Country people are prone to "argufying" -- the greater and more weighty the question, the more ready are the bucolic Solons to engage with it. ❋ Elbert Hubbard (1885)
News at Eleven: Against what he William Empson took to be the prevailing modern orthodoxy of Symbolist poetry--'the main rule is that a poet must never say what he wants to say directly . . . he must invent a way of hinting at it by metaphors, which are then called images'--he promoted what he called 'argufying' in poetry, 'the kind of arguing we do in ordinary life, usually to get our own way'. ❋ Rus Bowden (2006)
Yew eber see the peeps gettin into the argufying about is it eensy weency or itsy bitsy or whut yew said? ❋ Unknown (2009)
I supposed that I'd go on argufying with him until my own time came to die, and that this was as close as people ever really came to enjoying a life after death. ❋ McMurtry, Larry (2000)
I finds I'm argufying agin the world, -- agin facts, -- I tries to give in some and let the world get the best o 'the argument. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Are you a-thinkin 'any more o' that 'ere tex' that we was a-argufying on t'other arter-noon? ' ❋ Amy Le Feuvre (N/A)
"So then they fell to argufying and talking a lot o 'stuff." ❋ Various (N/A)
"But not in argufying over facts," retorted Trunnell. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
This sort of argufying ain't going to carry my mail-bags along the river. ' ❋ Unknown (1915)
'Well, that sort of argufying won't muster the cattle,' he observed drily, plagiarising Harry the Blower. ❋ Unknown (1915)
"They're still argufying," he said, indicating the closed drawing-room doors with a jerk of his thumb. ❋ Natalie Sumner Lincoln (1908)
I don't think argufying and debating like that little Fraulein Werder's does much harm. ❋ Booth Tarkington (1907)
Bullinger and Gualterus “were unwilling to contend with these men like fencing-masters,” tired of their argufying; unable to “withdraw our entire confidence from the Bishops.” ❋ Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 (1905)
I knew it was no good standing out there argufying. ❋ Unknown (1903)
O 'course, that didn't' elp 'em much, but it caused a lot of argufying, and the ugliest man aboard, instead o 'being grateful, behaved more like ❋ Unknown (1903)
They sat talking and argufying over it for over an hour, and twice Bob ❋ Unknown (1903)
He would not admit that he was afraid of her, and that despite all theoretical argufying, he deemed her above him in rank. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)
