altercation
Definition: an argument, dispute
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The Return of Tarzan - By Edgar Rice Burroughs
...altercation, `` shootin ' hoff hour bloomin ' mugs wo n't get us noth-in ' ....
Jane Eyre - By Charlotte Bront
...The morning had been a quiet morning enough--all except the brief scene with the lunatic : the transaction in the church had not been noisy; there was no explosion of passion, no loud altercation, no dispute, no defiance or challenge, no tears, no sobs : a few words had been spoken, a calmly pronounced objection to the marriage made; some stern, short questions put by Mr. Rochester; answers, explanations given, evidence adduced; an open admission of the truth had been uttered by my master; then the living proof had been seen : the intruders were gone, and all was over ....
A Tale of Two Cities - By Charles Dickens, Frederick S Boas, T. H. Allen
...The altercation was conducted in a low tone of voice, and terminated in the honest tradesman 's kicking off his clay-soiled boots, and lying down at his length on the floor ....
The count of Monte-Cristo - By Alexandre Dumas
...Thus the attention of many-was attracted by this altercation . "...
The Last of the Mohicans - By James Fenimore Cooper
...We will, therefore, go back and light our fire to-night in the ruins of the old fort, and in the morning we shall be fresh, and ready to undertake our work like men, and not like babbling women and eager boys \/ ' Heyward saw, by the manner of the scout, that altercation would be useless ....
Mansfield Park - By Jane Austen, R. Brimley Johnson
...The deed thoroughly answered; a source of domestic altercation was entirely done away, and it was the means of opening Susan 's heart to her, and giving her something more to love and be interested in ....
This Side of Paradise - By Francis Scott Fitzgerald
...In the course of the altercation the dean remarked that he `` might as well buy the taxicab . "...
Tarzan of the Apes - By Edgar Rice Burroughs, A.C. McClurg & Company, W.F. Hall Printing Company
...asked he of the previous altercation . "...
The Moon and Sixpence - By William Somerset Maugham
...There was an angry altercation, and the owner of the bar stepped forward and ordered Tough Bill to go ....
Don Quixote - By Ronald D. K. Storer, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
...\/ In short, the curate used such arguments, and Don Quixote I did such mad things, that the officers would have been more mad than he was if they had not perceived his want of wits, and so Uhey thought it best to allow themselves to be pacified, and even to act as peacemakers between the barber and Sancho Panza, who still continued their altercation with much bitterness ....
Our Mutual Friend - By Charles Dickens
...This was another common procedure on the part of the ladies of the Hole, when heated by verbal or fistic altercation . "...
Wives and Daughters - By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
...They were nearly on the common now, close to the protection of the cottages, in very hearing of their inmates; if neither of the other two thought of this Molly did, and resolved in her mind to call in at one of them, and ask for the labourer 's protection home; at any rate his presence must put a stop to this miserable altercation ....