quarellin

Updated: May 24, 2025

Mars. Tye he get his wuk done dat way, cheap. "No'em, don't believe in anything lak dat much. We use to sprinkle salt in a thin line 'roun Mars. Ballinger's house, clear 'roun, to ward off quarellin an arguein' an ol' Miss Ballinger gettin a cross spell, dat ah members, an then too; ah don believe in payin out money on a Monday. You is liable to be a spendin an a losin' all week if you do.

United States. Work Projects Administration - Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States: From Interviews with Former Slaves: Ohio Narratives

I am school-trustee: I have to grapple with the deestrict every spring and fall. The teachers are high-headed, the parents always dissatisfied, and the children act like the Old Harry. I am the salesman in the cheese- factory. Anarky and quarellin' rains over me offen that cheese-factory; and its fault-findin', mistrustin' patrons, embitters my life, and rends my mind with cares.

Marietta Holley - Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician