| 单词 | quibbler |
| 例句 | Sure, there are exceptions, but they are so few that quibblers end up citing the same ones over and over. 25 years ago, ‘Thelma & Louise’ was a radical statement. Sadly, it still is. 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z He is an accomplished résumé padder, an expert with the evasive fallback answer when challenged, a skillful deflector of the awkward question, a quibbler par excellence and just stunningly self-confident. Opinion | Maybe we’re looking at George Santos all wrong 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z But in a South Africa where the sale of cigarettes is newly illegal, quibblers risk nicotine fits. Taking on Covid-19, South Africa Goes After Cigarettes and Booze, Too 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z In the introduction, she deprecated her contribution modestly and prudently, anticipating quibblers. Perspective | Current foreign fiction has found new U.S. readers. 9/11 is part of the reason. 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z The Big East, and all the other big tournaments, has become a haven for quibblers. Sports of The Times: A 96-Team Tournament? Now That?s Madness 2010-03-06T17:23:00Z If there is one thing I find it difficult to have Christian patience with, it is a quibbler. Hildegarde's Harvest Joe Hume himself could not have questioned one solitary item in our budget: and I defy the veriest quibbler on a grand jury to 'traverse,' a spangle on a pair of our theatrical smallclothes. Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands As for the quibblers—they, at least, are insupportable. Eureka: A Prose Poem Around him were the records of the vast army of doubters and quibblers in whose works he had been hunting, as a traveller labours through a jungle, for the deepest doubts, the most remote inquiries. Devil Stories An Anthology This imagination it calls evil, wicked, sacrilegious, while the philosophers call it good, and the quibblers say that the natural gifts are unimpaired. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood That the nature of Stevenson was buoyed up, spiritualized, encouraged and given strength by his marriage, no quibbler has ever breathed the ghost of a doubt. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers No word is respected by sophists, casuists, and quibblers, men who are moved only by a rage for gaining their point, or who assume that their interests are alone worth considering. The Simple Life But, if he himself had not been a worse quibbler than any whose writings are come down to us, we might have been gratified by the exposure of wonderful acuteness wretchedly applied. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection They were, as a rule, influenced by no high spiritual motives; often they were mere quibblers. The Faith of Islam Hence, those quibblers who pick flaws in the plain statements of Paul are infinitely blind. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood The same immortal quibbler is also very fond of the word item, using it, as our cousins across the Atlantic and we in Herefordshire do at the present day, for "a hint." Notes and Queries, Number 188, June 4, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Bach was so great that he had no artistic jealousy, no whim, and when harshly and unjustly criticized he did not concern himself enough with the quibblers to reply. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians But he still objected to my reading that book, called me a contumacious quibbler too fond of disputation, and ordered me to return it to the accommodating owner. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth Any quibbler can twist the meaning of words, while only those who think the thought can understand. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel Therefore this text should be carefully noted and urged against the caviling quibblers: Moses declares the imagination of the human heart to be evil. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood He was adroit and quick, and was rather a quibbler than a great lawyer. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest "You are a quibbler!" fumed the outraged Judge. No. 13 Washington Square Quibblers possibly may arise and present Johnson's definition of network—"anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances with interstices between the intersections"—but with the quibbler we have no time to dally. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors Thus did the metaphysical poet resemble the quibbler exercising precisely the same tyranny over ideas, which the latter practised upon sounds only. The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author Thus had confusion been brought to the last quibbler in Zion. The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West I can discuss on both sides of those names as glibly as any other modern quibbler. The Bent Twig Should the quibbler arise and say that the Dutch are not Germans, I will reply, true, but the Germans are Dutch—at least they are of Dutch descent. John Jacob Astor In order to triumph over quibblers, I had to deny the authority of custom, to examine the arguments of legislators, and to oppose science with science itself. What is Property? Mr. Southey has published 'The Curse of Kehama',—an inviting title to quibblers. Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1 I dismiss the fatalist as a quibbler and play on. The Boss of Little Arcady Both phrases come from Saint Paul, who was the very prince of theological quibblers. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers Before his pictures we can only stand silent—he disarms criticism and strikes the quibbler dumb. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists He is no splitter of hairs, no quibbler. King of the Khyber Rifles Both fools, mere quibblers and sophists, idly and vainly attached to certain ridiculous notions of their own, founded neither on truth nor on reason. The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great But in the movings after each eight are dealt, I shall consciously choose and judge, which is pure free will—or an imitation of it sufficiently colorable to satisfy any, but quibblers. The Boss of Little Arcady Several of those quibblers I happened to know. Off-Hand Sketches A Little Dashed with Humor "And the last time you had a word or two—y' infairnal quibbler—was it just before your last spasm, eh?" Hard Cash The quibbler, however, is welcome to anything he may find. Confiscation; an outline The discrepancy between the Father's narrative and the actual climax has given rise to some scepticism on the part of ingenious quibblers. Legends and Tales Now there is no dispute, unless there be other quibblers. The Boss of Little Arcady |
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