argufy
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You're the last man I'd have expected to hear argufy for faith without works.
From Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood by George MacDonald
Theological wrangles belong essentially to a pioneer people: an earnest, stubbornly honest people, whose lives are given over to a battle with the elements and the brute forces of Nature, always argufy.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers by Elbert Hubbard
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
It won’t do to argufy here, I tell you.
From Poor Jack by Frederick Marryat
You can talk an’ argufy fo’ fourteen years, but it won’t do no good.
From Adrift on the Pacific A Boys [sic] Story of the Sea and its Perils by Edward Sylvester Ellis
Morse argufied from one Oregon border to another and blanketed the state with TV spots.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
"So then they fell to argufying and talking a lot o' stuff."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 by Various
This sort of argufying ain't going to carry my mail-bags along the river.'
From Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life by Mrs. Campbell Praed
No, if ever there was a gentleman—it's not a bit of use argufying that all men are ekal.
From Fated to Be Free by Jean Ingelow
"I have promised mother," said Bet; "there is no use argufying on that point."
From A Girl of the People by L. T. Meade
She has a dread on her, and there's no argufying it away.
From A Girl of the People by L. T. Meade
