About noon, he was talking to a farmer in his quiet back room, endeavouring to drive a hard bargain with the man, whom a bad season had already rendered poor.
He was a man who drove a hard bargain, so it was said.
He was highly respectable, but could drive a hard bargain with a poor author, as well as any of his fraternity.
They generally came to sell, not to buy, and most of them knew how to drive a hard bargain.
We drove a hard bargain.
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drive a hard bargain
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