It agreeth to children, who are unapt and unaccustomed to deal in matters considerable, to squabble; to women of meanest rank (apt, by nature, or custom, to be transported with passion) to scold.

The majority of women prefer to sit and squabble round one table to seeking another room.

There was a little bit of skirmish, a little bit of squabble, and a little bit of difference in the Bengal camp, as there will always be differences so long as the world lasts.

They squabble for a pin, a feather, And wonder how they came together.

Why, then, should we expect or demand a sordid squabble which can lead to nothing?

And then would begin a squabble.

It began by a squabble about the holy places at Jerusalem, as to the rights of the Greek and Latin pilgrims respectively.

The Phillips twins, "Reddy" and "Heady," were the next source of trouble, for they had recently indulged in an unusually violent squabble, even for them, and each had vowed that he would never speak to the other again, and would sooner die than go to the same boarding-school.

MATRON We're too well-bred to squabble here, Or insult back to render; But may you wither soon, my dear, Although so young and tender.

He's forgotten that squabble over" "Sure I have," said Lew Hervey.

First they almost had a squabble, fightin' 'bout the future life; When they'd settled that they started runnin' down the parson's wife.

I cannot imagine Ned involving himself in such a paltry squabble.

Even at that moment the hall door burst wide and a frenzied push and squabble of men poured forth upon him.

Matthews' first act on dropping anchor, was to force the native vessels in harbour, belonging to Bombay traders, to strike the English colours they were in the habit of displaying, and he next embarked in a squabble with the Governor as to who was to fire the first salute, a matter that was not settled without many messages to and fro.

The squabble was at last settled by the Mahrattas engaging to give ten villages near Bankote, and that Toolajee should not receive any territory within forty miles of the sea.

So he thought best to keep out of the squabble the hot-headed officer had engaged in.

Did I express a wish for a parrot-wing or water-worn stone, or such like, after a time I would be certain, on issuing from my bedroom, to find that it had been surreptitiously laid there, and the little soft-eyed fellows would squabble for the privilege of bringing me my post, simply to give me pleasure.

A few women of the so-called "parliament set," who came every afternoon when there was a squabble on the program, were munching caramels and staring in wonderment at the old man.

A broad flood of moonlight came in through the curtainless window; everything was as I had last seen it; and though the domestic squabble in the back lane was, unhappily for me, allayed, I yet could hear a pleasant fellow singing, on his way home, the then popular comic ditty called, 'Murphy Delany.'

You have no cause to complain of the world, and you magnify a petty squabble with a contemptible coterie into a quarrel with a nation.

Another takes the same step; it lands him in a low squabble from which he may extricate himself with safety, but scarcely with an accession of credit.

Then you have the most ridiculous squabble in the world with that Jew.

Variance means "a verbal strife followed by strained or severed relations: wrangle or squabble: to dispute angrily."

Why has the adoration of our patriots been given wholly to qualities and circumstances good in themselves, but comparatively material and trivial:trade, physical force, a skirmish at a remote frontier, a squabble in a remote continent?

Moralists may squabble over the discipline of living with one's mother-in-law, and of the loss to the children of grandmother's petting, but at least physical content and mental satisfaction have increased.