On "C'est Arrive," the narrator says "it's arrived," meaning the inevitable moment when two lovers finally meet, but as the story progresses, "it's arrived" is applied to the first quarreling ("we throw the beef at each other's nose) and finally to the slamming of doors.
The dialogue is dodgy, most notably when the lovers have their first quarrel.
These words echo a line from the "Kreutzer Sonata," when Pozdnyshev describes his first quarrel with his wife as "the sudden discovery of the abyss that had been dug between us".
Even before we meet Lucy's mother (Virginia Louise Smith) — Sookie is her appropriately girlish name — we know, from Lucy's first quarrel with Mr. Marmalade, something of the family landscape.
His first quarrel with Portugal was settled by his marriage, in 1382, with Beatriz, daughter of the Portuguese king Ferdinand.
Amber (Anne Dudek and Wilson Robert Sean Leonardrd) have their first quarrel, and Dr. House couldn't be happier.
My first quarrel is that I simply cannot comprehend why Clarissa Morgernstern/Fray/Fairchild is regarded as the latest positive role model for teenage girls in literature.
In another entry, Kim mentions Wittgenstein again, first quarreling with the philosopher's contention that the sky is "lighter than white paper," then conceding that "he does, however, have me questioning assumptions about matte and shiny.
James and Katie find themselves spending time together, at first quarrelling and then … well, you know.
A second quarrel further embittered Addison; the dispute over a bill for restricting the peerage, in which he and Steele took opposing sides, estranged the two friends during the last year of Addison's life.
