chaffer

• The tongues lay itching; two or three barren women in the Via Stella were hoarding stones Then, just about the time when the prior of the Carmelites bid Fra Battista send him the young woman, Baldassare took the road for a round of chaffer which might keep him out of Verona a week. —  Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso
• "Here, you excuse for a chaffer, git ther hospital outfit, and hurry up Please, sir, I--I forgot the emergency kit," stuttered the new chauffeur You forgot! —  The Border Boys Across the Frontier
• I'm off on important business, tell him As the "chaffer" shuffled off, Buck Bradley began to hum I knew at dawn, when de rooster crowed Dere wuz gwine ter be trouble on de Gran' Trunk Ro-ad It's a good thing you got that done in jig-time, young feller," spoke Buck, as the job and his song were finished, and they scrambled back into the car, "fer here they come He pointed back up the starlit road Not more than a few hundred yards off, several mounted figures came into view. —  The Border Boys Across the Frontier
• So he forces himself to chaffer, tries to conceal his abhorrence of the practice and his inexperience, and ends, generally, by being cheated and considered a grass-green idiot into the bargain, which is not soothing to the spirit of the average man. —  Russian Rambles
• Men fight and make up; repent and go at it; feast and starve; laugh and weep; pray and curse; cheat, chaffer, trick, truckle, cozen, defraud, fib, lie, beg, borrow, steal, hang, drown--as in the laughing and weeping, tricking and truckling, hanging and drowning times that have been. —  Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)

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