quarrelings

We see the common quarrelings, that are ordinary with us, for taking of the wall, precedency, and the like, which though toys in themselves, and things of no moment, yet they cause many distempers, much heart-burning amongst us.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

In all such quarrelings the matter most distressing is that the evil cannot be hidden.

Ayala's Angel 2004

In all such quarrelings the matter most distressing is that the evil cannot be hidden.

Ayala's Angel 1993

But all of these quarrelings and brawlings were hushed and forgotten when in September, 1711, the awful tragedy of the Tuscarora Massacre occurred.

In Ancient Albemarle Catherine Albertson 1938

What a withering rebuke is this to our boasted civilization, with its quarrelings, its wranglings, and its separations of brothers!

Sketches New And Old Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1922

But after many months she had grown somewhat used to the noisiness -- to fretting babies, to wailing children, the mixed ale parties, the quarrelings of the ill and the drunk, the incessant restlessness wherever people are huddled so close together that repose is impossible.

Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume I 1915

They alternated between silence and the coarsest, crudest quarrelings, for neither had the intelligence to quarrel wittily or the refinement to quarrel artistically.

The Price She Paid. 1911

Sometimes we skirted a cypress swamp and saw the shallow black water with blacker trees reflected upon its bosom, and heard the frogs 'canorous quarrelings, and the stealthy rustlings of creatures of the dark.

Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Marie Conway Oemler 1905

The spirits in this abject case were doomed to the deliberate and cruel sins, to quarrelings, to narrowness of vision, to greed and doubt; their faces grew craven, their eyes were accursed with the evasive glance.

Mozart: A Fantasy 1902

They live together in peace and love; there are no quarrelings or contentions, envyings or unkindnesses among neighbors, neither in home life.

The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity Charles Ebert Orr 1897