Cavillers [noun]

He was no conceited or froward caviller at authority, nor born rebel against established teachers and governors.

He was both a cold, scholastic word-caviller, and an enthusiastic, God-inspired prophet.

Will the caviller prove that the sun and moon would be greater blessings if their light wore more intense, or more abundant?

The injunction is multiplied on us, as it were, to silence the sophistry of the caviller, and to fix the most inconsiderate mind.

"What objection could a caviller find with my epigram," said Mathilde to herself.

"The noble cavalier characterized," "& a rebellious caviller cauterized," 1644 or 5.

He cavilled in part like the priest Sabellius, who had cavilled like the Phrygian Praxeas, who was a great caviller.

Surely none but a caviller will find any want of harmony between these different modes of expression.

None, to my mind, but the most determined and incorrigible caviller can have one word to say against it.

If I say that I have telegraphed direct, some wretched caviller may observe that he never heard of Kaffir wires.