Sentence Examples

1. He wondered to hear me talk of such chargeable and extensive wars that certainly we must be a quarrelsome people, or live among very bad neighbors, and that our generals must needs be richer than our kings.
2. I wanted no fence against fraud, or oppression here was neither physician to destroy my body, nor lawyer to ruin my fortune no informer to watch my words and actions, or forge accusations against me for hire here were no gibers, censurers, backbiters, pickpockets, highwaymen, housebreakers, attorneys, buffoons, gamesters, politicians, wits, splenetics, tedious talkers, controvertists, ravishers, murderers, robbers, virtuosos no leaders, or followers, of party and faction no encouragers to vice, by seducement or example no dungeon, axes, gibbets, whipping posts, or pillories no cheating shopkeepers, or mechanics no pride, vanity, or affectation no fops, bullies, drunkards no ranting, expensive wives no stupid, proud pedants no importunate, overbearing, quarrelsome, noisy, roaring, empty, conceited, swearing companions no scoundrels raised from the dust for the sake of their vices, or nobility thrown into it on account of their virtues no lords, fiddlers, judges, or dancing masters.
3. She could not be complying, she dreaded being quarrelsome her heroism reached only to silence.