O wanderers from ancestral soil, Leave noisome mill and chaffering store: Gird up your loins for sturdier toil, And build the home once more!
The pice jingle as they change hands; the haggling and chaffering are without parallel in any market at home.
In one corner, under a shed, sits the sahib chaffering with a party of paikars (seed merchants), who have brought seed for sale.
He led him by a small chain, as he would a puppy, and the innocent young rascal would lie on his side and bask and sleep in the sunshine, amid all the noise and chaffering around him, precisely like a dog.
Salt fish, meat, and vegetables lay on the stalls, which were surrounded by a chaffering crowd.
Others are chaffering with their customers, for no true Chinaman ever gives the price that is first asked of him, and with jest and banter he gradually comes down to the sum which he finally means to take.
They find endless pleasure in chaffering with might and main for the least mite of their currency-- the last bead; and when they gain the point to which their peculiar talents are devoted, they feel intensely happy.
His assumption of lonely despair was not borne out by the subtle air he had of being in with all these people who were chafferingamong themselves and applauding the rhetorician with his silver star.
Some sat on upturned baskets, their wares spread out before them; some stood at stalls with white hangings to keep off the sun; the fine ladies went about among them chaffering and bargaining, their maids following with baskets.
Then she went on to the market and told all the people of the town who were chaffering there.
Time to them was evidently worth more than the money to be got by long chaffering over a proposition.
There was something unspeakably horrible to me about sitting there and chaffering with this man whose every word breathed contamination.
For though the business of books is to me the one nearest akin to pleasure, it is nevertheless a chaffering and a haggling in the market-place--the reverse of all my tastes and aptitudes.
In midst of the tumult and throb of the war spirit I, in common with other business men, have been buying and selling and chaffering and huckstering, rearing Laura's children, educating Alicia and prospering.
Yet I suppose that this is the ordinary comparatively innocent chicane of even honest business, remnants of oriental chaffering and huckstering that still survive.
The Oriental method of chaffering and bargaining was largely in vogue.
He could see, too, and hear distinctly the clink of money as it changed hands, the busy crowd of whites and blacks shoving, pushing one another, and the chaffering and swearing at the stalls.
It is a genuine family resort, too, for between four and seven all the town is likely to drop in, the women chaffering or gossiping while their lords enjoy a glass of beer and a game of dominoes.
You could tell the serene and gracious lady who is chaffering for it what a bargain she has made,--that there is not in it one spark of manly honor or true love.
You cannot stand chaffering at a bargain as to the cheapest mode of extinguishing a fire kindled by a red-hot cannon-ball at the door of the magazine.
At last the gypsies offer thirty reals for him; and after much chaffering I am glad to get rid of him at two dollars.
And there they are with their boxes on the ground, displaying their looking-glasses and other goods to the hones, rustics and their dames and their daughters, and selling away and chaffering and laughing just as of old.
Peasants from the farming settlements were there with articles for sale, and a vigorous chaffering was in progress.
My Russian companion whispered me not to buy, and after a few momentschaffering we departed.
They lay awhile off Gothland, and here it befell as oft, that they were not all of them too close of their words, and the islanders got wind of it that on board was a chaffering fellow of Olaf the Thick.
We whiled away the time by chaffering with the persistent Tatar venders for things which we did not want, and came into amazed possession of some of them.
The little market-place was alive with bustling, chattering, and chaffering country-folk.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chaffering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bargaining; haggle; negotiation
