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- noun Plural form of
brabble .
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Examples
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Terpandrus when he ended the brabbles of Lacedaemon, neyther pyped Rogero nor Turkelony, but reckoning vp the commodities of friendeship, and fruites of debate, putting them in mind of Lycurgus lawes, taught them too treade a better measure.
The More Things Change II Heo 2006
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The wealthie full of brawle and brabbles of the law:
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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The hostess, seeing her husband re-enter into contentions and brabbles, raised a new cry, whose burden was borne by her daughter and Maritornes, asking succour of Heaven and those that were present.
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But I pray you, good uncle, say, what need have you to thrust yourself into these difficulties and brabbles?
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Don Quixote, perceiving himself free, and delivered from so many difficulties and brabbles wherewithal as well he as his esquire had been perplexed, held it high time to prosecute his commenced voyage, and bring to an end the great adventure unto which he was called and chosen.
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Other whites take part in our brabbles, while temper holds out, with a certain schoolboy entertainment.
A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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Svein Estrithson, always beaten during Magnus's life, by and by got an agreement from the prudent Harald to _be_ King of Denmark, then; and end these wearisome and ineffectual brabbles; Harald having other work to do.
Early Kings of Norway Thomas Carlyle 1838
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The twelve speakers reply, in few words inclusive of much: "Bread, and the end of these brabbles, Du pain, et la fin des affaires."
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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The wealthie full of brawle and brabbles of the law:
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'Out of this, however, and the fact resulting from it, that he now assumed a more decisive form of speech in the Periodical "_Thalia_" founded by him, and therein spared the players as little as the public, there grew for him so many and such irritating brabbles and annoyances that he determined to quit his connection with the Theatre, leave Mannheim altogether; and, at Leipzig with his new title of Rath, to begin a new honourable career.
The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works Thomas Carlyle 1838
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