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The couple had been quarreling bitterly over money; only days before, Davis had been ordered to increase support payments to Priscilla to $5,000 a month.

From Time Magazine Archive

These were the very men who so lately had been quarreling with each other.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had been quarreling with his father respecting a certain horse which he had sold, of the price of which the father demanded a share.

From Harry Heathcote of Gangoil by Trollope, Anthony

While the divisions of Richard's army had been quarreling with each other on the sea-coast, he had been strengthening the walls and other defenses of the city, until they were now more formidable than ever.

From Richard I Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob

She therefore made it a rule to get into a rage before he did; the postilions knew very well when his wife had been quarreling with him, for his anger ricocheted on them.

From Ursula by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott