Cavilers

Word CAVILERS
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Which quickly puts paid to the nitpickers and cavilers who threaten to ruin a dinner party, by swearing up and down they were eyewitnesses to the murder of the Indian political and spiritual leader in 1946. ❋ Forbes.com Staff (2006)

And hence certain perverse cavilers take occasion to object, ❋ 1509-1564 (1996)

“I have no fears of those who honestly believe the bridge to be injurious to the navigation,” John Roebling had said, “the opposition of cavilers I most dread.” ❋ David McCullough (1972)

The housekeeper was now able to silence all cavilers by producing the book itself. ❋ Henry Venn Lansdown (N/A)

He had done well, and she was eminently the right kind of wife for him, let conventional cavilers say what they would. ❋ Various (N/A)

At last one, a little wiser than the rest, explained the difference between art and artifice; asked the cavilers if they had never heard of the art of writing, or the art of thinking? and said he presumed the art of conversing was of the same nature. ❋ An American Lady (N/A)

When the weekly sermon was the universal topic of conversation, the refinements of belief were more discussed than essentials; often discussed, they were often questioned -- by strict Separatists like Roger Williams; by cavilers at infant baptism like that "anciently religious woman," the Lady Deborah ❋ Carl Lotus Becker (1909)

Thus, should the occasion arise, I should most unhesitatingly use whatever weapons law, religion, civilization itself, put into my hands, without compunction and possibly what some cavilers might call without mercy; having at stake a very vital issue -- the preservation of my kind, the protection of my class against ❋ Marie Conway Oemler (1905)

Cross-examined by cavilers, infidels, atheist, they still stand there unscathed and unharmed, its the Jewish youths, who in Babylon's furnace walked, because with them stood one like unto the Son of God. ❋ Unknown (1897)

Among preachers of righteousness, an unanswerable silencer of cavilers and objectors, was Sojourner Truth, that unique and rugged genius who seemed carved out without hand or chisel from the solid mountain mass; and in pleasing contrast, Amanda Smith, sweetest of natural singers and pleaders in dulcet tones for the things of God and of His Christ. ❋ Anna Julia (1892)

These lovers of nature could not understand the great need of our constantly growing population for uncomfortable houses in inconvenient suburbs, and in their failure to comprehend they became cavilers. ❋ John Kendrick Bangs (1892)

Better suffer some injustice than do the cause an injury by furnishing cavilers occasion for talk. ❋ Emanuel King (1888)

Sometimes cavilers call for a scientific argument that Jesus is divine. ❋ Unknown (1886)

To all cavilers, as also to her mother, whose uneasiness was frequently aroused by gossip which reached Vienna from Paris, her invariable reply was that her way of life had the king her husband's entire approbation. ❋ Yonge, Charles Duke, 1812-1891 (1876)

Some cavilers were disposed to grumble at the re-establishment of an office which had been suppressed as useless and costly; but no one could allege that Madame de Lamballe abused the royal favor, and her share in the calamities of later days justified the queen's choice by the proof it afforded of the princess's unalterable fidelity and devotion. ❋ Yonge, Charles Duke, 1812-1891 (1876)

As soon as they found us firmly resolved on our own course, they did as all cavilers do in similar circumstances -- let us alone. ❋ William Pittenger (1872)

Proofs like these are not to be set aside by the idle tongues of cavilers. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)

Then we went down into a cavern which cavilers say was once a cistern. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)

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