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The tone of this long-drawn-out controversy, especially in the press, was distinctly acrimonious.
Very earnest, if not acrimonious, were the discussions that immediately preceded and followed.
Natural remarks, irresistible remarks, as you might say, and not intended to be acrimonious.
This deduction became the occasion of an acrimonious dispute between Gay-Lussac and Humphry Davy.
There were, besides, additional circumstances which created uneasiness and led to very acrimonious discussions.
Even he had never written anything which had attracted so wide admiring and acrimonious attention.
Polk, a moderate and amiable man, did not represent the acrimonious character of the controversy.
Fitz-John Porter from the army had been the subject of more or less acrimonious controversy.
It would be a pity if any acrimonious discussion should arise on the eve of a delicate operation.
The subject of their separate meals had never been mentioned since their first acrimonious morning.
But touching the nature of these institutions there has been much dishonest and acrimonious controversy.
What more terrible to endure than the acrimonious pin-pricks to which a passionate soul prefers a dagger-thrust?
Finally, after much acrimonious controversy, the truth prevailed and Carlyle came into his own again.
They had continual scenes, sometimes on one side, sometimes acrimonious and violent on both sides.
After five years of miserable and acrimonious conflicts separation appeared the only solution of an impossible situation.
A state of war existed, which for a time resulted in nothing worse than acrimonious suggestions.
Above all things in the world he disliked acrimonious discussion between members of the same family.
Adams's diary states Clay's opposition to have been "violent, systematic," his course to have been "angry, acrimonious."
The debate on this question continued at intervals for six months and at times became very acrimonious.
Although this explanation had, at first, been given in a somewhat acrimonious tone, it gave great satisfaction.
On the other hand, conservatives like Aristophanes continued to oppose the spread of education with acrimonious zeal.
Before I could shut the room-door, I heard the word 'beauty' uttered with most acrimonious emphasis.
Public discussions were the fashion, and debates waxed acrimonious, after the custom of professors at large.
Page's treatment of authors, however, was by no means so acrimonious as this little note might imply.
If anything could, this drive should have stirred the acrimonious McGuire to a sense of his ransom.
There followed a series of acrimonious negotiations, with Dreiser holding resolutely to the letter of his contract.
It is not a matter of such importance that we should differ to the point of becoming acrimonious.
The measure was fiercely resisted by the Opposition, and called forth a lively and acrimonious debate.
Nothing less could have called forth such an exclamation from those acrimonious lips and jaded eyes.
The discussion had become argument, and was growing faintly acrimonious, when a deep voice cut across it.
What Johnny did not know about motors would at any other time have stirred him to acrimonious eloquence.
An acrimonious debate followed, in the course of which Douglas was forced to state his own position more explicitly.
There was much talking at street corners and in the market-place; much angry debate and acrimonious discussion.
Of the acrimonious discussion that Cruikshank started by claiming to have originated Ainsworth's romance, I shall say little.
Have I not put it in your power to be revenged of Madame de Volanges, for her acrimonious zeal against you?
Without being very shrewd, Maxence understood readily that he had happened in the midst of an acrimonious discussion.
It was not an easy thing to bring out, and while he turned it over the difficulty made him acrimonious.
They were all good friends, and their discussions, though warm, were not always acrimonious; but they took sides.
We find, that from the infancy of religion the most acrimonious disputes have continually taken place among divines.
But this is, perhaps, enough for our purpose, in showing the acrimonious feelings which existed at the period.
There was evidently a party round the bridge, and they seemed to be engaged in a fairly acrimonious discussion.
Her sense of humor was not very keen, and the present subject excited her most acrimonious feelings.
When a long and acrimonious strife is carried on over a man it is evidence that he is no ordinary person.
Now despite the fact that this speech, when quoted, sounds rather acrimonious, Frances took no offense at it.
As often as it attacked did the Gazette rush to the rescue amid an acrimonious exchange of accusations and insults.
In 1754 diplomatic contention had become acrimonious, and various events showed that the moment of open conflict was approaching.
Needless to say, there is scarcely any other topic that has excited more general interest or more acrimonious controversy.
Such rivalries were not yet, however, acrimonious or sufficient to have any material effect upon the progress of public affairs.
Consider how much these acrimonious tempers must break in upon the peace, and destroy the comfort, of those around you.
It must not be supposed from what Paine says of Madame Bonneville that there was anything acrimonious in their relations.
The subject has been before Congress for several weeks, and has excited a very earnest and somewhat acrimonious debate.
We must now return to the meeting of our two pioneers, which has been the bone of so much acrimonious contention.
They have been the subjects of warm and acrimonious debates, both in the Lords and Commons, and in all companies.
She received the Captain with that acrimonious contempt which, for years, had accompanied each sentiment or look addressed to him.
It has scarcely a feature in common with the conference of April 4, which has become the subject of acrimonious debate.
There had been a strong and acrimonious controversy over the route which the road should take into and through the village.
This led to an acrimonious debate, participated in by Chase, Sumner, Seward, Everett, and others, too long to be reviewed here.
The whole temper of the human heart must be spoiled, and the wine of life acquire a quality acrimonious and malignant.
One of the pleasant memories which remains with me is of a day when debate grew acrimonious and hot words were used.
But I would not have you think, sir, by these remarks, that I entertain any acrimonious feelings towards my country.
Even then there had already been one or two rather acrimonious disputes between my paper and his on points of fact.
When the public prints were filled with an acrimonious discussion as to the meaning of the instructions given to the jury.
The Doctor, of course, got his money, and then there followed an acrimonious correspondence in the "Times" and other newspapers.
Once I was called upon to settle a most bitter and acrimonious dispute between two men as to what America was like.
In this year commenced the earnest and acrimonious discussion between the North and South in regard to the extension of slavery.
After a short but acrimonious debate, both measures were passed and signed by President Jackson on the same day, March 2.
The resolutions precipitated an acrimonious debate in which the democratic members of the western counties supported Henry against the aristocratic leaders.
But few prophets have mean and acrimonious aunts who bake fowls in rice for them to eat up the whole at a sitting.
Any solid substance, though by no means acrimonious in its quality, may act as an exciting cause, as by pressure or friction.
The general, aware now that the warning was of much more serious import than he had suspected, broke into the acrimonious debate.
There are already in miniature all the elements of keen political and racial discord, all the materials for hot and acrimonious debate.
I forget how the matter was ultimately settled, but it aroused a tremendous amount of acrimonious discussion on both sides of the Atlantic.
Many acrimonious letters passed between her aunt and her father before this was finally accomplished, and Meg left "under a cloud."
After several days of acrimonious discussion the friends of Gomez won by a narrow margin, and the offensive proposal was rejected.
Indeed, we may reasonably credit the story that they considered themselves rivals, and that numerous acrimonious passages took place between them.
Another bitter contention that is confusing some, and disgusting others, is the acrimonious strife between users and non-users of proprietary medicines.
It attracted, at the time, little notice, but was, after the lapse of several generations, the subject of a very acrimonious controversy.
His interference in university affairs outside the proper sphere of his authority was frequent and involved him in numerous acrimonious verbal battles.
No two of them agreed as to the exact manner in which it took place, and the discussions about unimportant details grew almost acrimonious.
The acrimonious contention was greatly disturbing to all material interests, but it served as a most valuable constitutional training school for the Revolution.
I do, however, somewhat regret the rather acrimonious tone which I occasionally adopted when speaking of the more conservative section of the clergy.
It slowly but surely grew acrimonious, as any such discussion is prone to among idle men who are very much in each other's company.
They were hints of that acrimonious generalized kind, too, which one cannot answer back without seeming to admit that the cap has fitted.
This seems simple enough upon its face; but a vast mass of acrimonious discussion has resulted from these few passages of the Scripture.
A few months afterwards the two men were engaged in an acrimonious correspondence about the appointment of a lawyer to do temporary duty on circuit.
He would invite to his table the very men with whom he had been in acrimonious controversy, and perhaps renew the controversy next day.
At that same instant there was an acrimonious conversation in progress in the room from which the telephone summons for Williams had just come.
The Marquis says with acrimonious politeness, "I am sorry, madam, I must trouble you to restore to me those garments before departing from my house."
Yielding at last to the acrimonious suggestions of the other three, they gave up the search and set out again, beginning on the second bottle.
My ordeal was not yet over; other chiefs came in, and the conference opened soon developed into a heated, if not acrimonious, discussion and dispute.
There was an acrimonious argument between Jim and his father the next morning, and Jim slammed out of the house, leaving chaos behind him.
Long and acrimonious debates followed in committee-room 15, and on the 6th of December Parnell was left in the chair with only 26 supporters.
There are many subjects on which the two of us fail to see eye to eye, and frequently a somewhat acrimonious debate ends in triumph on her side.
A somewhat acrimonious correspondence between the Governor and the President resulted, but the troops were retained and assisted in bringing the strike to a conclusion.
This procedure led to a series of those acrimonious disputes which are so characteristic of the early relations between the Post Office and the railway companies.
Would they have us wait, that the numbers of the discontented party may become larger, its demands higher, its feelings more acrimonious, its organization more complete?
As to the journalist's criticisms on public men, they seem to me to be the harsh judgements of a man trying to be impartial, though inclined to be acrimonious.
The reading of the resolutions was followed by one of the long, acrimonious debates with which those who read the reports of their conventions are familiar.
The proposed modification in the sense of scriptural texts, was not favorably received by Calvin, and the two were drawn into a controversy, which finally became acrimonious.
During the serious, and sometimes acrimonious discussions which preceded and followed the Act of Confederation, I enjoyed the benefit of his approving sympathy and wise counsel.