c1460 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Oseney Abbey (1907) 58 (MED) Saide prior and Couent of Seynte ffrideswith haue i-grauntid to þe saide Abbot and Couent of Oseneye that þey haue pesible all tithis of medis of þe ffee of Hedyndon..all quarelyng for Euer vppon þe saide tithis relesyng to þe saide Abbot And Couent afore i-meved.

1546 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 1st Pt. f. 72 They wolde..styll vexe hym with olde quarellynges.

1590 W. Segar Bk. Honor & Armes i. ix. 11 This sillie sort of quarrelling, may likewise be called a Lie foolish and vaine.

1611 B. Rich Honestie of Age (1844) 54 The mind is oppressed with idle thoughts which spurreth on the tongue to contentious quarrelling.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. 89 So tumultuous were the disordered Souldiers, and the occasions of revenge and quarrellings so influent.

1671 H. Herbert Narrative in Camden Misc. (1990) XXX. 303 Quarrelling, a capitall crime in France.

a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 452 Seimour and he had fallen into some quarrellings.

1791 J. Bentham Panopticon viii. 36 No quarrellings, nor confederatings, nor plottings to escape; nor yet any whips or fetters to prevent it.

1819 Times 6 Sept. 4/1 A number of scandalous stories are related, respecting the bickerings and quarrellings, and parties in the palace.

1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. ii. 60 There was no fear of family coolness or quarrelling on this side.

1897 F. T. Bullen Cruise ‘Cachalot’ 155 Ribald songs, quarrelling, and blasphemy made a veritable pandemonium of the place.

1903 J. London Call of Wild iii. 83 On more than one night the sounds of quarrelling and strife among the other dogs turned him out of his sleeping robe.

1932 Man 32 66 We have never had to interfere in quarrellings with her husband or neighbours.

1990 C. Hosein in S. Brown Caribbean New Wave 103 There was constant quarrelling; not a day went by without some flare-up.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 306/2 Brablyng thwartyng or quarellyng, noyseux.

1589 T. Nashe To Students in R. Greene Menaphon Epist. sig. A That quarrelling kinde of verse.

1593 Tell-Trothes New-yeares Gift (1876) 30 The quarreling mate shall not complaine.

1631 T. Dekker Match mee in London iii. 48 I haue now no hart left to kill thee, rise, thou and I Will like two quarrelling Gallants faster tye A knot of Loue, we both i'th Field being wounded.

1670 Earl of Clarendon Ess. in Tracts (1727) 166 A froward, proud and quarreling conscience.

1712 D. Defoe Ess. South-Sea Trade 32 It is attacked by a Variety of Clashing, Quarrelling People.

1751 F. Coventry Hist. Pompey the Little i. i. 8 Star-Gazers, superannuated Strumpets, quarrelling Lovers, all think themselves authorized to appeal to the Publick, and to write Apologies for their Lives.

1796 S. H. Burney Clarentine II. iii. x. 207 A dark and comfortless back-parlour, in which were two or three noisy, quarrelling children.

1822 ‘B. Cornwall’ Two Dreams 11 The loud quarrelling elements cast out Their sheeted fires.

1860 Ld. Lytton Lucile i. vi. iii The quarrelling crows Clang'd above him.

1902 Times 12 June 4/3 The noise made by drunken and quarrelling people inside and outside the house sometimes continued until 5 a.m.

1938 M. K. Rawlings Yearling xvi. 187 If fellers didn't say quarrelin' things, would they put in to fight?

1994 Daily Tel. 18 Aug. 17/5 Belaboured by quarrelling factions, the Health Minister has bottled out of real reforms.

1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (lxix. 11) i. f. 259^v/1 They stryue with them quarrellingly, and wyth owt meeldnesse.

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 20/2 He caused the bishop to be sued, quarelinglie charging him that he had wrongfullie vsurped certeine possessions.