argufy

Example Sentences

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“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 Fenn, George Manville

He hang 'roun' de co'te house at Livingston an' listen to de lawyers argufy.

From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration

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 Hubbard, Elbert

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 Morton, Thomas

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 Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William)