Its history is this: In the early part of the eighteenth century it had come accidentally into the possession of a London bookseller, who successively offered it to Harley, Earl of Oxford, and to Lord Sunderland; then the two principal collectors, for one hundred guineas; but both were staggered at the price and higgled about the purchase.

When Jarvis gave up the lease, the baronet, who finds himself a little short of money, offered the deanery for sale, it being a useless place to him; and the very next day, while Walker was with Sir William, a gentleman called, and without higgling agreed to pay down at once his thirty thousand pounds for it.

The employer would choose the worker who would come for the lowest wage; the worker would choose the employer who would pay him the highest wage; and so, by a process similar to the higgling of a commodity market, the desirable uniform wage-level would become established.

Never before in a legislative body was there such an amount of quibbling and higgling, and "speaking against time;" and it was not till September 19 that the third reading came on, the obstructions in committee having been so formidable and annoying.

And these expenditures left us but just enough to buy a good guitar and a tambourineindeed, we should not have got them at all but that Don Sanchez higgled and bargained like any Jew, which he could do with a very good face now that he was dressed so beggarly.

It would never have done to have hesitated and higgled about seeing more volumes.

He always stands out and higgles, and actually tires them till he gets a bargain.

Did Mr. Wordsworth really imagine, that he favourite doctrines were likely to gain any thing in point of effect or authority by being put into the mouth of a person accustomed to higgle about tape, or brass sleeve-buttons?

Every northerner knows that slaveholders are proverbial for lavish expenditures, never higgling about the price of a gratification.

Every northerner knows that slaveholders are proverbial for lavish expenditures, never higgling about the price of a gratification.

I would like to record my conviction that if the business of this great crisis is to be done in the same spirit, the jealous, higgling, legal spirit that I have seen prevailing in British life throughout my half-century of existence, it will not in any satisfactory sense of the phrase get done at all.

Sometimes when weary of higgling the market, they tried persuasion by force of arms; but in some instances as at Bonny, in 1757,[30] this resulted in the victory of the natives and the destruction of the ships.

And it seems to me that the establishment of the world's work upon a new basisand that and no less is what this Labour Unrest demands for its pacificationis just one of those large alterations which will never be made by the collectively unconscious activities of men, by competitions and survival and the higgling of the market.

But when the guns begin to shoot, the question must arise whether we were wise in leaving the export of capital, which has such great and complicated effects, entirely to the influence of the higgling of the market, and the price offered by the highest bidder.

Perhaps it is the gamey taste thus induced that enables them to enjoy joints from the butcher which are downright tainted, for it is characteristic of the place and people on the one hand to dine on the very best, as above, and yet to higgle over a halfpenny a pound at the shop.

Now then, here's Higgleby" "Higgle who?" inquired Peckham dreamily.

Let us suppose, then, that by the effect of what Adam Smith calls the higgling of the market, 10 yards of cloth, in both countries, exchange for 17 yards of linen.

She had a large connection, because she was very honest and always stuck to her price: there was no higgling to be done with her.

But I cannot higgle; I know you'll say it did not cost above two hundred pieces. Isa.

But it is idle to argue with the higgle of the market.

The Maoris loved the higgling of the market, and would enjoy nothing better than to spend half a day over bartering away a single pig.