chaffer

How To Use chaffer In A Sentence

• 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. Ill Met By Moonlight
• And while Levy and Toriki drank absinthe and chaffered over the pearl, THE HOUSE OF MAPUHI
• _Park End Forge_ -- consistinge of 2 hamers, 3 Fyneryes and 1 chaffery, repayered about 2 years since by the Farmers, viz., 2 newe drome beames, Iron Making in the Olden Times as instanced in the Ancient Mines, Forges, and Furnaces of The Forest of Dean
• In the squares the black folk chaffered and bargained over plantains, beer, and hammered brass ornaments. The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian
• 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! Castle Richmond
• They chaffered with their vendors and customers, who themselves were big enough to throw their weight around in the market. The Non-Economist's Economist
• Pavilion overhung the Mall; looking down one could see the coming and going of leisurely Government peons in scarlet and gold, Cashmiri vendors of great bales of embroideries and skins, big-turbaned Pahari horse-dealers, chaffering in groups, and here and there a mounted The Pool in the Desert
• With that she alighted into her $75,000 World Food Organization range rover, slipped on her designer sun glasses and look straight ahead as her driver chaffered her past the driveway and out the gates without speaking to a single child. Matthew Bergman: An Afternoon on the Mara
• We do not bargain and chaffer over our feelings, Hester and I. The Kempton-Wace Letters
• I scattered my gold lavishly, nor did I chaffer over prices in mart or exchange. The Dignity of Dollars