argufy

How To Use argufy In A Sentence

• Men amused themselves in the mess by argufying sometimes about any silly subject.
• You can't argufy without it; you only talk foolish, like you are doing now. ' The Substitute Deep Waters, Part 9.
• For what skill had I to argufy with a man of such infinite parts? The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty
• 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'. Archive 2006-08-01
• It came to him as he watched the panama hat and the white sailor going down the Ridge Trail that you can't argufy national problems; nor compromise on them; nor enter on any treaty of peace but the peace that is a victory. The Freebooters of the Wilderness
• But there was something more than teenage argufying going on here.
• It's argufy here and argufy there, an 'while yer at that, me an' the rest av us is squeezin 'the fun out o' life. Romany of the Snows, Continuation of "Pierre and His People"
• Now, Barnabas" -- remonstrated his father, rasping his chin harder than ever -- "wherefore argufy -- if you do go for to argufy -- The Amateur Gentleman
• 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. Now Voyager
• However, I was spared the trouble, for soon the children retired and the conversation drifted around to Mormonism and polygamy; and our hostess seemed to want to talk, so I just listened, for Mrs. O'Shaughnessy rather likes to "argufy"; but she had no argument that night, only her questions started our hostess's story. Letters of a Woman Homesteader