caviller

“Jane, I don’t like cavillers or questioners; besides, there is something truly forbidding in a child taking up her elders in that manner. Be seated somewhere; and until you can speak pleasantly, remain silent.”

Let the insular cavillers at Donnelly, just because he is an American, hide their diminished heads.

It is one which has long been applied in Germany to petty cavillers and incompetent critics.

The caviller will perhaps ask, concerning some of the rambling observations contained in this chapter, and the subject which has called them forth, Cui bono?

I neither fear the critic or the caviller upon the ground-work of my address.