Then the children were disperpled for to gather chaff, and their masters awaited on them and bade them: Make an end of your work as ye were wont to do when that chaff was delivered to you.

In time of peace, when sham reputations flourish and no real struggle winnows the chaff from the coin, mediocrity in performance is enough.

It was another dark, gloomy day, but clouds and cold had little effect on his spirits, and when he walked along the shore of the North River, looking for a boat, he met the chaff of the watermen with humorous remarks of his own.

The wind blows the chaff or bhoosa on to a heap, and the fine fresh rice remains behind.

In the argot of Paris slums, or in the dialects of seaport towns, they hurled chaff at comrades waiting on the platforms with stacked arms, and made outrageous love to girls who ran by the side of their trains with laughing eyes and saucy tongues and a last farewell of "Bonne chance, mes petits!

And in a heathen author we may find, That pleasure with instruction should be join'd; 820 So take the corn, and leave the chaff behind.

He sifted out the chaff: but the wheat was left behind safe for God's garner.

All the men at the Yard know that you held the opinion that we had got hold of the wrong man when we arrested Birchill, and he has had to stand so much chaff in the office, that he's pretty raw about it."

Does not Mr. Rogers believe the Old Testament inspired and all of it true? Certainly (said Fellowes): at least he was much shocked with Mr. Newman for trying to discriminate its chaff from its wheat.

He dreaded her chaff more than any horrors of war that lay before him.

The design was taking shape when young Strangeways, who was willing to exchange chaff with Gussie Moy, but was gentleman enough to feel the indecorum of the whole thing, moved across to his sister, and muttered, "I say, Con, they are getting up that stupid trick of election of a queen of beauty.

He would show his father that, even if the training of a gentleman develops tastes above the coarseness of commerce, it also develops the mental superiority that makes fleeing chaff of the obstacles to fame and wealth.

Down fell the winnow'd wheat; but, mounted high, The whirlwind bore the chaff, and hid the sky.

Her mind and will were as active as in her girlhood, but they ground chaff instead of wheat.

I have the utmost sympathy with the position in which theologians find themselves; but they have mostly their own prudence to thank for it; they are so cautious about sifting the chaff from the grain, that they will not throw away the chaff for fear of casting away a single grain.

It is true that the eggs are more speckled, but" "Bless my soul," said the Authority, but it was easy to see that he was shaken, "I should think I know a Chiff-chaff when I hear one.

Susil underwent the customary "chaff" from the ladies, which he bore with great good humour and was at last left alone with his young companion for life; while some of the fair guests sang wedding songs to the intense delight of their friends.

" And Zara saw that Tristram's eyes flashed blue steel, and that he did not like the chaff at all.

He never will appreciate chaff.

She didn't really mind their chaff, but she began to think herself that she had been a little absurd.

" Honora seemed not to mind his chaffing.

I have read, or tried to read your Surius, and Alban Butler, and so forthand they seemed to me bats and assesOne really pitied the poor saints and martyrs for having such blind biographerssuch dunghill cocks, who overlooked the pearl of real human love and nobleness in them, in their greediness to snatch up and parade the rotten chaff of superstition, and self-torture, and spiritual dyspepsia, which had overlaid it.

The Saxon puts small and convenient handles to things, handles that are easy to grasp; while your ponderous Johnsonian phraseology distends and exaggerates, and never peels the chaff from the wheat.

As an old hen led forth her train, And seemed to peck to shew the grain; She raked the chaff, she scratched the ground, And gleaned the spacious yard around.

I will scatter them as with a broad winnowing-shovel, as men scatter the chaff on the threshing-floor.