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  • noun Plural form of quarreller.

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Examples

  • Winterblossom, apart to Mowbray; “quarrellers do not usually live long.”

    Saint Ronan's Well 2008

  • Why did I find you but now brawling and quarrelling among the loudest of the brawlers and quarrellers of yonder idle and dissipated debauchees? —

    Saint Ronan's Well 2008

  • There was a quarrel going on - and two of the quarrellers were men!

    The Mystery of the Missing Man Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1956

  • Then sith you shall haue to doo with naked men, and such as vse not to weare any armour at all, but more méet for brablers and ale-house quarrellers than men of warre vsed to the field: what should you stand in doubt of?

    Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (4 of 12) Stephan Earle Of Bullongne Raphael Holinshed

  • Innumerable things in Rosalie's life seemed to her to depend on the mutual good will of two quarrellers; many books, some old toys, walks, combined games with Carlo who was Anna's and Rover who was Flora's; innumerable delights with such seemed to be unexpectedly stopped because of

    This Freedom 1925

  • Then the Stygian darkness of the great pines grew; and the silence of wonder fell on the two quarrellers.

    Werwolves Elliott O'Donnell 1918

  • Inside the quarrellers must have realized that they were being spied upon, for they opened the door and the fray continued in low tones.

    The Quest P��o Baroja 1914

  • Instead of this he now saw that the supposed quarrellers had forgotten their differences, and were in the closest kind of an alliance to save the situation.

    The Spread Eagle and Other Stories Gouverneur Morris 1914

  • "I quarrel, sir, with nobody except quarrellers," answered the Frenchman impatiently.

    The King's Mirror Anthony Hope 1898

  • The exhibition of etchings at the Hanover Gallery has been the occasion of one of those squabbles which amuse everybody -- perhaps, even including the quarrellers themselves.

    The Gentle Art of Making Enemies James McNeill Whistler 1868

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