Sentence example with the word 'dickering'

dickering

Last update: September 24, 2015


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After a deal of Yankee dickering with the hard-headed Dutchmen, a bargain was struck and the Franklin sailed for Nagasaki with cloves, chintz, sugar, tin, black pepper, sapan wood, and elephants' teeth.   [Please select]

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So while he was figuring how many to buy, my brother Joel began dickering with the clerk.   [Please select]

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The corn was reckoned at nine dollars, the four sheep at only six dollars, and it had been difficult "dickering" the fifteen pounds of wool and the two bushels of barley as worth three dollars more.   [Please select]

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He thinks to prove that the tribes began the dickering, and then to offer his army to the English--Tom Tripe and all.   [Please select]

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He was a gentleman when the founders of the proud families of to-day were dickering in small merchandise.   [Please select]

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On the same day on which the Senate gave its verdict on Dickering, the House by a strictly partisan vote decreed Chase's impeachment.   [Please select]

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"I am not a dickering merchant, trying to make money out of the situation of my country."   [Please select]

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