" Another character in the novel is referred to as having "skin, which she had been used to cavil at, as wanting colour, had a clearness and delicacy which really needed no fuller bloom.
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Let no one cavil at our phraseology, when we say that the determination was most heroical.
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Fours are consistently medical specialists. Another Four poses as a married man in the Colonial Fleet. Cavil at one point asks Simon to leave his life behind and destroy the ship he lives on. He defies this order to protect his wife and her child by committing suicide and flying out of an air lock.
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Such hesitations and divided loyalties are common among James' perceptive central characters. Hyacinth's case is particularly acute because his actual life is at stake. In his preface to the New York Edition of the novel, James audaciously compared Hyacinth to Hamlet and Lear. While some may cavil at such comparisons, others believe that Hyacinth's fate does rise almost to classic tragedy.
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Cowper wrote of Conyers, in his poem Truth: > [...] he says much that many may dispute, And cavil at with ease, but none > refute. Conyers wrote to John Wesley shortly after his 1758 conversion. Wesley accepted an invitation to visit Conyers, coming on 17 April 1764 after discussion with Selina, Countess of Huntingdon. A couplet, from a poem sent by Augustus Toplady to Erasmus Middleton in 1775, imagines Wesley reciting a list of his Calvinist rivals: :"There's Townsend, Shirley, Foster, Venn, :With Madan, Conyers and Romaine..." William Romaine was in Helmsley in 1766.
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It was in 1934 that the School of Applied Geophysics was established at Imperial College, with Rankine directing the research.The history of Imperial College London, 1907–2007, Hannah Gay, World Scientific, 2007 His work in this area included improving the gravimeter invented by Loránd Eötvös (the Eötvös gravimeter) and constructing a magnetometer "of great sensitivity". In 1937, Rankine resigned from Imperial College to take up a full-time position with the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, in which role he made several visits to Persia (Iran). This resignation was marked by the following rhyme, published in 1937 in The Record of the Royal College of Science Association: > If Rankine prefers travel > To academic toil, > No one of us will cavil, > At the fact that he's struck oil.
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According to Merriam-Webster, it is "a mentally deranged person" or "one who advocates extreme measures or changes: radical.""wing nut" In American politics, the term is more often aimed at members of the political right than those of the political left,Moon Bats & Wing Nuts. Time magazine, which advanced its publication day in order to compete with the Friday-night fights, carried an unusually combative Joe Klein column recently jabbing at “left-wing blognuts and conservative wingnuts.” He popped Eli Pariser, executive director of the liberal MoveOn.org, as “the nation’s blognut in chief” and Vice President Cheney as “the nation’s wingnut in chief.” Just before the bell, the newsmagazine pugilist in chief landed a right cross to “The Wall Street Journal’s quasi-wingnut editorial page” and strode to his corner with a Parthian cavil at “the chest thumping of the various blognut extremists.” for which the alternative term "moonbat" is more often used.
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