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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of quarrel.

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Examples

  • Once before, for some quite unavoidable delay, the Post-Office authorities had "quarrelled" him (as he expressed it), and this undeserved blame rankled in the old soldier's heart.

    Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang

  • Spoken of two persons who have quarrelled, meaning that they should avoid each other.

    The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836

  • The witch doctor's eyes were well blackened, and his temper none of the best; for he quarrelled with the chief over the possession of Wertz's rifle, and took more than his share of the part-sack of beans.

    WHERE THE TRAIL FORKS 2010

  • But French Frank had quarrelled with Whisky Bob, and Nelson was also an enemy.

    Chapter 11 2010

  • Well, Herbert, I have quarrelled with you and shall to the end, I promise.

    The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

  • On a day, so far back that there was no way of estimating its distance, one, Somo, son of Loti, who was the chief of the island fortress of Umbo, had quarrelled with his father and fled from his wrath along with a dozen canoe-loads of young men.

    CHAPTER XI 2010

  • She had at least 3 kids - Tante Chaya, Grandpa Boris, and, well, Max who was Maida's dad, but Grandma quarrelled with him & his wife (surprise!) ... they lived in the Bronx quite close to our family, and her mom still lives there at 96!

    My Friday, By Delia deliasherman 2010

  • Though they quarrelled and disagreed on innumerable things, deep down, underlying all, there was a permanent unity.

    CHAPTER 8 2010

  • When Ecuador quarrelled with Colombia over the impact of US-funded aerial coca fumigation, it dragged the entire neighbourhood into the row.

    'Green peacemaking' needed on Latin America's environmental disputes 2011

  • When I so ventured, he scolded me and quarrelled with me.

    CHAPTER VI 2010

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