In most of the towns-and almost every small village is a "church-town," while every stream is a river-the streets are often at about the angle of an ordinary house-roof, and as a rule there are miles of hill to be Negotiated in rising out of the towns for they lie in hollows or crevices, corresponding to the folds of the handkerchief.
"Cornwall"
G. E. Mitton
He had only that morning Negotiated a bill with Mr. Moss for another hundred pounds.
"Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir"
Charles Garvice
He Negotiated for the publication of his poem through Watts and Doddridge, each of whom was an eminent interpreter of the religious sentiment of the middle classes.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen