I won't have any quarrelling in the Land of Oz, I can tell you!
The Liberals were quarrelling among themselves, and the result was an overwhelming defeat.
Such a schism as this, so intolerable to the ecclesiastical sense of the middle ages, necessitated the discovery of some authority superior to the rival popes, and therefore able to put an end to their quarrelling.
By the beginning of 1825 only the first three of these and Hildburghausen remained, the lands of the others having been divided after much quarrelling.
The throne was vacant, the great nobles quarrelling among themselves, the Catholic Poles in the Kremlin of Moscow, the Protestant Swedes in Novgorod, and enormous bands of brigands everywhere.