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My only cavil with...
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A frequent cavil with Joan is that it's hard to keep up with her.
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You'll not scream down my reason, though, By criticism's cavils.† (source)
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The Reflexion is awful—and in this point of view, How trifling, how ridiculous, do the little, paltry cavillings, of a few weak or interested men appear, when weighed against the business of a world.† (source)
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What other cavils have been raised against Homer, are such as hardly deserve a reply, but will yet be taken notice of as they occur in the course of the work.† (source)
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And for all her infectious lightness of heart, I knew it was an extremely petty cavil that Kitsey never seemed very moved by anything.† (source)
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I am too gratified to get such a mark of your friendship at any price to cavil at the tone.† (source)
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I actually reached a point where I said to myself, right out loud, like a lunatic, If I hear just one more picky, cavilling, unconstructive word out of you, Franny Glass, you and I are finished—but finished.† (source)unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans do not repeat the "L" prior to adding the "ING".
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DOGMATIST I'll not be led by any lure Of doubts or critic-cavils: The Devil must be something, sure,—Or how should there be devils?† (source)
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They cavilled about sharing the twenty guineas.† (source)unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans do not repeat the "L" prior to adding the "ED".
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it is to cavil at the fagot on the score of the amount of cooking received by heretics;† (source)
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None, that is, worthy of anything but cavilling mention.† (source)
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Where are your cavils about the soul now?† (source)
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"What did we say Simpson's was?" asked Morel; and the butties cavilled for a minute over the dayman's earnings.† (source)
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To Eofor and Wulf with wide-lavished treasures, To each of them granted a hundred of thousands [101] 50 In land and rings wrought out of wire: {His gifts were beyond cavil.† (source)
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Now that the refusal came, and that in terms so decided as to put all cavilling out of the question; if not absolutely dumbfounded, he was so much mortified and surprised as to feel no wish to attempt to change her resolution.† (source)
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