argufy
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Well, zur, I'll argufy the topic, and then you may wait upon me, and I'll tell ye.
From Speed the Plough A Comedy, In Five Acts; As Performed At The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden by Thomas Morton
“Why don’t you mind your own business and go to sleep?” says Common-sense; and as I was too tired to argufy, I made no answer, but went off sound.
From Midnight Webs by George Manville Fenn
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
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
It won't do to argufy here, I tell you.
From Poor Jack by Frederick Marryat
Morse argufied from one Oregon border to another and blanketed the state with TV spots.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
He hev mighty nigh argufied me ter death,—'bout sperits, an' witches, an' salvation, an' law, an' craps, an' horse-flesh, an' weather signs.
From The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories by Mary Noailles Murfree
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
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
To begin with, for there’s no use argufying on an empty stomach, are you hungry, eh?”
From On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story by William Heysham Overend
She has a dread on her, and there's no argufying it away.
From A Girl of the People by L. T. Meade
Nobody is going to listen to "argufying" if he can help it.
From The Prisoner by Alice Brown
The Jedge didn't mean that; you got him kind of het up with argufying....
From An Alabaster Box by Stockton Mulford
He was the central sun below stairs, and passed judgment upon the social order without stint, even occasionally to argufying economics with his master, the Baron, as he brushed his breech.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators by Elbert Hubbard
