He placed the side of beef on the thrawl.

to truck and higgle for a private good

[W]e are at once struck with the extraordinary nature of the fact that these intense individualities, these nations of widely different origin, … are contained in the circuit of a single empire; and we wonder what force it is which compels the strange cohesion. Surely it is not the sword of yonder cross-legged, lethargic, beturbanned, or befezzed being, who, pipe in mouth, looks softly out of his dark eyes with a half-expressed disdain!

Austin describes this view of language as mere statement as constantive and argues that language has a function beyond the constantive.