"The dignified reserve that distinguishes an estrangement from a squabble."英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
"Oh, pretty nearly every crime in the calendar." Boyne had tossed the clipping down, and thrown himself comfortably into an arm-chair near the fire. "Do you want to hear the story? It's not particularly interesting--just a squabble over interests in the Blue Star."英文原著 · 《Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton-Part 2》
'Feel kind o' wopsy after thet squabble.'
They soon went away. And when Mose told the story of 'the swallered pole' he got the same sort of reputation he had given to others. Only it was real and large and lasting. 'Wha' d' ye think uv it?' he asked, when he had finished. 'Wall,' said Ransom Walker, 'wouldn't want t' say right out plain t' yer face.'
''Twouldn't he p'lite,' said Uncle Eb soberly. 'Sound a leetle ha'sh,' Tip Taylor added. 'Thet fish has jerked the fear o' God out o' ye - thet's the way it looks t' me,' said Carlyle Barber. 'Yer up 'n the air, Mose,' said another.英文原著 · 《Eben Holden》
And I didn't want to start a squabble by reminding him of it. After all, it's my father's affair, and mine. Nobody else's. My father got me another collie last spring to take Cavalier's place. A collie I'm ever so fond of. So I don't need Cavalier. I don't want him. I tried to find you to tell you so.英文原著 · 《His Dog》
Italy has been constantly torn to pieces, from the time of the Goths, by the Popes and the Anti-popes, severally supported by other great powers of Europe, more as their interests than as their religion led them; by the pretensions also of France, and the House of Austria, upon Naples, Sicily, and the Milanese; not to mention the various lesser causes of squabbles there, for the little states, such as Ferrara, Parma, Montserrat, etc.英文原著 · 《Letters to His Son, 1748》
Low company, and low pleasures, are always much more costly than liberal and elegant ones. The disgraceful riots of a tavern are much more expensive, as well as dishonorable, than the sometimes pardonable excesses in good company. I must absolutely hear of no tavern scrapes and squabbles.英文原著 · 《Letters to His Son, 1750》