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  • Percy, you can't barter with Hades.†   (source)
  • All we had left to barter were the last of my father's suits.†   (source)
  • The barter system is back, baby!†   (source)
  • She had sewn money and jewelry into the lining of her dress, enough, she thought, to barter rides all the way.†   (source)
  • This can be paid in paper notes, tetrarch coins, or the bartering equivalent.†   (source)
  • "I got some fine piecework to barter, if you're amenable," I hear a man say to Mr. Nielsen, standing behind the counter.†   (source)
  • In the moments when Buckley sought her out, she often made a barter of it.†   (source)
  • The onions must be harvested, packed into the rough sacks that Mercy had sewn, and stacked ready to be hauled into Hartford or bartered for goods when a sailing ship came up the river.†   (source)
  • BARTER!†   (source)
  • But—black market, barter currency?†   (source)
  • Hall told me that according to the terms of this arrangement, he'd agreed to accept only $10,000 of his usual fee in cash; the balance would be bartered for expensive ad space in the magazine, which targeted an upscale, adventurous, physically active audience-the core of his client base.†   (source)
  • Survival is a continuous negotiation, as you have to barter covertly for every service the government pretends to provide, but actually doesn't.†   (source)
  • One of them asks what "barter" means.†   (source)
  • In a totally noncash economy with only a vestigial barter black market, a person's activities could be tracked in real time by monitoring the credit wake of his or her universal card.†   (source)
  • Okay," she said finally, as if we'd bartered out some kind of agreement.†   (source)
  • Reverend Pike spoke in a real loud voice, but I didn't catch a word---except the first two, and three months later when Denver was ready for solid food and they let me out for good, I went and got you a gravestone, but I didn't have money enough for the carving so I exchanged (bartered, you might say) what I did have and I'm sorry to this day I never thought to ask him for the whole thing: all I heard of what Reverend Pike said.†   (source)
  • The way she uses these acts as currency, with which she barters for loyalty and allegiance.†   (source)
  • And she's trying to barter for our flowers!†   (source)
  • They bartered ciuchy, second-hand clothes, with my companions in exchange for food.†   (source)
  • This isn't something I can barter: it's something I have to do.†   (source)
  • Bars of metal were better for bartering, but full bars of metal were inconvenient to carry.†   (source)
  • "—as if my mother were some ancient peasant tribeswoman arriving from the tundra with an armful of raw yak meat and some buttons for bartering, trying to get something from Amy that wasn't on offer.†   (source)
  • They were met by mortar and machine-gun fire from straight ahead in the bartered palm trees.†   (source)
  • In the Middle Ages people returned to payment in kind and bartering.†   (source)
  • I couldn't believe I was bartering my coat with a homeless woman.†   (source)
  • In order to avoid attracting unwanted attention, he had made himself a pack-using dead branches and a square of canvas he had bartered from a tinker-and placed his armor within it.†   (source)
  • Make soap, wash dishes, barter—yes.†   (source)
  • I can easily imagine myself eating this regularly, even if I have to barter items at my store to get it.†   (source)
  • The prison was no more than a small walled village and within it occurred a constant seethe of barter and exchange in everything from radios and blankets down to matches and buttons and shoenails and within this bartering ran a constant struggle for status and position.†   (source)
  • They had bartered it for food.†   (source)
  • I went to the street market to buy a bikini and sarong, bartered for carved masks and silver jewelry, and walked the back roads of Nusa Dua talking to the friendly locals.†   (source)
  • The native Songhies of Esquimalt and many Japanese fishermen came to his boatbuilding shop on Saltspring Island, to barter and to buy.†   (source)
  • In fact, they were rare coins that a desperate customer had bartered in exchange for heroin.†   (source)
  • We trade magazines; we barter food; we pay for drugs.†   (source)
  • Jake bartered legal fees for plumbing work and landscaping and building supplies.†   (source)
  • He didn't belong here; he belonged out where BoneMan wanted him, bartering for his daughter's life.†   (source)
  • Politics is a bartering game.†   (source)
  • But others, like me, try to barter, as if the great Hereafter was a swap meet in the clouds.†   (source)
  • These she could sell for hard money or use for barter.†   (source)
  • Bella, if you compare the level of commitment between a marital union as opposed to bartering your soul in exchange for an eternity as a vampire…†   (source)
  • "And you're willing to barter Clary's life too?"†   (source)
  • Bartering was the only way to get the iron.†   (source)
  • He thought of all the dark roads, the alleys, the back yards of the country, where the best of the country's men would now exchange their services in jungle barter, in chance jobs, in unrecorded transactions.†   (source)
  • But I suppose even the Oldham Sanitarium is a far better memory than the one I have of my father in an East London opium den, so lost on the drug that he'd bartered even his wedding ring for more.†   (source)
  • Yeah, yeah, I know what they call someone who barters her body in exchange for something she wants.†   (source)
  • For surely he'd bartered his soul for this dark art.†   (source)
  • He arranged them carefully next to my father's chaise like trinkets for barter, all the while recounting to himself in a small voice the catalogue of his suburban treasure.†   (source)
  • We negotiated; you were the bartered coin.†   (source)
  • Joffrey will never surrender his plaything, and Lady Catelyn is not so great a fool as to barter the Kingslayer for a slip of a girl.†   (source)
  • Members of the council would scandalously barter for votes.†   (source)
  • Pay their legal bills in barter.†   (source)
  • Dan had evolved a barter system for his services.†   (source)
  • They were not financially able to abandon their potatoes, so they cheerfully set up camp right on the state line, where they ate potatoes, sold potatoes, bartered potatoes.†   (source)
  • In this mood he even tried to draw my father into barter deals for our mail-order furniture.†   (source)
  • After the first day of extravagant spending, the kids took inventory of their finances and discovered to their chagrin that the trinkets for which they had bartered so generously that day were priced like crown jewels.†   (source)
  • Any commodity is certain to be sold—bought, sold, leased, rented, bartered, traded, discounted, price-stabilized, inflated, bootlegged, and legislated—and a woman's 'commodity' as it was called on Earth in franker days is no exception.†   (source)
  • This depended on the size of the station, the probable length of the halt, and the consequent likelihood of profitable barter.†   (source)
  • At last no option but to draw upon my secret hoard: a small stock of rice, ten ollocks in all, shielded from every temptation to sell or barter, kept even when the need to hold our land had squeezed us dry of everything else.†   (source)
  • ...she sat beside him on the car seat they had bartered for and used now as a sofa,   (source)
  • The daily supplies at each of these were exhausted within hours, sometimes within minutes, and the only option then was to barter with one's neighbors or kin or acquaintances,   (source)
    barter = trade (things of value without involving money)
  • The camp was in some ways like a trading post in an old-time gold rush, and much was for sale or barter, from sweaters to mobile phones to antibiotics to, quietly, sex and drugs,   (source)
  • ...since most people had little to barter with, they usually bartered with a promise of something to eat tomorrow or the next day in exchange for something to eat today, a bartering not so much of different goods, exactly, but of time.   (source)
  • ...a promise of something to eat tomorrow or the next day in exchange for something to eat today, a bartering not so much of different goods, exactly, but of time.   (source)
    bartering = trading (things of value without involving money)
  • We can certainly barter for the storm spirits and the satyr.†   (source)
  • What if that busybody idiot cousin tries to barter you off as a second wife to a poor family?†   (source)
  • Until this point barter was the most common method of trade.†   (source)
  • To buy a stamp for this letter, I had to barter away a hairpin.†   (source)
  • The wharf was a confusion of unloading and bartering.†   (source)
  • They would have to be willing to beg, barter, collude, and if necessary, resort to chicanery.†   (source)
  • Money and favors were bartered as everyone vied for a time that suited them.†   (source)
  • Marie bartered clothes and paid a few dollars for others.†   (source)
  • It was only by bartering gasoline for groceries that he managed to keep his family alive.†   (source)
  • He knows how to barter knowledge for money.†   (source)
  • "We want to barter for the weapon," I repeated.†   (source)
  • "What was this treasure you bartered?" asked YaYa, shifting beneath him.†   (source)
  • Can you barter and handle yourself in the market?†   (source)
  • The hotel armories take red gold, or they work on a barter system.†   (source)
  • We should go in, claim guest rights, and barter for what we need.†   (source)
  • After my experience with Ran, the word barter made me even more uncomfortable than Rear-Rester.†   (source)
  • Will you barter with us for the h—for the weapon you spoke of?†   (source)
  • You said you also wanted to barter for a stolen weapon?†   (source)
  • We were bartering with them for your swan.†   (source)
  • His fur coat must have been taken from him on the road or perhaps he had bartered it for food.†   (source)
  • The park had become the barter center of Fort Repose.†   (source)
  • Barter.†   (source)
  • People are creating neighborhood watches, barter exchanges, charging stations, crime reporting— communication is the key to civilization.†   (source)
  • Barter with me.†   (source)
  • He gave each of us a bolt of cloth and a bottle of vodka, goods he knew we could barter for food, shelter, and clothes.†   (source)
  • He's lost his chance to barter."†   (source)
  • We want to barter.†   (source)
  • After all these months of negotiating and bartering, putting up strongholds and retreating, she'd used her last weapon: trust.†   (source)
  • You bartered for our lives.†   (source)
  • The impatient tone, the peremptory movement with which she sat down were a confession of weakness: by the rules of their unwritten language, one did not assume a demanding manner unless one were seeking a favor and had no value-no threat-to barter.†   (source)
  • Wearing barter coats and thick socks stuffed into oversized boots, they had retraced their steps across the poplar-log bridge and down themountain, catching a ride on a truck to Dickens.†   (source)
  • The prison was no more than a small walled village and within it occurred a constant seethe of barter and exchange in everything from radios and blankets down to matches and buttons and shoenails and within this bartering ran a constant struggle for status and position.†   (source)
  • The lumber camp families paid for the crops either with cash money or with barter items, such as coffee, sugar, toilet paper, stamps, pencils and paper, some throw-off clothes and shoes, and old newspapers.†   (source)
  • It was an exquisite corselet of fine gray mail, the very armor Max had bartered to the dvergar in exchange for the Orminheid.†   (source)
  • Why should we need to barter for them?†   (source)
  • Barter.†   (source)
  • I promised to barter in good faith.†   (source)
  • We agree to host you while we barter.†   (source)
  • "Honored hosts," Sam said, her voice shaky, "please put us gently and safely on the top of your table, so we may barter with you."†   (source)
  • All we want is a chance to barter.†   (source)
  • "You—the grandson of that meddler, :Nord—come here asking to barter, disturbing the World Serpent, interrupting my scavenging, and you won't even agree to a reasonable offer?†   (source)
  • We want to barter.†   (source)
  • Barter with you?†   (source)
  • On first sight, I wondered if it would be faster just to drain Boom Daddy and go boom, because I didn't like our chances of bartering with the old dwarf.†   (source)
  • What we had saved had been taken from us, there was nothing more …. nothing left to sell; neither youth nor strength left to barter.†   (source)
  • They may live in our midst but I can never accept them, for they lay their hands upon us and we are all turned from tilling to barter, and hoard our silver since we cannot spend it, and see our children go without the food that their children gorge, and it is only in the hope that one day things will be as they were that we have done these things.†   (source)
  • Now, honey was liquid gold, and beeswax, with which candles could be dipped, another valuable item of barter.†   (source)
  • They would not barter them for any earthly pleasure.†   (source)
  • Barter for a woman is counted among us as the last degradation.†   (source)
  • In this poor stuffed crow, with its pathetic bartering, and its neat buttons, nothing of the owner had been left.†   (source)
  • He was the inventor of the plough and a system of barter; he is worshiped by the Chinese peasant as the "prince of cereals."†   (source)
  • And she answered indifferently, as though it were nothing to her this way or that, "Aye, beaten or carried to a man's bed, as the whim was, and not to one man's only but to any that might desire her that night, and the young lords bickered and bartered with each other for this slave or that and said, 'Then if you tonight, I tomorrow,' and when they were all alike wearied of a slave the men servants bickered and bartered for what the young lords left, and this before a slave was out of…†   (source)
  • They lived entirely off the produce of their lands and the game in the swamp, conducting their business generally by the barter system and seldom seeing five dollars in cash a year, and horses and uniforms were out of their reach.†   (source)
  • The minister got hold of a boat and carried a big cargo of empty cans to the mainland, and he was able to barter them with an outfit named the Toda Construction Company for a tile roof for his church.†   (source)
  • We should still be scratching the outlines of deer on the remains of mutton bones and bartering flints for sheep skins or whatever simple ornament took our unsophisticated taste.†   (source)
  • Yes, and he who thinks, what's more, he who makes thought his business, he may go far in it, but he has bartered the solid earth for the water all the same, and one day he will drown.†   (source)
  • It seemed a wonderful barter.†   (source)
  • …all divided and fixed and neat with a people living on it all divided and fixed and neat because of what color their skins happened to be and what they happened to own, and where a certain few men not only had the power of life and death and barter and sale over others, they had living human men to perform the endless repetitive personal offices such as pouring the very whiskey from the jug and putting the glass into his hand or pulling off his boots for him to go to bed that all men…†   (source)
  • Unbidden they came again to haunt his memory, the shaven faces of good tradesmen, each leading the well washed kingdom of his home in its obedient ritual the lean hushed smiles of worship, the chained passion of devotion, as they implored God's love upon their ventures, or delivered their virgin daughters into the holy barter of marriage.†   (source)
  • It can be bought, and sold, and bartered away.†   (source)
  • You have bartered it for a pittance of the public gold.†   (source)
  • You shall not have it without a fair barter.†   (source)
  • Thus they bartered their eastern territory for Maule's garden-ground."†   (source)
  • Can you say with certitude by whom the soul of your race was bartered and its elect betrayed—by the questioner or by the mocker?†   (source)
  • Hadn't I been told in all the tones of jealousy and admiration that he had collected, bartered, swindled, or stolen more ivory than all the other agents together?†   (source)
  • How often had his credit with a duchess, built up of the yearly accumulation of her desire to do him some favour for which she had never found an opportunity, been squandered in a moment by his calling upon her, in an indiscreetly worded message, for a recommendation by telegraph which would put him in touch at once with one of her agents whose daughter he had noticed in the country, just as a starving man might barter a diamond for a crust of bread.†   (source)
  • —Pshaw! many a prince has been known To barter his robes for our cowl and our gown, But which of us e'er felt the idle desire To exchange for a crown the grey hood of a Friar!†   (source)
  • A very pretty girl bartered a heart as clear as crystal, and which seemed her most valuable possession, for another jewel of the same kind, but so worn and defaced as to be utterly worthless.†   (source)
  • But go up to Jerusalem next Passover, and stand on the Xystus or in the Street of Barter, and see him as he is.†   (source)
  • The ship, however, was by no means a large one: a Russian craft built on the Siberian coast, and purchased by my uncle after bartering away the vessel in which he sailed from home.†   (source)
  • I heard that one boy, who was a coal-merchant's son, came as a set-off against the coal-bill, and was called, on that account, 'Exchange or Barter' — a name selected from the arithmetic book as expressing this arrangement.†   (source)
  • We have bartered our butter and curds and peas like misers, and have never kept a morsel for ourselves, so that we could scrape enough pennies together to send to him.†   (source)
  • A lonely brother, many thousands of miles away, writing, on paper blotted with tears, that her words had too soon come true, and that all the treasures in the world would be cheaply bartered for a sight of her dear face?†   (source)
  • He makes the horses ill with too much water, cuts good harness, barters the tires of the wheels for drink, drops bits of iron into the thrashing machine, so as to break it.†   (source)
  • A very ancient woman, in a white short gown and a green petticoat, with a string of gold beads about her neck, and what looked like a nightcap on her head, had brought a quantity of yarn to barter for the commodities of the shop.†   (source)
  • Hence the chase became necessary, not merely to provide for his subsistence, but in order to procure the only objects of barter which he could furnish to Europe.†   (source)
  • She was bewildered too by the prospect of having to rely on her own resources again: it seemed to herself that she never could again acquire energy sufficient to go to market, barter, and sell.†   (source)
  • Barter not the light and air of heaven, and the freshness of earth and all the beautiful things which breathe upon it, for the cold cloister and the cell.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Rawdon Crawley was general-in-chief over these arrangements, with full orders from Sir Pitt to sell, barter, confiscate, or purchase furniture, and she enjoyed herself not a little in an occupation which gave full scope to her taste and ingenuity.†   (source)
  • In political practice, therefore, they join in all coercive measures against the working class; and in ordinary life, despite their high falutin phrases, they stoop to pick up the golden apples dropped from the tree of industry, and to barter truth, love, and honour for traffic in wool, beetroot-sugar, and potato spirits.†   (source)
  • At my time of life, food and clothing be all that is needed; and I have little occasion for what you call plunder, unless it may be, now and then, to barter for a horn of powder, or a bar of lead.†   (source)
  • Thus I could avoid all trade and barter, so far as my food was concerned, and having a shelter already, it would only remain to get clothing and fuel.†   (source)
  • …the capital of Old England, and that which is called 'Haven', with the addition of the word 'New'; and have seen the scows and brigantines collecting their droves, like the gathering to the ark, being outward bound to the Island of Jamaica, for the purpose of barter and traffic in four-footed animals; but never before have I beheld a beast which verified the true scripture war-horse like this: 'He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength; he goeth on to meet the armed men.†   (source)
  • As such, it is greatly prized by savages, and were we to fall in with natives, we might very possibly find a store of coral useful in bartering with them.†   (source)
  • Why! she'd live on black bread and water, she would not sell her soul, she would not barter her moral freedom for comfort; she would not barter it for all Schleswig-Holstein, much less Mr. Luzhin's money.†   (source)
  • There was the sleepy Sunday of his boyhood, when, like a military deserter, he was marched to chapel by a picquet of teachers three times a day, morally handcuffed to another boy; and when he would willingly have bartered two meals of indigestible sermon for another ounce or two of inferior mutton at his scanty dinner in the flesh.†   (source)
  • Not only had barrels of beef and bread been given away to make room for the far more valuable sperm, but additional supplemental casks had been bartered for, from the ships she had met; and these were stowed along the deck, and in the captain's and officers' state-rooms.†   (source)
  • I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning; that I was a fool, with fond fancies, too, bartering away my all of truth and ardour against your little feeble remnant of love.†   (source)
  • I offer them in lawful barter.†   (source)
  • Oh! if men by selling their own souls could ride rampant for a term, for how short a term would I barter mine tonight!'†   (source)
  • The Indians, who had previously lived in a sort of abundance, then find it difficult to subsist, and still more difficult to procure the articles of barter which they stand in need of.†   (source)
  • You never can know what it was to be devoted to you, with those old associations; to find that anyone could be so hard as to suppose that the truth of my heart was bartered away, and to be surrounded by appearances confirming that belief.†   (source)
  • It was a maiden newly-won—and won by the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale's own sermon, on the Sabbath after his vigil—to barter the transitory pleasures of the world for the heavenly hope that was to assume brighter substance as life grew dark around her, and which would gild the utter gloom with final glory.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, there is my hand, in friendly witness, that I will exchange no more cuffs with thee, having been a loser by the barter.†   (source)
  • He can only procure the materials of comfort by bartering his commodities against the goods of the European, for the assistance of his countrymen is wholly insufficient to supply his wants.†   (source)
  • "Can your idols walk or speak, or have they the glorious gift of reason?" demanded the trapper, with some indignation in his voice; "though but little given to run into the noise and chatter of the settlements, yet have I been into the towns in my day, to barter the peltry for lead and powder, and often have I seen your waxen dolls, with their tawdry clothes and glass eyes—"†   (source)
  • He would still have faith in man's brightening destiny, and perhaps love him all the better, as he should recognize his helplessness in his own behalf; and the haughty faith, with which he began life, would be well bartered for a far humbler one at its close, in discerning that man's best directed effort accomplishes a kind of dream, while God is the sole worker of realities.†   (source)
  • If indeed thy faith recommends that mercy which rather your tongues than your actions pretend, save me from this dreadful death, without seeking a requital which would change thy magnanimity into base barter.†   (source)
  • Without giving herself time for a second thought, she rushed into the shop, pale, wild, desperate in gesture and expression, scowling portentously, and looking far better qualified to do fierce battle with a housebreaker than to stand smiling behind the counter, bartering small wares for a copper recompense.†   (source)
  • Enough, that the power which thou mightest acquire, I will never share; nor hold I so light of country or religious faith, as to esteem him who is willing to barter these ties, and cast away the bonds of the Order of which he is a sworn member, in order to gratify an unruly passion for the daughter of another people.†   (source)
  • Or is there such virtue in the rude rhymes of a wandering bard, that domestic love, kindly affection, peace and happiness, are so wildly bartered, to become the hero of those ballads which vagabond minstrels sing to drunken churls over their evening ale?†   (source)
  • To Agamemnon, as to Menelaos, he gave a thousand measures of the wine for trading, so the troops could barter for it, some with bronze and some with shining iron, others with hides and others still with oxen, some with slaves.†   (source)
  • In these terms Priam's son pled for his life, but heard a voice of iron say: "Young fool, don't talk to me of what you'll barter.†   (source)
  • 19 Once Patroklos is dead, Akhilleus spares no suppliant; in Book XXI, he taunts Lykaon, a son of Priam on his knees before him: "Young fool, don't talk to me of what you'll barter.†   (source)
  • …die
    and pouring glistening wine in a full libation,
    placed the cup in his guest's hands—Odysseus,
    raider of cities—and down he sat to his own share.

    Mesaulius served them bread, a man the swineherd
    purchased for himself in his master's absence—
    alone, apart from his queen or old Laertes-
    bought him from Taphians, bartered his own goods.
    They reached out for the spread that lay at hand
    and when they'd put aside desire for food and drink,
    Mesaulius cleared the things away.†   (source)
  • I'll bring him aboard as well.
    Wherever you sell him off, whatever foreign parts,
    he'll fetch you quite a price!'
    Bargain struck,
    back the woman went to our lofty halls

    and the rovers stayed on with us one whole year,
    bartering, piling up big hoards in their hollow ship,
    and once their holds were loaded full for sailing
    they sent a messenger, fast, to alert the woman.
    This crafty bandit came to my father's house,
    dangling a golden choker linked with amber beads,
    and while…†   (source)
  • The life thou lived'st we know not, But that thou walk'dst thy years in barter, 'mid the haunts of brokers, Nor heroism thine, nor war, nor glory.†   (source)
  • …bards, To limn their portraits, stately, beautiful, and emulate at will, Homer with all his wars and warriors—Hector, Achilles, Ajax, Or Shakspere's woe-entangled Hamlet, Lear, Othello—Tennyson's fair ladies, Metre or wit the best, or choice conceit to wield in perfect rhyme, delight of singers; These, these, O sea, all these I'd gladly barter, Would you the undulation of one wave, its trick to me transfer, Or breathe one breath of yours upon my verse, And leave its odor there.†   (source)
  • The companionship of one's wife is no article of merchandise, that, after it has been bought, may be returned, or bartered, or changed; for it is an inseparable accident that lasts as long as life lasts; it is a noose that, once you put it round your neck, turns into a Gordian knot, which, if the scythe of Death does not cut it, there is no untying.†   (source)
  • To speak properly, Commutative Justice, is the Justice of a Contractor; that is, a Performance of Covenant, in Buying, and Selling; Hiring, and Letting to Hire; Lending, and Borrowing; Exchanging, Bartering, and other acts of Contract.†   (source)
  • And as each member will have his friends and connections to provide for, the desire of mutual gratification will beget a scandalous bartering of votes and bargaining for places.†   (source)
  • We first sailed to Achin, in the island of Sumatra, and then to Siam, where we bartered our wares for some arrack and opium, the last of which bore a great price among the Chinese; in a word, we went up to Suskan, making a very great voyage; &, after eight months time, I returned to Bengal, very well satisfied with this adventure, having not only got a sufficient quantity of money, but an insight of getting a great deal more.†   (source)
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