quarrelling

Example Sentences

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Quarrelling with her one day, she reproaches the latter with being nothing but a ghost.

From The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology by Hartland, Edwin Sidney

Quarrelling they were accustomed to; embarrassment they did not mind; irregularity in domestic affairs they had lived in all their lives; but they could not bear the distress that had now come upon them.

From A Life's Secret A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry

Quarrelling with Mr. Lepel means quarrelling with your bread-and-butter, as you English people term it.

From A Life Sentence A Novel by Sergeant, Adeline

"Quarrelling again?—you who were born to understand one another, and to be happy!"

From Garrick's Pupil by Filon, Auguston

Quarrelling and picking quarrels, he went his way through life blithely.

From Yet Again by Beerbohm, Max, Sir