Dictionary Entry

wrangling

Contention; gainstriving

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Common Phrases

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Poetry examples for “wrangling”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Fill'd with the sense of age, the fire of youth,
A scorn of wrangling, yet a zeal for truth;
A generous faith, from superstition free:

The tongue moved gently first, and speech was low,
Till wrangling Science taught it noise and show,
And wicked Wit arose, thy most abusive foe.

In the jangling,
And the wrangling,
How the danger sinks and swells,

In the jangling
And the wrangling,
How the danger sinks and swells,

To lead you, and be led. But they are dumb
Before the wrangling and the shrill delight
Of your deliverance that has not come,

The many, or the many are to fall --
Still to be wrangling in a noisy grave.

O wrangling schools, that search what fire
Shall burn this world, had none the wit

Now breaking a jest, and now breaking a limb![16]
Now wrangling and grumbling, to keep up the ball!
Now teasing and vexing, yet laughing at all!

Now breaking a jest, and now breaking a limb;
Now wrangling and grumbling to keep up the ball, 55
Now teasing and vexing, yet laughing at all!