argufy
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For what skill had I to argufy with a man of such infinite parts?
From The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty by Beck, L. Adams (Lily Adams)
She evinced a similar disposition to argufy with me, which I avoided by either laughing or yielding.
From The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 by Prothero, Rowland E. (Rowland Edmund), Baron Ernle
Not as we need argufy, because it wouldn’t be safe to try that game.
From King o' the Beach A Tropic Tale by Greene, J. B.
He wished to know what fault he had committed, and was told not to "argufy."
From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Sastrow, Bartholomew
You can talk an’ argufy fo’ fourteen years, but it won’t do no good.
From Adrift on the Pacific A Boys [sic] Story of the Sea and its Perils by Ellis, Edward Sylvester
Morse argufied from one Oregon border to another and blanketed the state with TV spots.
From Time Magazine Archive
Zur, I have argufied the topic, and it wou'dn't be pratty—zo I can't.
From Speed the Plough A Comedy, In Five Acts; As Performed At The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden by Morton, Thomas
He hev mighty nigh argufied me ter death,—'bout sperits, an' witches, an' salvation, an' law, an' craps, an' horse-flesh, an' weather signs.
From The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories by Murfree, Mary Noailles
De Lord argufied wid him but de crab wouldn' listen, en he say he gwine put hit on.
From Literary Hearthstones of Dixie by Pickett, La Salle Corbell
We argufied over him for an hour, and it seemed all to no purpose, he refusing to budge an inch, saying he weighed two hundred and twenty pounds, and was better off in the attic.
From Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas by Osbourne, Lloyd
She has a dread on her, and there's no argufying it away.
From A Girl of the People by Meade, L. T.
Two things, in particular, I wish my nevy to avoid—namely, argufying in company, and speaking about himself.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various
I have ’eard more argufying and quarrelling about sea-sarpints than about almost anything else.
From The Ocean Cat's Paw The Story of a Strange Cruise by Stacey, W. S. (Walter S.)
If ever there was an iniquity on this earth it's a State Church, and all the argufying in the world won't put that out of me.”
From Phoebe, Junior by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)
"They're still argufying," he said, indicating the closed drawing-room doors with a jerk of his thumb.
From I Spy by Lincoln, Natalie Sumner
