184 Verbs to Use for the Word quarrel

"But what I was going to tell you is, that Hank and I were down at Plattsburgh last fall, and a big fellow who had taken quite as much red eye as was for his good, undertook to pick a quarrel with Hank and give him a beating.

He then bowed low before it, and in an altered tone said: "My children, settle your quarrel and live peaceably together.

" With this cutting remark, which for a moment I feared would provoke a downright quarrel, Sergeant Corney strode off into the darkness, I following meekly at his heels.

He was a reformer of abuses, publishing the most severe acts against venality, and deciding quarrels on principles of justice.

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.

They also brought their quarrels to her to settle.

" I do not say that the Moors are determinedly vindictive, or seek quarrels with Europeans; on the contrary, I believe the cause of the dispute frequently rests with the European, and the bonâ-fide agressor, some adventurer whose conduct was so bad in his own country, that he sought Barbary as a refuge from the pursuit of the minister of justice.

Nig bounded out of the A. C., frantic at the repetition of the insult; other dogs took the quarrel up, and the Ramparts rang.

In every village and hamlet there must be at least one Hindu and one Muslim, whose primary business must be to prevent quarrels between the two.

I had forced a quarrel like an ill-mannered boy on the very man whose help I had come to seek.

Sir Horace and the young lady had evidently been having a quarrel.

But I certainly would sayas indeed the peasant says in every land"Let those who begin the quarrel do the fighting"; and let those who have to do the fighting and bear the brunt of it (including the women) decide whether there shall be fighting or not.

Shall I make you feel just how he feels?" "Yes," said Martin eagerly, forgetting his quarrel with her; then taking him up in her strong arms she walked rapidly away, and brought him to that very spot where he had seen the doe and fawn.

She remembered the quarrel she had once had with a girl at school.

" "I shouldn't advise you to fasten a quarrel upon me."

Stay, end your quarrel, or I promise ye I'll take the old man's part.

We want to make peace, and you are starting a quarrel again.

"Well, anyhow, to avoid quarrels and bloodshed we've agreed to throw dice for the dances.

Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just.

He had been her companion in their youthful recreations, had espoused her little quarrels, and participated in her innocent pleasures, for so many years, and with such an evident preference for each other in the youthful pair, that, on leaving college to enter on the studies of his sacred calling with his father, Francis rightly judged that none other would make his future life as happy, as the mild, the tender, the unassuming Clara.

But I would not like to see its stipulations extended to the European powers so that they, with our full agreement, would have the right to cross the ocean and stop quarrels between two American Republics.

Fain would he have patched up the quarrel between Naples and the papacy by mutual concessions, because he foresaw what would happen if the colossal northern powers had their cupidity aroused regarding Italy, and learned how defenceless she really was.

You entice the Africans to war; you foment their quarrels; you supply them with arms and ammunition, and allfrom the motives of benevolence.

Four gentlemen of his household, Reginald Fitz-Urse, William de Traci, Hugh de Moreville, and Richard Brito, taking these passionate expressions to be a hint for Becket's death, immediately communicated their thoughts to each other; and swearing to revenge their prince's quarrel, secretly withdrew from court [t].

But killing all them folk that's got no quarrel, and burnin' their houses and farms, and tramplin' down all that good cornand all them brave men dead what can never live againits scandalous, I say.

184 Verbs to Use for the Word  quarrel