quarrellings

Such blunderings and quarrellings have been a matter of course since politics have been politics, and since religion has been religion.

The Duke's Children 2004

It soon became clear to Gania, after scenes of wrath and quarrellings at the domestic hearth, that his family were seriously opposed to the match, and that Nastasia was aware of this fact was equally evident.

The Idiot 2002

And in less time than it takes to breathe Jill forgot about the dead King of Narnia and remembered only how she had made Eustace fall over the cliff, and how she had helped to muff nearly all the signs, and about all the snappings and quarrellings.

The Silver Chair Lewis, C. S. 1953

We have friendly quarrellings over the red slippers of so great smallness, which she has made herself - as to who shall place them on her tiny feet - also we snatch at hair-pins and bracelets, to be No. 1 aid at dressings.

Seven Maids of Far Cathay Ed. Bing Ding

She would joyfully have taken another two years of school-days, with their sober joys and sweet intimate friendships; their griefs and small quarrellings; their lessons and their play hours; their meetings and their breakings up.

An Australian Lassie Lilian Turner

The quarrellings of this expedition (due in part to the divided command); the failure to find the mouth of the Mississippi since, we are told, La

The French in the Heart of America John Finley 1901

And no less certainly of those that were hottest for quarrellings and keenest to keep old feuds alive, and to enforce distinctions of faction, and make much of party cries, there was no one hotter and keener than Messer Simone dei

The God of Love 1898

Very certainly no one was less eager to fan the flames of these quarrellings and feuds than the man that was by my side, Messer Guido Cavalcanti.

The God of Love 1898

He heard their shrill quarrellings, the squalling of their children, the grunting of their pigs; he smelt the odours of the heaps of garbage in their courtyards: and he was greatly disgusted.

An Outcast Of The Islands 1896

Low-class wine-shops, and their spawn of quarrellings and sudden deaths, abounded.

Carette of Sark John Oxenham 1896