Bargains
['ba:ginz]
Examples
- I am covetous, and love good bargains. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- They had not then learned, as I am told, to haggle for bargains with the pertinacity which now distinguishes them. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Mrs. Crawley returned a note with her compliments, and an intimation that it was not her custom to transact bargains with ladies' maids. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- There was a slight demand for finished goods; and as it affected his branch of the trade, he took advantage of it, and drove hard bargains. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- What bargains shall I strike? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The Congress had hardly assembled before the diplomatists set to work making secret bargains and treaties behind each other's backs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Much as people's breaking promises and contracts and bargains of all sorts, makes good for MY trade. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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