The ends should be rounded so as not to chafe the animal.
It will be pleasant to hear it fret and chafe in the stormy nights; it will be a friend to me, that old tree!
I will bring cordials, and flannel stuffs With which to chafe him; open wide the door.
John, you are strong, and that rough hand of yours Will chafehim well.
We had only to come below when the watch was out, wring our wet clothes, hang them up to chafe against the bulkheads, and turn in and sleep as soundly as we could, until our watch was called again.
Stockings, mittens, and all, were wrung out also, and then hung up to drain and chafe dry against the bulkheads.
Well, let it pass; nor will I now Fresh cause of enmity avow To chafe thy mood and cloud thy brow.
To chafe "So much hard cash outlaid, Yet zero in my profits made!
When, high and dry, we chafe The body, and don the dress.
Chafe away, keep chafing, for she moans: She's coming to!
The ocean murmurs of change, as its billows chafe on altered landmarks.
With the irresistible impulse that urges the genius of the writer towards its vent in public sympathy and applause, she would chafe if I said, 'Be contented to be wholly mine.
She would chafe yet more to find that I had no fellowship in her aims and ends--that where I should feel pride, I felt humiliation.
James dozed as well as the narrow seat would permit, and only woke to chafe at each halt, and Louis mused over the associations of those scenes, and last year's triumphant return.
Go to the foot of the bed, Kenneth, put your hands under the blankets, and chafehis legs with hot flannel.
Opening the little frock in front, he placed the child's breast against his own, and held it there, while with his right hand he continued to chafe her limbs.
Anxious, however, to do all in his power to restore her, he tried to chafe her limbs; but seeing that he could make no impression, he hastened away to search for human dwellings and send help.
Soon, however, his former gloom returned,--the Babel began to chafe and weary him.
In most things this bond of allegiance does not bind him oppressively nor chafe him distressingly; but in some things it is drawn rather painfully tight.
Mrs. Edmonstone told Charles it was a treat to see any one so happy, and when he began to chafe at the delay, did her best to beguile the time, but without much success.
They might, like Charles, chafe and rage, but his calmness always gave him the ascendant almost without exertion, and few people had ever come into contact with him without a certain submission of will or opinion.
As to the colonies--Mr Chafe had been told of a certain spider who devoured her young ones.
He was cordially received, both there and in Warwick Gardens, where he met Mrs Chafe and the family, when he also met Mr Alfred Hesketh.
I say, Murchison, I left old Chafe wilder than ever.
But Warwick was one of those ministers who love to do everything for themselves, andchafe at masters and colleagues who presume to check or to criticise their actions.
We ride on the fast train, but chafe and worry ourselves and everybody about us to a frazzle because we are stopped on a siding by a semaphore of a block station which we never have observed, and would not understand if we did.
To chafe "So much hard cash outlaid Yet zero in my profits made!
The face of the rock was very even, and there was nothing for the rope to chafe against.
This is a good place, and the rope won't chafe as it runs over that.
If so, it would be better for you to climb, as the rope might chafe against them if I pulled.
Each man would need to forget himself and not to chafeunder his natural limitations.
With as good reason might a Sicilian or a Florentine chafe under the Latin conquest, or an American blush at the invasion of his country by the Pilgrim Fathers.
Something that reminded of her old longings and hindrances; of the shallowness and half-living that had been about her, and the chafe of her discontent in it.
She found herself hemmed in and headed at every turn by the pitiless hedge and ditch of circumstance, at which girls and women in our time have to chafe and wait; and from which there seems to be no way out.
She began to listen for his coming, to chafe at his delay.
There followed an interval of some minutes, during which Phil began to chafe with feverish impatience.
