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
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 Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
And yet you dared to chaffer with me?
From Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Stanley J. Weyman
Well, I’ll see: maybe I shall walk over one of these days and chaffer with him.
From One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford by M. (Madelaine) Irwin
“What do ye chaffer about?” cried Lady Lisle, in her old sharp manner.
From Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution by Emily Sarah Holt
