But Ralph said nought; for in his heart he was determined not to chaffer away his gossip's gift for any shaveling's token.
Soames checked his instinctive "Not particularly"--he would not chaffer with this alien.
Why comest thou hither," he said, "like a small man to chaffer over little things?
My father, if you believe him, has Marlborough's secrets in his pocket and is sent to chaffer for him.
But first of all, Guests, I were well pleased if ye would take some small matters out of our abundance; for it were well that ye see them ere ye stand before the chapmen's booths, lest ye chaffer with them for what ye have already.
And all battle was loathsome to him, nor for all the gain of his chaffer had he come into the Dale, had he known that war was looked for.
There were men of the Shepherds also with such fleeces as they could spare from the daily chaffer with the neighbours.
Touching at times on the coast, to barter and chaffer for peltries.
Round andchaffer small end the same, almost to an edge.
Now take block plane and chaffer off each side an inch or more up and round it off.
I care not how the busy Market goes, And scorn to Chaffer for a price: Love does one Staple Rate on all impose, Nor leaves it to the Traders Choice.
Monks move among the crowd; country folk stare at the finery; hawkers chaffer with the girls; and more than one transparent humbug makes a market of relics and pious ware.
They will say they have no use for a tarantass; they know you can't wait tochaffer about the price.
But we know that if Assyrian balm was ever for the world's chaffer it was in the days of Borso, the good Duke.
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.
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.
If to chaffer and higgle are bad in trade, they are much worse in Love.
He lingered above an hour among the Rows; but he bought no trinkets to fill his pack, neither did he enter any goldsmith's shop to chaffer for the horn.
A-many men stood about in groups up and down the street, as men will stand in a marketplace to chaffer and wrangle and gossip; yet these stood silent.
But I got to put that little chaffer to roost somewhere.
What do I care for the Doctor Seraphic, With all his wordy chaffer and traffic?
They talk incessantly; they do not seem to care whether their goods are sold or not, but they chaffer noisily over every sale.
They chaffer over every sale, but they do not seek customers, and appear to be more occupied in talking than in selling their goods.
The vendors haggle and chaffer with the buyers, for all the animals are for sale; but all is good-natured, there is no quarrelling.
Chaffer tried this plan now, and with good effect for a time, but he could smell the man coming nearer and nearer, and began to be terribly frightened.
Chaffer had been so thoroughly scared that he kept himself hidden in chasms and crevices for days, only coming out every now and then to feed and to give a hurried glance round.
He had rejoined the herd, for the old chamois had left it by this time, and Chaffer and some other young males had determined that, come what might, they would allow no old chamois to turn them out again.
So, with a few others, Chaffer had been driven off, but not until he had made a good fight for it.
Very proud Chaffer was of them, for they meant; so much to him.
And, during that summer, Chaffer grew fat and sleek and handsomer than ever, and by the time October came again was the largest animal in the herd.
It was a hard winter that year, and when the snow lay thick and white not only on the mountains, but in the valleys, Chaffer had as much as he could do to find enough to eat.
The cold was still intense, but underneath his ordinary covering of hair Chaffer had another coat of short, thick, greyish wool, and this protected him, and kept him nice and warm.
Chaffer hesitated a moment, but he decided to go on now, whatever came; he was far more at home on these sharp crags and dangerous heights than he was on smooth, even ground, and he could go where it was quite impossible for a man to follow.
In an instant Chaffer was off, leaping over wide chasms, climbing over crags and dizzy heights, sliding down dangerous, slippery places, but always going in the opposite direction to the approaching enemy.
But a week or two of good feeding, with an occasional bit of salt, soon put him right, and by the time summer arrived Chaffer had not only regained the strength he had lost in the winter, but had developed more power and growth in many ways.
