palaver

How To Use palaver In A Sentence

• Palaver is possible within the traditional worldview and life style called Ubuntu [humanness].
• We have had gentlefolks down from London about it, men who argue and palaver, and wear high hats and are said to have long bills, and there is talk of a Government cutter to protect us, towed by red tape, and the trawlers are to cast their nets farther asea. Without Prejudice
• On March 31st there was a violent quarrel between the women of two settlements, and the “reguli” embarked with all their host, to fight it out; Rampano was the victor, and after the usual palaver the vanquished was compelled to pay a heavy fine. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
• there's a lot of palaver involved
• Oh, I forgot to tell you -- she palavered Burnett into lending her eight rifles for her men, and three cases of dynamite. Chapter 16
• I conjecture that your professor uses aureate palaver to augment the appraised merit of your edification. Waldo Jaquith - 5 words my poetry professor used during today’s lecture.
• The ladies are impatient for their new clothes; the gentlemen half wild for want of tobacco; and things coming to a crisis, they make inquiries for the trader down the road, one village to another, and then, if it is found that a village has killed the trader, and stolen all his goods, there is naturally a big palaver, and things are made extremely hot, even for equatorial Africa, for that village by the tobaccoless husbands of the clothesless wives. Travels in West Africa
• Now no man may call a palaver of all small chiefs unless he notifies the government of his intention, for the government is jealous of self-appointed parliaments, for when men meet together in public conference, however innocent may be its first cause, talk invariably drifts to war, just as when they assemble and talk in private it drifts womanward. Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country
• Hereupon the kafir put her into confinement, and called a palaver upon the bushreen's conduct. Travels in the Interior of Africa — Volume 01
• Jo also sent me running for the dictionary when, after observing a particularly chaotic family row, she turned to the camera and exclaimed, ‘What a palaver!’