janglings

Let not your Christian friendship and fellowship be disturbed with such vain janglings and strifes of words.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

But I am not a professor with a mind like a warehouse, rich with the spoils of time, but a mere peddler, conscious of the janglings of an ill-sorted, ill-packed knapsack of unconsidered trifles.

Tropic Days 2003

It will one day appear that Christ abhors the janglings of men about the place of their own works and obedience, in the business of their acceptation with God; nor will the saints find any peace in adulterous thoughts of that kind.

Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965

That happy day in janglings gay had told my joy aright.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 Various

It seems there lived with him as a fellow servant, one Mary Green, whom some suggested he had an affection for; but whether that were so or not, did not very clearly appear, but on the contrary it was proved that they had many janglings and quarrels together, in which Cluff had sometimes struck her.

Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward

The wire would send forth metallic janglings and tangs as it was cut.

Air Service Boys in the Big Battle Or, Silencing the Big Guns Charles Amory Beach

There were harsh janglings of unnatural voices and glitter of fiendish eyes.

Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 Carson Jay Lee

Hence nothing rash or indigested, nothing unsuited to the duty of the church, will at any time be proposed therein, so as to give occasion for contests, janglings, or disputes, contrary to order or decency, but all things may be preserved in a due regard unto the gravity and authority of the rulers.

The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London

Here there were no big-eyed moose-birds, none of the mellow throat sounds of the brush sparrow, no harsh janglings of the gaudily coloured jays.

God's Country—And the Woman James Oliver Curwood 1903

Here there were no big-eyed moose-birds, none of the mellow throat sounds of the brush sparrow, no harsh janglings of the gaudily coloured jays.

God's Country—And the Woman James Oliver Curwood 1903