Let me conclude this chapter by once more impressing on our young housekeepers never to allow jars and squabbles about money.
The “Diary” is filled with information respecting the office and the petty squabbles of the officers, and we obtain from it a gloomy notion of the condition of the navy.
The interests of party, the expediency of local reforms, the squabbles between this faction and that, constituted the burning topics of the hour, and there were none other.
Busied with their party squabbles and social reforms, they took it for granted that international tranquillity which was a condition of the stability of all internal affairs was assured.
Numerous and brave garrisons also held the cities in awe, which were at the same time divided by religious squabbles and factions, and consequently deprived of their strongest support--union among themselves.
The squabbles of the members of council had occupied the greater part of the sitting, so that it was necessary to adjourn the discussion to the following day.
There were endless squabbles between the Infante Fernando and the Catalan deputies on all manner of subjects.
This outdid the lowness of Goldoni's squabbles about a brace of pumpkins in his Chiozzotte.
George III Court squabblesare beside the recorded talk of dear old Johnson!
There are varying accounts how the squabbles of a few miners brought on a sanguinary contest; but its origin may thus be explained.
The contest which ensued was one of the many paltry "squabbles for towns and castles" which ever recur in restless Italy, to distract the historian without affording him materials for a stirring episode.
The whole affair was regarded as an ordinary squabble of one noble with another; such squabbles were counted by thousands, especially in the Russian lands.
But it is useless to go deeper into the parliamentary squabbles of this period.
Still, amidst all the discomforts of the moment, amidst the last wranglings with landlords, and the last squabbles over broken furniture and missing movables, it must be owned that the prevailing temper of the scene was good-humor and jollity.
He was surprised, therefore, when Simon Squabbles handed him out only eight dollars and fifty cents.
Simon Squabbles and his meanness he forgot for awhile as he listened to Betty as she told him of her home life.
Simon Squabbles prospered through injustice; Dick Sinclair could ride along in his car, dressed in the height of fashion, while he had to eke out a precarious living by hoeing potatoes.
Old Simon Squabbles was on board, and though he said nothing to Jasper, he expressed his views to several men a short distance away.
Until Samoan administrative affairs were finally settled, her history consists of no more than a record of squabbles and intrigues.
It is because the work of policing backward or disorderly populations is so often confused with the annexationist illusion that the danger of squabbles in the matter is a real one.
At a later period conquest at least involved an advantage to the reigning house of the conquering nation, and it was mainly the squabbles of rival sovereigns for prestige and power which produced the wars of many centuries.
This perpetual warfare, like the squabbles of a roomful of quarrelsome children, seems to be almost wholly and directly due to the uncomplicated operation of the instinct of pugnacity.
Literary squabbles I know preserve one's name, when one's work will not; but I despise the fame that depends on scolding till one is remembered, and remembered by whom?
Mind, I am in no mood to listen to a pack of complaints and squabbles and jealousies.
The departure of both was regarded as a blessing by the majority of the colonists to whom the continued squabbles had become wearisome.
Squabbles over matters of precedence at ceremonies, over the rate of the tithes, and over the curbing of the coureurs-de-bois did not take the major share of the Church's attention.
There were unseemly squabbles about precedence at council meetings and at religious festivals, about trivialities of every sort; but the question of the brandy trade was at the bottom of them all.
In the history of Ascalon it was the neutral who generally got knocked down and trampled, and lost his pocketbook and watch, as happens to the gaping nonparticipants in the squabbles of humanity everywhere.
What right have we got to ask him to give his life to stop the mean, miserable squabbles of this suburb of hell!
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