How To Use Higgle In A Sentence
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Turpin Real Estate Ms. Higgins said the additions that were tacked on over the years by previous owners made the house 'a little higgledy-piggledy.'
N.J. Colonial With Farm Roots
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The higglers ' principal occupation was travelling from farm to farm buying provisions at farm gates and selling them in the urban markets for profit.
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In the short run, buyers and sellers met to higgle on the marketplace, but basically the bargaining process revolved about a fixed quantity of goods—the diamonds that the diamond merchants brought along with them in their suitcases.
The Worldly Philosophers
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The two seconds met, and, with great unction, pledged “our honor to each other that we would endeavor to settle the matter amicably,” but persistently higgled over points till publicity and arrests seemed imminent.
A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln
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Things will go higgle-ty-piggle-ty, sure as the world," said Kat, balancing on the edge of the table, and fanning with the duster.
Six Girls A Home Story
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This once "higgledy-piggledy" historic home in the Township of Morris, N.J., was given a more coherent layout by the current owners.
N.J. Colonial With Farm Roots
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Books are often stacked in higgledy-piggledy piles on the floor.
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It would never have done to have hesitated and higgled about seeing more volumes.
A Publisher and His Friends
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‘But it’s really very useful, and not at all bad, considering that I bought it off a higgler for a pound, and Scatty and I made it go.
Sweet Danger
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Reims' stained glass gives an idea of the risks: reglazed in the sixteenth century, replaced higgledy-piggledy during releading in the eighteenth, wrecked by hail in the nineteenth and finished off by shellfire in the twentieth.
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Well, sahib, as to that they higgled and bargained for another hour,
Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders
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Now our simple ways were a puzzle to him, as I told him very often; but he only laughed, and rubbed his mouth with the back of his dry shining hand, and I think he shortly began to languish for want of some one to higgle with.
Lorna Doone
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Cobbled streets run higgledy-piggledy through medieval houses which are stacked up along the river's steep banks.
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They just put up their houses, shops, and factories wherever seemed most convenient, and the cities grew higgledy-piggledy.
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Did Mr. Wordsworth really imagine, that he favourite doctrines were likely to gain any thing in point of effect or authority by being put into the mouth of a person accustomed to higgle about tape, or brass sleeve-buttons?
Famous Reviews
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At Dry River, a higgler had sold them mangoes and plantains and a necklace of mudfish and god-dammies, salt-dried and fried crisp, but all that now remained were fruit skins and fish tails.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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Look at any hotel brochure and the chairs around the swimming pool are always neat and orderly, not higgledy-piggledy.
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At first the hillfolk wouldn't hear of such a bargain and higgled and haggled with the man, but he stuck to what he said, and at last they gave up the mill for the bacon.
East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon
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At the York complex, manufacturing operations that used to be spread higgledy-piggledy around more than 20 buildings have been funneled into one main factory.
Harley, With Macho Intact, Tries to Court More Women
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Houses of pale limestone rise higgledy-piggledy from the harbour, connected by a labyrinth of stepped alleyways.
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English synonyms: to dicker, to bargain, to wrangle, to haggle, to higgle, to huckster marchander un prix = to negotiate a price tenter de marchander = to try to bargain
Brocante / Antiques
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The devil did not like to part with it, and higgled and haggled with the man, but he stuck to what he had said, and in the end the devil had to part with the quern.
Types of Children's Literature
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A whole valley of boulders tossed higgledy-piggledy as though by some giant.
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Therefore you must not, in every case at least, take the higgledy-piggledy whale statements, however authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology.
Call me Ishmael
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Mary, after an afternoon out, came home with her face all red and blubbered, sat in the kitchen sobbing and rocking herself, and told Mavis how she had heard on unimpeachable authority that the higgler was a married man.
The Devil's Garden
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He was higgling with the proprietor of an immense hog, and as he higgled he wheezed as if he had a difficulty of respiration, and frequently wiped off, with a dirty-white pocket-handkerchief, drops of perspiration which stood upon his face.
Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
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L' Orient, which occupies a higgledy-piggledy old building with a nice view of the high street, was empty and quiet on a Thursday afternoon, as was Pinner.
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Adding to the higgledy-piggledy feel of the pub is the situation of the bar, the main part is in one of the front rooms, with a serving hatch tucked under the stairs in the middle of the pub to serve the other rooms.
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It will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub appears to have gone through the long Vaticans and street-stalls of the earth, picking up whatever random allusions to whales he could anyways find in any book whatsoever, sacred or profane. therefore you must not, in every case at least, take the higgledy-piggledy whale statements, however authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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An 'this is the shanty you wrote about with everything out and inside higgle-de-piggeldy!
The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825
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Oh, ye should not prig (higgle) with Him about anything.
The Life of James Renwick A Historical Sketch Of His Life, Labours And Martyrdom And A Vindication Of His Character And Testimony
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English synonyms: to dicker, to bargain, to wrangle, to haggle, to higgle, to huckster marchander un prix = to negotiate a price tenter de marchander = to try to bargain
Brocante / Antiques
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Everything was shining clean, but it was higgledy-piggledy; and she could not cook.
TESTIMONIES
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The higglers flog everything from dope to Biros.
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Your room is a little higgledy-piggledy and could use a bit of tailored neatness.
It
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They were seated higgledy-piggledy around the classroom on foldout plastic chairs.
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It is a classic Gehry structure, formed from undulating polished steel and tumbling blocks of brushed aluminium that reminds Berners-Lee, he tells me, of the higgledy-piggledy Italian village one of his relatives grew up in.
The MIT factor: celebrating 150 years of maverick genius
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Words like that are called reduplicates and some of my favorites (found here, scroll down to the bottom) include dilly-dally, fuddy-duddy, higgledy-piggledy, hurly-burly, and namby-pamby.
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They higgled about prices, and the sums which they gave were almost infinitesimal compared with the value of Patrick Nasmyth's pictures at the present time.
James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography.
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The house was higgledy piggledy - in fact they even had a pot-bellied pig - and an unsettlingly large turkey stalked the place.
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And these will not be urban conurbations like Mexico City or Lagos growing higgledy-piggledy, but cities designed to accommodate such enormous populations.
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Hum! ..." grunted Scattergood, and higgled and argued, but ended by accepting a deed for the land and turning over the machine to Landers.
Scattergood Baines
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The higgler to whom the hare was sold, being unfortunately taken many months after with a quantity of game upon him, was obliged to make his peace with the squire, by becoming evidence against some poacher.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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At the moment I have left the list higgledy-piggledy, like a jumble sale of books, as it appealed to me that way.
50 Best Books « Tales from the Reading Room
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Everything within was crowded together higgledy-piggledy, each booth jammed up against its neighbor.
KING OF DREAMS
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Hawkers (known as higglers), their bargains purchased overseas, return to set up their wares on the sidewalks, competing with time-honoured merchants who display goods indoors.
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For a long time they wouldn't believe him to be a lord at all, "because he spoke Irish"; and the breaking up of the rundale system, under which they had lived in higgledy-piggledy laziness, exasperated them greatly.
Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)
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He was, besides, the best sacrifice the higgler could make, as he had supplied him with no game since; and by this means the witness had an opportunity of screening his better customers: for the squire, being charmed with the power of punishing Black
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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Back in the 1990s a friend, tired of the usual fan's attempts to bring about victory for Middlesbrough using the paraphernalia of lucky clothing and the like and, to be honest, during the higgledy-piggledy reign of Bryan Robson even Imelda Marcos would have exhausted her wardrobe in pursuit of something that would halt a post‑Christmas slump, determined on what appeared a foolproof scheme – a retrospectively effective charm.
The winning secret of Sir Alex Ferguson's lucky underpants | Harry Pearson
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The economic propensity to higgle and barter appeared early among the
The Negro at Work in New York City A Study in Economic Progress
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The tables were higgledy-piggledy, and the whole place was set out as if it had originally been as unlike a café as it was possible to be, and the owner had hastily attempted to correct this.
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In the previous post I ran through the precedents of the story, but sticking all of those ideas together higgledy-piggledy would be a mess.
2009 November « The Graveyard
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The site occupies the corner of a somewhat higgledy-piggledy plaza dominated by a small, historic church.
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Some higglers block the entrance to the ‘most important’ Anglican church in the nation and refuse to move when ordered to by the representatives of the Government.
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I mean to level the skyline, modernising the structure; it has a disorganised higgledy-piggledy feel at the moment—not surprising, as it has been rebuilt relentlessly during the last eight centuries.
Exit the Actress
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It was the previous owner, John Hegarty, who commissioned Hewett to draw up plans for the new house, a higgledy-piggledy amalgamation of neo-Georgian elements, for which permission was granted.
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Let no one imagine that a patache bears that relation to a cabriolet which a dennet does to a tilbury; for ours, at least, would in England have been called a very sorry higgler's cart.
Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819
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The 20th century saw the continuous loss of farmers and the obliteration of small farms, the decline in open and forested land near cities, and the higgledy-piggledy sprawl across the countryside of suburbs and exurbs.
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What huge fellows they were! almost as huge as the hogs for which they higgled; the generality of them dressed in brown sporting coats, drab breeches, yellow-topped boots, splashed all over with mud, and with low-crowned broad-brimmed hats.
Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
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Books are often stacked in higgledy-piggledy piles on the floor.
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NGV Australia is in a whimsical development, one part of a higgledy-piggledy, harlequin coloured complex embracing a doping irregular campo.
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A whole valley of boulders tossed higgledy-piggledy as though by some giant.
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they were piled up higgledy-piggledy
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Eventually their time came, when they broke into the house of a man named Tom Thurley, a higgler, living near the mill stream.
Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King
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It was a cramped second-hand book dealership, with a whole wall full of books from more than one hundred years ago, some huge and some miniscule, all higgledy-piggledy, shoved in wherever they fit.
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At the Whitney, sculpture must inevitably be crowded - sometimes artfully, sometimes higgledy-piggledy - into a formal museum setting.
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The idea for Soho House was born when his landlord at Cafe Bohème offered Jones the higgledy-piggledy offices upstairs.
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He pitched, therefore, upon the city of Hereford, where he worked honestly for a space, until being in company one night with a higgler, he heard the man say he should go to a place called Ross to buy fowls.
Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
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Reims' stained glass gives an idea of the risks: reglazed in the sixteenth century, replaced higgledy-piggledy during releading in the eighteenth, wrecked by hail in the nineteenth and finished off by shellfire in the twentieth.
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“Well, have you made up your mind, old higgler?” said Asie, clapping him on the shoulder.
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
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It's a higgledy-piggledy mess of badly-designed streets and clashing styles.
