Nothing could be purchased without a dispute.

Over every counter there was wrangling from morning to night.

The employer and his workmen had a quarrel as regularly as Saturday night came round.

On a fair day or a market day the clamours, the disputes, the reproaches, the taunts, the curses, were incessant.

No merchant would contract to deliver goods without making some stipulation about the quality of the coin in which he was to be paid.