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    disputing


    1. In verse eight, Paul, by inspiration, commands that prayers are to be made: "I desire therefore that the men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and disputing


    2. They agreed, therefore, to leave that part of Brazil which they had not conquered to the king of Portugal, who agreed to leave that part which they had conquered to them, as a matter not worth disputing about, with such good allies


    3. ‖ There is no disputing the fact that Dickens did indeed possess keen insight into the behavioral aspects and designs of Human Nature; that is to say, the ―Hearts and Minds of Men


    4. Desultory argument ensued, with the pair of them half-heartedly disputing the laurel crown of good-natured invective


    5. Leonardo was in the way with a confused expression, pulled by two women who were disputing his attention and without knowing what to do


    6. As they exchanged greetings, the crowd came up, and Jesus asked, "What were you disputing about as we drew near?" But before the disconcerted and humiliated apostles could reply to the Master's question, the anxious father of the afflicted lad stepped forward and, kneeling at Jesus' feet, said: "Master, I have a son, an only child, who is possessed by an evil spirit


    7. Jungir Khan ruled Zamboula, and men whispered that Nafertari, the satrap's mistress, ruled Jungir Khan; but the people went their way, flaunting their myriad colors in the streets, bargaining, disputing, gambling, swilling, loving, as the people of Zamboula have done for all the centuries its towers and minarets have lifted over the sands of the Kharamun


    8. 9 "When I came into this chamber tonight, you were not content proudly to refuse to wash one another's feet, but you must also fall to disputing among yourselves as to who should have the places of honor at my table


    9. It had nothing to do with Missy’s treatment or Donna disputing his medical expertise


    10. The Terran government is even disputing payments for stocks of structural steel and aluminum and ship machinery parts we had acquired for that contract

    11. Not that I liked being called a fucking whore, but there was no disputing the fact that I stole her boyfriend


    12. are of the opinion that : “The author has no legitimacy in disputing physics: he is merely an amateur trying


    13. form an opinion that disputes what I say but when disputing what I say, do it while confronting me in a


    14. Disputing your ChexSystems report is the first thing you should try


    15. Thus (1) God is not the God of the dead (utterly and eternally perished), which was disputing, but of the living


    16. To say those disputing factions, both of whom had trampled the teachings of Moses beneath their feet, ignored the precepts, perverted the prophets, and traduced the morals of Israel, and descended into a flowing stream of conceited self-righteousness, and yet, from the original simplicity of the word paradise, had gradually developed it into a correct picture of the intermediate state, with no more material than the O


    17. As they were disputing their case among themselves, they said, "Build over them a building


    18. (1) There is ground for disputing, at the outset of this argument, the truth of the popular signification attached to the phrase 'manifest evidence of regenerate life


    19. Now the crowd was going from the stairs to their rooms, exclaiming, disputing, calling to one another, raising their voices to a shout, dropping them to a whisper


    20. When he thinks that he is reasoning he is really disputing, just because he cannot define and divide, and so know that of which he is speaking; and he will pursue a merely verbal opposition in the spirit of contention and not of fair discussion

    21. She heard the men I sent disputing at the door, and she gathered the sense of Heathcliff's answer


    22. The disputing parties agree in advance to agree with the decision of the arbitrator


    23. On the whole, I by no means recognized the analysis, but thought it not worth disputing


    24. Without disputing a truth so momentous, we must be allowed to consider this version of Mr


    25. Peter, arriving in the village late that day, saw a large disputing crowd


    26. Levin had come across the magazine articles about which they were disputing, and had read them, interested in them as a development of the first principles of science,


    27. Stepan Arkadyevitch was disputing with Alexey Alexandrovitch’s servant, and insisting on being announced


    28. Squeezed by the crowding noblemen, he drew near the high table where the marshal of the province, Sviazhsky, and the other leaders were hotly disputing about something


    29. They were disputing, as far as he could make out, as to the interpretation to be put on the act and the exact meaning of the words: ‘liable to be called up for trial


    30. If Men had to bear the Babes, I thought, the entire Race would perish! For what Man would risque his Life for a mere Babe? E’en he, who would so readily risque it disputing some foolish Point of Honour in a Duel with another Man, would balk at the very Thought of enduring Pain or Death for a helpless Lump of shiv’ring pink Flesh that can neither walk nor talk to pay him Homage! For the Curse of the Male Sex is its constant Need of Homage—Homage to its Intellect and Wit, Homage to its Gallantry and petty Prowess betwixt the Bed-Clothes; whilst the Female Sex, said to be so vain, is vain only of mere superficial Beauty

    31. He heard those around him disputing in whispers and one of them insisting that he should be led along a certain carpet


    32. Before supper, Prince Andrew, coming back to his father’s study, found him disputing hotly with his visitor


    33. Prince Andrew, greatly changed and plainly in better health, but with a fresh horizontal wrinkle between his brows, stood in civilian dress facing his father and Prince Meshcherski, warmly disputing and vigorously gesticulating


    34. Whatever question arose, a swarm of these drones, without having finished their buzzing on a previous theme, flew over to the new one and by their hum drowned and obscured the voices of those who were disputing honestly


    35. The servants ran noisily about the house and yard, shouting and disputing


    36. Toward evening- after much disputing and many mistakes made by generals who did not go to their proper places, and after adjutants had been sent about with counterorders- when it had become plain that the enemy was everywhere in flight and that there could and would be no battle, Kutuzov left Krasnoe and went to Dobroe whither his headquarters had that day been transferred


    37. ‘Only Ellen and I were disputing concerning your health


    38. She heard the men I sent disputing at the door, and she gathered the sense of Heathcliff’s answer


    39. Alas! in this fight to the death between our egotism and our duty, when we thus retreat step by step before our immutable ideal, bewildered, furious, exasperated at having to yield, disputing the ground, hoping for a possible flight, seeking an escape, what an abrupt and sinister resistance does the foot of the wall offer in our rear!


    40. However, nothing dispirits, and nothing seems worth while disputing

    41. There was never any use disputing with the old man


    42. " Good evening ; still disputing; and is he actually one of the party ? I heard his voice from outside in the passage ; he has been attacking me I suppose ? "


    43. They were discussing or disputing about something, or one voice was persuading, or entreating, while the other was refusing or protesting


    44. But I was soon reconciled to the position, and as one usually does in a dream, accepted the facts without disputing them


    45. ” They were both sitting as before at the table, not reading but warmly disputing about something


    46. Finally, towards the close of the day, when it was clear that the Grandmother was about to play her last bank-note, there could be seen standing behind her chair no fewer than six natives of Poland—persons who, as yet, had been neither audible nor visible; and as soon as ever the old lady played the note in question, they took no further notice of her, but pushed their way past her chair to the table; seized the money, and staked it—shouting and disputing the while, and arguing with the "gentleman of honour" (who also had forgotten the Grandmother's existence), as though he were their equal


    47. He was disputing on the point with a tall convict, as vigorous as an athlete, named Vassili Antonoff, known for his nagging, spiteful disposition


    48. Here two convicts were disputing as to which should treat the other


    49. “Who, in the name of what Law, would think of disputing my full personal right over the fortnight of life left to me? What jurisdiction can be brought to bear upon the case? Who would wish me, not only to be sentenced, but to endure the sentence to the end? Surely there exists no man who would wish such a thing—why should anyone desire it? For the sake of morality? Well, I can understand that if I were to make an attempt upon my own life while in the enjoyment of full health and vigour—my life which might have been ‘useful,’ etc


    50. As every one had seen all they wanted they went out without disputing, though Lyamshin began pestering the police captain about something















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