though they squabbled and wrangled with one another on minor pecuniary questions, the veteran and his son were of one mind on this point.
The light faded away under the monstrous beams, and we might have been in a cave a hundred fathoms below the earth but for the sunshine and blue sky at the portals where the little children squabbled and shouted.
Miss Vezzis drew twenty rupees a month for acting as nurse, and she squabbledweekly with her Mamma as to the percentage to be given towards housekeeping.
Those scientific gentlemen hadsquabbled among themselves) “mysterously” changed to “mysteriously” on page 266.
Then they pushed and squabbled for their breakfast.
He also squabbled with another Red Squirrel and chased him nearly to the farmyard.
Mississippi and Ohio had squabbled with their Territorial governors much as the Old Thirteen Colonies had squabbled with the governors appointed by the Crown.
I grieve to state that Miss Smith squabbled with the maid for the best jumble, which caused Bess to toss the whole dish into the air, and burst out crying amid a rain of falling cakes.
He thought it was a first-rate plan, and said that some of the best men he knew preferred to do good with their money instead of laying it up to be squabbled over when they died.
Other players squabbled for the possession of contested chairs.
Over the elevated tracks a mile to the south, a train rumbled somnolently towards the park terminal, and under the eaves of the house, just above his room, two sparrows squabbled sleepily.
We squabbled about it, and finally decided to toss for it.
We squabbled about it, and finally came to a compromise.
The more they squabbled the better they liked it,--controversies had become so common that they were merely a habit; and they served to take the grimness out of desperate situations.
He thoroughly enjoyed the company of the two gentlemen from the Bar-20, whose actions seemed to be governed by whims and who appeared to lack all regard for consequences; and they squabbled so refreshingly, and spent their money cheerfully.
You know how we've squabbled for hours over it--the difference between the codes of honor in a girl's friendships and boys'.
I was just as much afraid of him as she was, and wanted Rob myself, so we squabbled over it all the way up and down the avenue.
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