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  • So that in the nature of man, we find three principall causes of quarrell.

    Have You Heard The One About……. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • This is nitpicking, I know; but it's a function of the greatest art (and this episode was really great) that it encourages us to enter into the world of the text and quarrell with it (how many children did lady Macbeth have, after all).

    Doctor Who: Blink Lou Anders 2007

  • You know the joyner before whose doore the Chest stoode, wherein we did put Ruggiero; there is now a contention betweene him and another man, to whom (it seemeth) the Chest doth belong; in regard whereof, they are ready to quarrell extreamly each with other.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Saladine sought to entrap him in his answere, and so to raise some quarrell against him.

    The Decameron 2004

  • I am the more willing to consent: alwaies provided, that it be no imbarrement of love betweene your wife and mee, albeit I have good reason to alledge, that she began the quarrell first: and what I do is but to right my wrong, as any other woman of spirit would do:

    The Decameron 2004

  • There be, in a maner, no contentions among them, and although they vse commonly to be drunken, yet doe they not quarrell in their drunkennes.

    The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

  • Which thing was of all the Russes in the rest of their iourney so willingly done, that they began to quarrell, yea, and to fight also in striuing and contending which of them should put their post horses to the sledde: so that after much adoe and great paines taken in this long and wearie iourney,

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • There be, in a maner, no contentions among them, and although they vse commonly to be drunken, yet doe they not quarrell in their drunkennes.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • And about the same time in the Dutch Regiment, an other for murthering of one of his companions, about a quarrell betweene themselues, rising as it was supposed, vpon their drinke, was by order of Martiall law, presently tyed to the partie so murthered, and foorthwith both of them so cast into the sea.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Moreouer, when the goods shall be in Newles, it may bee thought doubtfull to bring it thence quietly without disliking or forcible resistance of the king of Denmarke, forasmuch as he maketh quarrell, and alleageth damage vnto him in his tolles of the Sound by our trade to S. Nicholas, how much more will he now doe by this way, and with how much greater aduantage may he performe it?

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

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