Noun : She has no quarrel with her present salary. From Dictionary.com.
Essence, and a quarreler with his best friend, dies like. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
But a man is more ashamed to be a flatterer than a quarreler. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
He takes the quarreler apart into his library, and then one can hear a shouting voice alternating with silences. From Wordnik.com. [Slightly Married]
Reply Obj. 1: Just as the flatterer may do harm by deceiving secretly, so the quarreler may do harm sometimes by assailing openly. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
His influence among the frontiersmen was unbounded, his word was law; and many are the personal quarrels and disturbances which he has checked among his comrades by his simple announcement that 'This has gone far enough,' ” if need be followed by the ominous warning that when persisted in or renewed the quarreler 'must settle it with me.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Hon William F Cody]
Now, at the hour when others are asleep, this man is bent over his table, darting on his paper the same look which a short time ago he was casting on the world, battling with his pencil, his pen, his brush, throwing the water out of his glass against the ceiling, wiping his pen on his shirt, -- driven, violent, active, as if he fears that his images will escape him, a quarreler although alone, -- a cudgeler of himself. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4] Reference
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