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A bell jangled in the bowels of the Sea Fox, her great screw churned the water and she shot out from the Retriever. "That's right! Go clear over to China, and expect me to haggle with this man through the megaphone, eh?" Matt roared. "Back up again!" "I tell you, Matt, there isn't the slightest use hanging round for us," Murphy warned the towboat skipper.
For them, a word from the man they adore is a command; they do not haggle and bargain, for the cruel pleasure of exciting the passion of their lover to madness, and so ruling him more surely.
Guppy are within the bar at the Sol and are worth anything to the Sol that the bar contains if they will only stay there. "This is not a time," says Mr. Bogsby, "to haggle about money," though he looks something sharply after it, over the counter; "give your orders, you two gentlemen, and you're welcome to whatever you put a name to."
It is not with a view to profit that I have carefully avoided giving any clue whatever to my secret. Tour munificence would render it most ungrateful and unjust in me to haggle over the price of any service I could render you; and I should be greedy indeed if I desired greater wealth than you have bestowed.
The clients would roar with laughter, captivated by this funny eschatalogy, and would haggle less in the matter of fees. Famous Don Esteban!... Just for the pleasure of hearing his yarns they would have liked a legal paper drawn up every month. The future destiny of the notarial crown prince was the object of many after-dinner conversations on the special days when the poet was an invited guest.
While Russia was willing to part with the lone land on the Pacific, she was determined that it should not pass into the hands of certain of the powers for whom she had little or no love. Hence there was time for the United States to consider the question of a purchase and to haggle a little over the price. For years the bargain hung in the balance.
Logan should make the first apology execrable, I say, because a gentleman never ought to haggle over an apology if he feels that he has been in the wrong, and because nobody could deny that Mr. Fisher had been the original wrongdoer. The result was that when Mr.
Here we are all freemen and equals; and the Auckland shopman meets his customer with a shake of the hand, and a pleasant hail-fellow-well-met style of manner. Not but what all the tricks of trade are fully understood at the Antipodes, and the Aucklander can chaffer and haggle, and drive as hard a bargain as his fellow across the seas; only his way of doing it is different, that is all.
The rest of us" this with a gesture inexpressibly mean and fawning "prefer to haggle over the lion's skin after it has been cured and dressed. It's a mere question of temperament, dear sir." "What have you to say to me?" inquired Indiman, abruptly. I could see that he wanted to kick him. "I have an adventure of the first class. I desire to dispose of it." "Yes." "A noble, a surpassing adventure.
Hemingway, the chief justice, was peculiarly a man for a crisis; strong, honest, and entirely fearless; a man who would not stop to haggle over nice questions of precedent and jurisdiction where the public welfare demanded prompt and effective action. For a long half-hour Blount sat staring absently at the desk litter, trying to decide between the two courses open to him.
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