How To Use Palaver In A Sentence
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Palaver is possible within the traditional worldview and life style called Ubuntu [humanness].
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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
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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
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there's a lot of palaver involved
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Oh, I forgot to tell you -- she palavered Burnett into lending her eight rifles for her men, and three cases of dynamite.
Chapter 16
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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.
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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
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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
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Hereupon the kafir put her into confinement, and called a palaver upon the bushreen's conduct.
Travels in the Interior of Africa — Volume 01
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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!’
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Now the interesting part of this whole palaver comes when you have a couple of people both using the system.
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I don't know why I should feel the need to go through all this palaver.
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With all due respect, this palaver from the congressional representative is an example of the "red herrings", flawed reasoning and misguided focus prevalent within the entire debate about Health Insurance Reform.
TX Dem: Bill without public option 'would be very, very difficult'
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I'm just trying to say that food can be normal and not actually a huge great palaver.
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`Okay, enough palaver ," he said, looking down at the rest of them.
FAMILY PICTURES
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He palavered her into going along
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Financial considerations apart, was he worth all that palaver?
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Lares and Penates, their wives, families, and friends, who will lay out the church and the churchyard after the old fashion familiar to their youth, and who will not forget the palaver - house, vulgarly called pothouse or pub.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1
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Not wishing to waste the morning palavering about nothing, I waved.
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She did not care whether they had beer or orange juice, making all this palaver over nothing was fun.
GWENDOLEN
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Everybody rose, shook, palavered inconsequentially for a bit, and then the director herded Nick back to the hallway and shoved him down it toward the elevators.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set
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He said: ‘We thought hayracks were more in keeping than hanging baskets - we can't believe all the fuss and palaver.
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He'll be stuck in the books and therefore we might be spared the endless palaver about his every move.
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Some parts of the world remain satisfyingly oblivious to all this palaver, however, as this true tale from a Scottish hostelry so splendidly proves.
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At first it seems like an awful lot of palaver, but actually the crepe maker is rather a good idea because you can't get them thin enough in an ordinary frying pan.
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To fill up the days, he palavered with neighbors and sold liquor and medical supplies.
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As to the League of Nations, a man that morning had palavered it up.
The White Monkey
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And the whole Mr/Ms etc palaver is yet another bonus of having a PhD.
Archive: Oct 08 - Mar 09
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what a palaver!
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Hence its 80 years of more or less continual crisis, in which the current palaver is a relatively minor squall.
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Apparently, a Russian speaker was found the Turkish crews were a mix of Turks, Greeks, and impressed Russians, and Ivak and the Turks palavered for a while.
John Paul Jones
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Tons of people enjoy lurid palaver on an astonishingly wide variety of topics, and your specific frame of reference is not a bit rare.
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Mandingo master can neither deprive his slave of life, nor sell him to a stranger, without first calling a palaver on his conduct, or in other words, bringing him to a public trial.
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, 1795-7
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In the world of Animal Farm, most speechifying and public palaver is bullshit and instigated lying, and though many characters are good-hearted and mean well, they can be frightened into closing their eyes to what's really going on.
Orwell and me
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`Okay, enough palaver ," he said, looking down at the rest of them.
FAMILY PICTURES
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From the rainforests of Tasmania to the dunes of the Sahara, they swapped the pains and palaver of the 21st century for the pleasures of a purer planet.
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Hence its 80 years of more or less continual crisis, in which the current palaver is a relatively minor squall.
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It was quiet all around the pot-bellied stove when Jesse, the elder, finished his palaver.
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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 Volume 1
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The author of this nauseating palaver is obviously so in love with what he thinks is his own eloquent rhetoric that he fails to notice his laughable double entendre.
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The amiable but essentially conservative bipartisanship that had the notables of each incoming administration palavering happily in her dining room hadn't yet numbed the Post's spinal nerve.
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At length, Gozlan, like Columbus 'sailors, having more than enough of the tramp, refused to play follow-my-leader any longer; and only after a long palaver was he dragged up one last narrow street dubbed variously the Rue du Bouloi, du Coq Heron, and de la Jussienne throughout its course.
Balzac
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The future will organize the exodus of whole villages, which, like those of the Hebrides in the last century, will bear with them to new worlds their Lares and Penates, their wives, families, and friends, who will lay out the church and the churchyard after the old fashion familiar to their youth, and who will not forget the palaver-house, vulgarly called pothouse or pub.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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We found a bar and had a couple of drinks and, after some palaver, managed to order some food, and we chatted about all sorts of stuff.
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After a long night in our desolate camp, Jon and I have a palaver with Karchung.
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Presently he called on his comrades to stop, and held with them a long palaver, in which the French horn seemed to be an objector, and the trombone an assenter, while the key-bugle didn't seem to care.
Shifting Winds A Tough Yarn
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There was no introductory palaver, he went on stage and went straight into the music and song.
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She did not care whether they had beer or orange juice, making all this palaver over nothing was fun.
GWENDOLEN
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The big polytonal palaver of folk-tunes in Biber's "Battalia.
Salvati dunque e scolpati
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Or perhaps it was here, watching them even as they palavered and Nigel returned with various writing implements.
The Dark Tower
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Organizing the annual office lunch was such a palaver, I swore I'd never do it again.
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getting into each building was a bit of a palaver
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We are speaking of Thoreau's case for calluses on writers: "I find incessant labor with the hands, which engrosses the attention also, the best method to remove palaver out of one's style.
Christopher Lydon: Damion Searls: A Thoreau Journal for Writers & Moderns (AUDIO)
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Two of the uakaris exchanged a glance and palavered softly among themselves.
The Mocking Program
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After exiting the rear of the cave, we sat palavering between precipices of glacial ice and a slope of rock and snow.
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As no palaver is ever conducted without profuse libations, raw palm-spirit, distilled by themselves, was passed round in cocoa-nut shell-cups, and I was expected to keep pace – no slow one – with their drinking.
Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago
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And it's a hell of a lot quicker to put on than the palaver of balconette bras, Spanx and fluffy cover-ups.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Since I've started the whole palaver, I may as well carry it forward.
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The administration may be doing the press a small favor by snubbing it, freeing reporters to abandon their scripted palaver and dig elsewhere for stories.
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So these people have palavered over and over about it, never noting that the basic projection making the unpleasant forecasts was patently ridiculous.
Unpersuasive Argument Against Reforming Social Security, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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The Serawoolli thereupon called a palaver (or in European terms, brought an action) to recover damages for the loss of his beast, on which he set a high value.
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, 1795-7
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That's what I'm coming up to Edinburgh to talk about this month: about the book and, presumably, its attendant fuss and palaver.
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There was plenty of other sorts of entries before this recent palaver.
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It is, as it were, a swath mown in the deep pine forest -- the labor of a poor ignorant being, who, like the parrot, can talk and palaver with simple unmeaningness, but ignorant of the world beyond a radius of ten miles.
History of the Eighty-sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, during its term of service
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since I've started the whole palaver, I may as well carry it forward
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Our readings proved to be chock-a-block with militant palaver and rebarbative nonsense.
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There's some big issues to consider with all this marriage palaver.
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I was told, however, that the Mandingo master can neither deprive his slave of life, nor sell him to a stranger, without first calling a palaver on his conduct, or in other words, bringing him to
Travels in the Interior of Africa — Volume 01
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Why not some panchayat, a round table under the overseer moon, or a palaver by the banyan tree?
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As someone happiest in a pair of Stubbies from the local menswear store, we don't understand the fashion palaver.
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But for this bloated series he endlessly ‘palavers,’ as his characters do, and his anything-goes weirdness lacks real-world relevance or resonance.
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I go to the river to call a palaver of all free men," said Muchini;
The Keepers of the King's Peace
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All that travelling abroad and wedding palaver were just desperate, elaborate stunts to get new stories!
