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Quarrel

noun

An angry dispute. Synonyms: dustup, row, run-in, words, wrangle. "They had words"

An arrow that is shot from a crossbow; has a head with four edges.

verb

(past & past part. quarreled or quarrelled; pres. part. quarreling or quarrelling)

Have a disagreement over something. Synonyms: altercate, argufy, dispute, scrap. "These two fellows are always scrapping over something"

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"Quarrel" Quotes from Famous Books

... quarrel with Protestants, Catholics, or any other sect. They need to be understood as following the divine Principle God, Love and not imagined to be unscientific worshippers of ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... you had just as little right to punish him for it. The offence was against me: he had no right to use my name for you, and the quarrel was mine. For the present you are Poochy no more: go to ...

— Malcolm • George MacDonald

... looked up at him, and her lips moved as though she were going to say something. Oh, how he wished she would, that they might come to a wholesome quarrel, and a making friends again, and a tender kissing, in which he might whisper penitence for all his hasty words, or unreasonable vexation. But she had come resolved not to speak, for fear of showing too much passion, too ...

— Sylvia's Lovers, Vol. III • Elizabeth Gaskell

... would help her chum with her work out of school hours. St. Elgiva's smiled tolerantly, and named the pair "the Turtle Doves". Though the atmosphere of the hostel was not sentimental, violent friendships were not unknown there. Sometimes they were of enduring quality, and sometimes they ended in a quarrel. Miss Norton did not encourage demonstrative affection among her flock, but it was known that Mrs. Morrison considered schoolgirl friendships highly important and likely to last for life. She beamed rather than frowned on those who walked arm ...

— A Patriotic Schoolgirl • Angela Brazil

... each other at intervals all day, and Sam is so afraid of her that he dare not go to see her; and Helene was in tears when I saw her—and I think it was because she was afraid Sam wouldn't come and resume the quarrel where she could manage it ...

— The Common Law • Robert W. Chambers

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