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

We do not bargain and chaffer over our feelings, Hester and I. Surely you mistake, and stir storms in teacups.

From The Kempton-Wace Letters by London, Jack

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

To an Englishman who has not travelled in the States and become familiar with the methods employed there by business men, it seems odd that anyone should chaffer with the clerk at a ticket-office.

From A Tramp's Notebook by Roberts, Morley

Thou would not want me to chaffer with old women about geese-feathers and bird-eggs.

From Jan Vedder's Wife by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston