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 Sutphen, Van Tassel

Sometimes a particular "lot" will attract the attention of a spectator, and he will chaffer about it for a while; but the sales do not often appear to be very brisk.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 by Various

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

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 Reuter, Fritz