brabbling

The oldest, observing the Spaniards brawling and fighting -- "brabbling," Peter Martyr calls it -- about the division of gold, with an astonishing degree of intrepidity knocked over the scales at last and dashed the stuff on the ground in contempt.

South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure Cyrus Townsend Brady 1890

The “brabbling” starling—Skelton, p. 51, line 461.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

The “brabbling” starling, as the poet John Skelton describes its bubbling song;

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

In like manner, these small scolding debates and petty brabbling contentions, which frequently we see spring up and for a certain space boil very hot betwixt a couple of high-spirited lovers, are nothing else you recreative diversions for their refreshment, spurs to and incentives of a more fervent amity than ever.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Here remark, that his dinner was sober and thrifty, for he did then eat only to prevent the gnawings of his stomach, but his supper was copious and large, for he took then as much as was fit to maintain and nourish him; which, indeed, is the true diet prescribed by the art of good and sound physic, although a rabble of loggerheaded physicians, nuzzeled in the brabbling shop of sophisters, counsel the contrary.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

All their debates were pacified by him; he put an end to their brabbling suits at law and wrangling differences.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

In like manner, these small scolding debates and petty brabbling contentions, which frequently we see spring up and for a certain space boil very hot betwixt a couple of high-spirited lovers, are nothing else you recreative diversions for their refreshment, spurs to and incentives of a more fervent amity than ever.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

All their debates were pacified by him; he put an end to their brabbling suits at law and wrangling differences.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Here remark, that his dinner was sober and thrifty, for he did then eat only to prevent the gnawings of his stomach, but his supper was copious and large, for he took then as much as was fit to maintain and nourish him; which, indeed, is the true diet prescribed by the art of good and sound physic, although a rabble of loggerheaded physicians, nuzzeled in the brabbling shop of sophisters, counsel the contrary.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

'I have been waiting for a civil question after all this brawling and brabbling,' said I. 'My name is Micah Clarke.

Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894