Sentence examples for quarrel in the first from inspiring English sources
Zeus and Hera quarrel in the first book of the "Iliad," Hephaestus catches the adulterous Ares and Aphrodite in an "Odyssey" interlude, but in neither case are the consequences serious: gods may lose face, may hurt for a while, but life goes on.
In contrast, when Achilles and Agamemnon quarrel in the same first book of the "Iliad," the result is the death of countless Greeks and Trojans, and eventually of Achilles himself; when Odysseus catches the suitors courting Penelope in the "Odyssey," they pay with their lives.
There's no point quarreling with faith (in the first case) or hope (in the second).
Cott was a protege of John Graham Kerr who had quarrelled with Norman Wilkinson in the First World War about dazzle camouflage for ships.
In particular, the remarks by Touchstone in As You Like It, in which the court jester talks about the seven degrees of behaviour in a quarrel: "The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheque Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct".
We quarrel after the first minute.
The quarrel dominates the first act of William Shakespeare's play Richard II.
The story of the quarrel, which is first reported in Plutarch in the first century AD, is also hard to reconcile with our earliest source for the story of the Delian problem, Eratosthenes.
She was assigned to the Zhan Hu tribe in the first episode and quickly began quarreling with fellow contestant Dave Cruser.
Although young children sometimes fight and quarrel, usually over possessions, such behaviour is generally not a serious problem in the first three or four years of life.
