All 25 Uses of
dispute
in
The Prairie by Cooper
- I have come, old man, into these districts because I found the law sitting too tight upon me, and am not over fond of neighbours who can't settle a dispute without troubling a justice and twelve men; but I didn't come to be robb'd of my plunder, and then to say thank'ee to the man who did it!"†
Chpt 5
- "They had better not dispute that matter with a man who knows better," said the other in a portentous voice, though it seemed deep and sluggish as he who spoke.†
Chpt 5
- Whatever might have been the weaknesses of the original colonists, their virtues have rarely been disputed.†
Chpt 6
- There," exclaimed Obed, when he had ended this sententious but comprehensive description, "there is an animal, which will be likely to dispute with the lion his title to be called the king of the beasts!"†
Chpt 6
- As these questions were put with no little earnestness and some spirit, there was every probability that a hot discussion would have succeeded between two men, of whom one was so purely practical and the other so much given to theory, had not Ishmael seen fit to terminate the dispute, by bringing into view a subject that was much more important to his own immediate interests.†
Chpt 7
- "Beavers' tails and minks' flesh may do to talk about before a maple fire and a quiet hearth," interrupted the squatter, without the smallest deference to the interested feelings of the disputants; "but something more than foreign words, or words of any sort, is now needed.†
Chpt 7
- Ishmael waved his hand with authority, as he ended, and turned away with the air of one who felt assured, that those he had addressed would not have the temerity to dispute his commands.†
Chpt 8
- With the dispute, that succeeded the disappearance of the fair stranger, all recollection of her existence appeared to have vanished.†
Chpt 8
- It cannot be long afore some of yonder brood will be nosing along the 'arth for our trail, and should they find it, as find it they surely will, and should they push us to a stand on our courage, the dispute must be settled with the rifle; which may He in heaven forbid!†
Chpt 17
- Not so, however, with the disciple of Linnaeus, during the momentous period that it remained a mooted point at the tribunal of his better judgment, whether the stout descendants of the squatter were not likely to dispute his right to traverse the prairie in freedom.†
Chpt 17
- Venerable trapper, our communications have a recent origin, or thy interrogatory might have a tendency to embroil us in angry disputation.†
Chpt 17
- Propound the latter question to this Indian gentleman, venerable hunter; he is of a reddish tint himself, and his opinion may be said to make us masters of the two sides of the disputed point.†
Chpt 18
- "Of their habits, I will grant you," cried the naturalist, who rarely missed an opportunity to agitate any disputed point in his favourite studies.†
Chpt 19
- Though, perhaps, you are ready to dispute my right to call them by a word, that is in the mouth of every hunter and trader on the frontier!†
Chpt 19
- Middleton, who saw that there was great danger of a hot verbal dispute between two men, who were governed by feelings so diametrically opposed, saw fit to assume the office of arbiter; or rather to decide the question, his situation making him a sort of umpire.†
Chpt 20
- "And such I call barefaced and downright wantonness and waste," interrupted his sturdy disputant.†
Chpt 22 *
- "That is touching another great and much disputed question," exclaimed the Doctor, who seized upon every distinct idea that the ardent and somewhat dogmatic old man left exposed to his mental grasp, with the vain hope of inducing a logical discussion, in which he might bring his battery of syllogisms to annihilate the unscientific defences of his antagonist.†
Chpt 22
- As no one among the impatient listeners seemed disposed to dispute the arrangement, it was acceded to in silence.†
Chpt 23
- The ordinary warriors of the band were still less diffident, not hesitating to mingle among the chiefs of lesser note, though far from assuming the right to dispute the sentiments of any established brave, or to call in question the prudence of measures, that were recommended by the more gifted counsellors of the nation.†
Chpt 25
- No one was bold enough to dispute a right, that had so often been exercised by warriors far inferior to the present speaker, and the adoption was listened to, in grave and respectful silence.†
Chpt 28
- Here he found a new and an entirely unexpected competitor, ready to dispute with him for the possession of the beast.†
Chpt 30
- I see but one amicable way of settling this dispute, which is as follows:—do you make a choice among your boys of any you will, and let us walk off together for the matter of a few miles into the prairies; the one who stays behind, can never trouble any man's house or his fixen, and the one who comes back may make the best of his way he can, in the good wishes of the young woman."†
Chpt 31
- In this manner Esther had made a sort of convenient ally of the word of God; rarely troubling it for counsel, however, except when her own incompetency to avert an evil was too apparent to be disputed.†
Chpt 32
- The oarsmen had seen enough of his influence, with their leader, not to dispute his wishes, and before time was given for further discussion on the subject, the bow of the boat had touched the land.†
Chpt 33
- There is no Red-skin who will then dispute my right.†
Chpt 33 *
Definitions:
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(dispute as in: She disputes his claim.) challenge, argue about, or fight over
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(dispute as in: their border dispute) disagreement, argument, or conflict