I can assure you, he is, this day, the envy of a Great Person, who is Lord in the Art of Quibbling; and who does not take it well, than any man should intrude so far into his province.

The second Inquiry that may be made is this: Whether or not Punning, Quibbling, and that which they call Joquing [joking], and such delicacies of Wit, highly admired in some Academic Exercises, might not be very conveniently omitted?

Peel objected to me saying what declaration would satisfy us, as in the event of their deceiving us, or quibbling, it would then seem to be our folly which had led to it.

And, after all, what sorry and pitiful quibbling all this is!

In the whole range of drama there is scarcely a passage which one would call more specifically dramatic than the Screen Scene in The School for Scandal; yet it would be the veriest quibbling to argue that any appreciable part of its effect arises from the clash of will against will.

Quibbling over the minutiæ of form is indicative of failure to grasp the spirit.

Quibbling over the minutæ of form is indicative of failure to grasp the spirit," (Paragraph4, InfantryDrillRegulations.)

Quibbling with his own danger in order to make her an accomplice of murder!

Mr. Fisher pertinently says, "Two great facts were plainly visible through the flimsy web of attorney logic and quibbling technicality, not very ingeniously woven to conceal them.

There was a dictatorial, captious, quibbling pettiness of manner.

Whenever the native of that State does an act or holds an opinion, it is his nature to confess it and avow the motives thereof, without quibbling or hesitation.

I take this money we're so stupidly quibbling about now from a company the papers say takes it from everybody in reach.

And as he touched herit was a hot hand he touchedit struck him as absurd to be quibbling about why she had gone.

She divined, clear though his answer was, that he had evaded, or was quibbling in some way.

Much, there doubtless remained, of ancient subtlety, and ingenious quibbling; but when Dryden declares, that he proposes Virgil, in preference to Ovid, to be his model in the "Annus Mirabilis" it sufficiently implies that the main defect of the poetry of the last age had been discovered, and was in the way of being amended by gradual and almost imperceptible degrees.

I can assure you he is this day the envy of one who is lord in the art of quibbling, and who does not take it well, that any man should intrude so far into his province.

As for this quibbling, equivocating Yankee, if Yankee he be, one wouldn't feel many scruples of delicacy; but to probe the affections of a poor innocent girl in this way would be going too far.

It is a kind of monstrous thing, that persons who make a boast of having a little of the gospel, can venture to open their lips to give utterance to such quibbling.

I do not easily fathom this, I say, for the said opponents are above mere verbal quibbling; yet all that I can catch in their talk is the substitution of what is true of certain words for what is true of what they signify.

The Sinner was punned into Repentance by the former, as in the latter nothing is more usual than to see a Hero weeping and quibbling for a dozen Lines together.

Care must be taken to state it so that no mere quibbling over the meanings of terms can take the place of real arguments.

The desire to win should never lead you to take any unfair advantage or to descend to mere quibbling over the statement of the proposition or the meanings of the terms.

The state built upon the rock of Honor and fortified by the sameshall we call it the Ehrenstaat or, after the manner of Carlyle, the Heroarchy?is fast falling into the hands of quibbling lawyers and gibbering politicians armed with logic-chopping engines of war.

This is mere quibbling.

Little by little this tendency to ineffectual quibbling disappeared.