... drove the intriguing bargainer away, with "reproaches of such intolerable bitterness, that the like had never before been hurled at man alive." Be it remembered, too, that Vasari was a good judge of the quality of a Florentine dame's scolding, for he had himself in his younger days passed a painful apprenticeship under ... — Atlantic Monthly Volume 6, No. 37, November, 1860 • Various
... been thrown on the bargainings between Italy and Prussia by the Memoirs of General Govone, who found Bismarck a hard bargainer. ... — The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) • John Holland Rose
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