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  • We had grown up together and shared all the closeness of two sisters squabbling over crayons and dolls.   (source)
    squabbling = arguing (over unimportant things)
  • If we meddled in every squabble and catfight we saw, we'd never be done.   (source)
    squabble = argument over unimportant things
  • This squabble grew to the proportions of a battle in the woods between partisans of both sides, and it is said to have lasted for two days.   (source)
    squabble = argument
  • She was comforted by her husband, with whom she recently declared a truce after a week of squabbling   (source)
    squabbling = arguing over unimportant things
  • It's true that everywhere he stopped he'd be helping a friend through one legal squabble or another—an immigration problem, a repossessed fishing boat.   (source)
    squabble = argument
  • Just when they were on the verge of sawing it in two, so each would have her allotted share, Papa settled the squabble by giving the oldest one a silver dollar.   (source)
  • Except for occasional squabbles about river-tolls they were friends with the Wood-elves.   (source)
    squabbles = arguments
  • Dave and Sol-leks alone were unaltered, though they were made irritable by the unending squabbling.   (source)
    squabbling = arguing over unimportant things
  • There was a squabble over the War Memorial, and not only because of the rumours about Father and Callista Fitzsimmons.†   (source)
  • The naiads squabbled with red cheeks.†   (source)
  • "Really," Hermione said loftily as they passed the girls, now squabbling over the lipstick.†   (source)
  • He gestured toward a cast-iron bench with a cushion on it, and I sat there for some time, our faces lifted to the weak sunshine, listening to the sparrows squabbling in the hedgerow.†   (source)
  • So the wives start squabbling.†   (source)
  • Housewives squabbled while lowering their pails into a drying well.†   (source)
  • My parents squabble about who will answer it.†   (source)
  • I looked up at the boys' table and hoped that they were not laughing at our squabbling.†   (source)
  • He had a neutral, vaguely inquisitive air, and seemed untroubled by this sibling squabble.†   (source)
  • "It don't do you any good to squabble."†   (source)
  • She felt like she had driven through nothing but families for four days—squabbling families, bawling families, screaming families, families under the miraculous strain of the day by day—and she was relieved to see the waves from the windshield of her car.†   (source)
  • I am heartily sick of secrets and squabbles and matters of state, Ned.†   (source)
  • The characters on the screen are squabbling, but for the life of me, I don't know what about.†   (source)
  • Old lady with a Chihuahua; little kids squabbling over a Popsicle.†   (source)
  • Alphie says you can get it in America yes you can and they argue about America and Australia and boomerangs till Mam says, For the love o'Jesus, yeer brother is leaving us and the two of ye are there squabbling over boomerangs.†   (source)
  • After a small squabble, Alice decided I would share a room with Michelle, a 17-year-old foster child who worked at night.†   (source)
  • I've always been the one for outdoor chores anyway, burning the trash and weeding, while my sisters squabbled about the dishes and such.†   (source)
  • Squabbles?†   (source)
  • He didn't speak to me today, either in response to my vacant expression or because he was still angry about our squabble yesterday.†   (source)
  • Michael and Collins would bicker and squabble just the way teen-aged brothers and sisters have since they were first created.†   (source)
  • Now, however, each quarter of Chicago was insisting on a location within its own boundaries, and the squabbling had stymied the board.†   (source)
  • Nine kids shared a one-story, 1,400-square-foot home, sleeping three to a room and squabbling over one bathroom.†   (source)
  • For a second, in the midst of her mother's squabbling and hands flying, I thought Hermie smiled at me.†   (source)
  • Even his sisters' squabbling about when presents were to be opened did not touch him.†   (source)
  • In some ways they are quite predictable: acting out the same squabbles, the same jealousies down through the ages.†   (source)
  • Mammachi wrote to him regularly, with detailed descriptions of her sordid squabbles with her husband and her worries about Ammu's future.†   (source)
  • Kote guessed the travelers had been together a month or so, long enough to become comfortable with each other, but not long enough to be squabbling over small things.†   (source)
  • Suddenly she sighed: "It is incredible how one can be happy for so many years in the midst of so many squabbles, so many problems, damn it, and not really know if it was love or not."†   (source)
  • Their room had no ceiling either, and it was possible to hear people squabbling in other barracks.†   (source)
  • "I know you like to gamble," Mama squabbles, diverting attention by pretending our real predicament is her naughty husband.†   (source)
  • It would just turn into a long, drawn-out squabble that would make the situation worse.†   (source)
  • "Oh, West-ley," she said, "I must never disappoint you," and she hurried downstairs to where her parents were squabbling.†   (source)
  • The squabbling stopped.†   (source)
  • It is often said that the only thing we clan leaders are good for is declaring war on each other and that the grimstcarvlorssn prefer we spend our time squabbling among ourselves so we do not have the time to interfere in the workings of the clan.†   (source)
  • But no one intervened in what was clearly a domestic squabble.†   (source)
  • While her sponsors and hosts squabbled, Luma tried to stay focused on her players and their families.†   (source)
  • I hardly know him, but he must be good or you'd all be dead; and this is no time to be squabbling.†   (source)
  • I know what it's like to have to squabble and pick and fight over the leftovers.†   (source)
  • That life—a parade of parties and high school gossip and squabbles with her mom—felt like another world, an existence she had only dreamed.†   (source)
  • Sometimes when my coworkers in electric were squabbling, or watching illicit trash television when DeSimon wasn't around, I would just flee to the bathroom for a few blessed minutes of privacy and quiet.†   (source)
  • It was just a short distance really, not worth squabbling over.†   (source)
  • They squabbled over the children's affection and fought for the right to care for Clara in her rantings and ravings; their silent, continuous war was conducted in the kitchens, the courtyards, the hallways, but never near Clara, because the two of them had agreed to spare her that particular anguish.†   (source)
  • She can ignore it most times, as long as she keeps focused on the day-to-day matters of office politics or squabbles at church or a pair of shoes she's been eyeing.†   (source)
  • From her lips had come the kind of fundamental truth which, because of its simplicity, was unspoken in a church like Harris's where internecine squabbling seemed to be the purpose for the committee's existence, as well as a manifestation of faith.†   (source)
  • While they're all too busy squabbling to notice.†   (source)
  • Cesar hadn't quite made it all the way there when he could hear them squabbling, and he knew right away what it was about.†   (source)
  • Birds Mau had never seen before were squabbling with the familiar, everyday ones.†   (source)
  • I could not have been more wrong about the cause of their squabble.†   (source)
  • He was exasperated, too, by the constant squabbles of American officers.†   (source)
  • Celia's decision wins her both bravos and more full-throated squabbling.†   (source)
  • Neither of them will have time to squabble over Eddis.†   (source)
  • Despite their lead, the Second Years began squabbling with one another as the half progressed.†   (source)
  • Happy in it, though they scraped and squabbled.†   (source)
  • The dis—United States would fragment into several petty, squabbling autocracies, proving the contention of European monarchists and reactionaries that this harebrained experiment in democracy could not last.†   (source)
  • They climbed the steps of the Murphys' house and let themselves in the front door, passing the closed-off parlor where they could hear a radio playing—some kind of dance-band music—and the sound of two children good-naturedly squabbling about something.†   (source)
  • "Chaz," I ask worriedly, ignoring their squabbling, "where's Luke?"†   (source)
  • Such squabbles were common on the lakes, always over the fish, especially if someone landed a big one.†   (source)
  • "We have a little squabble to settle," Tibble began.†   (source)
  • One day there was a squabble in which Grover's nose got clawed; Ken lost a star-shaped patch of fur.†   (source)
  • Vaught and Harold Murphy and Buff and some others played poker for pennies, squabbling over the rules, and Sidney Martin sat alone with his maps.†   (source)
  • I had been sitting there on the end of a log listening to them squabbling over new names, but I didn't have to get in the squabbling because I already had a new name.†   (source)
  • I've just had a squabble with Kitty Offenhaus.†   (source)
  • When this storm broke anew it was horrible—far more threatful than the squabbles and black moments I have described—and its explosive return almost totally confounded me.†   (source)
  • For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance, and for all the internal squabbles, contentions, and strivings, Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America.†   (source)
  • It had begun as a squabble with some pavement sleepers who had barred off a stretch of pavement in a semi-permanent way with concrete blocks looted from a building site.†   (source)
  • Well, there isn't any point in squabbling in the yard.†   (source)
  • And now, picking his poor troubled soul to pieces, like so many hens squabbling over — she thought of a worm, and covered her face in sickness.†   (source)
  • The choice of go-between was not easy to make: Kali was the nearest to hand and the obvious one, but she was garrulous and self-opinionated: rejection of the young man she selected would involve a tedious squabble.†   (source)
  • They squabbled over what the surprise should be.   (source)
    squabbled = argued (about something unimportant)
  • No squabbles, though that probably won't last long.   (source)
    squabbles = arguments
  • Though it's been ages since I've written to you about the squabbles, there's still no change.   (source)
    squabbles = arguments over unimportant things
  • I saw the pictures she had taken that day: Peter squabbling with the little girls over his beloved banana roadster.   (source)
    squabbling = arguing
  • I should be used to the fact that these squabbles are daily occurrences, but I'm not and never will be as long as I'm the subject of nearly every discussion.   (source)
    squabbles = arguments over unimportant things
  • They settle down into the darkening foliage, croaking and squabbling.†   (source)
  • The three gray ladies were too busy squabbling to pay me any attention.†   (source)
  • You have to rise above the squabbling and chaos, and keep believing.†   (source)
  • Look at the ickle creatures squabbling, bitey bitey, punchy punchy —†   (source)
  • Flocks of crows squabbled noisily over each head, thick as flies.†   (source)
  • Two of the soldierwives got into a terrible squabble the day the woodpile froze.†   (source)
  • More bad news: Quinto Sol Publications was embroiled in an internal squabble.†   (source)
  • New Orleans, his home, needs no speeches, no squabbling, and no politics.†   (source)
  • That our students are adults, not squabbling, bickersome boys.†   (source)
  • "Sansa, I'm not sending you away for fighting, though the gods know I'm sick of you two squabbling.†   (source)
  • The squabbling sounds of Nyx's children got farther away.†   (source)
  • No good would come of squabbling before the king.†   (source)
  • Bang!" and a squabbling uproar filled the night.†   (source)
  • Other than their squabbling, Seth's slow breathing, and Leah's annoyed panting, it was very quiet.†   (source)
  • Keep searching, you murdering trollop… A spectral squabble erupted.†   (source)
  • So we'll be changing oar patterns," Sam said, ignoring their squabble.†   (source)
  • I will have no more of this unseemly squabbling.†   (source)
  • Now all I see are crows, squabbling over the corpse of Westeros.†   (source)
  • If anyone has so much as gotten into a squabble in grade school, I want them gone.†   (source)
  • I relayed my story again and there was a slight squabble about jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • Our fights are secret fights, conducted at night, when Sarah is asleep: a squabbling in undertones.†   (source)
  • They are growing, she realized as she watched them snap and squabble over the blackened flesh.†   (source)
  • Dany gave the dragons the rest of the salt pork to squabble over, and patted the bed beside her.†   (source)
  • With them what you thought was a squabble could be just the opposite.†   (source)
  • "Brothers should not squabble," Septon Cellador said.†   (source)
  • No drunkards, I said, and no squabbles over plunder.†   (source)
  • Carrion crows and seabirds squabbled over your eyes, they say.†   (source)
  • Dany did not need their squabbling on top of all the other troubles that plagued her.†   (source)
  • All this is only squabbling over spoils.†   (source)
  • He and Hermione had finally forgotten their squabble about Crookshanks in the face of Harry's difficulties.†   (source)
  • In later generations, the number of sons was less, and the extra rooms became run-down and were rented to squabbling tenants.†   (source)
  • The passengers were Catholic and Protestant mixed, with some English and Scots come over from Liverpool thrown into the bargain; and if in a state of health, they would have squabbled and fought, as there is no love lost.†   (source)
  • Through the kitchen window I could see two of the women squabbling about who would wash and who would dry.†   (source)
  • The men fight each other an' the women fight each other; the remnants of the old tribes fight each other, an' that's even without squabbles over food an' the best fires an' sleepin' spots.†   (source)
  • On and on he went, through the absurd vices, drunken brawls, and petty slapping squabbles, all told in that same slippery, grinning voice.†   (source)
  • Second, I want you to start squabbling among yourselves, complaining about me when Dahlman is around.†   (source)
  • Rather than squabbling over sites, he lectured, the different factions needed to recognize that for the exposition to succeed, everyone had to work together, no matter which location the directors selected.†   (source)
  • Snowman takes a few minutes to scan the field, but apart from a cluster of dark birds squabbling over some object on the ground, nothing's moving.†   (source)
  • We ran to the door and saw Cook and his wife lying facedown in the dirt, and the chickens squabbling nearby, pecking at a bucket of grain that had tipped over.†   (source)
  • He filled his fist and tossed the raw red morsels into the cage, and the squawking and squabbling grew hotter.†   (source)
  • Summer is the time for squabbles.†   (source)
  • The doctor had observed that she did not treat him as you would an invalid—on the contrary, it looked like they were squabbling all the time, and she did not mind Palmgren waiting on her, fetching her coffee.†   (source)
  • When their squabbles reach a certain mother-annoying level, they are called away by their nursemaids, who sit on stools at the far end of the patio, a phalanx of starched white uniforms.†   (source)
  • The noise was a swelling tide: horses blowing and whickering, lords shouting commands, men-at-arms trading curses, camp followers squabbling.†   (source)
  • Once we even squabbled because I could not afford to buy Patsy a television set, let alone cable to keep her company while I was either flying for the day or out of the country for weeks at a time.†   (source)
  • We squabble in whispers and monosyllables about whose turn it is to wash: drying with a clammy tea towel isn't as good as washing, which warms up your hands.†   (source)
  • Within an adjoining pen, a spotted sow sprawled listlessly on her side while a dozen chickens squawked and squabbled over scattered kernels.†   (source)
  • And the September after that, after a squabble with Helen about the lawn (he did have to cut it soon, she was right, it was looking like a jungle), Ralph was presented with a large, lidded cardboard file box, into which he was to collect all the materials "pertaining to his case."†   (source)
  • Because, in my opinion anyway, they squabbled a lot, and Buttercup lost her looks eventually, and one day Fezzik lost a fight and some hotshot kid whipped Ini go with a sword and Westley was never able to really sleep sound because of Humperdinck maybe being on the trail.†   (source)
  • Over the previous year she'd learned all she needed to know about her father's most powerful barons, and while they squabbled about who might be the next king, she'd made herself queen.†   (source)
  • They squabbled for a while and then, with the occasional pause for another brief fight, settled down to some serious boozing, rocking backward and forward because that is how birds move when they drink, then rocking backward and forward and forward and falling over a lot, which is how birds move when they have been drinking fresh beer.†   (source)
  • Two of the most talented players on the oldest Fugees team—Jeremiah Ziaty's older brother Darlington and an Iraqi Kurd named Peshawa Hamad—spent months squabbling with each other, making cutting remarks about each other's religion and ethnicity as they battled for Luma's approval.†   (source)
  • Truth Squad left the stage squabbling, Ted and Lucas already at each other, with Dexter and John Miller lagging behind.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, I knew the reality of Moody's profession, Moody and I had enjoyed the easy cash benefits available to an anesthesiologist, but only at the price of increasing territorial squabbling.†   (source)
  • Cuchulain's greatest feats occurred during the Cattle Raid of Cooley, a war sparked by a squabble between husband and wife.†   (source)
  • Squabbles erupted.†   (source)
  • Make no mistake, good sers and valiant brothers, the war we've come to fight is no petty squabble over lands and honors.†   (source)
  • Jon was in no mood for such squabbles.†   (source)
  • Had the god seen fit to spare him, he would have made a better Lord Commander for your order than any of these fools who are squabbling over it now.†   (source)
  • This squabbling will not serve.†   (source)
  • "Succession squabbles or no, the ironborn are not such fools as to abandon Moat Cailin," said Lady Maege.†   (source)
  • The lords are drunk more oft than not, gorging themselves at feasts, telling each other of the riches they'll divide when Meereen falls, squabbling over primacy.†   (source)
  • Every one was wealthy, every one was arrogant, and every one was a captain and commander, answerable to no one but Yurkhaz zo Yunzak, disdainful of mere sellswords, and prone to squabbles over precedence that were as endless as they were incomprehensible.†   (source)
  • She had made a dumb tactical error in regard to Streicher (she knew she was dumb about National Socialism, but how could she have been expected to be able to gauge the extent of the jealousies and resentments, the squabbles and in-fighting and disaccord which reigned among the Party members of all ranks and categories?†   (source)
  • I woke up with the late-morning sunlight ablaze in my face, and the sound in my ears of birds squabbling among the maples and sycamores, and the distant froggy noise of boys' adolescent voices all refracted through an aching skull and the pulsating consciousness of the worst hangover I had experienced in a year or two.†   (source)
  • A squabbling tussling band stormed the doorway, jamming it.†   (source)
  • Afterwards, when Chang entered, there was small disposition to continue the squabble.†   (source)
  • They all squabbled about divisions and only killed them when they got them.†   (source)
  • All wars are in reality money squabbles.†   (source)
  • A flock of sooty sparrows appeared from nowhere and squabbled over the bits.†   (source)
  • I felt once that he was half thinking of Falstaff and Hal and Mother Quickly and the rest, in a third class smoker in the underground, when there was some squabble between drunken men; and he sat in the corner, with his pipe in his mouth, looking over the edge of a newspaper; surveying them; unperturbed; equipped; as if placing it all.†   (source)
  • King in England is not all-powerful; King is in France, squabbling in Anjou; Round him waiting hungry sons.†   (source)
  • …there writing under the rock resolved everything into simplicity; made these angers, irritations fall off like old rags; she brought together this and that and then this, and so made out of that miserable silliness and spite (she and Charles squabbling, sparring, had been silly and spiteful) something—this scene on the beach for example, this moment of friendship and liking—which survived, after all these years complete, so that she dipped into it to re-fashion her memory of him, and…†   (source)
  • Their squabbling, their stridence drowned memory; that tireless tossing of their bodies, their whirring gestures, jerky antics stitched a fluctuant, tough, ever-renewing veil between himself and terror.†   (source)
  • Besides, the invariable squabble for money on Saturday nights had begun to weary her unspeakably.†   (source)
  • I am glad he is not, after all: though I wish you chaps would not squabble over the picture.†   (source)
  • Babbitt did not often squabble with his employees.†   (source)
  • Then we can't squabble…… But say, we forgot Catlee.†   (source)
  • If you do, we are sure to squabble upstairs.†   (source)
  • When he appeared amongst them, there was always a squabble.†   (source)
  • After a good deal of squabbling,' said my aunt, 'I got him; and he has been here ever since.†   (source)
  • "The devil, gentlemen!" said the cardinal, "three men placed hors de combat in a cabaret squabble!†   (source)
  • We had been squabbling continually for years, and I hated him.†   (source)
  • I've been wondering—I know that the third party to a squabble is often the most to blame: the one who runs between A and B having a beautiful time telling each of them what the other has said.†   (source)
  • He looked at people outside; happy they seemed, collecting in the middle of the street, shouting, laughing, squabbling over nothing.†   (source)
  • Work til you are more a brute than a human being; and then cuddle and squabble and drink til you fall asleep.†   (source)
  • There were no more spats and squabbles, no more tiny rages nor attempts at growling; while the adventures toward the far white wall ceased altogether.†   (source)
  • Were men intended, then, to congregate in few places, to squabble and to bicker and breed the discontents that led to injustice, hatred, and war?†   (source)
  • It has never been disgraced by squabbles over teaching evolutionary biology—it never has thought of teaching biology at all.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the hundred Indias which fuss and squabble so tiresomely are one, and the universe they mirror is one.†   (source)
  • —boys cut in on Isabelle every few feet and then squabbled in the corners with: "You might let me get more than an inch!" and "She didn't like it either—she told me so next time I cut in."†   (source)
  • They carried everything to extremes, these two, as was probably necessary for the sake of argument, and squabbled fiercely over the most extreme choices, whereas it seemed to him that what one might, in a spirit of conciliation, declare truly human or humane had to lie somewhere in the middle of this intolerant contentiousness, somewhere between rhetorical humanism and illiterate barbarism.†   (source)
  • They occasionally looked over the multitude of squabbling children, listened affectionately to their high-pitched, nasal voices, smiling to see their own proclivities reproduced in their offspring, and interspersed their legends of the iron kings with remarks about their sons' progress at school, their grades in arithmetic, and the amounts they had saved in their toy banks.†   (source)
  • She paused there a moment, looking absently at a growth of nasturtiums and iris tangled at its foot, as though sprung from a careless handful of seeds, listening to the plaints and accusations of some nursery squabble in the house.†   (source)
  • The amusing thing about coming back to England, after five years, was the way it made, anyhow the first days, things stand out as if one had never seen them before; lovers squabbling under a tree; the domestic family life of the parks.†   (source)
  • All through the spring Amory had kept up an intermittent correspondence with Isabelle Borge, punctuated by violent squabbles and chiefly enlivened by his attempts to find new words for love.†   (source)
  • A yelping squabble suddenly rose, then Juanita Haydock's high titter, and Guy Pollock's astonished, "Ouch!†   (source)
  • "Tukaram, Tukaram …." continued the choir, reinforced by a squabble behind the purdah curtain, where two mothers tried to push their children at the same moment to the front.†   (source)
  • And there were the dogs, ever squabbling and bickering, bursting into uproars and creating confusions.†   (source)
  • Carol had never been awake to the earth except as a show of changing color and great satisfying masses; she had lived in people and in ideas about having ideas; but Hugh's questions made her attentive to the comedies of sparrows, robins, blue jays, yellowhammers; she regained her pleasure in the arching flight of swallows, and added to it a solicitude about their nests and family squabbles.†   (source)
  • She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.†   (source)
  • Wherever there was trouble and uproar in camp, fighting and squabbling or the outcry of a squaw over a bit of stolen meat, they were sure to find White Fang mixed up in it and usually at the bottom of it.†   (source)
  • Then I believe Mr. Touchett's always squabbling with his wife; she lives away from her husband, you know, in that extraordinary American way of yours.†   (source)
  • Sometimes it seemed as though there were a number of people round him; they wanted to take him away somewhere, there was a great deal of squabbling and discussing about him.†   (source)
  • They were removed; then there was a squabble between the gentleman and the dealer as to which should pay the blacksmith.†   (source)
  • I felt rather uncomfortable at this speech, for suddenly the picture of the sordid squabble, the dirty and miserable tragedy of the life I had left for a while, came before my eyes; and I had, as it were, a vision of all my longings for rest and peace in the past, and I loathed the idea of going back to it again.†   (source)
  • At five minutes before eight, Passepartout, hatless, shoeless, and having in the squabble lost his package of shirts and shoes, rushed breathlessly into the station.†   (source)
  • Family squabbling is the greatest evil of all, and we had better do anything than be altogether by the ears.†   (source)
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