higglings

Updated: May 5, 2025

But a nobler ambition might find its field in a large employment of wealth for public ends of a higher sort. Something of the old patrician pride might have spurred the five or six great Houses who own half London to construct the Thames Embankment at their own cost, and to hand it over free from the higglings of Mr. Gore to the people at large.

John Richard Greene - Stray Studies from England and Italy

Hence those borrowings of money from friends, those higglings with and dunnings of publishers, in short, all those meannesses which were unworthy of so distinguished an artist, and irreconcilable with his character of grand seigneur.

Frederick Niecks - Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 2

This is the Program of the Season: readers feel what an immensity of preliminary higglings, hitchings and manoeuvrings will now demand to be suppressed by us! Read these essential Fractions, chiefly chronological; and then, at once, To Bunzelwitz, and the time of close grips in Silesia here.

Thomas Carlyle - History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20