chaffers

So for an extra $10 I can get my food served in sterling silver chaffers and have servers?

badbadzoot Diary Entry badbadzoot 2006

In the streets the Syrian jostles the Spaniard; the Italian the Arab; the Moor jokes with the Jew; the Greek chaffers with the

The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX James De Mille

It had grieved me to the heart to hear him shame this noble woman so, bargaining for her honour as lightly as a marketing housewife chaffers for a pullet.

The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

First, there is the court of the Gentiles, where Ego No. 1 chaffers about trifles with the outer world.

Real Ghost Stories William T. Stead

There is one incident which haunts one after one has read it, where the executioner chaffers with the villagers as to what price they will give him for putting some young witch to the torture, running them up from a barrel of apples to a barrel and a half, on the grounds that he is now old and rheumatic, and that the stooping and straining is bad for his back.

Through the Magic Door Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1907

There is one incident which haunts one after one has read it, where the executioner chaffers with the villagers as to what price they will give him for putting some young witch to the torture, running them up from a barrel of apples to a barrel and a half, on the grounds that he is now old and rheumatic, and that the stooping and straining is bad for his back.

Through the Magic Door Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

The mistress of the house chides a servant, rebukes or comforts a child, sits with her embroidery, chaffers with an itinerant merchant or with the clerk from a store, all in plain sight and hearing of the passer-by.

Cuba, Old and New 1893

Like a draper, when one chaffers with him for a remnant, I am ready to say: 'As it is only the fag end, I will not differ with you about it; take it for what you please.'

Benjamin Franklin 1888

The good-humor and general acceptance on both sides, by chaffers and chaffed, testified to recognized conditions; and there is about a hoary institution a saving grace which cannot be transferred to _parvenus_.

From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life 1877

And the hand is hateful that chaffers with death for life.

Erechtheus A Tragedy (New Edition) Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873