Quarrelsome Sentence Examples

He was quarrelsome and unruly.

The new king at Paris was a young boy, whose councils were swayed by a knot of quarrelsome and selfish uncles; the vigour of the attack on England began to slacken.

Up to the time of his nomination for the presidency, the biographer of Jackson finds nothing to record but military exploits in which he displayed perseverance, energy and skill of a very high order, and a succession of personal acts in which he showed himself ignorant, violent, perverse, quarrelsome and astonishingly indiscreet.

From all accounts he was a man of very disagreeable character, conceited and quarrelsome.

None of these was more quarrelsome than Napper Tandy, who was exceedingly conceited, and habitually drunken; his vanity was wounded to find himself of less account than Tone in the councils of the conspirators.

We are also told that quarrelsome man is most hated in Allah 's sight, Sahih Bukhari 6.48.

As he is giving alms to an old woman, he bumps into a quarrelsome corn-factor whose pocket-book spills onto the street.

Baldwin, from his boyhood up, had been of a vindictive, malignant, quarrelsome nature.

Proverbs warns against the noisy woman, the quarrelsome woman, the rebellious woman, the foolish woman.

The house with its contents was burned to the ground, but what became of the quarrelsome couple was not reported.

We may be a quarrelsome lot, but on the whole we fight our battles in the decent obscurity of learned journals.

They have a close, if quarrelsome relationship, characterized by Threepio vowing to have nothing further to do with Artoo, until the next time they need one another.

They are a timid, quiet, docile race, and although addicted to drinking not quarrelsome.

In 983, shortly before his death, she was appointed his viceroy in Italy; and was successful, in concert with the empress Theophano, widow of Otto II., and Archbishop Willigis of Mainz, in defending the right of her infant grandson, Otto III., to the German crown against the pretensions of Henry the Quarrelsome, duke of Bavaria.

Its duke, Henry, the brother of Otto I., had died in 955 and had been succeeded by a young son, Henry, whose turbulent career subsequently induced the Bavarian historian Aventinus to describe him as rixosus, or the Quarrelsome.

He was the best Hebraist of the lot, but he was a very quarrelsome man, so they left him out.

I am not concerned with these people who are so quarrelsome.

They are savage and quarrelsome, but are naturally excellent water-dogs.

And yet he was as far as possible from being a quarrelsome man.

He was a quarrelsome man, and after a stormy episcopate, died on the 19th of December 1343.

The dissensions of the turbulent princes of Gwynedd, Powys and Deheubarth, and of their no less quarrelsome chieftains, now rent the country, which was continually also a prey to Saxon incursions by land and to Scandinavian attacks by sea.

In 955 Henry was succeeded by his young son Henry, surnamed the Quarrelsome, who in 974 was implicated in a conspiracy against King Otto II.

Dying in 1413 he was followed by his son, Louis, called the Bearded, a restless and quarrelsome prince, who before his accession had played an important part in the affairs of France, where his sister Isabella was the queen of King Charles VI.

Martha scooted around them leaving Cynthia to try and hide her concern with a false smile as she led the quarrelsome foursome into the dining room with a plate of pastry.

Early in 984 the king was seized by Henry II., the Quarrelsome, the deposed duke of Bavaria, who claimed the regency as a member of the reigning house, and probably entertained the idea of obtaining the kingly dignity himself.

On the other hand they are greedy of gain, quarrelsome in small matters, self-seeking and wanting in stability; and they are gifted with a tendency to exaggeration and a love of intrigue which has had an unfortunate influence on their history.

He was very quarrelsome and lived on the worst possible terms with his children, who, however, were all of them more or less disreputable.

Though for a long time they were callous wreckers and pirates, and cruel, and though they show great want of feeling in the "devil murders" - ceremonial murders of one of themselves for grave offences against the community, which are now being gradually put down - still on the whole the Nicobarese are a quiet, inoffensive people, friendly to each other, and not quarrelsome, and by inclination friendly and not dangerous to foreigners.

His wit generally inclines towards sarcasm, and it was probably the knowledge of his quarrelsome temperament that prevented his promotion to a bishopric. He was noted for the extent of his charities.

After suppressing a rising in Lorraine, difficulties arose in southern Germany, probably owing to Otto's refusal to grant the duchy of Swabia to Henry II., the Quarrelsome, duke of Bavaria.

Among themselves the Afghans are quarrelsome, intriguing and distrustful; estrangements and affrays are of constant occurrence; the traveller conceals and misrepresents the time and direction of his journey.

Frederick, who was called the Quarrelsome, had irritated both his neighbours and his subjects, and complaints of his exactions and confiscations reached the ears of the emperor.

Left to take care of themselves, islands in a sea of turbulence, they grew in the sense of self-reliance and independence; they grew also to be aggressive, quarrelsome and ambitious.

Her name has become proverbial in the sense of a nagging, quarrelsome woman.

They are a quarrelsome and sulky race, violently divided in their political relations.