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 will not chaffer with him; he may have as much as he asks.
From Too Rich A Romance by Adolph Streckfuss
It would not cheapen in the chaffer; on the contrary, give him the usufruct for a few years, and he would be not only the happiest but the most considerable of men.
From Little Novels of Italy by Maurice Henry Hewlett
But we know that if Assyrian balm was ever for the world's chaffer it was in the days of Borso, the good Duke.
From Little Novels of Italy by Maurice Henry Hewlett
