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.

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!"

An author, keenly conscious of having written, can hardly help imagining his condition of lively interest to be shared by others, just as we are all apt to suppose that the chill or heat we are conscious of must be general, or even to think that our sons and daughters, our pet schemes, and our quarrelling correspondence, are themes to which intelligent persons will listen long without weariness.

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.

Now am I in my quarrelling humour, and now can I say nothing but, zounds, draw!

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