Perhaps the most lucrative business in which he was engaged was in negotiating the sale of wild lands in America.
He had been more active of late in negotiating than in fighting, and his diplomacy had prospered more than his arms.
The defence he set up was, that Mullay had used epithets towards him while they were negotiating a business matter, and that, being an irritable temper, he had struck Mullay, after which a violent scuffle took place.
Saward's method of negotiating the cheques was equally well planned.
His method ofnegotiating the forged notes was most artful.
While the plenipotentiaries are negotiating publicly at Altenburg in Hungary, I will secretly begin to negotiate with the emperor himself; and you, Count Bubna, shall be my agent for this purpose.
He has already surrounded the Engelhaus, General Kinkel's headquarters, and is negotiating a capitulation with the general.
But no one must learn of your mission, and, least of all, my two ministers who are negotiating at Altenburg.
In fact, Parma was privatelynegotiating with her; negotiations in which Burghley and Hatton took part, but which did not wholly escape Walsingham.
In the meanwhile, however, Drake had effected his brilliant destruction of the fleet and stores preparing in Cadiz harbour; though his proceedings were duly disowned by Elizabeth, now zealously negotiating with Parma.
If the idea of negotiatingwere entertained at all, something would be gained; for each additional day of suffering and privation diminished the Roman strength, and brought nearer the moment of absolute and complete exhaustion.
They accordingly declared him king of Persia without binding him by conditions, and without negotiating with Bahram, who was still in arms and at no great distance.
His influence was the greater with a succession of Spanish Prime Ministers in that in 1838 he had been largely instrumental in negotiating the quadruple alliance between England, France, Spain, and Portugal.
He was found guilty of negotiating with and capitulating to the enemy before doing all that was prescribed by duty and honour, and sentenced to degradation and death, but very strongly recommended to mercy.
He found very little difficulty in negotiating with the various Bechuana chiefs, but with the Boers he was not so successful.
For a while besieged in Pondicherry, but still negotiating and everywhere mingling in intrigues and conspiracies, Dupleix was now triumphant with his ally; the Soudhabar of the Deccan made his entry in state upon French territory.
Under cover of this alliance, agreeable as it was to England, the faithful patron of Portugal, the King of Spain was negotiating elsewhere, with the Emperor Charles VI.
The King of Prussia had just gained at Czezlaw an important victory; next day, he was negotiating with the Queen of Hungary.
They believed in negotiating directly with God for the welfare of the soul without the priest or church organization.
More interested in the various persons than in doctrines, she showed a passion for making bishops, abbots, and priests, as well as for negotiating compromises, reconciling amours propres and doing away with all religious hatred.
Pardon, lord, but until the members of the supreme council are in prison for negotiating with enemies of Egypt, my presence in the palace would bring more harm than profit.
But listen to me further: he is negotiating with villainous Phoenicians to cut a canal between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean.
Herhor promised to bring proof that Assyria was insisting on the treaty, and that the pharaoh did not wish to sign it, that he was negotiating with Phoenicians to dig the canal, and that he intended to enter the labyrinth treacherously.
This was no less than the negotiating of suitable marriages for the eldest son and daughter of his commander, with whom, in the confidence of friendship, he had had many conversations on the matter.
Even Moreau, the victor at Hohenlinden, accused of negotiating with the conspirators, was disgraced, and exiled himself from France.
Great Britain and Germany have been negotiating with Portugal for the purchase of these territories--to be divided between them.
The Harpers had arranged for the serial and book publication of Joan, and were negotiating for the Webster contracts.
Clemens, who had been negotiating again with the Mallorys for the disposal of his machine royalties, thought it proper to find out just what was going on.
In a cartel lately arrived for negotiating an exchange of prisoners, Sir Henry sends by me, secretly, as one of the envoys, a requisition for the papers I have before mentioned.
Shortly, Darby drew him aside, and from their looks it might be gathered that some scheme was negotiating for the pilgrim's safe admission at the hall.
I am negotiating for the possession of Richmond Hill, by exchanging with Colonel F.
As yet, the charge of intriguing and negotiating with the federalists to obtain the presidency in opposition to Mr. Jefferson had not been made.
I am negotiating to get an assurance from authority that I shall be bailed, on receipt of which I shall surrender.
If the populace had not as yet declared for the Bourbons, who could wonder at that, when the allies persisted in negotiating with Napoleon?
Etiquette compelled him to do so; for the allies were still negotiating with Napoleon; and his own tact warned him that the Bourbons must never come into France under the cloak of the allies.
The advantages of an irresponsible autocrat in negotiating with a Ministry dependent on Parliament have rarely been more signally shown.
The separate tribes in Aetolia seem soon afterwards to have had, if they had not already, some form of central government; for we find them negotiating with Agesilaus in B.
Samuel Henderson, and in due time, the committee visited the master with the view of negotiating the purchase.
He was negotiating for a joint attack on Castile with Louis XII.
Moreover, the Emperor himself had, long before the invasion of Navarre, been planning a war with France, and negotiating with Leo to expel the French from Milan, and to destroy the predominant French faction in Genoa.
Warwick's death may have been due to the instigation of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, who were negotiating for the marriage of Catherine of Aragon with Prince Arthur.
Wolsey, on his part, was secretly negotiating with Louise of Savoy during her son's imprisonment in Spain.
Bourbon, Constable of France, and the most powerful peer in the kingdom, intent on the betrayal of Francis, wasnegotiating with Henry and Charles the price of his treason.
To counteract Alberoni's intrigues, he suggested an alliance with England, and in the face of great difficulties succeeded in negotiating the Triple Alliance (1717).
After the battle of Wagram, Dumas was employed innegotiating the armistice.
The great Yuan Shi-K'ai, himself a Chinese born, was in command of the imperial troops while negotiating on either hand with the frantic throne and the upsurging revolutionists.
Nevertheless, negotiating them must also be placed in the category of "practical" values--for in the long run it seems to be an essential part of the maturing of mankind.
All this time the king was negotiating and treating; the Parliament quarreling furiously among themselves.
In the meanwhile, Montreuil, a special ambassador from France, bad been negotiating with the Scottish commissioners in London to induce the Scots to take up the cause of the king.
While trying and executing Montrose for loyalty to the king, the Scots were themselves negotiating with Charles, commissioners having come over to Breda, where he was living, for the purpose.
I have it from good authority that Marshal Tavannes is negotiating with Monsieur Coligny.
The Guisard," she muttered to herself, "dared accuse my son of negotiating with Admiral Coligny.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "negotiating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
