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The two disappeared up the staircase, wrangling amicably regarding my brother-in-law's right to pull the terrier's whiskers.
Particular pieces of fence or secure positions behind collections of trees were wrangled over, as gold thrones or pearl bedsteads.
All wrangling loses significance, and petty dissensions are given up, because in criticism a common enemy enters the field.
Our destinations and the distances formed fruitful topics of conversation with the men, and generally ended in amicable wrangles.
My guardian, who observed all the proprieties minutely, wrangled continually with this original who revolted against all restraint.
They present the reader with the spectacle of heated seafaring men wrangling in an abusive manner, with much clumsy irony.
As he is above trifles, he is never vehement and eager about them; and, wherever they are concerned, rather acquiesces than wrangles.
Under the feeble Louis the Pious, his wrangling sons and his inept grandsons, the institution grew ever weaker and weaker.
All through the winter the wrangling went on, and estrangement between the contending parties grew more bitter and acute.
Discussion soon became violent; and in every profession, clique, coterie of the town, supporters of Smith wrangled with supporters of Harris.
The reminiscences of party wrangling and political strife seem to me like nebulae of the past, without form and almost void.
One gets no notion of anything like conjugal felicity being possible, the rhymes being a snarl and a wrangle all through.
This is less disguised in the common wrangles between business partners or in the grumbles of a subordinate at his superior.
Hamilton believed in a strong, centralized government, and on nearly every measure that came before the cabinet, these intellectual giants wrangled.
It was already dusk, and the pursuers were advancing with much noise and hubbub, wrangling and disputing over their spoils.
Gentle though they be, physicians have, however, sometimes indulged in wordy wrangling, and then had recourse to more sanguinary arguments.
The sense of talk, buzzing, jarring, half-secret, the endless mining and political wrangling, vibrated in the air like discordant machinery.
One result was an unseemly wrangle between the President and Senator Charles Sumner over the latter's refusal to support ratification.
The night was growing apace, and the streets were thronged with people, some laughing, some singing, some wrangling, and some fighting.
All were seated in a tent, and this fellow became boisterous, and wrangled, clamoring for a general war against all whites.
Behind his back they discussed his death and the succession, formed cabals of supporters, wrangled for influence and power.
The explanations are undoubtedly strained, but the conclusions are strained too, and the whole bears the appearance of a scholastic wrangle.
After much wrangling, the motion was carried, and the first blunder of the mother country seemed to have been smoothed over.
The wrangles of faction and the jostling of ambition were compelled to bow when Lincoln had determined upon his line of duty.
We must not expect too great a uniformity in individual accounts, nor wrangle overmuch as to which one 'truly' represents the process.
Seeing Robinson quietly doing his work, paying no attention to the wrangle so near him, only further irritated the suffering foreman.
Between the fuss of the operation and the amicable wrangle which it induced, neither of the parties heard the lady's approach.
It held two sessions, but these were spent in wordy wrangles; they failed to result in even the choice of a presiding officer.
Something of a wrangle ensued between herself and Clinch, and in the end the latter seemed on the point of pronouncing sentence.
An interminable period, during which the men talked and wrangled among themselves, was interrupted by a loud knock upon the door.
Three women in a confused wrangle, with their half-open umbrellas intertwined, were brought across the street, which meant climbing over fenders.
Only a great common danger and a great common duty can unite us and weld these wrangling factions into a solid commonwealth.
No wrangling, no idle word, was heard in it; every one did his duty with alacrity, and not without a temperate cheerfulness.
Humanity rebels against tyranny; and there is more discord, more heartaches, more wrangling, more unhappiness among married people than among the unmarried.
Much time was exhausted in wrangling before the ant circus was removed to admit the papal and inquisitorial trains into the lists.
She wrangles about the headdress, not because she particularly wants it, but to send her husband on a perilous mission to secure it.
I have at length resolved to follow their counsel and to leave to those hornets the pleasant business of wrangling and hurling invectives.
It seems strange that even the holy influences which radiate from this joyous season cannot keep some men from getting into unseemly wrangles.
While they were the warmest of friends, Barney and Pomp were always wrangling in a facetious way and playing jokes upon each other.
A couple of young lawyers fell into a tumultuous wrangle over an immaterial point, which the judge disposed of with a wave of his hand.
Its decisions would be respected by all who value Parliamentary methods, and much unseemly wrangling would be prevented for many years.
Amidst this costly international wrangle the Judge kept his temper, occasionally cheering the combatants by saying in an interrogative tone, "Yes?"
The boatmen were all wrangling in a dozen southern dialects, and no one seemed to know why the ceremony was delayed any longer.
The Walrus game usually ends in an unseemly wrangle, owing to the intense difficulty in deciding on the exact status of the specimen.
There must have been some wrangling of the jury, for twice hope of the gangsters revived when they sent in for the record.
It showed in the spiteful gleams of their eyes, in the downward turn of their mouths, in their incessant wrangling with each other.
I never love to mingle in the wrangles of the day, but I cannot forego the delight of quietly snapping my fingers at them.
Thus wrangling, they entered the inn, to the great amusement of several bystanders, who had collected to hear the altercation between them.
He wanted to whirl on her, shake her out of the cowardly refuge of sleep, and resume the wrangle that had ended in exhaustion.
Catechisms, confessions, pamphlets, books on subjects which none can know, and all your lives passed in wrangling, strife, and discussing unprofitable subjects.
The mussed up condition of our educational program, the incoherent wrangling about educational theory, is largely due to our failure to keep this steadily in mind.
A furious wrangle ensued, the Woodhull claiming that his position was illegal, the Dickinson insisting that nothing in the rules prohibited it.
The controversy is as old as the Battle of the Books, a quite interminable wrangle, which I will not even attempt to summarize here.
Five minutes later, after a sordid commercial wrangle, Uncle Fred emerged from the stage door with a slip of paper in his hand.
She was none of your fierce, pepper-tempered creatures, who wrangle in a loud voice over the whole house, and sometimes take broomsticks to the servants.
Those scowls on their puckered little foreheads were like Grandfather's in the old days when he had been wrangling with Certain Legal Matters.
In the country they would see that sunbeams do not wrangle, that forests of trees agree together, that no flower disturbs another flower.
With what a startling and sobering force, one thinks, the rebuke of these verses must have fallen on the ears of the wrangling Galatians!
He dissuaded his wife from joining him there while he was wrangling with workmen, but hoped it would soon be ready to receive her.
And it was, perhaps, best to let the old couple glide on through the evening of their life, untroubled by any ill-timed wrangling.
She walked unassisted down the steps and urged him to take any boat for the Tower, impatient of the wrangling of the boatmen.
Cheerfulness succeeded wrangling, and all looked well for the gratification of the throng, who had come far and near to witness the battle.
Occasionally one of them got hit in the back by his neighbor's oar, which produced a great deal of swearing and wrangling among them.
They show us how young it still is, and what a parcel of wrangling schoolboys (in that respect) a future period may consider us.
Then ensues a long wrangle, displaying much medical knowledge, on the physiology of herbs and vegetables, on the eating of flesh, much and fast.
In sound sleep; and so it befell that they often quarrelled and wrangled, and that they were quarrelling and wrangling this very night.
I don't think that they ever quarrelled, but there was a continuous wrangling over small, insignificant details, a miniature feud, just enough to prevent monotony.
They wrangled with him, they depreciated this superb prey, this repaired pit, equipped anew, where the lack of capital alone paralyzed the output.
My finger was on the trigger: and at that moment a deathly shivering sickness took me, the wrangling voices shouted at me, with 'Shoot!'
Nobody attempted to climb the roof, but all remained below, a moving, wrangling crowd of people illuminated by the placid light of the moon.
Swarms of filthy little children wrangled and fought in the gutters, drunken women shouted foul language at one another everywhere was wickedness everywhere want.
A pretty stuffy cable in from the War Office on the Hospital ships and medical personnel and material wrangle which is still going on.
After this, the names of the special jury list were recited, and the invariable scene of dispute and wrangling incident to their choice followed.
Though they squabbled and wrangled with one another on minor pecuniary questions, the veteran and his son were of one mind on this point.
The rapacious Court ladies demanded seven thousand pounds; but after long wrangling I believe they were forced to content themselves with less than half.
While they were wrangling at Westminster or settling warmly into the berths which the episcopal clergy had vacated, it had been gathering strength unheeded.
Tony demurred, and she allowed herself to be led into a friendly wrangle, inwardly congratulating herself upon having successfully side-tracked the topic of matrimony.
I think all the legions of devils hold here their provincial chapter, or are polling, canvassing, and wrangling for the election of a new rector.
The patricians, alarmed for the general safety, though there was a meeting every day, waste the time in wrangling more frequently than in deliberation.
In its early stages it differed but little from the magistrate's examination, save for the wrangling and disputing that went on between the barristers.
A factory or a workshop, or even the high road, are fitter places for a wrangle with a refractory workman than in your mother's private room.
Several men were stretched out on benches and floor in drunken stupor, and others were drinking or wrangling as to whose turn it was to treat.
The angry clique saw all their schemes threatened, the King found his cherished ease disturbed; by some means or other the wrangle must cease.
I have always abhorred strife and wrangling; and never knowingly or willingly interfere in any way with the affairs of my neighbors or of others.
And it was while we were thus wrangling with and threatening each other that the blast of the clarion ushered in the day of doom.
They neither wrangle nor fight; they live, I believe, as peaceably together as any people on earth, and treat one another with the greatest respect.
The quiet of colonial life was undisturbed except for the wrangling of the officials, the publication of company orders, and the announcement of royal edicts.
Like other people who engage in wrangling, the economists have also allowed their method to degenerate from argument to abuse, contempt, and sneering disparagement of each other.
Liza watched the trellis gates and big glass doors of the villa being opened and the men bustling about the furniture and wrangling incessantly.
She wanted to beat the other gals, and he wanted to outdo me, and, in the wrangle, they got married one day all of a sudden.
Sometimes the questioner is neither serious nor reasonable, and then the danger is of the discussion turning into a wrangle, which does more harm than good.
The crane seeing it was being worsted in the wrangle, flew in the face of the tiger, and pecked its eyes, so that it became blind.
The heat stood fiercely about the bungalow, and it was so silent that a pair of sparrows scolding in the verandah made the most unseemly wrangle.
A Democrat, as his fathers had been before him, he saw no probability of the pomp and circumstance of glorious war in the noisy wrangling of politicians.
There was no roughness or wrangling or stupidity, nor had I any sense either of exclusion, or of being elaborately included in the life of the circle.
Even the gentle wrangle over details and eligibility could hardly have spun out so much time as seemed to the waiting throng to be uselessly wasted now.
Descending to the lowest and most selfish details, they were not ashamed thus publicly to wrangle respecting a Welsh pony and a hamper of claret!
You shall have a large tent where they can dwell together in harmony, for among their other perfections their tongues are never addicted to wrangle.
The Westerner may pull out a pistol and shoot you if you annoy him, but neither he nor the Eastern man will wrangle for mastery.
Before he took command even a child could see how our own Northern generals and colonels themselves wrangled, and were jealous of one another, and carried on.