1 It seemed that the cannon had come from all parts and were engaged in a stupendous wrangle.
2 Other wrangle with little round head rogue's eye Ghezzi.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 3 My dear Princess Catherine Semenovna," began Prince Vasili impatiently, "I came here not to wrangle with you, but to talk about your interests as with a kinswoman, a good, kind, true relation.
4 From the foul laneways he heard bursts of hoarse riot and wrangling and the drawling of drunken singers.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 2 5 The night you spent half an hour wrangling with Doherty about the shortest way from Sallygap to Larras.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 6 Those who had not succeeded in getting into the main entrance were crowding about the windows, pushing, wrangling, and peeping through the gratings.
7 We have a few moments to spare; let us not waste them in talk like wrangling women.
8 The sole places that seemed to prosper amid the general blight of the place, were the public-houses; and in them, the lowest orders of Irish were wrangling with might and main.
9 After much controversy and wrangling, these factions would presently proceed to bloodshed, to pulling down houses, plundering property, and all the other violent courses usual in divided cities.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXVII. 10 So that controversies, wranglings, disputes, and positiveness, in false or dubious propositions, are evils unknown among the Houyhnhnms.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan SwiftContext Highlight In PART 4: CHAPTER VIII. 11 Particular pieces of fence or secure positions behind collections of trees were wrangled over, as gold thrones or pearl bedsteads.
12 The well-groomed showy dogs of amusement wrangled and snarled among themselves for the favours of the bitch-goddess.