"Chaffer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... went he? Ask himself, Not me! To change of scene, I think. Once sold the ware and pursed the pelf, Chaffer was scarce his meat and drink, ...
— Browning's England - A Study in English Influences in Browning • Helen Archibald Clarke
... dinner sometimes, and he would prompt my being acquainted with them, and would sometimes talk of his business with them at table, on purpose that I might hear it; and I know a little how to sell, too, for I have stood by him sometimes, and seen the customers and him chaffer with one another.' ...
— The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) • Daniel Defoe |
