All 4 Uses of
barter
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- 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.†
Chpt 3bartering = trading (things of value without involving money)
- 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.†
Chpt 5 *barter = trade (things of value without involving money)
- 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.†
Chpt 12bartered = traded (things of value without involving money)
- Thus they bartered their eastern territory for Maule's garden-ground.†
Chpt 21
Definition:
to trade things of value without involving money