| The flock of chiders, complainers, carpers, cavilers, and castigators makes it harder and harder to get an optimistic note in edgewise. |
| Proofs like these are not to be set aside by the idle tongues of cavilers.Then we went down into a cavern which cavilers say was once a cistern. |
| Cavilers object that water boils at a lower and lower temperature the higher and higher you go, and hence the apparent anomaly. |
