quarrelsome

• I give notice to gentlemen that I shall begin to be a little more quarrelsome--I do not know that it will do any good--after to-day On the day following, Mr. Hendricks delivered a speech of considerable length in opposition to the constitutional amendment. —  History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States
• I am not quarrelsome, and so we are comfortable business compeers, but hardly calling friends, and since you are in his house I must deny myself the pleasure. —  Floyd Grandon's Honor
• He was disobedient, quarrelsome, and vicious. —  Chatterbox, 1906
• Soon every father bird and mother Grew quarrelsome, and peck'd each other, Parted without the least regret, Except that they had ever met, And learn'd in future to be wiser Than to neglect a good adviser MORAL Misses, the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry: Choose not alone a proper mate But proper time to marry William Cowper. —  The Book of Humorous Verse
• A very different notoriety followed her at some interval of time--Miss Catherine Hayes, on her successful singing tour, who disappointed us all by refusing to sing at Cruces; and after her came an English bishop from Australia, who need have been a member of the church militant to secure his pretty wife from the host of admirers she had gained during her day's journey from Panama Very quarrelsome were the majority of the crowds, holding life cheap, as all bad men strangely do--equally prepared to take or lose it upon the slightest provocation. —  Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

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