barter

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' staterooms.

The immense egotism of youth forced me on my own path, but (cry of the human always!) had I known--if I had known--I would many times have bartered my poor laurels for the privilege, such as Tinsley and Herrera possess, of having aided him in his monumental researches.

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?

Next day the people assembled in the great hall of the Ritter tavern, to witness the auction--for the proprietor had said the treasure of Germany's most honored son should be bartered away in no meaner place.

Simpson speedily bartered with a man "over Wareham way," and got in exchange for it an old horse which his owner did not need, as he was leaving town to visit his daughter for a year, Simpson fattened the aged animal, keeping him for several weeks (at early morning or after nightfall) in one neighbor's pasture after another, and then exchanged him with a Milltown man for a top buggy.

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.

She did not know that in his capacity as cook he had that day been rowed up this very stream to a little village where he had bartered with the natives for such provisions as they had for sale, and that he had there arranged the details of his plan for the adventure upon which they were now setting forth.

Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal said that the new and improved SOPs would include restrictions on vessels, control of items to be bartered and other guidelines to monitor the activities.

If you've shoveled someone's sidewalk or driveway and been handed a tray of still-warm, homemade chocolate chip cookies when you've finished, you've bartered. If you've repaired someone's mountain bike in exchange for an afternoon twice a month on said bicycle, you've practiced the barter system.

Goods are bartered between India and Pakistan through two designated routes -- Uri- Muzaffarabad and Poonch- Rawalakot.

(7,8,17,19) Simon (18) argues that a stable fee policy is part of a proper therapeutic frame work, and money is "the only acceptable medium of exchange when receiving payment from patients." Emotional distress and the power differential inherent in treatment might prevent a patient from making an accurate assessment of the value of the bartered goods or services, (7,8,17,18,20) which could lead to future claims of undue influence from trading goods or services below market value.

Grampa told the family how Jerry had bartered for the gift.