chaffer

Example Sentences

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There appraisers sit with ancient scales, chaffer to the utmost kran,* seal their purchase with a solemn glass of tea.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Keep your chaffer still, won't 'ee!" snarled the other.

From Our Admirable Betty A Romance by Farnol, Jeffery

Well, I’ll see: maybe I shall walk over one of these days and chaffer with him.

From One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)

You have the strength, the courage, the brains—why chaffer when you have but to strike once to win all?

From The Doomsman by Sutphen, Van Tassel

Brought face to face with the question of work and 205 wage, all the shrewd calculating instincts of a race of women accustomed to chaffer and bargain awoke within her.

From A Singer from the Sea by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston