chaffer

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With cursing ye buy not blessing, nor peace with strife, And the hand is hateful that chaffers with death for life.

From Erechtheus A Tragedy (New Edition) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

It has learned to go to market; it chaffers, it haggles, it envies, it murmurs; it is knowing, acute, sharpened; it never prattles.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Lamb, Charles

First, there is the court of the Gentiles, where Ego No. 1 chaffers about trifles with the outer world.

From Real Ghost Stories by Stead, Estelle W.

Among the Ostiaks of Siberia, to this day, the father sells his daughter: he chaffers with the representative of the bridegroom about the price to be paid.

From Woman under socialism by De Leon, Daniel

Simeon the Stylite comes down from his pillar-top, and chaffers in the market-place with common folks.

From Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) by Parker, Theodore