Snack~, to quiz or chaff with regard to a particular weakness or recent transaction.
And Judith, feeding these wild border lads on scraps of chaff and banter, and retaining their absolute loyalty, was a sight worth seeing.
Hast thou come here to condemn me, having ascertained that I am now bearing the form of an ass that subsists upon chaff and that is now passing his days in a lonely spot remote from the habitations of men?
It is better, O monarch that a king should blaze up for a moment like charcoal of ebony-wood than that he should smoulder and smoke like chaff for many years.
A slanderous wretch, when enraged, may strike another with his palms, or throw dust or chaff at another, or frighten another by showing or grinding his teeth.
Sakra said, 'Thou art now, O Danava, born as an ass subsisting on chaff as thy food.
If there is no wind, the chaff accumulates on top and is pushed over the edge from time to time.
Then the chaff is winnowed away by a woman as shown in the present series, Vol.
Forth from the pass in tumult driven, Like chaff before the winds of heaven, The archery appear: For life!
And he shall gather the wheat into his garner, but the chaff he shall burn up with unquenchable fire.
Who, as my hair, my thoughts too shed, And winnow from the chaff my head.
Why stuff, for fools to gaze upon, With chaff of words, the garb he wore, As corn-husks when the ear is gone Are rustled all the more?
Till Slavery's minions cower and quail; One charge of fire shall drive them fast Like chaff before our Northern gale!
For still the Lord alone is God The pomp and power of tyrant man Are scattered at his lightest breath, Like chaff before the winnower's fan.
Unchanged the awful lithograph Of power and glory undertrod; Of nations scattered like the chaff Blown from the threshing-floor of God.
Then there were plebes coming down there frequently; I had more or less chaff with them, and Major-General Frazier among them.
Benny wanted to chaff Mr. Dillon by asking him if he supposed he could march a squad as far as the Academic, and was suddenly reminded of his uncertain status by being curtly told to mind his own business.
Like thechaff of the summer threshingfloors' (Daniel ii.
Whose fan is in His hand, and He will throughly purge His floor, and gather His wheat into the garner; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
He, at least, may throw the first stone who has always taken the trouble to sift the grain from the chaff amidst all the begging letters which he has received, and who has never lamented that his benevolence outran his discretion.
Believe in man with large belief; The garnered grain each harvest-time Hath promise, roundness, and full prime For all the empty chaff and sheaf.
The colonies, supplied with good queens, plenty of bees, 20 to 25 pounds of stores each, and with chaff cushions placed over the frames, are carried in shortly before snow and severe freezing weather come.
In the severest climates, however, still greater protection on all sides of the colony is needed, and packing with chaff or other soft material is decidedly the best plan.
Thickness of each wall, 3/8 inch, space between walls, 2 inches, packed with dry chaffor ground cork.
She learned to rub the ripe ears in her hands to work the grain out of the husk, and then to winnow away the chaff by letting the corn slowly drop in a stream from one palm to the other, blowing gently with her mouth the while.
The grain remained on account of its weight, the chaff floating away, and the wheat, still soft though fully formed, could thus be pleasantly tasted.
How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?
My God, make them like tumbleweed; like chaff before the wind.
The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.
Therefore they will be like the morning mist, and like the dew that passes away early, like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and like the smoke out of the chimney.
Let them be aschaff before the wind, Yahweh's angel driving them on.
First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck of chaff that is in your brother's eye.
But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away.
The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.
Why do you see the speck of chaff that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?
Another process is to lift the wheat and chaff in a bucket as high as the head and empty it slowly upon a blanket spread on the ground.
In AEgypt and Mauritania above all things they look to this, that their Granaries stand on high ground; and how drie so ever their Floor be, they lay a course of Chaff betwixt it and the ground.
Call not Jove[365] to witness with a Stone in one Hand, and a Straw in another, and so make Chaff and Stubble of thy Vows.
Trust paves the way for treachery to tread; Under the cloak of virtue vices creep; Fools chew the chaff while cunning eats the bread, And wolves become the shepherds of the sheep.
Mr Sharp, "there is more chaff here to be winnowed than I had bargained for.
Thus did our superintendent winnow the chaff from the wheat continually.
On the way he laid his plans of battle, winnowed the chaff from the grain.
There was a barmaid or two at the pub where he lunched at noon; but chaff was the alpha and omega of this acquaintance.
There's one thing, though; Thomas seems to have the gift of picking out the chaff when it comes to men.
Grace sat awhile to chaff with the lawyer's clerk.
Slocum used tochaff him about his tips, and I didn't take his talk very seriously.
Bill thought that Toby meant that he would not chaff him, for he let us both go, and we lost no time in slipping down the rigging.
You promise never tochaff me again, or I'll let you both drop down on deck, or into the sea, may be.
She had had three strapping damsels during his sojourn in Riverside, and he used to sit on this very doorstep and chaff them.
Will Evans and his chums began to chaff him about Nelly, but he looked so dangerous that they concluded to stop.
His idea of making himself agreeable is either to chaff or to flirt, and I hate both.
What does one say to a girl, if one mayn't chaffand one mayn't pay compliments?
I gazed supinely at other students as they went up to be examined, and even allowed myself to chaffsome of them.
