Such are our guides; how many a peaceful head, Born to be still, have they to wrangling led!
There was no sound of guns or smoke of powder in that day, only a fearful wrangling and chopping, and a whir of [Pg308] arrow and lance and twang of bowstring.
There will be a good deal more wrangling before the bill goes through.
After much wrangling Mustapha has got back my boy Yussuf but the Christian Sheykh-el-Hara has made his brother pay 2 pounds whereat Mohammed looks very rueful.
The common Arabs did not care much about any religion, and the finer spirits found the wrangling dogmatism of the Christian and the narrow isolation of the Jew little to their mind.
There would have been many more, had not Licentiate Alcaraz, notwithstanding his many excuses and his advanced age, been urged to attend it whenever possible, in order to avoid that wrangling and the scandal resulting from it.
Consequently for a year back there has been more wrangling here, in suits in the Audiencia, than from the time it was established.
In that interval Carrigan listened to the wrangling of two vivid-colored Canada jays deeper in the timber.
It was theirwrangling that roused Carrigan to the fact that he was not dead.
It will be intolerable," said he, "if you two fall to wrangling and setting heaven in an uproar about a pack of mortals.
After a great deal of wrangling upon those Heads, they begin to consider that the Corpse must have Christian Burial; they turn their Thoughts to that Point, and begin to settle the Funeral.
This imperial termagant, this "wrangling queen, whom every thing becomes," becomes even her fury.
After wrangling for a few minutes, he succeeded in buying their camel, the price being a pair of blankets, a shirt, and the dirk that had been taken from Terence.
The Arab grazier, anxious to have another opportunity of wrangling over his claim, accompanied his deluded companion outside the city gates.
They await but a single blast: as they are wranglingshall it assail them: And not a bequest shall they be able to make, nor to their families shall they return.
Verily this is truth–the wrangling together of the people of the fire.
While they were wrangling with him on this subject, a messenger arrived at Edinburgh with important despatches from James and from Mary of Modena.
While these two well-matched antagonists were wrangling in England, Bedford, a capable general and a wise administrator, was doing his best to carry out the task which the dying Henry V.
However, when the king had allowed them to dispute a while, he, with a glance at Fiammetta, bade her rescue them from their wrangling by telling her story.
He lived his life cracking his little jokes and reading his great folios, neither wrangling with nor accepting the opinions of the friends he loved to see around him.
And Uncle Larry proceeded: "Eliphalet went down to the little old house at Salem, and as soon as the clock struck twelve the rival ghosts began wrangling as before.
She did not intend to have her honeymoon interrupted by two wrangling ghosts, and the wedding could be postponed until he had made ready the house for her.
When I was last in Tonga, Hawaii was independent; three great Powers were still wrangling over Samoa; countless islands in the Pacific were yet unclaimed.
Accuser and accused generally fall to wrangling before the judge, who sits quietly listening until they have done, when, having used this excellent opportunity for forming an opinion of the merits of the case, he pronounces sentence.
