| 单词 | higgle |
| 例句 | “With the short funds proposed, we shall fall miserably short,” Jefferson said, accusing legislators of “higgling” and failing to recognize “that knowledge is power.” Question in U-Va. tumult: What should premier public universities be? 2012-06-23T19:12:15Z There, forgetting the scenes he had just left, he would stand in the cold or rain, higgling with the butcher for a shilling. Curiosities of Human Nature 2012-04-03T02:00:27.167Z How heartless the Chinese, who, before they save a drowning man, first higgle about the reward, and take pleasure in pestilence, famine, etc., because those who survive profit by them. Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II 2012-01-25T03:00:34.150Z We offered large ransom, and after some higgling they agreed that three of our number might be released, but one must remain as a hostage; and I was pointed out as the one. The Captive in Patagonia 2011-12-27T03:00:10.803Z Come, Rouse; I sold fifty strake of barley to-day in half this time; but you will higgle and higgle for a penny more than the commodity is worth. The Recruiting Officer 2011-08-10T02:00:18.323Z Melina had taken up his quarters in the inn where Philina staid, and he very soon began a system of cheapening and higgling. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z If I were a man in station I would say, now is the time to pay all Alabama claims, and not higgle whether we owe them or not. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z Your doctor has n't even the cabman's privilege to higgle for a trifle more. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z At all events we 'd have higgled about the cost, and tried to get there as cheaply as might be. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. 2011-02-18T03:00:17.957Z Under this system, what Adam Smith termed “the higgling of the market!” is the easiest test of land value, as it is of all other commodities with regard to which competition is free. The New Irish Constitution 2011-02-06T03:00:57.247Z Such higgling would determine only the value of wheat. Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted 2011-02-01T03:00:14.553Z I took up my station by the open window, and looked into the familiar room, where the buyers were higgling over the various articles to be sold. Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale 2010-12-30T03:00:21.423Z We think of papa in his old fustian shooting-jacket, paying the laborers, and higgling about half a day to be stopped here, and a sack of meal to be deducted there. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z After some higgling, they agreed under protest to accept 55 per cent. of the postage on all such parcels as should be conveyed by railway. The Development of Rates of Postage An Historical and Analytical Study Here ..." we read, "is room for any amount of 'higgling.' Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude I doubt whether any man makes such compacts with you," replied Linton; "but why higgle this way? Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) I stole away to that city of the silent multitude, where there is no higgling, no outbidding, no "who bids higher?" Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale 2010-12-30T03:00:21.423Z She always bought the best of everything, and did not higgle long about the price. On the Heights A Novel We had learned the dread price, we had duly weighed the worth of the object to be purchased: what, then, was the use of hesitating and higgling? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 The "higgling and bargaining of the market" has been accorded but scant attention by economists. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude You first discuss the right, and you then higgle over the arithmetic. The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly The entire higgling crew laughed uproariously, and clapped their hands. Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale 2010-12-30T03:00:21.423Z Freedom in markets.—In this higgling of the market it is absolutely necessary that buyers and sellers have essential freedom of choice and fairly equal information. Rural Health and Welfare "No, I've not actually seen it, but it was the general opinion among us soldiers that you were higgling with the Imperialists." Eyes Like the Sea But the higgling cannot touch the underlying attitudes. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude The Liberals had defended that preference as in itself a benefit to the Canadian consumer, and had deprecated higgling with Great Britain. The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier A Chronicle of Our Own Time Miss Foote was as much annoyed as amused with his higgling ways, all in zeal for her interests. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. So they higgled and haggled, but at last they gave him the three hundred roubles. Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales Lest fault be found, our government officials are unable to enter upon the detailed higgling in fixing rates required by every cargo and charter. Herbert Hoover The Man and His Work In a large market where this interval is supposed to be a vanishing quantity is there more or less higgling and bargaining than in a small market where the interval is admittedly perceptible? Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude So, my dear fellow, if any of those higgling shippers apply to you, tell 'em to go to the devil with their ha'penny freights. Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXII No. 4, April 1848 Here, after considerable higgling, he succeeded in selling the shirt for sixteen cents, which was less than his companion had offered. Ben, the Luggage Boy; or, Among the Wharves Then the gipsy began higgling and haggling, but the man would not give way. Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales It is plain, that under a system of fixed prices we can more certainly discover what the equitable price is, than in the heat of higgling which besides consumes a great deal of precious time. Principles Of Political Economy As a matter of fact each group or agent of production receives, not what it must receive, 61 but rather what it manages to secure in the higgling of the market. The Settlement of Wage Disputes There is the higgling of the market in all business. James Watt The agency by which this levelling or equilibrating process is carried out is competition, involving what Smith called the 'higgling of the market.' The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Thus he faced about on his disjunctive conjunction, now this way, now that, until he had time to consider what was the very lowest figure he could offer as a basis for his higgling. Duffels The economic propensity to higgle and barter appeared early among the Negroes of the New Amsterdam Colony. The Negro at Work in New York City A Study in Economic Progress Shall we stand here and higgle about terms when the roar of the tornado is heard that threatens to sweep our Government from the face of the earth? A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 Lafayette wrote to his wife in 1777: "Host and hostess sit at the table with you and do the honors of a comfortable meal, and on going away you pay your fare without higgling." Customs and Fashions in Old New England Sniggling, Wriggling Eels, and higgling Over the price Of a nice Slice Of fish, twice As much as it ought to be. The Book of Humorous Verse This will be peculiarly necessary, lest they sham, and higgle about letting me away.' The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works I again refused, and we stood higgling, until we agreed that I should pay him six, and one by way of a dress for himself. The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan And yet we stand here higgling over these little differences which alone have caused our separation. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 They could not comprehend why they should higgle about the language of the platform when they could carry the slave States on the one form of expression as well as the other. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 By the sides of these carts the principal business of the fair appeared to be going on—there stood the owners, male and female, higgling with Llangollen men and women, who came to buy. George Borrow The Man and His Books The two seconds met, and, with great unction, pledged "our honor to each other that we would endeavor to settle the matter amicably," but persistently higgled over points till publicity and arrests seemed imminent. A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A History After considerable higgling, he made the bargain, paying five hundred dollars for the share. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 I hope that every young man who reads this, will start in life with a resolution never to higgle and lie in dealings. Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject. Well, much as they feared the rats, they feared parting with their money more, and fain would they have higgled and haggled. More English Fairy Tales He filtered back here through the exchange of commerce, ‘the higgling of the market,’ and as soon as I recognized him at the sale I made up my mind to purchase him. In the Wrong Paradise "Hum!..." grunted Scattergood, and higgled and argued, but ended by accepting a deed for the land and turning over the machine to Landers. Scattergood Baines The captain still objecting, Astor, after a prolonged higgling, authorized him to buy a chronometer, and charge it to the ship's account; which was done. Famous Americans of Recent Times A starving man cannot higgle over the conditions of employment. Beneficiary Features of American Trade Unions The Maoris loved the higgling of the market, and would enjoy nothing better than to spend half a day over bartering away a single pig. The Long White Cloud But it is idle to argue with the higgle of the market. In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays "For selling himself into a mercenary marriage, and then higgling on a point of religious prejudice?" The Mystery of Metropolisville Well, you shall have it, madam: But I cannot higgle; I know you'll say it did not cost above two hundred pieces. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 Let us suppose, then, that by the effect of what Adam Smith calls the higgling of the market, 10 yards of cloth, in both countries, exchange for 17 yards of linen. Essays on some unsettled Questions of Political Economy Now, without any higgling and haggling about it, what I want is to sell, and that's my price. Reprinted Pieces They higgled about prices, and the sums which they gave were almost infinitesimal compared with the value of Patrick Nasmyth's pictures at the present time. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography "This is only my third detection, and half of it voluntary, I might say, if I chose to higgle, which I scorn to do." Tales and Novels — Volume 04 At first the hillfolk wouldn't hear of such a bargain and higgled and haggled with the man, but he stuck to what he said, and at last they gave up the mill for the bacon. East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon The people of the neighborhood had ended by greatly esteeming her, for one did not find many customers so kind as she was, paying punctually, never caviling or higgling. L'Assommoir He may gain something by combination and higgling for the turn of the market, but the limit to what he can get is the value of his labour to his employer. Speculations from Political Economy In dealing with them at the Fish Market there was a good deal of higgling. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography If Reginald had been first, he would have gone through like a cat, but the foreign gent, older, and obstructed by the contents of his pocket, higgled and stuck a few seconds in the window. A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day It would never have done to have hesitated and higgled about seeing more volumes. A Publisher and His Friends Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843 What is meant by the "higgling of the market"? Problems in American Democracy That's the worst of this huckstering and higgling with your own flesh and blood. What's Bred in the Bone There was no higgling here, for the meat was sold at the ordinary market price. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography So, next day, Charles set to work to higgle with the curate. An African Millionaire Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay Women, with half a dozen hungry mouths around them, don't stand long to higgle about a few cents in a garment, when there are so many willing to step in and take their places. Lizzy Glenn or, The Trials of a Seamstress Then he higgled and hammered and fumbled for the said mercies, and tried to enumerate them, but in phrases conventional and derived from tracts and sermons; whereas his statement of grievances had been idiomatic. It Is Never Too Late to Mend Between the two what Adam Smith calls the higgling of the market settles it. Lombard Street : a description of the money market He was higgling for a bale marked "Opinions on the Lost Condition of the Monikin Soul." The Monikins The first about whose recompense The sultan higgled? Nathan the Wise; a dramatic poem in five acts He always stands out and higgles, and actually tires them till he gets a bargain.' The Vicar of Wakefield "Well, sir," higgled Evans, "in course I don't like to refuse your reverence." It Is Never Too Late to Mend FROG.—Why all this higgling with thy friend about such a paltry sum? History of John Bull Now I'll engage this Mrs. Hundredacres, or Halfacre, or whatever her name may be, overlooked her own household work, kept no housekeeper, higgled about flour and butter, and lived half her time in her basement. Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief My King ready and desirous, now as at all times, for Peace; the terms of it known; terms not altered, not alterable, no bargaining or higgling needed or allowable. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 Fleury is pacific, full of bland candor to the Sea-Powers; the Kaiser, after long higgling upon articles, will have to accept the bill. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 09 This logic went home, and after a little higgling two shillings was offered and accepted, but in the very act of commerce the trader seemed to have a misgiving. It Is Never Too Late to Mend That he can endure this tantalizing suspense no longer; such endless higgling about a supreme blessedness, virtually agreed upon, may be sport to others, but is death to him. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 06 But the most distinguishing characteristic of him is, that he is a disputant, and higgles over an argument. Sophist Reardon had neither time nor spirit to test the possibilities of the market; he was ashamed to betray his need by higgling. New Grub Street This concluded the operations, and the yerba was then ready for the `higgling of the market'. A Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 Such right of registering, properly of mere writing down, the Parlement has got by old wont; and, though but a Law-Court, can remonstrate, and higgle considerably about the same. The French Revolution Tyrannical adjournments there have been; one, and now another at midnight on plea of fatigue,—all Friday wasted in hesitation and higgling; in re-counting of the votes, which are found correct as they stood! The French Revolution |
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