argufy

It won’t do to argufy here, I tell you.

From Poor Jack by Frederick Marryat

Not as we need argufy, because it wouldn’t be safe to try that game.

From King o' the Beach A Tropic Tale by J. B. Greene

But no sense ov a place, some think, Is this here hill so high,— ’Cos there, full oft, ’tis nation coad, But that don’t argufy.

From English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day by Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat

“Of coorse, an’ a snooze when ye’re sleepy; but don’t let’s git too pheelosophical, daddy; it an’t good for digestion to argufy on a empty stummik.

From Shifting Winds A Tough Yarn by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

You argufy like a lawyer, shipmate, there’s no mistake about that; but you can’t persuade me that you believe a single word of what you’ve been sayin’.

From The Missing Merchantman by William Heysham Overend

Morse argufied from one Oregon border to another and blanketed the state with TV spots.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Mary Noailles Murfree

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 Lloyd Osbourne

De Lord argufied wid him but de crab wouldn' listen, en he say he gwine put hit on.

From Literary Hearthstones of Dixie by La Salle Corbell Pickett

As neither bloke cud stand alone, they leaned    'n' argufied Which was the patient sufferer oo's turn it was   to ride.

From 'Hello, Soldier!' Khaki Verse by Edward Dyson

Look you here, Bet—what's the good of argufying, and angering a fellow what's your own father?

From A Girl of the People by L. T. Meade

“I'd admire to see papa argufying with that sweet girl,” she observed to the surrounding silence.

From An Alabaster Box by Stockton Mulford

"They're still argufying," he said, indicating the closed drawing-room doors with a jerk of his thumb.

From I Spy by Natalie Sumner Lincoln

He was the central sun below stairs, and passed judgment upon the social order without stint, even occasionally to argufying economics with his master, the Baron, as he brushed his breech.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators by Elbert Hubbard

I'm to wed him—them's the terms—there ain't no use argufying, Hester; but it's all plain—Dent will clear Will, and keep out of prison hisself, for he's as clever as he's bad.

From A Girl of the People by L. T. Meade