hagglings

A year and a half was consumed in these tedious hagglings with brokers and agents for the restoration of a lost heir, and during great part of that time the lost heir himself made no sign, but contented himself with begging trifling loans of Gibbes on the strength of his pretensions.

Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton Anonymous

From his earliest infancy he grows up in an atmosphere of books, and money and trade, and manufactures, and bargainings, and hagglings.

In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula Hugh Charles Clifford 1903

In and out among the rustics walked the city people: "petty bourgeois" of set manners, with old capes, and huge hempen baskets, where they would place the provisions they had bought after tenacious hagglings;

The Torrent Entre Naranjos Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897

Goaded to assert myself in some manner, to put an end to these interminable hagglings, I asserted what I did not know.

Russian Rambles Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889

Granacci's letters refers to certain disputes and hagglings with the artists.

The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti John Addington Symonds 1866

It was clear to people in Damascus at the time that through this interview President Asad meant, first, to communicate to the widest possible public something about the arguments, hagglings, offers, and counteroffers going on in the negotiations conducted behind closed doors in Washington, and, second, to take up openly Prime Minister Rabin's earlier suggestion that the depth of the Israeli withdrawal will be proportional to the depth of the peace with Syria, a formulation that brought the total evacuation of the Golan Heights within the realm of the negotiable.

The View from Damascus Al-Azm, Sadik J. 2000