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None of these cavils really matter, given that the revivified Sex and the City juggernaut is upon us.
Candace Bushnell Asks, ‘Is There Still Sex in the City?’ The Answer: Get Me a Cosmo, Fast. | Tim Teeman | December 8, 2021 | The Daily BeastIt would be foolish to cavil about living in any city, with its many pleasures and diversions, he says.
There is no hesitation, cavil, or debate in the acceptance of it as a duty.
The Contemporary Review, January 1883 | Various
I should n't want to have it go abroad that we had not acted formally, if there was any one disposed to cavil.
Eli | Heman White ChaplinOf this he complains, with some cause, as it afterwards occasioned numbers of unsanctified critics to laugh and cavil at him.
The Book of Curiosities | I. PlattsSome discontented Frerons or Arnauds, might cavil against it: but this was rebellion, not controversy.
Life and Correspondence of David Hume, Volume II (of 2) | John Hill BurtonThis appeared to be a contradiction in terms, but public apathy accepted it without cavil.
Somehow Good | William de Morgan
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