pourparlers
- plural of pourparler.
Example Sentences
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There were pourparlers and offers, so that last week Gold Dust's President George K. Morrow need merely put through a telephone call to the Rockefeller counsel.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was accompanied last week by important pourparlers for Franco-Russian cooperation, economic as well as military.
From Time Magazine Archive
For myself I never doubted that the result of our pourparlers would be satisfactory, and so it is.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Agreed!” said Arthur; “that is only fair. And now that the pourparlers are over, may I ask what it is we are to do?”
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
But while these pourparlers are proceeding, some of us are not at all quieted.
From Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation by Putnam Weale, B. L. (Bertram Lenox)
