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
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
Pashur I will not chaffer with God’s majesty.
From Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes by Stefan Zweig
Somehow, he and Thisbe drift off together, and Mamma, very portly and very voluble, is left to chaffer and sort and select alone.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
I will not chaffer with him; he may have as much as he asks.
From Too Rich A Romance by Adolph Streckfuss
