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He spent hours every day in frenzied haggling, and in the cynical examination of deftly booby-trapped business proposals.
Frederick William alone might have been attracted by the offer; but his advisers haggled long and obstinately over details.
After much haggling, the French proposals resolved themselves into three alternatives, each of which was categorically rejected by Bismarck.
She took the whole business like a thoroughbred, walking calmly out like that and leaving them to haggle over the details.
It takes women years to perfect this masquerade, but they win a distracted pleasure that guards them from haggling memories.
True to the oriental instinct for haggling, the man argued and discussed for some time before he at last agreed to Jack's proposition.
Joe Parsons was far above haggling about the rent, but he had certain ideas as to painting and repairs that looked expensive.
One bit of haggling or hesitation might have hardened me even now; the serpent within me would have lifted its head and struck.
They haggle, they dispute, they inflict and suffer wrongs, they evade dues, and are liable or entitled to penalties and compensations.
To have to refuse one who has made you a gift of her beauty a trifling article; to haggle over such matters, like a miser!
His experience had taught him, and not unwisely, that love is an easy victim, too proud to haggle, too generous to bargain sharply.
The young derelict of the Wastrel had, in all likelihood, bargained for it and haggled over its cost in an Oriental shop.
Perhaps it might have been for children; but these young people of eighteen were already convinced of its difficulties, and haggled over semicolons.
He hasn't a farthing to bless himself with, but in spite of that he haggles, gets excited, and pesters purchasers with advice.
As the poor might haggle at parting with a coin so large, the vendor discreetly condescended to open a retail trade at sixpence each.
The liquor brought out his real character; and this royal personage scolded and haggled like a private trader, and a sharp one too.
You don't know these shop-keeping creatures, they grow rich by haggling; their chief characteristic is avarice, and you see all that here.
And, in any case, is it possible to set up such a distinction between "bargaining" and "haggling" as to be worth an international wrangle?
We recklessly fling gold to an opera-dancer, and haggle with a tradesman whose hungry family must wait for the settlement of our bill.
The children, having forgotten the happy close, and not understanding the haggling of the suitors, took the "three kings" for bandits.
Moreover, the Oriental has no idea of time, and dearly loves to haggle, especially with a foreigner whom he feels no compunction in swindling.
Would they haggle over ten francs to secure such a treasure as herself, an honest, settled woman, who was entirely devoted to her employers?
After collecting a few more souvenirs we were about to depart, when Perkins suddenly spied an enormous catfish, which, after the inevitable haggling, we purchased.
Antoine seemed so disposed to haggle for it that I confess I quaked; however, he set such a high value on it that the other demurred.
After much haggling, Ebenezer consented to waive his commission if the committee would consent to allow an original tale of his to appear in the paper.
The country people press along between these rows of tiny shops and haggle energetically with the proprietors for whatever takes their fancy.
There was a little haggling over the terms; for it would have been altogether contrary, to Indian usages, to have agreed to any price without demur.
If people in trade would judge rightly, we might buy blindfolded, and they would save, both to themselves and customers, the unpleasantness of haggling.
"Too much," he said in the vernacular, and immediately the price dropped perceptibly, but it required more haggling before it came within the limits of reason.
The Tibetans became quite excited when they heard the rustle of the silk, and after the usual haggling and bargaining we came to an agreement.
After some haggling among her persecutors the elements were brought to her, albeit in slovenly fashion, bare of the priestly pomp which was their due.
The immediate question to be settled with the ambassadors was the meeting of the two kings, and there was an amicable haggle over the place.
Suddenly a woman drew a pistol from under her petticoat, and shot the man dead who was haggling over the price of her eggs.
I've seen him haggle over a new piece of equipment for their scooter, or some repair work, or some such thing, and he was a wonder to watch.
"We are so sorry Annie can't come to the house-party," I ventured as the farmer who had been haggling for the rake decided not to take it.
A boat and two men were at hand, waiting to be hired, and he proceeded to haggle about the price, for one of the boatmen spoke English.
Because, you see, we like to see with our own eyes that what we intend doing is really done, and without any haggling with lawyers and executors.'
Having satisfied her thirst at the spring, she took one of the bamboo rods, with its haggled blackening pieces of flesh, and returned to the fire.
Yes, for a passer-by, for an unknown, perhaps; but when one represents a great nobleman, shopkeepers fleece him, and I didn't believe that I should haggle.
Fortunately, by reason of my veil, he did not recognize me, and after some haggling gave me some grayish powder in a small wooden box securely sealed.
I am really pleased to find that we are to have no haggling over a matter of this kind, which in truth would be little short of a sacrilege.
He showed that we must never parley or haggle with sedition, treason, or lawlessness, but must strike a blow that cannot be parried, and at once.
She did not haggle or squabble as inferior housewives will, because she knew just what she wanted and what it was prudent to pay for it.
The Phantom glanced at the rickety desk at which Gage had sat while haggling over petty sums and figuring percentages to the fraction of a cent.
The latter ask the price, and occasionally haggle; American women may ask the price, but the order is, the very best you can do.
It was seized by her creditors, who wrangled and haggled over it with her husband, whom the news of her death overwhelmed with a late remorse.
After a great deal of haggling as to what was permissible and what should be deleted, a compromise was effected between the historian and the censor.
"I will give you twenty crowns," Gerald replied; "and considering that you owe your life to my interposition, I think that you ought not to haggle about terms."
The soldiers were among the crowd, some leaning against bulkheads, some drinking at the ale-houses, some haggling for the fruit; some were also exercising upon Castle Green.
The small farmers of former times pursued a petty business of barter and haggle, fighting for their own hand against half the world about them.
They chose to believe her, especially after hearing her haggling and bartering with some of the itinerant dealers who visited the farm from time to time.
After some haggling he consented to sell the love of a whole people, and his pretensions to regal dignity, for a pension of five hundred pounds a year.
A small girl with a mat of long tangled hair and a dress made of a burlap bag with openings that had been haggled in it for arms.
I thought sarcastically about his telegram and the desire he had had in the first place to haggle about the terms; and I let him mutter on.
The early bird like me what can afford to haggle for an extra sixpence, or them as have only time enough to sell out and get home before dark?
Let the wretches but be persuaded to give up their prisoners unharmed, and to leave the island, and he would not haggle about the price to be paid.
When the work was done, the priests meanly haggled and found fault with it, in order to reduce the price, which had been previously agreed upon.
The poor woman whose gateway it obstructed was anxious to have it sawed up and carried to her little wood-shed, but was disposed to haggle about the price.
His father, informed of the event, came to reclaim the body, and for a long time haggled over giving the thirty-six francs demanded by the hospital authorities.
I declare, I've seen him haggle for an hour over the price of salt, and it turns him positively sick to see anything but specked potatoes on the table.
The Assembly had not haggled about his keep, but awarded a handsome sum for the table of one who was a hearty eater, like all the Bourbons.
There were dealers who traded openly in these terrible goods, and, as has been previously described, their agents haggled for corpses at the foot of the gallows.
Browne winced; it hurt him to think that the girl had perhaps been compelled to haggle with this man in order to obtain the mere necessaries of life.
And then haggling and shouting he would make his deal or drive on his way while the farmer, leaning on the fence, laughed as at a wayward child.
This is not infrequently the case with buyers and sellers; but Colombia pushed her haggling a little too far, and in the end very badly overreached herself.
The auctioneers are very clamorous over their business, and for three hours all is hurry and shouting, and competition and confused haggling as to prices and sales.
Yield all trivial points: it is a waste of your time and proof of an undeveloped sense of proportion to haggle over points that in the end nobody cares about.
To create a newspaper office was a right thing to do, and he had done it; and to haggle about the circumstances of the doing appeared to him sheer pedantry.
He finds the demand exorbitant, and now begins a bargaining and haggling, which continues until both parties are satisfied, when the solemn ceremony is at last performed.
And like sellers of old raiment who shout and swear and scold, fighting over the price of some worthless garment, they commenced their monstrous and frenzied haggling.
It looked the room of one with a sober magnanimity, who went to the heart of things, despised haggling, and before whose smiles the more immediate kinds of humbug faded.
The doorways were filled with soldiers and women and haggling native merchants; and men lurched out to threaten passers-by, or to be hurried from the scene by comrades.
He was for dashing into the house and starting his love-making there and then, but Selina held him, haggling like a fish wife over the price of the roan.
Without it, nothing can result but a piecemeal haggling to bits of the river system as local demands grow acute and local pressures force the adoption of one-shot measures.
It was contemptible for a man in love to count his words, and it was intolerable to be haggling with himself at such a crisis over the expense of a despatch.
The old man paid without any haggling the price asked for the ground, and shortly afterward workmen were seen busily carting the ruins away and digging a foundation.
What a haggling over the price, which varies from nunnery to nunnery, but always allows the merchant to sell at a good profit in the markets of Flanders and Italy.
There was much haggling over the dowry and marriage portion, and in the midst, Sir James himself took, for his second wife, a stern and sour Puritan dame.
The marquis never haggled with his tradesmen, never beat his servants or his animals, and opened his purse to the poor with more frequency than did his religious neighbors.
As the friends of the Union were disposed to haggle at no price to preserve it, so was Garrison disposed to barter the Union itself in exchange for the abolition of slavery.
All we need do is to remember that in place of conveyances there were treaties, and in place of offer, counter-offer, haggling, and bargaining, there were battles, sieges, devastation, and pillage.
When the American travels he prefers to pay out round sums rather than to haggle over the price of things, even although he pays considerably more thereby than he otherwise would.
He knew that his father would know from the size of the chips that no full-grown hatchet cut that tree down, and that no man would have haggled it so.
Instead of haggling over the question of swallowing the gourd, we should preach this truth about forbidden fruit until offenders feel their hearts filled with holy fear and wholesome disgust.
He heard a man pass the street with wood to sell; he haggled for an unconscionable time about the price, and at last completed his bargain, at the lowest possible rate.
There were dealers who traded openly in these terrible goods, and, as has been seen in the chapter on executions, their agents haggled for corpses at the foot of the gallows.
Settlement was becoming yearly more needful: and, ever since the Treaty of Utrecht especially, there had been an incessant haggle going on, to produce one; without the least effect hitherto.
He fixed his price, after careful consideration, at what he thought the goods could and would bring, and would not deviate from it for any haggling, or to suit individual cases.
The devout elders, who taught devotion to heavenly things and scorn of the things of this world, nevertheless haggled and wrangled long and stubbornly over a few pounds more or less.
Nanny went with me to the clothing-shop, haggled and fought until she reduced the articles to twenty-eight shillings, and then they were ordered to be made and sent to her house.
Reluctantly dragged back, he attempts to haggle for conditions of slavery, and at last, pouring into his army his own servile fear, he involves it in a general and disorderly flight.
Of course all this haggling is part of the game and at times it is quite amusing to see the extent to which a man who believes himself astute can make a fool of himself.
And so they haggled, until, in the end, the witty Captain Smith obtained somewhere between two and three hundred bushels of corn for a small and insignificant string of beads.
At a time when our retail commerce has happily come to the "one-price" system, the lustrous-eyed peddlers from the Levant bring in again the odious haggling trade with its deceit and trickery.
He had sufficient of the gentleman in him to shrink from reprimanding his servants and haggling with a dealer; he was miserly, but too much of a gentleman to show it openly.
Peel climbed nimbly out of the carriage and entered the store, while her companion remained to haggle with the driver over the amount to be paid for the drive from the station.
Your surprise and indignation are great at the exorbitant figures, and after a good deal of haggling, eleven dollars and ten respectively are agreed upon, the clothes to be finished in two days.
At last, he selected a piece of walnut-wood; and, having paid the price demanded for it, without any haggling, inquired next for a carpenter, of whom he might hire a set of tools.
This vexed the patron, because one does not think the more of a person who haggles over a franc, especially if that person has studied cheapness in all ways during his visit.
How she had longed to rise to the class of owners, still to haggle, of course, but to dictate terms, from a vantage point, to that dirty turbulent crowd of lower scum!