In the Play of Noah's Flood, when the time for the flood has come, Noah's wife refuses to enter the ark and a domestic quarrel ensues.

For I will go and give challenge to this knight, and so I shall hope to decide this quarrel man to man.

Through the half-closed eyelids glancing Still the lust of quarrel mocks, From his head deep underneath him Flow the matted raven locks.

He would probably have quarrelled with Lee, if it had been possible for any one to make quarrel relations with that fine-natured gentleman, and if Lee had not been too strongly entrenched in the hearts of his countrymen to make any interference with him unwise, even for the President.

"I'm going back to Windrift to-morrow," he said, still sullen, but with the note of the quarrel-seeker gone from his voice.

If so, then the killing was not the result of a mere personal quarrel amidships, or in the forecastle; but the result of some conspiracy.

and the varlet falls down on his knees;and, in short, all things go on so abominably smooth, that my heart is bursting for something to spite me, and pick a quarrel withal!"

Far from being a quarrel-maker, he was peaceful to the point of Quakerish predilection.