| 单词 | pettifog |
| 例句 | As it happens, the film does not dwell on the pettifogging distinctions between North and South Korea, and the ability of the bad Koreans to pass themselves off as the good ones. Olympus Has Fallen – review 2013-04-18T14:29:02Z Experts were doubtful from the start of his pettifogging that he had reasonable grounds to bail out. Column: Elon Musk is walking away from his Twitter deal, just as you knew he would 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z The Economist described his viewpoint succinctly: “He paints stewards of fair play — regulators and boards — as pettifogging enemies of progress,” wrote its pseudonymous business columnist “Schumpeter.” Column: Why don't regulators stop Elon Musk from breaking the law? 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z The virtue of this concept is that it divorces essential protections from pettifogging debates over the definition of “employee.” Column: Senate's rejection of a Labor Department nominee is horrible news for American workers 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Last month, President Biden’s Education Department released 13 pages of pettifogging rules patently written to discourage and impede charter schools from accessing a $440 million federal program of support for charters. Opinion | Biden has a tawdry new scheme to cripple charter schools 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z But the vast majority of our elected representatives overruled the pettifogging legalisms of Kennedy and the others. Editorial Roundup: Louisiana 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z In an earlier impeachment trial, he said, an accusation of “pettifogging,” or an undue emphasis on petty details, was said to have crossed a line. Chief Justice’s Impeachment Handbook: Determined Minimalism 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z To pettifog is ‘to engage in legal chicanery’ or ‘to quibble over insignificant details,’” the dictionary advised. Iowa smiles upon Transhumanist candidate 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z Roberts told senators he would emphasize a standard of decorum so strict that they can’t use the ‘pettifog’ in Trump’s trial. Trump, Bloomberg fight heats up 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z And whether it’s allowed on the floor or not, Republicans think Democrats are just pettifogging Trump. Reporter's Notebook: Trump's Senate impeachment trial could boil down to one word – 'pettifogging' 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z “In the 1905 Swayne trial, a senator objected when one of the managers used the word ‘pettifogging’ and the presiding officer said the word ought not to have been used,” Chief Justice Roberts said. Rebuke From Roberts Signals His Limited Role in Trump’s Senate Trial 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z The word is so seldom used that Google Ngrams, which measures the frequency that words appear in books and journals, shows that "pettifogging" peaked in 1900, but has gradually disappeared. Why is 'pettifogging' suddenly in the news? 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z “In the 1905 Swayne trial, a senator objected when one of the managers used the word ‘pettifogging’ and the presiding officer said the word ought not to have been used,” Justice Roberts said. Chief Justice Roberts admonishes during Senate trial: Both sides ‘should remember where they are’ 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z And whether it’s allowed on the floor or not, Republicans think Democrats are just pettifogging Trump.” Trump, Bloomberg fight heats up 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z Senators debated whether it was appropriate to use the word “pettifogging” on the floor during the trial. Reporter's Notebook: Trump's Senate impeachment trial could boil down to one word – 'pettifogging' 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z In Trump’s version of events, he was protecting “warriors” from the pettifogging timidity of the so-called deep state. Opinion | Trump has adopted the coward’s conception of heroism 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z I don't know why everyone's so surprised about the word #pettifogging. Why is 'pettifogging' suddenly in the news? 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Once again the question must be posed: are these pettifogging and increasingly arbitrary interventions really the future the game wants to embrace? Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Are you a pettifogging pedant who thinks that the widespread use of the word “decimate” to mean “annihilate”, or “gay” to mean “homosexual”, is a sign of the barbarism and illiteracy of today’s youth? Don’t press send … The new rules for good writing in the 21st century 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z Roberts told senators he would emphasize a standard of decorum so strict that they can’t use the “pettifog” in Trump’s trial. Reporter's Notebook: Trump's Senate impeachment trial could boil down to one word – 'pettifogging' 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z The answer, surely, is that Rand lionises the alpha male capitalist entrepreneur, the man of action who towers over the little people and the pettifogging bureaucrats – and gets things done. The new age of Ayn Rand: how she won over Trump and Silicon Valley 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z "In the 1905 Swayne trial, a senator objected when one of the managers used the word 'pettifogging' and the presiding officer said the word ought not to have been used," Justice Roberts said. Why is 'pettifogging' suddenly in the news? 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z It is one that includes lower taxes, less pettifogging regulation and freer trade. Doing Brexit the hard way 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z The result is that workers, job-seekers and public services of every kind are subject to a pettifogging, stifling regime of assessment and monitoring, designed to identify the winners and punish the losers. Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z He’s the ultimate Gary Stu character: a billionaire beholden to no one and able to abuse every disingenuous and pettifogging remora latched headfirst on the nation and sucking upward. Trump's victories aren't mysterious if you understand why people are angry | Jeb Lund 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z The court’s majority deployed pettifogging legalism, giving more value to secondary regulation than to Mr Guzmán’s constitutional right to run and the right of the people to choose whomever they please—the essence of democracy. Rigging Peru’s election 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z To "pettifog" is, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, "to quibble over insignificant details" or "engage in legal chicanery". Why is 'pettifogging' suddenly in the news? 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Academic pettifogging, conventionality and gullibility were favourite targets. The man who told us so 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Presented with the first authentic democratic challenge to their rules, they pettifogged on detail and fretted about moral hazard. Chronicle of a struggle 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Abolitionists were “pitiful, pettifogging scoundrels” trying to “out-negro the negro,” he wrote. Grief, fear, glee: How Americans reacted to Lincoln’s killing, 150 years ago 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z How can they be feeling as they await sentencing for their pettifogging yet life-changing crime? Can Chris Huhne and Vicky Pryce recover from their life-changing crime? 2013-03-11T09:29:05Z A pettifogging royal charter may not allow actual title splits until 2016, but it's jobs – not titles – that matter here. Journalism once had Woodward and Bernstein. Now it's guns for hire 2012-11-18T00:06:29Z The good czar showed he despised the preposterous sycophancy of his pettifogging officials just like ordinary Russians did. Op-Ed Contributor: Please Hold for Mr. Putin 2012-09-22T00:51:07Z But unless you're going to require journalists and bloggers to embrace such a pettifogging regime too, you're pottering down the blindest of alleys, regulating human nature until your wig falls off. Leveson leads the press to the last-chance saloon – again 2012-06-16T23:06:02Z He assailed Mr. Gladstone's financial policy one night, and said it was like the practice of a pettifogging attorney. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z This whipper-snapper, this pettifogging lad, just out of his teens, to talk to him of peerages, to patronise him, to offer him--to--to---- For a moment he stammered and could not speak. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z And not one of the first water, as to reputation; a grasping, pettifogging practitioner, who will take up any dirty case that may be brought to him. A Life's Secret A Novel 2012-02-13T03:00:17.060Z There were Clintons at Kencote when his particular Trenches were pettifogging tradesmen in Yorkshire, and centuries before that. The Honour of the Clintons 2012-01-24T03:00:25.947Z The fierce excitement, the primitive, naked passions, the wild fury, the reckless indifference to pain and death, with the loss of the normal, cautious, pettifogging little daily self all these involved, had satisfied him. The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z Yes, he had, on the previous night, in a moment of excitement, compared the policy of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the practice of a pettifogging attorney. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z As time went on, my steady intention to remove our family into the country, and my other plans of reform, roused my domestic antagonists to various pettifogging stratagems. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z It has been such a day of pettifogging—pitiful pettifogging. Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband 2011-12-08T03:00:25.597Z They will go on with their pettifogging and their pawnbroking, and that is enough reward for them. The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z And to begin with, look what a pull Cromwell had over Pym—the one name full of a resonant imperialism, the other mean, pettifogging, and unheroic to a degree. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z So how is it possible for one to be the most almighty curse of our paranoid, pettifogging times and the other to be inspirationally brilliant? Tick box v check-list 2011-08-04T10:00:03Z As squire he was a failure, for he had a pettifogging mind. Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West 2011-07-05T02:00:27.453Z Thurston then proceeds to pettifog about his injunction to keep his letter to Congress about the Donation Land Bill "dark till next mail." Dr. John McLoughlin, the Father of Oregon 2011-05-20T02:00:38.647Z The ingenuity and unscrupulousness of that vile breed, the native Pica-Pleito or pettifogging lawyer, has greatly contributed to stop Europeans from proceeding with mining enterprises, as success would bring down these blackmailers in swarms. The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z It was always this same middle-class, bare of ideas and courage, hard to the people, timid before Cæsar, pettifogging and jesuitical. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z Mr Woolet is still pettifogging—still robbing a poor clientèle, out of sufficient to keep a carriage at their expense; but not enough to tempt being employed by the rich. The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z Wrangling proctors and pettifogging lawyers, too, are not amiss; for they will be for ever disputing and quarrelling with their little parliaments. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z He had to pettifog or say it was a forgery. Dr. John McLoughlin, the Father of Oregon 2011-05-20T02:00:38.647Z There was, however, much agitation and much travelling to and fro amongst the native clergy and the pettifogging lawyers. The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z The old procureur and his president applied all their pettifogging cunning to lowering the debate. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z The great city does not monopolise the plant called pettifogging. The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z There is not a lawyer's clerk in Ireland, there is no pettifogging practitioner for half-crown fees, there's not a brat that carries a blue bag down the Bachelor's Walk, could n't teach you all three. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z In the course of ages of dealing with the puny offspring of these new beings, may I not dwindle into a mere pungent, pettifogging Spirit? The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z I mean to make my mark here; no more small pettifogging ways for me. The Little Missis 2011-02-26T03:00:44.830Z It may be law, but it isn’t justice; for justice would take into account a man’s common rights, and wouldn’t tie them up by pettifogging delays.” King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z Thank God, he is still alive; and we shall yet be able to punish the usurpers, and that pettifogging Woolet as well! The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z Instinct is what drives the best instant decisions – and puts too much pettifogging purity to shame. WikiLeaks can leave you lost in a moral maze 2010-12-05T00:06:00Z Will you believe me when I say I have known as much actual crime committed in the office of a pettifogging country lawyer, as I ever saw tried in a sheriff court. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 He was the son of a pettifogging lawyer, and was as heartily hated by the soldiers as the colonel was beloved. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5 In a pettifogging lawyer such an act would be infamous; in the president of the nation it becomes monstrous and staggers belief. Labor and Freedom The town itself was a great many miles from the nearest railway station; moreover, it was a dull little hole, with the limited ideas and pettifogging interests common to up-country townships. Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion The Barristers of England, how often they degrade An honourable calling to a pettifogging trade, And show how very slight the lines of separation are, Between the cabman's license, and the "licence of the Bar." Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) For in those days we were taught to be courteous to the elder ladies, and to make them becoming compliments, which is in danger of being a forgotten art in these pettifogging times. The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway I don't doubt but that, legally speaking, and in pettifogging parlance, he is all correct but between men of honor such strictness is downright absurdity and, as Dillhurst says, "something more." The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life I'd have you to know, sirrah," said he, addressing me, "that your pettifogging shrewdness is anything but favorable to you in the unfortunate position in which you stand. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas Her cunning and shamelessness were largely commented upon at the time; but it was reserved for Mrs. Winslow to inform the world, through my operatives, that George Washington ever descended to this grade of pettifogging. The Spiritualists and the Detectives A snap judgment was to be taken by these pettifogging diplomats. The Evidence in the Case A Discussion of the Moral Responsibility for the War of 1914, as Disclosed by the Diplomatic Records of England, Germany, Russia You took to haggling and pettifogging: far otherwise do I go to work; I want all or none. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages CHICANE, the pettifogging subterfuge and delay of sharp law-practitioners, also any deliberate attempt to gain unfair advantage by petty tricks. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" And to begin with, look what a pull Cromwell had over Pym—the one name full of a resonant imperialism, the other, mean, pettifogging, and unheroic to a degree. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers If the pettifogging Radical Government turn a deaf ear to our brilliant correspondent, if they ignore his claims and chaffer in any commercial spirit with his accredited agents, their days are numbered. Aliens What Charles Darwin said about “The Origin of Species” is ten thousand times more important than what some pettifogging lawyer said about “States’ Rights.” The Art of Lecturing Revised Edition The ridiculous counterclaim with its pettifogging innuendoes vanished before that common sense of the jury to which Mr. Ricochet so dryly appealed. The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit Well, the lawyer wasn’t one tamely to yield his rights; he did not propose always to remain a scrimping, pettifogging attorney, existing on crumbs. In the Shadow of the Hills "You can propose something like that before the justice of the peace in your first pettifogging case." The Daughter of the Storage And Other Things in Prose and Verse Was there not an honourable rivalry among nations, each to be better than the other, to replace this brawling about boundaries, this pettifogging with frontiers? Changing Winds A Novel Do we not feel as if the State were some miserable culprit on trial, and some pettifogging lawyer was endeavoring to screen him from punishment, by picking a flaw in the indictment. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy I have work for you––not to serve any one with a writ; assign; bring an action, or any of your rascally, pettifogging tricks! The Strollers Deeper than conscious volition lies the stored-up instinct of barren pettifogging egotism to which a fine moral atmosphere is deadly. England and Germany He had better return to California and to his pettifogging. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 The idea of imagining me as a new girl at her wretched pettifogging old school! The Madcap of the School The revolution was inaugurated by the Parliament of Paris—a pettifogging legal assembly. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals The prisoner, knowing himself proved actually guilty, and the numerous chances existing against him on the record, if he chose to make pettifogging experiments upon its technical sufficiency, submitted to his just fate. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 The disappointed female would generally leave the shop with some loud remarks as to swindling, dishonesty, and pettifogging, to which Mr. Jones could turn a deaf ear. The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm It was just as well not to have a pettifogging lawyer to deal with. The Slave of Silence We breathe with him the clear sharp air of mathematics; and his imagination, shaking itself free from all controversial pettifogging, sweeps off into the stark and naked spaces of the true planetary situation. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations It’s been done, though, by little, pettifogging shysters, by piking real-estate crooks—thousands of parcels of property scattered all over the United States have been filched in that manner. 'Firebrand' Trevison The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own conscience.—Beecher. Pearls of Thought Even the miserable little pettifogging share women had had in Urban and Borough Councils—even that they were deprived of. The Convert He called them “robbers, swindlers,—a brace of pettifogging scoundrels!” Bardell v. Pickwick It is, indeed, inferior to either work; a very quiet study of Yorkshire life, almost pettifogging in its interest in ecclesiastical squabbles, almost absurd in the feminine inadequacy of its heroes. Emily Brontë He was again the pettifogging lawyer in poor circumstances, and Wilhelmine reflected that he would be all the more anxious to serve her in order to return to his ill-gotten splendour at her illegitimate court. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg And so, at last, out of all the muddle and waste and pettifogging stupidity this man created crises as men create matches, by the gross. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-19 The infamy which has attached to the miserable and imbecile Buchanan, that type of degraded, pettifogging diplomacy, is rapidly extending to his whole tribe—and their name is legion. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy At last he said, “You are a well-matched pair of mean, rascally, pettifogging robbers.” Bardell v. Pickwick The issues involved are too big and far-reaching for pettifogging methods. The Root of Evil In one of these—the Lawyer—the original of Mr. Squeers may be seen in the character of an orthodox pettifogging attorney perched upon a stool. The History of "Punch" It reflected its writer; she had always thought him unromantic, and now he seemed to her intolerably prosaic, conceited, pettifogging, utilitarian. The Nebuly Coat It's much more likely to be some pettifogging lawyer's game—some sneaking rogue that's got these fellow-rascals round him, with an idea of doing a little bit of blackmail. VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea This is but pettifogging work at the best: it won’t pay for the means of resistance. The King's Own The Hamburg-America line and Nord-deutscher Lloyd and others, shorn of their real glory, still continue a pettifogging existence booking tickets for passengers on the ships of foreign lines. Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 Am I to be kept waiting by the son of a miserable pettifogging scoundrel of a London lawyer? Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai They returned to their homes, execrating the war as waged in behalf of the arch-enemy of God and man, as the result of a pettifogging bit of trickery on the part of Napoleon. The Wars Between England and America Don’t you see, Wake, whose father is a pettifogging lawyer, is going to get up a make-believe law court—I heard him talk about it last term—instead of the regular debating evening. The Master of the Shell He even purchased a few amateur specifics; and finally, when the boy was as ill as ill could be, called in a pettifogging practitioner, who might be trusted to bungle the case. Roger Ingleton, Minor The pettifogging lawyer comes for his promised reward. A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections The result is all the difference between a mere drudge and an intelligent workman; between the mere salesman or clerk and the enterprising merchant; between the obscure and pettifogging lawyer and the sagacious, influential counselor. How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success He pettifogs with his witnesses to establish his theory. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Sir, I hear you have called me a pettifogging scoundrel. The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings Why, my dear sir, I have known him as a pettifogging money-lender in India for years.” Roger Ingleton, Minor Old Bolshóff decides to defraud his creditors, with the aid of a pettifogging lawyer, and he makes over all his property to his clerk, Podkhaliúzin. A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections Fancy a creature that has pettifogged, as an underling too, all his life.’ That Stick The pettifogging objections to some social plan had very little chance of survival owing to the dynamic power of the reformers. A Preface to Politics This Mrs. Baxter called a pettifogging trick, and she pursued her parallel till the same terms were obviously indicated as appropriate to Quisanté's conduct. Quisanté I said that you were a pettifogging rascal. Can You Forgive Her? What would be thought in England, I wonder, of four banks in a town like Ennis, or of two in pettifogging places like Kilrush or Ennistynon—mere hamlets of some two thousand inhabitants? Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. These pedantic barbarians got the answer which they deserved; but on their pettifogging thesis Raemaekers' cartoon is perhaps the best commentary. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers What a pity that some good man has not set Hadley up in a better business than pettifogging. A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett But Charles's motto was 'Never again,' and by a pettifogging fraud he reintroduced bishops without the hated liturgy. Historical Mysteries What the devil do I care for your pettifogging bones? News from the Duchy The manager intrusts the care of the financial department to a registrario, who is generally some pettifogging attorney, who holds the position of his steward. Great Italian and French Composers And thus, through a pettifogging colonial policy, commerce was turned into the merest peculation by a class of persons who made it their object to restrict the agriculturist, and hold his interests at their mercy. The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth He would have put the whole under our judicial courts, and thereby have created a middle class of pettifogging attorneys to swallow up all the surplus produce of the land. A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II They declared that the members of Congress were "obscure, pettifogging attorneys, bankrupt shopkeepers, outlawed smugglers, etc." History of the United States In this situation stood matters between that pettifogging nest of robbers and this great kingdom, which will finish, probably, by crouching under them, and paying the sixty thousand sequins. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 He, poor soul, stunned but not convinced, clings desperately to some pettifogging convictions which he calls truth, and refuses a clearer vision. Americans and Others A colossal snap judgment was to be taken by these pettifogging diplomats. The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe Had Scotland resisted tyranny without this would-be biblical pettifogging Covenant, her condition would have been the more gracious. A Short History of Scotland The honorable profession of law dwindled into pettifogging tricks. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest You we can trust, for you have looked at life largely and without pettifogging qualms. Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned To stoop to the pettifogging sophistry of the agitator simply because his opponent had reluctantly yielded him an opportunity! One Man in His Time The opposition did not propose to waste effort on pettifogging preliminaries. The Ramrodders A Novel I give this pettifogging tradesman the privilege of publishing my novel in his rubbishy periodical and he dares to dictate terms to me! Jaffery Their words alone were redolent of idealism, their deeds were too often marred by pettifogging compromises or childish blunders—constructive phrases and destructive acts. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference The popular understanding of the word criticize is to find fault, to pettifog. Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned He thinks that you have reached the point of fatuity at which you can be made to believe even this—as if your citizen were the deity of persuasion instead of a pettifogging mortal! The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) These being so hateful to the ugly, sly, intriguing, slandering, malevolent, ill-conditioned, pettifogging, pitiful arch-enemy, it might well be supposed that the mere apparition of that type would scare him away. The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil Looked at with the unclouded eye of a mystic, how mundane and unnecessary all these pettifogging transactions seemed. Shandygaff Lanny, you, with all your intellect—when you know the oath as well as I—you pettifog like that! The Last Shot But there is a pettifogging cult about that says you ought to know these things; moreover, children keep on asking one. Mince Pie On all questions as to construction of terms and burden of proof, it should be understood beforehand that the judges of a formal debate will heavily penalize anything like pettifogging or quibbling. The Making of Arguments He was no pettifogging priest standing up for the rights of the superior! Paul Faber, Surgeon Their President is a low person, and all their ideas of government are pettifogging. Mr. Scarborough's Family From the time that Charlton began to pettifog with his conscience, he began to lose peace of mind. The Mystery of Metropolisville Instead of silently acknowledging their guilt, as at first, and obtaining merely a less severe sentence, they now began with pettifogging and crafty subterfuges to deny this guilt itself entirely. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Such a fiction may be satisfactory to a pettifogging lawyer, but as the basis of a spiritual system is indeed supremely contemptible. Phases of Faith Passages from the History of My Creed But, as we know, there are certain pettifogging men of law who are ever ready to encourage people to bring actions for libel for the mere sake of getting damages. A Tale of One City: the New Birmingham Papers Reprinted from the "Midland Counties Herald" "But when you are, and there comes six of 'em, you won't find an uncle pettifogging when he speaks out like Mr. Grey." Mr. Scarborough's Family Which is the shallower, indeed, the criticism that harps on disagreements in such narratives, or the pettifogging that strives to reconcile them, one can hardly tell. The Mystery of Metropolisville How far will greatness of mind, how far will imaginative generosity, prevail over the jealous and pettifogging spirit that lurks in every human being? What is Coming? Mr. George Stevens was a pettifogging attorney, who derived a tolerable income from a rather disreputable legal practice picked up among the courts that held their sessions in the various halls of the State-house. The Garies and Their Friends And to begin with, look what a pull Cromwell had over Pym—the one name full of a resonant imperialism, the other, mean, pettifogging, and unheroic to a degree. Lay Morals But I don't think he's pettifogging; not Mr. Grey. Mr. Scarborough's Family In the meantime, although he was a lawyer, and whatever Father Gillenormand thought about the matter, he was not practising, he was not even pettifogging. Les Misérables All preoccupation with money had seemed to her mean and pettifogging. Delia Blanchflower It called forth the usual amount of legislative pettifogging. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 And he knew there were many men like himself, married and done for; tied up to these pettifogging saints; goaded under their stupid yoke; belittled through their narrow eyes. The Best British Short Stories of 1922 Four hundred pounds down, with fifty pounds for dress, and the same, or most the same, to all the girls, isn't pettifogging. Mr. Scarborough's Family What a beast, thought I, is this! and what a curse to a country, to have such an unfeeling pettifogging rascal practising in it—a horse jockey, too—what a finished character! The Clockmaker Or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville To accept lightly the gifts and legacies offered was to lay himself open to expensive pettifogging. Saint Augustin It never in truth found place in any heart, though in many a pettifogging brain. Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. From her memoirs we might gather that Danton was a poverty-stricken, pettifogging lawyer of the basest class. East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne If he was an exacting moralist, he was never a narrow or pettifogging one. Sketches from Concord and Appledore Thousands of boys could probably draw you a map of many pettifogging little campaigns, with startling accuracy, but not one in a thousand could tell you what the private soldier carried in his knapsack. A Book of Old Ballads — Complete We are too pettifogging and imitative in our legislative conceptions; the Legislature of this country should become more catholic and cosmopolitan than any other. Confessions and Criticisms Don't at all events describe this pettifogging, miserable existence which stares us in the face without the medium of art. The Precipice They probably missed in him "a sort of pettifogging intimacy with dates, names, and trifling matters of fact,—a tiresome and frivolous accuracy of memory" which Sir Arthur Wardour reproves in Monkbarns. The Antiquary — Volume 01 Little pettifogging personal equations and jobs occupy the whole of their time, except when they are engaged upon the congenial task of trying to thwart the Supreme Governor. With the "Die-Hards" in Siberia During this time the heroic Assembly was pettifogging at Versailles, and the Government was going to join them. Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) There is a vast material—loyalty, educated minds, an honest desire to do justice, independence, and a genuine scorn of everything pettifogging and underhand—that the Indian Government would do well to utilise. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter But, unwittingly, I have ennobled, by grand historical comparisons, this prying, pettifogging, Irish-informer of a master-at-arms. White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War When his law lies upon his hands he will afford a good pennyworth, and rather pettifog and turn common barreter than be out of employment. Character Writings of the 17th Century P. It is your own poor pettifogging nature then, which you desire to have represented before you?—not human nature in its height and vigour? Biographia Literaria You pose as a public-spirited citizen solicitous about the sanctity of the worship of Vesta and I find you a pettifogging wretch actuated by spite and malice. The Unwilling Vestal I hate them myself—that kind: or, rather, it's wrong to say that of them, poor creatures, for they mean well, they really mean well at bottom, in their blundering, formal, pettifogging way. Philistia Notwithstanding all his pettifogging cleverness, the ex-attorney was detected, however, in his illegal traffic, and fined to an amount which swept away half his real property. Stories by English Authors: Ireland He is a common-barreter for his pleasure, that takes no money, but pettifogs gratis. Character Writings of the 17th Century It wouldn't do me any good to pettifog in this matter. Opening a Chestnut Burr "Dare not say it is, or I will, upon the spot, divorce your pettifogging soul from your carrion carcass!" The Fortunes of Nigel What a beast, thought I, is this; and what a curse to a country, to have such an unfeeling pettifogging rascal practising in it—a horse jockey, too—what a finished character! The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville The character of most of the shops seemed to have worsened; they had become pettifogging little holes, unkempt, shabby, poor; they had no brightness, no feeling of vitality. The Old Wives' Tale It was his destiny to love her,—and there was, to his mind, a mean, pettifogging secrecy, amounting almost to daily lying, in his thus loving her and not telling her that he loved her. He Knew He Was Right I have such a horror of all this literary pettifogging. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 Theft,—low, pilfering, pettifogging, theft; avarice, lust, and impotent, scalding hatred. The Kellys and the O'Kellys Should a law be passed on this broad and simple basis, that law will stand immortal, with pettifogging acts falling all around, according to the custom of the country. A Woman-Hater Why do we call them pettifogging and dismiss them? The Titan The name of Carlyle bore a lofty standing in the county; Carlyle and Davidson were known as first-class practitioners; no pettifogging lawyers were they. East Lynne The Helen of Euripides, in the “Troades,” is a pettifogging sophist, who pleads her cause to Menelaus with rhetorical artifice. Helen of Troy Those who belong to them have all the upstart pride and pettifogging spirit of their present character ingrafted on the venerableness and superstitious sanctity of ancient institutions. Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners To have that common cad of a pettifogging lawyer drag him down and kick him about; tumble a name which had stood high, in the dust! Five Tales Perhaps they were pettifogging, but certainly no more so than any other shrewd rat or animal that burrows its way onward—and shall we say upward? The Titan At once he gained a little practice, pettifogging before a justice of the peace for friends, without expecting a fee. The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843 That pettifogging scrivener in my father's house!—in my ancestors' house! The Pigeon Pie He believed in fair play and despised sharp practice and pettifogging tricks. Life of Stephen A. Douglas You are an idiot yourself, pettifogging lawyer, base man! Crime and Punishment Mr. Southack was an unobtrusive, pleasant, quiet man of the type that would usually be patronized as rural and pettifogging by men high in commercial affairs. The Titan But if they are then subjected to literate pettifogging, all this effort is to no avail. The Civilization of Illiteracy "Why, you would not take such a pettifogging advantage of an old comrade as that." White Lies If he had resolved, as he had, to draw the boundary line "on his own hook," in case there was further pettifogging he committed no impropriety in warning the British statesmen of his purpose. Theodore Roosevelt; an Intimate Biography By conforming to the Laws of this Universe; instead of trying by pettifogging to evade and profitably contradict them. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03 And each coal owner sells his coal in his own pettifogging manner... Secret Places of the Heart Politics after Auschwitz was not meant to become yet another instance of pettifogging. The Civilization of Illiteracy For two whole years Oscar lived in the rue de Bethisy, a den of pettifogging; for if ever that superannuated expression was applicable to a lawyer's office, it was so in this case. A Start in Life In every part of Italy,—in Malta, in Savoy, in Parma, in Lucca, in Genoa,—and finally even in Spain, he had pettifogged, bullied, threatened, until his opponents had given way. Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 Suffice it to say that in general the chancelleries of the courts were dens of pettifogging rascality, and the habitual, unblushing bribery had a negative as well as a positive effect. Russia Athos is not a man to be thwarted; he, like Porthos, has obliged his peasantry to call him 'my lord,' and to dignify his pettifogging place by the name of chateau. Twenty Years After |
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