Sample Sentences forcavil (auto-selected)
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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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The count appeared, dressed with the greatest simplicity, but the most fastidious dandy could have found nothing to cavil at in his toilet.† (source)
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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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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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And yet, beyond a cavil, Like "the Gods of Greece," must he Also be a devil.† (source)
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Her eyes, a deep grey, with dark eye-lashes and eyebrows, had never been denied their praise; but the skin, which she had been used to cavil at, as wanting colour, had a clearness and delicacy which really needed no fuller bloom.† (source)
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Mr. Glegg's unmistakable kind-heartedness was shown in this, that it pained him more to see his wife at variance with others,—even with Dolly, the servant,—than to be in a state of cavil with her himself; and the quarrel between her and Mr. Tulliver vexed him so much that it quite nullified the pleasure he would otherwise have had in the state of his early cabbages, as he walked in his garden before breakfast the next morning.† (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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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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Miss Ophelia felt rather disposed to cavil at this picture, and was laying down her knitting to begin, but St. Clare stopped her.† (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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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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No opposition was made, therefore, and before morning Jasper had apparently dropped quietly into all his former authority, issuing his orders freely, and meeting with obedience without hesitation or cavil.† (source)
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