Chaffer

As the "chaffer" shuffled off, Buck Bradley began to hum: ❋ John Henry Goldfrap (1898)

We do not bargain and chaffer over our feelings, Hester and I. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I scattered my gold lavishly, nor did I chaffer over prices in mart or exchange. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Twinkling chaffer/roarers followed behind them, quickly surpassing the pillars as they raced into the starfield. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Thinkest thou to chaffer with Him, who formed the earth, and spread out the heavens, or that thou canst offer aught of homage or devotion that can be worth acceptance in his eyes? ❋ Unknown (2008)

Ali Shar, “Begone, without more chaffer and chatter; there is nothing in the house.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

But now she had done her chaffer, and was looking about her as if to note the folk for her disport; but when she came across a child, whether it were borne in arms or led by its kinswomen, or were going alone, as were some, she seemed more heedful of it, and eyed it more closely than aught else. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Pasgen allowed himself to be divested of three of the amulets he had marked because to fail to chaffer would also mark him as unusual; however, he was growing impatient and finally made as if to throw down the amulets he was holding and walk away. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2005)

Thus, when the duke of Norfolk presented King Henry's case to her, Anne hardly resisted at all; indeed, she did little more than to chaffer for the best possible bargain she could extract from the king. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2005)

In the whole course of my life I never came across so mean a scoundrel; and now you chaffer with me as to whether or no you shall criminate yourself! ❋ Unknown (2004)

The native streets monopolize the picturesqueness of Singapore with their bizarre crowds, but more interesting still are the bazaars or continuous rows of open shops which create for themselves a perpetual twilight by hanging tatties or other screens outside the sidewalks, forming long shady alleys, in which crowds of buyers and sellers chaffer over their goods, the Chinese shopkeepers asking a little more than they mean to take, and the ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

Soames checked his instinctive “Not particularly” — he would not chaffer with this alien. ❋ Unknown (2004)

One or two pagazis came to my camp and began to chaffer; they wished to see the bales first, before they would make a final bargain. ❋ Henry Morton (2004)

The Dartie within him made him chaffer for five minutes with young Padwick concerning the favourite for the Cambridgeshire; then with the words, “Put the gee down to my account,” he walked away, a little wide at the knees, and flipping his boots with his knotty little cane. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Noblemen did not chaffer-although they were not above seeing something they wanted and sending a servant to bargain for it. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2004)

“Why chaffer over it? give me seventy-five kopeks.” ❋ Unknown (2003)

Not being a tribe, they had no blood enemies, but passed freely in the desert: the carrying trade and chaffer of the interior lay in their hands. ❋ Thomas Edward (2003)

His shops had plenty of customers, for he was in the habit of giving the ladies, especially if they were pretty, “the heaviest possible weight for their money,” though sometimes he would charge too much in order to induce them to chaffer with him. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Patience, said Panurge; but you would do much for me and your whole posterity if you would chaffer with me for him, or some other of his inferiors. ❋ Unknown (2002)