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Example Sentences
I'm going to keep this Senate option for me a real possibility, you know, and therefore I can drive a hard bargain.
There was no other way out of it, and I can't blame the fellow for making a hard bargain and sticking to it.
They all thought me merely shrewd, a sharp trader driving a hard bargain, as they would have done in my place.
But the Frenchman, seeing the plight in which we were, was disposed to drive a very hard bargain.
Peace-at-any-price men would have a hard bargain in him as their candidate.
The usurer at all times drives a hard bargain, and what bowels he has are not those of compassion.
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