| 单词 | dicker |
| 例句 | When the dickering was done, the knight slung his weapons, shield, and saddlebag over his shoulder and asked for directions to the nearest smithy. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “I’m in no mood for a lengthy dicker, Kaerva,” I said shortly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “I’ll need money to buy a fast horse with no dickering. Plus lodging, food, maybe bribes Twenty talents.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z One light from the ceiling was still hanging down by a wire, dickering and swinging back and forth, and every once in a while I could see stuff inside. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I dart a quick glance toward Miss Duncan, who is still dickering with the carriage driver. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z They had a device that made a loud clicking sound up there in the balcony, and when that noisy dicker sounded, the contestant was supposed to stop singing in midpassage and walk off the stage. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z When we first meet him, he’s on the phone, dickering over the details of his recent purchase of the aforementioned plane, in which he plans to fly with his much younger, British fiancée to London. Review: In David Mamet’s ‘China Doll,’ Al Pacino as an Urban Warrior in Winter 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z She is working as a waitress in the restaurant where Stan and Doc are dickering over how to import drugs from Mexico. Books of The Times: ‘The Kings of Cool’ by Don Winslow 2012-06-17T19:58:19Z Trouble was, Biden couldn’t make it clear to the public that he was willing to dicker — but only over the budget, not the nation’s credit-worthiness. Opinion: In the debt limit showdown, both Biden and (surprise!) McCarthy are winners 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z One reason is the endless, costly dickering among middlemen like Envision and UnitedHealth to make sure they get their share of the bucks sloshing around in the system. Column: This company made billions by surprise-billing helpless ER patients. Then justice arrived 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z That opened the process to almost infinite legal dickering. Column: How Trump's frenzy of deregulation killed Silicon Valley Bank 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z And Europeans will think that they have a license to dicker with China, too. Opinion | Biden’s best tool for halting a slide in U.S.-China relations? His phone. 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z And the 27-member European Union dickered for weeks over a ban on Russian crude oil imports, as billions of euros worth of purchases meanwhile continued — funding Moscow’s war effort. Opinion | Biden set clear goals for Ukraine. That could hold the West together. 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z I enjoyed looking, and I enjoyed considering, and I enjoyed dickering, and now I’m gloating a bit over my new old things. Opinion | Escaping the present amid objects from the past: The restorative joy of antique malls 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z While he’s selling the infrastructure bill as evidence that Democrats can deliver, Biden still will have to contend with ongoing dickering on the other big item on his agenda — the social spending bill. Biden faces fresh challenges after infrastructure victory 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z That’s certainly been the case with coverage of the Build Back Better Act, the comprehensive reform package now being dickered over on Capitol Hill. Column: People talk about the cost of that big federal bill but don't know what's in it. So we'll tell you 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z The celebrity may dicker over the price, but ultimately reach an agreement. Column: Lisa Rinna posted paparazzi photos of herself. Then she got sued for copyright infringement 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Whether you’re discussing a job offer, dickering at a car dealership or just trying to work out a budget with your significant other, the ability to bargain effectively can have a huge impact. Liz Weston: How to negotiate your way to a richer life 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z An indispensable tool of good legislating is face-to-face dickering. Legislators return with new bills to help Californians hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z At the time, the House of Representatives was dickering over picking a speaker. Perspective | Praying for the politicians: A new book recounts the history of rabbis in the Capitol 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z Mr. McConnell was angry, saying Democrats continue to “dicker” in the face of a global emergency and need to step up and reach an agreement. Democrats sink Senate coronavirus stimulus plan to give cash to families 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z But most parties agree there is little time to dicker over the details. Washington Weighs Big Bailouts to Help U.S. Economy Survive Coronavirus 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z Workers also are burdened with dealing with the administrative complexity of the healthcare system through time lost dickering with insurance claims agents and managing other lunacies. Column: Mitt Romney takes a dishonest swing at 'Medicare for all' 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z The end result of the pay commission has been time and money wasted in court dickering over details that should have been hashed out publicly on the floor of the state Legislature. Editorials from around New York 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Eighteen years later, it still is dickering over terms for joining the Government Procurement Agreement, which extends WTO free-trade principles to official purchases. China’s Xi gets tougher on Trump after new tariff threat 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z In former years, the rules were clear: no early birds, no “dickering” over the price and no complaining. Final Alaskana sale honors Candy Waugaman 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z Smokler, who is still dickering with several podcast companies, hopes to launch the project in early summer. For Scary Mommy blog founder, a home makeover marks a new chapter | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Such lawsuits “are taking advantage of a loophole” that a new state law would close if Lansing’s lawmakers support it this fall, after more than a year of dickering, LaMacchia said. Michigan law firm gets rich by suing cities over sewers 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z The dickering played out for hours Wednesday, even after top congressional leaders left a morning meeting on a snowy Capitol Hill declaring that a deal was at hand. Congressional negotiators reach deal on $1.3 trillion spending bill ahead of Friday government shutdown deadline 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z No need for dickering here, this is who Trump is. A Senior Republican Senator Admonishes Trump: ‘American Is an Idea, Not a Race’ 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z After years of dickering — including an unfair-labor-practice complaint — the agreement with about 70 captains and lieutenants bolsters the City Council’s wide-ranging police-accountability ordinance enacted in May. Seattle City Council approves reform-driven labor deal with police managers 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z The governor blames the city mayor for political dickering; the mayor blames the governor. Closures, overcrowding, rats: New York City commuters face 'summer of hell' 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z As the Legislature continued to dicker about a fiscal solution with little sign of progress, leaders of state departments on Thursday released statements explaining the likely consequence of a shutdown. Alaska editorials 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z Republicans are backing away, suggesting the numbers are a starting point or framework for more dickering. California Editorial Roundup 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Here’s a brief guide to when — and when not — to dicker over the sticker. No-haggle car pricing: what buyers should know 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z But the deadline elapsed while U.S. and Russian diplomats dickered over the terms. Kerry arrives in Jordan to discuss Syrian civil war, battle with ISIS 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z The Spanos family will dicker a while longer with San Diego officials, trolling for a better deal. Hello, They Must Be Going 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Credit card late fees started piling up as he dickered with the bank for months. Battle with Bank of America provides a 'Wonderful' lesson 2015-12-25T05:00:00Z He stayed on in Iraq, dickering with various factions for a slice of power, hoping always that he would emerge as a compromise candidate for prime minister. Ahmed Chalabi, the master manipulator 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z There were other, smaller tells that most of the dickering is at the negotiators’ backs. On the verge of a breakthrough nuclear deal with Iran 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z Do not be afraid to ask shopkeepers what designer treasures they may be hiding and do not be afraid to dicker on prices. LARK GOULD: Travel to Dubai for all that glitters on the Arabian Gulf 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Investors and start-up founders dicker on deal terms, like any buyers and sellers who try to arrive at a price. Cash pours into start-ups, but investors are turning cautious 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Whether any sort of concessionary dickering between the two nations — emissions cuts for pipeline approval — remains an option is unclear. Canada Won't Take 'No' For an Answer on Keystone XL 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z As the U.S. dickers over decontamination—not to mention reparations or reconciliation—organizers in Palomares promise openness and honesty, despite all the commercial advantages of keeping quiet. The Nuclear Disaster You Never Heard of 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Such services threaten to end the era of tortuous dickering sessions, in which a salesman runs back and forth clearing offers and counteroffers with a sales manager. AutoNation is shifting to an online storefront with no-haggle pricing 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z There is no added economic benefit for the FCC to dicker around the margins. Connections Between Communications Networks: Should The FCC Breathe Life Into Internet Middlemen? 2014-03-30T19:52:00Z While revelers cavort in colorful joy, their hosts are dickering over profits, festival names and even the ingredients of the powders they sell. In Europe, Commercial Holi Festivals Are a Hot Ticket 2013-10-03T03:48:46Z Watching Matt Carpenter dicker and eye-roll over balls and strikes like he's Ted Williams. St Louis Cardinals vs Washington Nationals: NLDS Game 4 - live! 2012-10-11T19:29:00Z How would I know all this dickering was going on?” A Dispute Over Lee Harvey Oswald?s Tombstone 2012-04-11T03:34:45Z The dicker for a wife as conducted amounted to what would be among civilized people at once an intrigue and the negotiating of a treaty. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z He was dickering for one of the things he had desired for a life-time. The Unpublishable Memoirs 2012-02-03T03:00:18.447Z As Aldrich details in his paper, while the movie and recording industry dickered over DVD formats that would protect their precious content, Steve Jobs threw them another curve with iTunes, which skipped discs entirely. SOPA, Meet The Player Piano Copyright Threat 2012-01-18T14:06:04Z However, I remained firm in my refusal and the dickering took another tack. Adventures in Swaziland The Story of a South African Boer 2012-01-01T03:00:06.887Z We went in and burrowed through the heaps of tempting rubbish and began to dicker for a job lot of little images, tear jars, amulets, etc., that are found in the mummy cases. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z While I was dickering for Duke he turned up. The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields 2011-11-11T03:00:26.697Z I examined them very carefully, and made a dicker for about fifteen head. The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid 2011-11-06T02:00:13.167Z They may try to dicker with us for some provisions. The Outdoor Chums on the Lake Lively Adventures on Wildcat Island 2011-09-22T02:00:23.407Z We dickered a little more, and I agreed to pay them a large amount of gin and a certain sum of money. Adventures in Swaziland The Story of a South African Boer 2012-01-01T03:00:06.887Z He shoots her in about two weeks after he has been dickered down by the plunger. Taking Chances 2011-09-21T02:00:36.667Z She answers the ad and they make a dicker. The Postmaster 2011-09-21T02:00:28.863Z Got to have a conference with the men who are dickering with me about manufacturing my shaving cream. The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and other humorous tales 2011-09-17T02:00:25.067Z This is a purchase, understand, and it's worth while to do a little dickering. Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford 2011-08-11T02:00:13.017Z "He's dickering with Algerson—thinks the thing may possibly come to a deal before long." Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z Hey, and don't let him dicker you out o' your gilt teeth. Taking Chances 2011-09-21T02:00:36.667Z With diplomacy and patience the average feller could conclude that dicker in an hour and a quarter—if he had the yarn. The Postmaster 2011-09-21T02:00:28.863Z And if the answer was in the affirmative, a dicker would immediately be entered into as to the amount of discount to be allowed.” The Coming of Coal 2011-06-17T02:00:17.207Z "Shapes of Clay" ought to be published in California, and it would have been long ago if I had not64 been so lazy and so indisposed to dicker with the publishers. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z I'm real glad to have it because we are going to have a dicker party and it will be the very thing to contribute. At Boarding School with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-04T02:00:13.920Z Any dickering will make me increase my price, and I will never decrease it. Final Proof or the Value of Evidence 2011-04-20T02:00:19.580Z He was dickering with a bunch of new arrivals for labour for his farm. The Bail Jumper 2011-04-16T02:00:19.103Z Counting on relegating them to their timid places, he fired some muskets, putting the dickering savages to flight. The Pocahontas-John Smith Story 2011-04-15T02:00:20.537Z We dickered a while and at last struck a bargain. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z The two sides are still dickering over a condition that would touch on how Google treats potential competitors in search results, the source said. Google-ITA decision may be just days away: source 2011-04-07T16:43:42Z Reid said yesterday he expects Obama to take an increased role in the dickering over the measure to fund the government through September. Congress Approves Temporary U.S. Budget Bill, Avoids Shutdown 2011-03-02T16:37:03Z Reid said he expects Obama to take an increased role in the dickering over that measure. House Approves Stopgap Budget 2011-03-02T05:03:09Z Students, and parents, of course, love to be loved, and love to be wooed, and learned how to play the game by bargaining and dickering one institution’s merit award over against another. The Choice: Four Questions on How to Cut Tuition 2011-02-18T17:45:17Z And today at dinner she was quite relieved because I ate some dicker Reis after having turned from it with abhorrence for at least a week. Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther 2011-02-17T03:00:18.413Z We got into a street market the moment of our arrival in Aix, a solid swarm of dickering people. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z He had found a farm-house and after some "dickering" on both sides he had rented house, farm and all for the remainder of the season. My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z While you’re dickering some one cuts in with a better rate and they call it off. The Boss of Wind River 2010-12-30T03:00:28.770Z But we will cease to bargain and dicker over merit aid awards once offered, including requests to match or exceed another institution’s merit aid offer. The Choice: Four Questions on How to Cut Tuition 2011-02-18T17:45:17Z Do you think that anybody who can help it would have dicker Reis three times a week? Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther 2011-02-17T03:00:18.413Z One time, I was so fed up with the dickering, I picked up the whole tab – and said ‘enjoy’. | Split the Check 2010-12-12T14:31:16Z “To get money to put food on the table is more important than dickering over a dollar here or there.” 2010-01-22T08:49:00Z After much dickering and argument, the plumber consented to leave the old copper pump at the sink, in addition to the faucets. The Idyl of Twin Fires Some of them might even try belated dickering with the Feds, and, while you could hold them by law, it would complicate things still more. Lefty Locke Pitcher-Manager A certain amount of dickering seems to be considered necessary, and it is in fact the life of trade in Valletta and Alexandria. The Story of Malta What good is it to stand dickering with me? The Man from Jericho The thought that the latter might be dickering with the French boys crossed Mr. Braden's mind, but was open to the objection that he would have to share blackmail with them. The Land of Strong Men Oh, I so much like—I so much admire a man who is not afraid, and who doesn't parley and weigh and dicker with himself when it comes to any hard decision. The Broken Gate A Novel Think I didn’t know why you declined to dicker with the Feds when they made you a big offer? Lefty Locke Pitcher-Manager Jesse's Narrative Being married to a lady, and full of dumb yearnings for reform, I axed Dale when he was down to Vancouver to dicker for a book on etiquette. A Man in the Open After a little pleasant dickering he agreed to pull the machines out for $1.00 apiece. Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway "Will I deal or dicker with such as you, do you dare to think?" burst in old Wallace, mad with indignation. Harper's Round Table, August 13, 1895 The Asiatic enjoys dickering; it is to him the life of his occupation, and adds zest if not profit to his business transactions, and by long practice he acquires great adroitness in its exercise. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia With some misgivings, I signed the Vertrag, and then began the long dickering to arrange the guest performances which should decide my fate. Confessions of an Opera Singer “Seven hundred and fifty,” said he, naming a price that allowed ample leeway for dickering. Young Wallingford I’ve heard more talk of improvements and hospitals and schools an’ colleges and land knows what more truck an’ dicker—Pshaw! The Sun Maid A Story of Fort Dearborn He expected that the man would name a price, after a time, much higher than he really would accept, and the boy was ready for a “dicker.” Dorothy on a House Boat Mike was what is called in Germany a "spoiled blacksmith,"--one who had deserted his trade and lived by dickering. Black Forest Village Stories Having received so many bits of lead for his furs, the Indian goes to the store counter where begins interminable dickering. The Story of the Trapper Well, we will make a dicker with them. Frontier Boys in the South Seas Only when the dominie came home and stopped here, as he always does after he’s been a-prairieing, to show you his truck and dicker, Osceolo happens along and is took smart! The Sun Maid A Story of Fort Dearborn Jim cast one look of scorn upon him, then returned to his “dickering.” Dorothy on a House Boat Mike, with his traffic and dickering, had let the money received for his two acres slip through his fingers,--he scarce knew how. Black Forest Village Stories In the centre of the square swarmed the multitude, buying and dickering, dressed in a thousand colors, and speaking diverse tongues. Sónnica “He dickered with him an hour:” say, “he bargained.” Five Hundred Mistakes of Daily Occurrence in Speaking, Pronouncing, and Writing the English Language, Corrected And while chivalry committed suicide over its ladies' gloves, the stout, wooden-headed burghers, with an eye to the facts of life, dickered and bickered in trade. The Kempton-Wace Letters Then, although he wasn’t a purchaser himself, Jim tried his usual “dickering” and succeeded in lowering the price of the simians, “clever enough to talk English,” to ten dollars for the pair. Dorothy on a House Boat With the disgraceful dicker of 1877, this era closed, and with it passed away for a time, whose limit has not yet been fixed, whatever there has been, of republican government in the South. The Disfranchisement of the Negro The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 6 Stickney, hale and smiling, was bantering with a woman in a cloak, who, with a monster basket on her arm, was dickering for eight cents' worth of some thing. The Monster and Other Stories Here he dickered for finely beaded moccasins and hat-bands and other articles for which he found a profitable market in the East. Mystery Ranch "Couldn't you go out and dicker with them some more?" His Lordship's Leopard A Truthful Narration of Some Impossible Facts You’re here to make a dicker, you and your tool between the lines. The Missourian Did you ever see a real, true, unadulterated specimen of Down East, enter a store, or other place of every-day business, for the purpose of "looking around," or dicker a little? The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes Then, too, she has a way that rides him down—Mr. Bliss, I'm speakin' of—and makes him ready to talk about any truck and dicker she likes. Mrs. Tree Their god became a magnified concept of the human man, who dickered with them over the construction of his temples, and who, by covenants, bribes, and promises, induced them to behave themselves. Carmen Ariza Well, I dickered the things off at a good price, as I was a-saying, and have got the money safe in my bosom—a hiding-place sacred to myself alone. Phemie Frost's Experiences “Well,” sez he, “she no need to dickered with the priest for ’em if she hadn’t wanted to.” Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife "Well," says the satisfied poultry merchant, "take it along; I won't dicker for a cent or two." The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes Feeling sure that Rivers would dicker he said quietly: “A thousand dollars.” At the Crossroads “Robert,” he said at length, “how would you like to try your hand at truck and dicker?” Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance After some hours of dickering, I paid eight dollars for a second-hand bicycle, tied the bag on the handle bars and started for the Mecca of my dreams. A Mountain Boyhood He took us to one side a little—right in behind the place where the little man was a-sellin' canes—sort of up ag'inst a partition, and there we made the dicker.' Against Odds A Detective Story The ladies sat; they dickered and examined—we exhibited and put away, the beau lying crouched and crucifying at our feet, and we sniggering fit to burst at the contretemps of the poor victim. The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes Bob told me if I’d make a dirt-low rent I could get it in advance, and up to Saturday I didn’t even know who I was dickering with.” Rope After a little dickering he sold me bow, arrows, quiver, and all for a couple of dollars. Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 After considerable dickering, with signs and gestures and words many times repeated, we were able to impart the information that we wanted a lesson in cookery. Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail He had taken a sample shell from the basket and even now perhaps was dickering with the officials of the Federal Arts Museum on a price. Made in Tanganyika Yet the men had an ineradicable propensity to dicker among themselves. The Siege of Boston He was eager to dicker with the Kansas emigrants, and offered them what they considered to be a very good bargain in exchanging oxen for their horses. The Boy Settlers A Story of Early Times in Kansas I can make a little on it if I sell it for junk, and you can't afford to dicker around like that. Battling the Clouds or, For a Comrade's Honor Oh how good it looked to me to see sunthin’ that God had made, and man hadn’t dickered with and manufactured to seem different from what it wuz. Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands After much dickering we have arranged a syndicate that is backed by millions of dollars, if need be. The Motor Boat Club and The Wireless Or, the Dot, Dash and Dare Cruise But I accepted the offer without dickering, for it was large enough to serve my ends. One Way Out A Middle-class New-Englander Emigrates to America Had you told me your name at first, we had been spared all this foolish dickering. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 The Asiatic enjoys dickering—it is to him the very life of his occupation, and adds zest, if not profit, to his business transactions. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands And then he kinder brightened up and wondered if he couldn’t make a dicker with the hotel-keeper to take a yearlin’ steer to pay for our two boards. Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands One or two players had not yet arrived, "dickers" being under way for their purchase. Baseball Joe in the Big League or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles I wish I could go myself an’ dicker with Elias. The Wall Between “Some other team in the American league trying to make a dicker for you?” asked Joe. Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour Pictures executed on rice-paper are next acquired on the same terms; then a cargo of daggers and swords with handles and scabbards covered with shark skin is secured after a brief dicker. East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan So, having satisfied myself, I made him an offer for the place, we dickered a bit and then closed. The Boy Ranchers in Death Valley or Diamond X and the Poison Mystery Blakeley told me a month ago that he was dickering with an eastern man. 'Firebrand' Trevison Says he knew that all the time, even when I was dickering for it. Dorothy on a Ranch The two monarchs dickered over the terms of release. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 They know to-day that many of them are reckless and greedy stock gamblers, incessantly dickering with the machinery of finance for their own private enrichment. Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated Later Jack and Joe made a dicker to cut each other's hair. The Huntress Seeing that the youth was not to be fooled with, Wakefield Smith tried to dicker again, getting himself badly twisted in his plea that he would make everything all right. The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview I thought so when you began to dicker with Watts for his pasture. The Gold Girl He lost out because he dickered too long and acted cheesy. Frank of Freedom Hill His emissaries began to dicker with chiefs and he organized an expedition to invade the territory. An African Adventure Before leaving him I remarked that I had too much business on hand to spend any time with a lame horse, nor did I care to dicker a minute on a horse trade. Twenty Years of Hus'ling He stroked his beard contentedly and beamed his pleasure when he saw the prospect of making another profitable dicker with men who seemed to be reliable and energetic. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 She remembered that upon the occasion of their first meeting, she had heard him dickering with Watts for the rent of his horse pasture, and she recollected the incident of the changed name. The Gold Girl “Count six then and be d—d to you!” shouted back George Shepherd, who was doing the dickering, and Quantrell said quietly, “Shotguns to the front.” The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself The Indians came in processions with loaded wagons; unloaded, turned their horses loose on the range and sat around—men and women—for hours at a time on floor or ground, dickering. Land of the Burnt Thigh I then dickered a while with him, and after satisfying myself that I could buy it for no less than his price, purchased it; and have always considered it a good investment. Twenty Years of Hus'ling "I'm a hustler on a dicker, and a hellion on junk," snapped the boss. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 The boys dickered a while and reckoned up the number of blocks their weary feet would have to travel. Chicken Little Jane At nightfall all dickering was stopped and guards placed about. A Little Girl in Old Quebec With their dickering propensities there was an amount of dirt on their persons and about the premises, and roughness in their manners, that did great discredit to the memory of Pocahontas. Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac Many business men would rather lose the patent than waste their time constantly dickering about an unreasonable price. Practical Pointers for Patentees "Let's pile ashore on the trail of them lighters and dicker it, and be sensible," advised his associate. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 And it is near Cali that Alejandro Tujun, a Japanese in constant touch with the Japanese Foreign Office, is at this writing dickering for the purchase of 400,000 acres of level land for "colonization." Secret Armies The New Technique of Nazi Warfare The fur-hunters often went through a sort of ceremony with the Indian girls during their weeks of dickering with the traders. A Little Girl in Old Quebec The gen. is used in combination with the comparative of adjectives, as dicker eines dūmes, thicker by the breadth of a thumb. A Middle High German Primer Third Edition To trade, barter, and dicker was the custom. The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, January 1886 Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, January, 1886 "Lucky again," commented Captain Candage, returning from his sharp dicker with the buyer. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Such critics had come to Washington, had made their "dicker," danced at the hotel hops, and been jostled on the Avenue. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death While Gustavus was thus dickering with the Dalesmen, a far more weighty matter kept him continually on an anxious seat at home. The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa Thus equipped as an itinerant clock repairer, and having a few watches to "dicker" with, he started on foot for Jenkintown, a small place twelve miles from Philadelphia. The Expressman and the Detective I've realised on that stuff I bought, made over three thousand clear profit, and with it I've made a dicker for a property on the bench above Bonanza, Gold Hill they call it. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance There's no need of dickering with him any longer, Mr. Marston. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 I warrant you he's a sharp one in a dicker. The Airplane Boys among the Clouds or, Young Aviators in a Wreck All winter long the king of Denmark was burning to send reinforcements, and dickering with the Powers of Europe to obtain the necessary funds. The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa On getting to Centreville he at once proceeded with his "dickering," being ready to either mend a clock or trade a watch. The Expressman and the Detective Luck is not God's price for success: that is altogether too cheap, nor does he dicker with men. Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power But though he would dicker with strangers, who took hours of his time with their specious palaverings, he shrank more and more from his own tenants and his own agents. On the Stairs Another race was proposed by the officers, and, after much 'dickering,' accepted by the Indians, against the next best horse of the garrison. French Pathfinders in North America With the information you got from Balmordan," Trigger remarked, "you should still be able to make a very good dicker with the Council, First Lady. Legacy After some dickering I induced him to sell me seven thousand five hundred dollars' worth, which I paid for with the stolen funds of the company. The Expressman and the Detective If you watch him carefully and notice his ways, you can dicker with him to better advantage than you can with Russell Sage. Comic History of the United States At first his demands were very unreasonable, but after some dickering it was decided that if he stood the ordeal he was to get an agreed amount of flour, tea, sugar, and tobacco. Three Boys in the Wild North Land I never saw a ship come into a Viking base planet with any kind of a cargo worth dickering over that hadn't taken some damage getting it. Space Viking The people of The Forge, taking small interest in the Mountain Whites, for whom they had a contempt, merely relegated Sandy to "Luck with the Yankee who was dickering about a factory site." A Son of the Hills He dickers in animals a little; trains 'em and has 'em doing things right away. David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story At last greatly to my relief and joy, he approached me, and after a few minutes' dickering I had the satisfaction of counting into pasture this immense herd of 4000 cattle. Ranching, Sport and Travel And now you're dickering with this man Palmer about a show, something you know nothing about. Watch Yourself Go By Well, Captain, as you won't consider a dicker with me, I've got a friend with me who represents the United States government. Frontier Boys in Frisco I had long coveted it for my boudoir, and in days before the war had often dickered with him as to price. With Those Who Wait Mr. Welborn here dickers a little in native animals and has a couple of the slickest, fattest, neatest bear cubs I've seen in years. David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story Much dickering was gone through and many deals made, some of enormous extent. Ranching, Sport and Travel While the dicker was pending, a young clerk from a store door, yelled to a passer-by on the opposite side of the street: "Were you at the circus?" Watch Yourself Go By There's a rich Mexican with a Spanish name, Señor da Cordova, over in the city right now and he has been trying to make a dicker with me to get hold of my yacht. Frontier Boys in Frisco Then with the pompous gravity of Abraham dickering with the desert tribes, they warn Champlain it is unsafe to go farther. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom Home folks were not buying; the rescued European nations forgot, as usual, their benefactor and dickered for meager supplies of meats and grains at other marts. David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story No, the two parties would come together, dicker and compromise, and in the end the diet would agree to build one road according to the one plan, and one according to the other. Essays on Scandinavian Literature But Everts wasn't the sort to dicker even for his life. Badge of Infamy So you're the man the Chamber of Commerce is dickering with.... Murder at Bridge "I won't dicker with you on that price," he said into the telephone. The Early Bird A Business Man's Love Story Tempted at last, he abruptly resolved to enter the congressional race himself, and this same day had effected the last dicker with other county leaders which would insure his naming in to-morrow's convention. The Henchman "Then the best thing you can do is make a dicker with Jo to share her part of the maintenance expenses, and you two divide the spoils that you collect from others." The She Boss A Western Story Her enemies have charged that she dickered with both the Entente and the Central Powers, and only joined the former because they made her the most tempting offer. Italy at War and the Allies in the West "Have you made a dicker with any one?" queried Madden suspiciously. Wolf Breed The devil did not like to spare it, and kept dickering and bantering with the man, but he insisted, and so the devil had to give him the hand-mill. The Younger Edda Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda I am not a dickering merchant, trying to make money out of the situation of my country. On The Blockade Mrs. Fisher took over the running of the household; Tim continued his running of the garage and started to dicker for the purchase of the house on Martin's Hill. The Fourth R It was the great mass of the Italian people, shamed and indignant at the position in which the nation had been placed by the sordid dickering with Austria, who swept the country into war. Italy at War and the Allies in the West “Want a milkshake?” he asked, mentally totting up the cash in his pocket and thinking that he should probably send Brad to dicker with the assayer again soon. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town Some years after we find Buckingham visiting Rubens at his home in Antwerp, dickering for his fine collection of curios and paintings. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters No, it's punch," he broke in; "and what's the use of dickering with a little two-for-a-cent high-brow, superior, exclusive, self-righteous rag of a daily that will reach only a handful of sissy people? The Freebooters of the Wilderness He sat for an hour with his head on the old wooden table, and planned what he should do with Flukey, leaving it to the brilliant-eyed lawyer to dicker with Lem for Flea. From the Valley of the Missing Real estate buying is still a dicker business. If You're Going to Live in the Country But Germany did not feel quite ready; she "dickered"; and things went on seemingly as before. Foch the Man A Life of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Armies I been dickering with him just the same as if we knew that you were safe and alive. The Black Pearl Here we saw many types of the Yorkshire man, famed for his shrewdness and fondness for what we would call "dickering." British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car Being A Record Of A Five Thousand Mile Tour In England, Wales And Scotland He did not desire to dicker with these ruffians; but it was necessary, if he wished to carry out his plans concerning Fledra. From the Valley of the Missing The insurance company raised the rate and while he was dickering with the company, the great plant was swept away in a midnight fire. Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures Ford's out of the way, to be gone ten days or a fortnight, and Frisbie has gone back to dicker with MacMorrogh, and to survey the new route up Horse Creek. Empire Builders A good salary—no quarreling or dickering about it. Charred Wood Not that I've ever taken a dollar for my personal pocket, for I haven't; but I've bought and sold and dickered and schemed with the best of 'em, and the worst of 'em. The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush "He must know, if he's as slick at tryin' folks as he is in a hoss dicker," returned an old farmer who had made a trade of steeds which had proved unprofitable for him. The Mansion of Mystery Being a Certain Case of Importance, Taken from the Note-book of Adam Adams, Investigator and Detective Thinking that it might be possible to secure a canoe from here to Pueblo Viejo, we dickered with a boatman at the wharf. In Indian Mexico (1908) Or, losing, if worse comes to worst, a lady who can command millions, held prisoner, should be worth dickering for. The Gun-Brand A number of the white men began dickering down the line with Arnaluk. The Eternal Maiden Throughout the hot campaign he had refused to stump the State for himself or his party, and was said to be holding steadfastly aloof in the bargaining and dickering. The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush But it is more significant to our purpose to note that the blood of youth had hardly ceased to run before the officials began to dicker for the material fruits of conquest. Preaching and Paganism We must bring all our moral goods with us, and every transaction involves endless dickering. Humanly Speaking They traded gladly, and when the young man heard that his dicker had earned for him the name of Fool MacNair in the conclave of the mighty, he smiled—and bought more barrens. The Gun-Brand Many of the associations were dickering for additional space for packing and for extensions for their refrigerator service. How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers Jabez asked him to remember that Quakers do not dicker, so if the price was too high for him to pay to come away at once. The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825 That dicker for a bear stands out as the sole trade I ever made in which I was not unmistakably and comprehensively "stuck." Bears I Have Met—and Others Make your dicker on that basis; take no less. Copper Streak Trail Every time, unless we agree to dicker with them on some country job. The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him If the muezzin were loud and constant in his calls to prayer, it probably was to drown the sound of the dickering in the market. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference They career around on their high, short-stirruped saddles; they saunter indolently in small groups; they hang about the hotel hoping for a dicker of some kind. African Camp Fires Why barter and dicker over any woman with another man? The Way of a Man No two explorers dickering over azimuth and dead reckoning could discuss latitude and longitude more earnestly than Titania and I argue our possible courses. Shandygaff You might call on Andrew Daney, my general manager," The Laird continued, turning to Caleb Brent, "and make a dicker with him for hauling our garbage-scow out to sea and dumping it. Kindred of the Dust So off he goes, and after dickering awhile he got the squaw to put it up for three dollars. Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned They were passing a row of open-fronted shops on the edges of which customers were squatted looking at materials while the proprietor bobbed and smiled and dickered over his bargains. The Motor Maids in Fair Japan For half an hour the dicker went on, and finally a price of fifteen thousand dollars was agreed upon. Scattergood Baines Then the lawyer dickered with the bank and brought it to terms. True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office He had discussed the price of sheep and had with much dickering bought fifty dry ewes at so much on foot delivered at the nearest shipping point. Starr, of the Desert He was a gentleman when the founders of the proud families of to-day were dickering in small merchandise. D'Ri and I You've known me a good many years, Mr. Marx, and you ought to realize by this time that dickering and beating down don't work with me, because I never take back what I say. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes We then set about, as you had done, to trade with Walker for a pony or two, and after much dickering Field succeeded in getting the, afterwards famous, big, old, sore-backed mule. Death Valley in '49 One overseer for a big estate came up to dicker for the boy, and said he would give him fifteen dollars for six months' work. What's the Matter with Ireland? Another thing, Mr. Devant," Thompson went on, still hesitatingly; "Larsen had a chance to get hold of this breed of pointers and lost out, because he dickered too long, and acted cheesy. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 I looked it out in the dicker, now then!' The Story of the Treasure Seekers He was dickering even then to sell over a thousand of his suburban acres. Burning Daylight The prophet, who had guessed the meaning of God, must dicker for the price of the revelation, and the poet hawk his visions in printers' row. Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887 If he have brains, they dicker with him and let him in on their deals for a share in his. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 So while he was figuring how many to buy, my brother Joel began dickering with the clerk. The Life of Me; an autobiography There was dickering and a final compromise on four dollars where the proprietor had demanded five and Warham had declared two fifty liberal. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise There's the wad of land that New Jersey crowd has been dickering for. Burning Daylight You were dickering with the cheese, and the man said, 'How many crackers?' Blix If not Machiavellism, what, in God's name, are our platform straddles, our expediency candidates, our deals and dickers in tariff-bills, our endeavors to catch all kinds of votes from all kinds of "interests." Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 It was a source of much satisfaction and gain to me that my position held me far above the bartering and dickering of the small traders. In the Valley The agent was for the moment dickering in re two pounds of sugar. The Forest The carpenter, the tailor, the judge and the preacher were alike ready to vary their customary occupations by a dicker whenever an opportunity offered. Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men He thought, privately, that his mother's disposition to dicker with the populace was no more creditable than necessary; he could take no great pleasure in dwelling upon it too lingeringly. With the Procession That will be enough for me if we can make a dicker. Revenge! "Then I've got to let my wife lie in some dive with that unspeakable Turk and that Mike the Goat while you men dicker with the scoundrels who committed this crime!" he said. The Sturdy Oak A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors I'm merely a business man up here to do a little dickering. All-Wool Morrison In the summer throughout the long sleepy afternoons, he drove about over the county buying sheep and cattle, stopping to trade horses with some farmer, dickering for new pieces of land, everlastingly busy. Poor White His favorite orating-ground--in fact, the only theater for displays was the front of the village store, where, among the farmers who came in to dicker and purchase stores, he would dilate. The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form And sure enough, Josiah wanted me to dicker, if I could, for a calf from Mount Vernon,—swop one of our yearlin's for it if I couldn't do no better. Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician To Smith's inspired financial genius this was "dickering with the Lord." Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft The dickering conservatism of craft unionism appeals to their cautious natures. The Centralia Conspiracy The quantity of ten of any commodity; as a dicker of hides was ten hides, a dicker of iron ten bars. A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 We do not wish to waste time in useless dickering, and a location in the heart of each town, perhaps on the main street, is more important than the price. Aunt Jane's Nieces out West Except for two half-breeds and the clerk dickering at the far end of the building over half a dozen silver fox furs Morse had the place to himself. Man Size Well, some go straightway to dickering with the Lord. Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft I cannot tell; but I am sure he hath more liquor in him than a whole dicker of hides; he's soak'd throughly, i'faith. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 Indian houses to lodge the trappers were built just outside the gate, where the dickering would be public. Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) He cannot deal or dicker with men, but the canny Scot can do this, if need be, and even enjoy it. Our Friend John Burroughs They did not dicker over details nor haggle about terms, but consented to put up the phonograph again, and all the money at their disposal as well. Going Some I'm the one he wants to dicker with. The Rose in the Ring Then I came out and again sat down in the park a few minutes, waiting for Richards to get through so that I could go and see the other people where he was dickering. Tales of the Road He thinks to prove that the tribes began the dickering, and then to offer his army to the English—Tom Tripe and all! Guns of the Gods We stood by through the purchasing of two cockerels and the dickering over their weight. Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan Well, I know Adoniram Rogers, and if I was dickering with him I'd buy the thing first and get the refusal of it afterwards. Cape Cod Stories "What's to prevent the Germans from making their own dicker with the King of the Belgians or with the Congo government, and rifling the hoard on a fifty-fifty or some such basis?" The Ivory Trail My advice is to fight, not to get in wrong by trying to dicker, for that might amount to confession, and suit Dorgan's purpose just as well. The Ear in the Wall But we should be doing injustice to le Bourdon, were we in any manner to confound him with the "dickering" race. Oak Openings And it was further humiliating to contemplate her maid as a driver of bargains, as dickering for baskets of vegetables. The Treasure At this Stark called one of the men at the bar aside, and the three began to dicker. The Barrier I know him; that is to say, I want to dicker with you, and through you with Jones. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900) 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. The Old Merchant Marine; A chronicle of American ships and sailors This reduced partizan opposition to a docile minority, willing to dicker for public spoils with the intrenched majority. The Boss and the Machine; a chronicle of the politicians and party organization They say he's been too free with concessions; and they accuse him of trying to make a dicker with England to sell out the country. Cabbages and Kings It looks to me as if 'twould be pretty good business to dicker with him. Thankful's Inheritance Anybody that wouldn't congratulate you on that could swap his head for a billiard ball and make money on the dicker; the ivory he'd get would be better than the bone he gave away. Shavings Well, they didn't dicker very long, but when the Strange One headed south again, it was in the rear of a spanking dog team. The Son of the Wolf I gathered that the heft of his spare change had come from dickers in stocks and bonds. The Depot Master Here we've wasted the whole morning dickering, and are no nearer together than when we started. The Outlet "And who the hell might you gents be?" queried Ben Swann, leaning against the side of the doorway to dicker. The Seventh Man But that fevered mind had recurred to early scenes and the babble which came to my ears was all of mining camps in the Rockies and the dicker of horses. The Woman in the Alcove Now, when trade has no capital there isn't a dicker to be made. The Gentle Grafter Guess we can't close the deal," he said, arising, "I cleaned up five hundred dollars in a little real estate dicker down in Susanville. Whirligigs Those hills produced gypsies who travel around cheating, dickering and selling gewgaws that are worth nothing. The Iron Puddler My life in the rolling mills and what came of it After the dicker we can make him a present of the whole shebang.” The Faith of Men In fact, I got so many concessions by dickering with those bosses that I made life a burden for them at times. The Iron Puddler My life in the rolling mills and what came of it |
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