higgled

He was higgling with the proprietor of an immense hog, and as he higgled he wheezed as if he had a difficulty of respiration, and frequently wiped off, with a dirty-white pocket-handkerchief, drops of perspiration which stood upon his face.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

What huge fellows they were! almost as huge as the hogs for which they higgled; the generality of them dressed in brown sporting coats, drab breeches, yellow-topped boots, splashed all over with mud, and with low-crowned broad-brimmed hats.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

At first the hillfolk wouldn't hear of such a bargain and higgled and haggled with the man, but he stuck to what he said, and at last they gave up the mill for the bacon.

East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon Gudrun Thorne-Thomsen

The devil did not like to part with it, and higgled and haggled with the man, but he stuck to what he had said, and in the end the devil had to part with the quern.

Types of Children's Literature Walter Barnes

"Hum! ..." grunted Scattergood, and higgled and argued, but ended by accepting a deed for the land and turning over the machine to Landers.

Scattergood Baines Clarence Budington Kelland 1922

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

A Publisher and His Friends Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1911

Well, sahib, as to that they higgled and bargained for another hour,

Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders Talbot Mundy 1909

The devil did not like to part with it, and higgled and haggled with the man, but he stuck to what he had said, and in the end the devil had to part with the quern.

Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906

The two seconds met, and, with great unction, pledged “our honor to each other that we would endeavor to settle the matter amicably,” but persistently higgled over points till publicity and arrests seemed imminent.

A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Nicolay, John G 1904

They higgled about prices, and the sums which they gave were almost infinitesimal compared with the value of Patrick Nasmyth's pictures at the present time.

James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography. Nasmyth, James 1885