Sentence example with the word 'chaffering'

chaffering

Last update: October 18, 2015


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The affairs of Europe during the years when Habsburg and Bourbon fought their domestic battles with the blood of noble races may teach grave lessons to all thoughtful men of our days, but none bitterer, none fraught with more insulting recollections, than to the Italian people, who were haggled over like dumb driven cattle in the mart of chaffering kings.   [Please select]

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Are we really guilty of chaffering with an artist like Mademoiselle Rachel.   [Please select]

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The President saw only slowly the consequences of that chaffering to which Mr.   [Please select]

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Thou art, I vow, the remarkablest progenitor barring none in this chaffering allincluding most farraginous chronicle.   [Please select]

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The chaffering Red Man bartering blankets and furs for powder and whisky had passed farther on.   [Please select]

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Pedlers were backing their wagons to the edge of the wharf, and from the bargaining and chaffering that went on, I managed to learn the selling price of the oysters.   [Please select]

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In the midst of this spectacle, this din and uproar, the women are chaffering and bargaining quite calmly, watching the scales to see that they get their full pennyworth or sixpennyworth of this or that.   [Please select]

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