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And if they cavil at it, as MPs have cavilled and continue to cavil at the detection of their felonies, they may yet discover what the whoosh of the guillotine blade sounds like.

Let Us Destroy The Big State 2009

And if they cavil at it, as MPs have cavilled and continue to cavil at the detection of their felonies, they may yet discover what the whoosh of the guillotine blade sounds like.

Archive 2009-08-30 2009

The Christians sophisticated, cavilled, hated, and excommunicated one another, for some of these dogmas inaccessible to human intellect, before the time of Arius and Athanasius.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

I'd personally throw the Schwinn over the fence of anyone who read that story and cavilled about spelling.

kite and key party 2007

He cavilled in part like the priest Sabellius, who had cavilled like the Phrygian Praxeas, who was a great caviller.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

It may be a very difficult thing, perhaps, for a man of the best sense to write a love-letter that may not be cavilled at.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

However, their replication is no worse than many similar multiproxies, which have not cavilled at opining on MWP-modern relationships.

Cook et al[2004]: More Cargo Cult? « Climate Audit 2006

Others make the word refer to exceptions of impossible cases; the priests were to perform all the duties possible to them; if any thing lay beyond their power, the exception was not to be cavilled at.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

He had cavilled at the idea, but she mentioned the loan again, and he capitulated.

Tears Of The Giraffe Smith, Alexander McCall, 1948- 2000

The great man cavilled that the day was past, for the sun was set: Nicodemus goes into his oratory again, covers himself and prays, and the clouds dispersing themselves, the sun breaks out again.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979