Bargained
[bɑ:ɡind]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Bargain
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Examples
- And again the woman anxiously and actively fingered the mattress and added up in her mind and bargained with the old, unclean man. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The months passed (more than I had bargained for), and no occasion presented itself for disturbing that mark in the book. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Napoleon, as First Consul, bargained with him over his invention of torpedoes. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The task I had set myself began to look like a harder task than I had bargained for. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I won't weary you with the account of how we bargained and negotiated. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- It gave government to the rich, and imagined that wise men could be bought and bargained for in the slave markets when they were needed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But there was another adornment of the hotel which Mr Dorrit had not bargained for. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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