argufy
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She evinced a similar disposition to argufy with me, which I avoided by either laughing or yielding.
From The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 by Rowland Edmund Prothero, Baron Ernle
You argufy like a lawyer, shipmate, there’s no mistake about that; but you can’t persuade me that you believe a single word of what you’ve been sayin’.
From The Missing Merchantman by William Heysham Overend
For what skill had I to argufy with a man of such infinite parts?
From The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty by L. Adams (Lily Adams) Beck
But no sense ov a place, some think, Is this here hill so high,— ’Cos there, full oft, ’tis nation coad, But that don’t argufy.
From English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day by Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat
Not as we need argufy, because it wouldn’t be safe to try that game.
From King o' the Beach A Tropic Tale by J. B. Greene
Morse argufied from one Oregon border to another and blanketed the state with TV spots.
From Time Magazine Archive
Zur, I have argufied the topic, and it wou'dn't be pratty—zo I can't.
From Speed the Plough A Comedy, In Five Acts; As Performed At The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden by Thomas Morton
We argufied over him for an hour, and it seemed all to no purpose, he refusing to budge an inch, saying he weighed two hundred and twenty pounds, and was better off in the attic.
From Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas by Lloyd Osbourne
De Lord argufied wid him but de crab wouldn' listen, en he say he gwine put hit on.
From Literary Hearthstones of Dixie by La Salle Corbell Pickett
As neither bloke cud stand alone, they leaned 'n' argufied Which was the patient sufferer oo's turn it was to ride.
From 'Hello, Soldier!' Khaki Verse by Edward Dyson
"But not in argufying over facts," retorted Trunnell.
From Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate" by T. Jenkins (Thornton Jenkins) Hains
Look you here, Bet—what's the good of argufying, and angering a fellow what's your own father?
From A Girl of the People by L. T. Meade
I have ’eard more argufying and quarrelling about sea-sarpints than about almost anything else.
From The Ocean Cat's Paw The Story of a Strange Cruise by W. S. (Walter S.) Stacey
Two things, in particular, I wish my nevy to avoid—namely, argufying in company, and speaking about himself.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various
Good morrow to you, cousin Wright; I can't stand argufying here about charity, which won't plough my ground, nor bring me a jot nearer to the ten thousand pounds' legacy: so good morrow to you.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 02 by Maria Edgeworth
