This means considerable chafing, and possible injury to the thread.

And so they lived for a few days, the Boy chafing and wanting to move on, the Colonel very earnest to have him stay.

Hence the incessant chafing and irritation which daily made Angelina feel more keenly her isolated position, and caused her to turn with increasing longing to the North, where her beloved sister and many dear friends were in sympathy with her.

The call to action, the possibility of thus being of service to Dorothy, seemed instantly to awaken all my dormant energies; the painful chafing of my wounds was forgotten, while new strength returned miraculously to my bruised body.