bargain for

Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.

There was no mistaking this for the gaudiness and gilt of made-for-TV awards shows.

Given the potential for a cyber tit-for-tat to escalate, Obama has even more incentive to find a diplomatic solution.

Clearly the liberation of Gross took place in the context of what might be called a “grand bargain.”

Twenty-five more for-profits are on well on their way to doing the same thing.

The promoters went his security and put up the cash into the bargain, and he went back to the publishing house victorious.

The result of this stock-taking shows that eleven volumes were unaccounted-for, a list of which is appended.

At this stock-taking the number unaccounted-for is twenty-two, several of which are quite recent accessions to the Library.

Keen and canny, they drive a close bargain but, scrupulous and conscientious, fulfil it faithfully.

He would haggle in a bargain for a shilling, and economize in things beneath a wise man's notice or consideration.