quarreller

Be embroiderer, be cook,/Be a quarreller with servants.

Archive 2009-06-01 Rus Bowden 2009

Be embroiderer, be cook,/Be a quarreller with servants.

Poetic Obituaries: [Kamala Suraiyya] began to produce evocative Rus Bowden 2009

Of all candidates at a club a known quarreller is more sure of blackballs now than even in the times when such a one provoked duels.

Phineas Redux 2004

His talk at the table is like Benjamin's mess, five times to his part, and no argument shuts him out for a quarreller.

Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

He hath indeed, almost natural; for, besides that he’s a fool, he’s a great quarreller; and but that he hath the gift of a coward to allay the gust he hath in quarrelling, ’tis thought among the prudent he would quickly have the gift of a grave.

Act I. Scene III. Twelfth-Night; or, What You Will 1914

Truly the meshes of the net of Justice were small when not even a twelve-year thief, a common quarreller in his cups, or the holder of the King's safe-conduct could slip through.

The Justice of the King Hamilton Drummond 1896

His ambition, like every other foreigner's, was to become an accomplished English quarreller, and this was practice for him.

Diary of a Pilgrimage 1893

Of all candidates at a club a known quarreller is more sure of blackballs now than even in the times when such a one provoked duels.

Phineas Redux 1873

Termagant, the supposed god of the Saracens, was another staple character in the Miracle-Plays; who is described by John Florio as “a great boaster, quarreller, killer, tamer or ruler of the universe, the child of the earthquake and of the thunder, the brother of death.”

Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872

"I am no longer such a quarreller, Boris," he answered.

Debts of Honor M��r J��kai 1864