Oh, ye should not prig (higgle) with Him about anything.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of James Renwick A Historical Sketch Of His Life, Labours And Martyrdom And A Vindication Of His Character And Testimony] Reference

An 'this is the shanty you wrote about with everything out and inside higgle-de-piggeldy!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825] Reference

"Things will go higgle-ty-piggle-ty, sure as the world," said Kat, balancing on the edge of the table, and fanning with the duster.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six Girls A Home Story] Reference

English synonyms: to dicker, to bargain, to wrangle, to haggle, to higgle, to huckster marchander un prix = to negotiate a price tenter de marchander = to try to bargain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brocante / Antiques] Reference

Law-Court, can remonstrate, and higgle considerably about the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Revolution] Reference

The economic propensity to higgle and barter appeared early among the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Negro at Work in New York City A Study in Economic Progress] Reference

This will be peculiarly necessary, lest they sham, and higgle about letting me away. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works] Reference

He does not tarry; he does not higgle and hesitate; he makes for the "straw pile" if in a New.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart-Cry of Jesus] Reference

"Eli, my man, an yon merchant comes our way let us buy a hundred ells of cloth of him, and not higgle.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cloister and the Hearth] Reference

"This is only my third detection, and half of it voluntary, I might say, if I chose to higgle, which I scorn to do.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales and Novels — Volume 04] Reference

I hope that every young man who reads this, will start in life with a resolution never to higgle and lie in dealings.    From Wordnik.com.  [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.] Reference

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?.    From Wordnik.com.  [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] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lizzy Glenn] Reference

To the day of his death, he never ceased to higgle over a thrip, and it was his constant boast that in his own experience it had always been convenient to give prudence the upper hand of pride.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mingo And Other Sketches in Black and White] Reference

Did Mr. Wordsworth really imagine, that he favourite doctrines were likely to gain any thing in point of effect or authority by being put into the mouth of a person accustomed to higgle about tape, or brass sleeve-buttons?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Reviews] Reference

Now our simple ways were a puzzle to him, as I told him very often; but he only laughed, and rubbed his mouth with the back of his dry shining hand, and I think he shortly began to languish for want of some one to higgle with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor] Reference

But the eyes of the crafty, sly old peasant gleamed with delight at the thought of how nicely he had pulled the wool over the eyes of those dirty blackguards, who were beginning to higgle with him over the quality of the meat he furnished to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Downfall] Reference

How is a wretched widow in the midst of her agony, or how are orphan children, deprived of the protecting hand of a parent, to higgle with a tradesman about the cheapening of mourning suits, black gloves, weepers, and the other miserable "trappings of woe"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thrift] Reference

Perhaps it is the gamey taste thus induced that enables them to enjoy joints from the butcher which are downright tainted, for it is characteristic of the place and people on the one hand to dine on the very best, as above, and yet to higgle over a halfpenny a pound at the shop.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hodge and His Masters] Reference

Nay, not lucre: for the gold watches, rings, money of the Massacred, are punctually brought to the Townhall, by Killers sans-indispensables, who higgle afterwards for their twenty shillings of wages; and Sergent sticking an uncommonly fine agate on his finger ( 'fully meaning to account for it'), becomes Agate-Sergent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Revolution] Reference

The particular man aims to be somebody; to set up for himself; to truck and higgle for a private good; and, in particulars, to ride that he may ride; to dress that he may be dressed; to eat that he may eat; and to govern, that he may be seen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays — First Series] Reference

The particular man aims to be somebody; to set up for himself; to truck and higgle for a private good; and, in particulars, to ride, that he may ride; to dress, that he may be dressed; to eat, that he may eat; and to govern, that he may be seen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson] Reference

"There, then, I am not going to be a hypocrite and pretend to higgle-haggle about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Self-Raised] Reference

It begins now to appear that the people are not likely to think anything too good for themselves, or to higgle about the expense of whatever ministers largely to their tastes and fancies, -- that political freedom, popular education, the circulation of newspapers, books, engravings, pictures, have already created a public which understands that man does not live by bread alone, -- which demands leisure, beauty, space, architecture, landscape, music, elegance, with an imperative voice, and is ready to back its demands with the necessary self-taxation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861] Reference