Which preposition to use with quarrelling
"Men denounce the use of tobacco, and I do not quarrel with them for doing so.
Crewe soon discovered, through overhearing a loud quarrel between his landlady and her daughter, that Mrs. Leaver's husband was alive, though dead to his wife for all practical purposes, inasmuch as he was serving a life's imprisonment for manslaughter.
Like many others of their kind, they were thoroughly selfish at heart, and saw no good in running any personal risk to settle the quarrels of a third person.
A little nervous, indeed!" "Well," said Smith, "we won't quarrel about the degree of my nervousness.
He couldn't live here, if he didn't manage to keep on both sides of every little quarrel in town.
Of what they saw and heard within that place of slaughter it bodeth not to tell, nor of those figures, wild and fierce, that crouched to strip the jumbled slain, or snarled and quarrelled over the work.
One never knew in the morning what the afternoon's session would bring, for as soon as the Republican party felt themselves firmly established, they began to quarrel among themselves.
I know it, Sir, I know it, and that thou art as false as she: Was't not a Covenant between us, that neither shou'd take advantage of the other, but both shou'd have fair play, and yet you basely went to undermine me, and ask her of the Doctor; but since she's gone, I scorn to quarrel for herBut let's like loving Brothers, hand in hand, leap from some Precipice into the Sea. Scar.
They quarrelled on board.
They also brought their quarrels to her to settle.
An eagle wheeled above us and quarrelled at our intrusion.
Lawyers, who were in reality honorary officers of the Court, should cease to support Courts that uphold the prestige of an unjust Government and the people must be able to settle their disputes and quarrels by private arbitration.
O'Flynn and Potts had played poker and quarrelled as usual.
Only one day more now before he would appearbe flouted, insulted, and go off wounded, angry, leaving the Boy with an irreconciliable quarrel against Mac,
I had forced a quarrel like an ill-mannered boy on the very man whose help I had come to seek.
They abandoned their quarrel without another word, and picking up their crowbars hastened towards the spot where he was waiting for them.
We further strengthen their hold by quarrelling amongst ourselves.
The fact is, that he has a much better case of quarrel than we; at least one that lends itself much better to rhetoric.
A pack of gaunt hounds quarrelled under the floor, and the sick woman stirred uneasily on her bed and expressed a wish that her emissaries would return.
"Shade, there's no use of your quarrelling with me, and I see it's what you're settin' out to do.
Down one of these, with the fiery pace of a quarrel from a cross-bow, ran a frigate right athwart our course.
It's not as if Bamberger and I had started a story on purpose about our quarrelling in order to make things go down.
Ambroise had received her roughly, almost brutally, and she had gone back home in a state of intense anguish, feeling as if her own flesh were lacerated by the quarrelling of her ungrateful sons.
The smaller States could easily have ended the convention by an appeal to public opinion, which was not then prepared for a "consolidated union," but they were loyal enough to fight out their quarrels within the walls of the convention hall.
It was broken then by quarrels behind the scenes.