quarrel
/ˈkwɔɹəl/ nom B2En français : querelle, dispute
- A dispute or heated argument (especially one that is verbal). · We got into a silly quarrel about what food to order.
- Often preceded by a form of to have: a basis or ground of dispute or objection; a complaint; also, a feeling or situation of ill will and unhappiness caused by this. · A few customers in the shop had some quarrels with us, so we called for the manager.· I have no quarrel with her; it’s her partner whom I dislike.
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Dans la bibliothèque
No, for I think he never liked me since the day when I was silly enough, after a little quarrel we had, to propose to him to stop for ten minutes at the island of Monte Cristo to settle the dispute—a proposition which I was wrong to suggest, and he quite right to refuse.
Marseilles is filled with half-pay officers, who are daily, under one frivolous pretext or other, getting up quarrels with the royalists; from hence arise continual and fatal duels among the higher classes of persons, and assassinations in the lower.”
They at once made up their quarrel, saying, “It is better for us to make friends, than to become the food of Crows or Vultures.”
The quarrel proceeded from words to blows, and while the men fought, the Ass galloped off.
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