higgler

Example Sentences

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What do you turn out, you higglers and sticklers?

From The Path to Rome by Belloc, Hilaire

It turns lawyers into higglers with their clients.

From An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition by Sharswood, George

These higglers may have been very honest fellows, in all but pecuniary questions, and possibly continued to be so in the bosom of their own families.

From Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)

It was never, in fact, used at all, except by a few countrymen and higglers, who ventured thither on certain days of the week to sell fresh eggs, butter, poultry, and such commodities.

From Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire by Ainsworth, William Harrison

By doing so he caused that road, which had previously been trodden only by peasants and higglers, to be frequented by a higher class of travellers.

From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron