It is a great wrong, none can conceive a greater, than to trade in the bodies of men, to higgle in the market-place about the price of our brother, to traffic in our sister's flesh and bones as merchandise.
"Slavery and the Constitution"
William Ingersoll Bowditch
"Full of those horrid English, I suppose; thrusting their broad hats and narrow minds into every shop in the Palais Royal-winking their dull eyes at the damsels of the counter, and manufacturing their notions of French into a higgle for sous.
"Pelham, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton Last Updated: March 16, 2009
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, A Romance of Exmoor"
R. D. Blackmore