They will go on with their pettifogging and their pawnbroking, and that is enough reward for them.
The ingenuity and unscrupulousness of that vile breed, the native Pica-Pleito or pettifogging lawyer, has greatly contributed to stop Europeans from proceeding with mining enterprises, as success would bring down these blackmailers in swarms.
There was, however, much agitation and much travelling to and fro amongst the native clergy and the pettifogging lawyers.
At last he said, "You are a well-matched pair of mean, rascally, pettifogging robbers.
He called them "robbers, swindlers,--a brace of pettifogging scoundrels!
He even purchased a few amateur specifics; and finally, when the boy was as ill as ill could be, called in a pettifogging practitioner, who might be trusted to bungle the case.
Why, my dear sir, I have known him as a pettifogging money-lender in India for years.
If we are to do an injustice, let us not do it in a miserable pettifogging way, but imitate such great examples as Crassus and Alexander the Great.
Must the course of justice in this community run the gamut of violence, as well as of slander and pettifogging obstruction?
Pettifogging lawyers were sent, one by each company, to the village council in each particular territory involved, but no one of the companies had as yet the slightest idea who was back of it all or of the general plan of operations.
Mr. Southack was an unobtrusive, pleasant, quiet man of the type that would usually be patronized as rural and pettifogging by men high in commercial affairs.
Why do we call them pettifogging and dismiss them?
The latter gentleman, who has studied hard to cheat his good-natured employer, and succeeded, is a daringly drawn satire on the pettifogging attorney of the period.
For he never dreamed, did this haggling, pettifogging lawyer, that Swiney would swerve from the old time allegiance to him, and he felt so secure on this point that he privately encouraged the desertion of his own forces.
Yet this is right, and pettifogging may be right when it is the only way to bring out the fact.
It may be pettifogging to say that the upper portion of this iron rod is the core of the magnetic field, and its lower portion is the armature.
Alexander, the epicurean indifferentism of Leo, and the pettifogging worldliness of Clement.
Old Bolshóff decides to defraud his creditors, with the aid of a pettifogging lawyer, and he makes over all his property to his clerk, Podkhaliúzin.
The pettifogging lawyer comes for his promised reward.
Vachel sets out for a walk in no mean and pettifogging spirit: he proceeds as an army with banners: he intends that the world shall know he is afoot: the Great Elian of Springfield is unleashed--let alewives and deacons tremble!
Looked at with the unclouded eye of a mystic, how mundane and unnecessary all these pettifogging transactions seemed.
Your pettifogging troubles and details of practical life all more or less jar on me and bring me down from my heaven.
Never has vanity at close grips with all the harshness and meanness of a pettifogging love of money reduced a man to a more sorry condition than that of M.
They returned to their homes, execrating the war as waged in behalf of the arch-enemy of God and man, as the result of a pettifogging bit of trickery on the part of Napoleon.
But when you are, and there comes six of 'em, you won't find an uncle pettifogging when he speaks out like Mr. Grey.
Such a fiction may be satisfactory to a pettifogging lawyer, but as the basis of a spiritual system is indeed supremely contemptible.
Clearly only the party attacked is in a state of self-defence, but the bandit who has a sufficient sense of humour to play the pettifogginglawyer can always maintain that attack is also self-defence, the preventive form of self-defence.
The ridiculous counterclaim with its pettifogginginnuendoes vanished before that common sense of the jury to which Mr. Ricochet so dryly appealed.
In spite of arguments by the hour, and the pettifogging of one hundred and eight years, justice prevailed, and the amazed appellant was far more damaged by his legal proceedings than he was by the bull.
As the land was practically of no importance to me, I told the fellow that I would consider the matter, and on that basis he made the most flagrant misuse of my name to bolster up his pettifogging business.
He is only a pettifogging country Squire, whose views on the Land Question are ob-solete in tot-to.
Suffice it to say that in general the chancelleries of the courts were dens of pettifogging rascality, and the habitual, unblushing bribery had a negative as well as a positive effect.
