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I have no quarell with those who treat people with respect and kindness and teach their children to do the same, and (not that you need my "approval") I suspect you are one of the good'uns.
inshallah shalom 2006
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He also was the first man that waged warre against the Polonians and the Liuonians: against Polonia he pretended a quarell alleaging that his daughter Helena (whome hee had married vnto Alexander the great Duke of Lithuania, which was afterward king of Polonia) was euil intreated, and was withdrawen from the Greekish religion vnto the ceremonies of the Church of Rome.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Which breedeth much cauill, and sometimes quarell betwixt them and the Tartar, and Poland Ambassadours: who refuse to call him Czar, that is Emperor, and to repeate the other parts of his long stile.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The principall cause of this continual quarell betwixt the Russe and the Chrim is for the right of certaine border partes claimed by the Tartar, but possessed by the Russe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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It fell out that we touched in the beginning of Aprill next ensuing at Cades in Andalozia, where the Spaniardes, according to their accustomed maner with all shippes of extraordinarie goodnes and burden, picked a quarell against the company, meaning to haue forfeited, or at least to haue arrested the sayd shippe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Howbeit the Emperour Sigismund taking vp the quarell, peace was ordained between the knights and Polonia, and a league concluded, certaine summes of money also were paide vnto the Polonian, Prussia was restored vnto the knights, neither was the saide order disturbed in the possession of their lands vntill the time of
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Egelred, and his sonne king Edmund Ironside had béene betraied by the said Edrike, stood in great doubt to be likewise deceiued by him, and therefore was glad to haue some pretended quarell, to dispatch both him and others, whome he likewise mistrusted, as it well appeared.
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (7 of 8) The Seventh Boke of the Historie of England Raphael Holinshed
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Wherefore he that looseth his life in so iust a quarell (according to the saieng of our sauiour) shall find it.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (4 of 12) Stephan Earle Of Bullongne Raphael Holinshed
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This quarell grew so far in question, that they went both to Rome to haue the controuersie decided, and so bringing their sutes thither, contented well the eares of them that had the hearing of the same: for the more weightie the cause seemed, the better it liked them.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (4 of 12) Stephan Earle Of Bullongne Raphael Holinshed
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But the quarell was onelie as men supposed, for that the king had a desire to their goods and possessions.
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (7 of 8) The Seventh Boke of the Historie of England Raphael Holinshed
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