Example Sentences

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“You think Anansi will barter for a broken, dusty old crate?”

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

Bread is corruptible, gold is incorruptible; bread is light, gold is heavy; bread is common, gold is rare; but the hungry man will barter all your mines for one morsel of bread.

From The Story of an African Farm, a novel by Schreiner, Olive

I will barter and buy; the fairest of all shalt thou choose thee; Joyously would I devote all of the cargo to thee.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various

For love a woman will give her honour, for love a man will barter his chance for eternal salvation.

From Viola Gwyn by McCutcheon, George Barr

I will barter and buy; the fairest of all shalt thou choose thee, Joyously would I devote all of the cargo to thee.

From The Poems of Goethe Translated in the original metres by Bowring, Edgar Alfred