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What an argumentative fellow you are, Monsieur Pierre!"

Miss Bates's powerful, argumentative mind might have strengthened yours."

Trefusis, enraged, wrote an argumentative letter to the "Times," which was not inserted, a sarcastic one to the trades-union, which did no good, and a fierce one to the employers, who threatened to take an action for libel.

A direct and categorical negative has something in the appearance of it more harsh, and more apt to irritate, than the mere suggestion of argumentative objections to be approved or disapproved by those to whom they are addressed.

But during this argumentative time the de- sire to deal blows seemed to pass, although they said much to each other.

The counsel were eloquent, argumentative, and vindictively abusive of each other, as was characteristic and proper.

It is Adeimantus who is the respondent in the more argumentative, as Glaucon in the lighter and more imaginative portions of the Dialogue.

'I really wonder, sir,' rejoined the old pupil in an argumentative manner, 'to find you taking a position so untenable.

The more I made faces and gestures to him to do it, the more confidential, argumentative, and polite, he persisted in being to Me.

Some said Marner must have been in a "fit", a word which seemed to explain things otherwise incredible; but the argumentative Mr.

`Is not that rather a large thing to expect us to begin upon?' said Filby, an argumentative person with red hair.

His voice, always very mild and interrogative, gradually became as soft and as tenderly argumentative as if he had been talking to a much-loved child.