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
You have the strength, the courage, the brains—why chaffer when you have but to strike once to win all?
From The Doomsman by Van Tassel Sutphen
I wisht I'd 'a' had him runnin' the 'Guzzuh' instead of that little chicken-breasted chaffer they three-shelled on to me in Los Angeles.
From Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail by Anton Otto Fischer
Thou would not want me to chaffer with old women about geese-feathers and bird-eggs.
From Jan Vedder's Wife by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
He began to chaffer and bargain with himself, and availed himself of the expedient which the weak and dishonest are always ready to employ,--he carried the war into the enemy's camp.
From Seed-time and Harvest A Novel by Fritz Reuter
