Citations:spat


 * 1896, Amelia E. Barr, A Knight of the Nets, Dodd, Mead, chapter 2, pages 27–29 :
 * "Sophy is well enough," answered Janet with a touch of pride. "She suits Andrew, and it is Andrew that has to live with her."
 * "And you too, Janet?"
 * "Not I! Andrew is to build his own bigging. I have the life rent of mine. But I shall be a deal in Glasgow myself. Jamie has his heart fairly set on that."
 * She made this statement with an air of prideful satisfaction that was irritating to Mistress Roy; and she was not inclined to let Janet enter anew into a description of all the fine sights she was to see[.] So Marget showed such a hurry about her household affairs as made Janet uncomfortable, and she rose with a little offence and said abruptly:—
 * "I must be going. I have the kirkyard to pass; and between the day and the dark it is but a mournful spot."
 * "It is that," answered Marget.
 * "Then good night, and good befall you;" but in spite of the benediction, Janet felt nettled at her friend's sudden lack of interest.
 * "It was a spat of envy no doubt," she thought; "but Lord's sake! envy is the most insinuating vice of the lot of them. It cannot behave itself for an hour at a time. But I'm not caring! it is better to be envied than pitied."


 * 1998 February, mass market edition of, 1997 March, Poul Anderson, The Fleet of Stars, Tor, ISBN 0812545982, page 189 :
 * So who cares if there's a spat of fighting somewhere else? How can it touch us? By the time we're ready to commence on the moon, everything will be long since settled and half forgotten.


 * 2001, paperback edition of, 2000, Bill Belleville, River of Lakes, Georgia, ISBN 0820323446, pages 90–91 :
 * As the channel winds beyond [Drigger Island], it passes the bluff named "Happy Hill" and then gets serious again, coursing down through a nearly straight leg that bites into the earth, at depths of fifteen to thirty feet. The St. Johns is no longer a river one can walk across, in any fashion.
 * Fish camps and marinas appear and then disappear along the middle St. Johns. After a spat of such diversions, the river braids itself through the forested landscape.


 * 2003, Jack Stevenson, Land of a Thousand Balconies, ISBN 1900486237, page 133 :
 * Many TV stations refused to broadcast it, but many of those who got to see it on air or later at a spat of festival screenings or on the European film club circuit proclaim it Moritsugu's masterpiece.


 * 2006 May, paperback edition of, 2005 May, James Rollins, Map of Bones, Avon, ISBN 9780060765248, pages 139–140 :
 * Shots continued to pound their position, coming from all sides, gouging out chunks of wood from the flanking pews.
 * A robed man down the end of the same pew fell backward, punched by the impacts. Another down the center aisle cried out and grabbed his neck as a spat of red arced out.


 * 2010 January, second trade paperback edition of, 2004, Kevin O'Hara, Last Of The Donkey Pilgrims, Forge, ISBN 9780765309846, chapter 46, page 300 :
 * We walked on through a spat of sunshowers, and on the bridge over the River Roe a double rainbow looped over our heads.