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He extemporized innumerable stories to which his school-fellows delighted to listen; and, in spite of his lameness, he was always in the thick of the "bickers," or street fights with the boys of the town, and renowned for his boldness in climbing the "kittle nine stanes" which are "projected high in air from the precipitous black granite of the Castle-rock."

Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series) Richard Holt Hutton 1861

Although there was no individual enmity between the boys of the old and of the new or aristocratic part of Edinburgh, there were frequent battles, called "bickers," between them, in which they pelted each other with stones.

Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville Mary Somerville 1826

Of course mischief sometimes happened; boys are said to have been killed at these "bickers," as they were called, and serious accidents certainly took place, as many contemporaries can bear witness.

Waverley Walter Scott 1801

The six-time Grammy winner headlines the new series Braxton Family Values Tuesday, 9/8c, WE tv, offering fans a look as she bonds and bickers with her four younger sibs — Towanda, Trina, Tamar and Traci — and their mom, Evelyn.

Toni Braxton Brings Her Family to TV 2011

But the romantic anthology structure and the basic concept — matchmaking man who may or may not be the mythological god of love bickers with beautiful but uptight psychologist — remains the same.

Second-shot 'Cupid' slings too many arrows 2009

He bickers with his previous selves precisely because THEY wouldn't handle things the same way HE would.

More Doctor Who Updating...for the Easter Special adriana_is 2009

RICHMOND - While Washington bickers noisily over cutting a small slice of the federal budget, Sens.

'Gang of 6' senators launch public campaign to support deficit reduction 2011

He moves in with the Bellamys, sponging off them for money, food and the use of their car, even as he snipes at and bickers with Paul.

Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Inspector Bellamy Marshall Fine 2010

RICHMOND - While Washington bickers noisily over cutting a small slice of the federal budget, Sens.

'Gang of 6' senators launch public campaign to support deficit reduction 2011

Studio Luc Tuymans Belgian painter Luc Tuymans Lately there is the additional shame of not having had a national government for the last eight months, as a potpourri of political parties bickers over centuries-old territorial and linguistic differences dividing the population.

Belgium's Unifying Force Craig Winneker 2011