And this miserable quibble was not a lie! My lip curled, I turned my back without a word, and drove home to my Mount Street flat in a new fury of savage scorn. Not a lie, indeed! It was the one that is half a truth, the meanest lie of all, and the very last to which I could have dreamt that Raffles would stoop. So far there had been a degree of honor between us, if only of the kind understood to obtain between thief and thief. Now all that was at an end. Raffles had cheated me. Raffles had completed the ruin of my life.英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
HERMIONE What! doth not every woman put this first of all? ANDROMACHE Yes, if her experiences are happy; otherwise, there is no honour in speaking of them. HERMIONE Barbarians' laws are not a standard for our city. ANDROMACHE Alike in Asia and in Hellas infamy attends base actions. HERMIONE Clever, clever quibbler! yet die thou must and shalt. ANDROMACHE Dost see the image of Thetis with her eye upon thee?英文原著 · 《Andromache》
"This is to quibble," he cried. "You turn your back upon the fact. The girl, my daughter, has no choice left to exercise. Her character is gone."英文原著 · 《Catriona》
(See "All's Well, etc." ii. 5, 40) CUTWORK, embroidery, open-work CYPRES (CYPRUS) (quibble), cypress (or cyprus) being a transparent material, and when black used for mourning英文原著 · 《Every Man in his Humour》
QUACKSALVER, quack QUAINT, elegant, elaborated, ingenious, clever QUAR, quarry QUARRIED, seized, or fed upon, as prey QUEAN, hussy, jade QUEASY, hazardous, delicate QUELL, kill, destroy QUEST, request; inquiry QUESTION, decision by force of arms QUESTMAN, one appointed to make official inquiry QUIB, QUIBLIN, quibble, quip QUICK, the living QUIDDIT, quiddity, legal subtlety QUIRK, clever turn or trick QUIT, requite, repay; acquit, absolve; rid; forsake, leave QUITTER-BONE, disease of horses QUODLING, codling QUOIT, throw like a quoit, chuck QUOTE, take note, observe, write down英文原著 · 《Every Man in his Humour》
M., that her mother approved the marriage, and she owed no obedience, nor affection either, to _my_ parent
"3.30. Sent back a line rebuking her for this quibble. "At 5 received a note from Mrs. Dodd proposing that the correspondence between myself and her daughter should cease _for the present._
5.30. Retorted with an amendment that it should cease _for ever._ No reply. Such are worldlings! Remonstrance only galls them. And so in one afternoon's correspondence ends one more of my Christian friendships with persons of my own sex.英文原著 · 《Hard Cash》
I was going to characterize it as the modification Of our colleague- slash- friendship paradigm With the addition of a date like component, But we don't need to quibble over terminology.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》