Which preposition to use with squabbling
We should have heard of the fatal field of Hastings, of the perfidy of Henry, of the sanguinary revenge of Edward,and not of matches at archery and encounters at quarter-staff, the plundering of rich abbots and squabbles with the sheriff.
the sanctity of the hearth has been most edifyingly preservedand, after all, the woman is not worth squabbling about.
For a moment I thought of Colonel Beverley, but his age and dignity were too great to bring him into this squabble of youth.
One man I saw go away with four of Mr. Leithcourt's guns, and there was a regular squabble in the billiard-room over a set of pearl and emerald dress-studs that somebody found in his dressing-room.
I am old, and must soon pass away, and instead of leaving you and your parents, who would be my legitimate heirs, to squabble over my property when I am gone, I decided to excute a will bequeathing my estate to some one who would take proper care of it and maintain it in a creditable manner.
Toward the close of October the mob rose in Rome, on occasion of a squabble between a Jew and a Catholic, and threatened to sack the Ghetto and maltreat its inhabitants.
[Footnote 2: Sir Samuel Garth, poet and physician, who was alive at this time (died in 1719), satirized a squabble among the doctors in his poem of the Dispensary.
They squabble for a pin, a feather, And wonder how they came together.
"Do you remember how Tommy and I used to squabble as to which of us should eventually adopt you?" She nodded, almost gravely; then with a sudden change back to her former manner, she made a step towards the inner room, pulling me after her.
There was a cabin for Lady Kirkbank's Rilboche and Lady Lesbia's Kibble, where the two might squabble at their leisure; in a word, everything had been done that forethought could do to make the yacht as perfect a place of sojourn as any floating habitation, from Noah's Ark to the Orient steamers, had ever been made.
The Commandant had just acknowledged to the 'Times' and the 'Daily Chronicle' that the famous bordereau had been penned by him, and we laughed at the remembrance of his squabbles on this subject with the proprietress of another newspaper.
I left a party in the breakfast-room squabbling over the problem how to kill time; but where are the others?
Aunt Jane was really worn out with the constant squabbling with her favorite niece.
We are up against it hard, Duge, and we can't face it as we ought while we're squabbling amongst ourselves like a set of children.
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.
" "But does not a war," said Lestrange, "clear the air, and take people away from petty aims and trivial squabbles into a sterner and larger atmosphere?"
It is due to the soldiers to say this, for it is the truth, as every man knows who has observed the course of the contest, and who has seen it proceed from a political squabble to the dimensions of a mighty war, the end of which mortal vision cannot foresee.
For no squabblings about ecclesiastical matters ever trouble the quiet of our sweet mountain solitude.