quarreller
- a word derived from quarrel.
Example Sentences
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Of all candidates at a club a known quarreller is more sure of blackballs now than even in the times when such a one provoked duels.
From Phineas Redux by Trollope, Anthony
"I am no longer such a quarreller, Boris," he answered.
From Debts of Honor by Yolland, Arthur B. (Arthur Battishill)
No quarreller is Havelok; but if he must fight, that will be no playground.
From Havelok the Dane A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)
I had proved no worshipful dominie as he had hoped, but a quarreller and a braggart, that imagined he knew everything.
From The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Grimmelshausen, Hans Jacob Christoph von
"My better comfort is, my good dame," answered Olifaunt, "that the lad is no brawler or quarreller, unless strongly urged, and that he has nothing valuable about him to any one but me."
From The Fortunes of Nigel by Scott, Walter, Sir
