exploded Pete Reeve, who had been inwardly chafing with impatience during the whole length of this speech.

Do they [chafe] roundly?

And then, as Parks sped down the hall again, I saw Godfrey loosen the collar of the unconscious man and begin to chafe his temples fiercely.

And now Sire Edward turned toward Meregrett and chafed his big hands gleefully.

Three of the men were well-dressed and prosperous-looking; while the fourth, a shrivelled old fellow, in faded clothes which seemed several sizes too large for him, looked needy and ill-fed as he nervously chafed his thin bony hands.

And meanwhile a woman preserves England, a woman gives you Scotland as a gift, and in return asks nothingGod have mercy on us!save that you nightly chafe your feet with a bit of woollen.

Profiles of the others she saw: one a passive nurse in uniform, who was patiently chafing the right hand of the bed's occupant; the other a lean-featured red-haired stranger, who sat crouched in his chair and held the dying man's left hand.

They chafed perpetually under the rule of one who was in reality a vassal like themselves."

Her elder boy saw this peculiarity of his mother's disposition and chafed privately under it.

How savagely In days like these a free neck chafes beneath Its burden!...

The proprietor still feels the irksome necessity of treating their editorial policies with respect, though secretly chafing for the moment when they shall give place to more manageable, modern tools.

" Corporal Goddard on the stoop below shifted from one foot to the other, and chafed his gloved hands softly together to keep them warm.

At the time he had chafed bitterly at his own enforced silence: he would have given all he possessed in the world for the right to warn Sir Marmaduke de Chavasse that a wolf was prowling in the fold under cover of the night.

(If she had been clairvoyante at that moment, she might have seen Mr. Buxton tenderly chafing his wife's hands, and feeling in his innermost soul a wonder how one so saint-like could ever have learnt to love such a boor as he was; it was the wonderful mysterious blessing of his life.

He chafed his small, well-shaped hands continually; his long polished nails clicked together with a shelly noise, like that which beetles make flying against the ceiling.