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  • noun Plural form of quarl.

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Examples

  • My lady was never in a passion — Miss Matilda always; and awfille were the scenes which used to pass between these 2 women, and the wickid, wickid quarls which took place.

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush 2006

  • "Balaklava," looking down at the millions of gelatinous quarls in the clear waters.

    Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Frederic S. Cozzens

  • My lady was never in a passion -- Miss Matilda always; and awfille were the scenes which used to pass between these 2 women, and the wickid, wickid quarls which took place.

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • I doan't think Deuceace ever suspected any game on the part of her ladyship, for she carried it on so admirally, that the quarls which daily took place betwigst him and the Frenchman never seemed to come from her; on the contry, she acted as the reglar pease-maker between them, as I've just shown in the tiff which took place at the door of the Sally Mangy.

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • I doan’t think Deuceace ever suspected any game on the part of her ladyship, for she carried it on so admirally, that the quarls which daily took place betwigst him and the Frenchman never seemed to come from her; on the contry, she acted as the reglar pease-maker between them, as I’ve just shown in the tiff which took place at the door of the Sally Mangy.

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush 2006

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