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1. And while her success delighted most, it almost seemed to chafe a few others
2. “I would chafe at anything else
3. Her leather armour had began to chafe her inner thighs as sweat had worked its way into every crevice from the hours of exertion and with her breastplate also rubbing her to soreness, the constant movement of another few hours travel could end up very painful
4. The towel around my neck seemed to chafe rather than absorb the sweat that cascaded off my face
5. When they nuzzled their noses against me, not as much of their fur and skin would chafe off
6. voluptuous environment than their cousins in Spain;for they had come to chafe at the coldness of
7. Shaving produces stubble which may cause irritation as the sides chafe and rub together
8. I scooted closer and wrapped my arms around him awkwardly, idiotically trying to chafe warmth into cold skin that didn’t retain heat
9. And above all, I said, and as the result of all, see how sensitive the citizens become; they chafe impatiently at the least touch of authority, and at length, as you know, they cease to care even for the laws, written or unwritten; they will have no one over them
10. strides, stamping in a great chafe, and doubtless debating what he would
11. God, does it chafe
12. Monastic restrictions that she had stopped noticing began to chafe again
13. As confused as I was, I heard him very distinctly turn the key, and lock the chamber door upon us, so that there was no escape but through the dining room, where he himself was walking about with distempered strides, stamping in a great chafe, and doubtless debating what he would do with us
14. Mrs Champion had proved a dead end; it had all been intensely exciting at first, but now the bonds had begun to chafe
15. The healthy vigor which had carried her through the hard days at Tara stood her in good stead now, and within two weeks of Ella Lorena’s birth she was strong enough to sit up and chafe at her inactivity
16. My Head was nodding upon my Breast, and my Thighs were so moist with Dreams that the tatter’d red Garter I still wore began to chafe, when lo, I awoke to hear I was Heiress to Lymeworth!
17. Chafe at his father's ruling
18. Hastings was struggling not to chafe under his rôle of masterly inactivity; he comforted himself with the thought that it was causing things to move in the right direction, at any rate
19. Forsaken Constance lay fainting on the sofa, waiting for some one to chafe her hands and bathe her temples
1. Oh her wrists were a little chafed from the rope, the first day, but it wasn’t very painful
2. But it chafed all the more to know that Mother had always held her up to an impossible
3. chafed at this man’s constant visits to their hall
4. I had left Felicity’s place without socks and my feet were chafed at this point
5. I chafed against his confidence that I would follow
6. 8 For, said Hushai, you know your father and his men, that they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed
7. I noticed a ring of thinned hair and exposed, chafed
8. But Pilate was chafed by their disrespectful manner; he felt he had been intimidated and humiliated, and he took this method of obtaining petty revenge
9. She looked wryly as the doctor started work on his severely chafed wrists
10. “Ladies and Gentlemen, I too, have chafed at the thought that we would be defended almost entirely by women
11. In a town that had chafed under the tricks of the gypsies there was no future for those ambulatory acrobats of commerce who with equal effrontery offered a whistling kettle and a daily regime that would assure the salvation of the soul on the seventh day; but from those who let themselves be convinced out of fatigue and the ones who were always unwary, they reaped stupendous benefits
12. Aesa chafed under her words, knowing that she was right and angry with himself for being reckless
13. straight ahead, her meager galls being chafed by the many tears that her eyes continued to shed
14. Clayton chafed at the delay, but knew he had no choice but to wait it out
15. The distance between them yawned in front of him and he chafed at every second it took to close the gap
16. Hot rubber tires chafed against the jagged, volcanic-pebble blacktop as the Jag swerved to the shoulder and skidded to a stop
17. Andrew got up slowly as Betsi, Celeste and little James faded away into chafed shoulders and an aching back
18. Lorry quietly chafed the hands that held his arm
19. The traveller had travelled far, and his feet were footsore, and his ankles chafed and bleeding; his great shoes, stuffed with leaves and grass, had been heavy to drag over the many long leagues, and his clothes were chafed into holes, as he himself was into sores
20. Poor Jo looked abashed, and silently chafed the end of her nose with the stiff handkerchief, as if performing a penance for her misdemeanors
21. That trusty man had "his hands cruelly chafed with the rowing, but it never damped his spirits
22. It was pneumonia, and, he said, a peculiar erysipelas, which had started under the chin where the collar chafed, and was spreading over the face
23. So he chafed himself into rawness over her
24. For a time he chafed, was irritable with his young wife, who loved him; he went almost distracted when the baby, which was delicate, cried or gave trouble
25. Chafed by the silent imputation, and inwardly troubled by so unaccountable a circumstance, the chief advanced to the side of the bed, and, stooping, cast an incredulous look at the features, as if distrusting their reality
26. This exhibition of anger was noted by all present; and from an apprehension of exasperating a temper that was already chafed nearly to madness, several minutes were suffered to pass before another word was uttered
27. He was, therefore, fain to adopt a caution that in the present temper of his mind he execrated, and to listen to advice at which his fiery spirit chafed, under the vivid recollection of Cora's danger and Magua's insolence
28. Across the fore part of the boot this hard leather had warped into ridges and valleys, which chafed his feet, and made them bleed
29. I’d worn my feet raw, chafed my body until it bled, and carried not only myself over miles of rugged wilderness, but also a pack that weighed more than half of what I did
30. I studied it in conjunction with the map and made my best guess about where I might be and walked on, inching forward uncertainly on the snow, alternately skidding across the top or breaking through the surface, my shins and calves growing ever more chafed each time
31. Joe focused for a moment on her fingers, red and chafed
32. He chafed with impatience and drummed his foot upon the floor
33. Afterward, cooling, sighing, chafed, he would study the reflection of his sleeping lover there, and would compare it to the unfinished self-portrait tacked to the wall
34. Often he chafed his
35. The young man in his clattering chains stepped clumsily to the spot indicated, holding away with one finger the coat collar which chafed his neck, turned his long neck twice this way and that, sighed, and
36. And there the Lava Sipper, Vesuvio of the chafed tongue, of the scalded teeth, who spun scores of fireballs up, hissing in a ferris of flame which streaked shadows along the tent roof
37. A score of freaks glanced fearfully round as if the moon had suddenly filled itself full and they could see; they chafed their wrists as if chains had fallen from them, chafed their necks as if weights had crumbled from their bowed shoulders
38. Holding my hand in both his own, he chafed it; gazing on me, at the same time, with the most troubled and dreary look
39. High into bending and swaying branches he was borne with what seemed to him incredible swiftness, while Tarzan chafed at the slowness of his progress
40. He had also cabled his bankers for funds, and the enforced wait of a month, under which both chafed, was due to their inability to charter a vessel for the return to Tarzan's jungle after the treasure
41. "The accursed boots,—they have chafed my feet
42. The young man in his clattering chains stepped clumsily to the spot indicated, holding away with one finger the coat collar which chafed his neck, turned his long neck twice this way and that, sighed, and submissively folded before him his thin hands, unused to work
43. “You would prefer me with manners cold as my hands were the other day when you chafed them for me on the beach
44. Against this Barbara chafed
45. And yet, even as he spoke, he chafed at the woman’s interference with Johan’s plan of rescue
1. "He chafes at his bonds, he wants to use magic," Kelvin said
2. But these rights only specify, Obama chafes, what the government cannot do to its citizens
3. Four years after " The Cathedral and the Bazaar," Stallman still chafes over the Raymond critique
4. chafes up and down the yard,
5. But when he thinks that he is the sufferer of the wrong, then he boils and chafes, and is on the side of what he believes to be justice; and because he suffers hunger or cold or other pain he is only the more determined to persevere and conquer
6. My ineffectualness chafes
7. BY THE TIME THE STRANGER APPEARS, the respirator’s been repaired, albeit with an anxious squeak midway through each stroke where the bellows chafes the glass
8. 'My company chafes to be away, and every hour lessens your hope
9. I think she chafes under what she thinks is charity
1. That nation will be a blessing – even though they are currently bringing strife and chafing
2. With tooth-cracking determination he jogged on thru the pain in his side and shins, the rawness in his throat and the sweat chafing his crotch
3. One boot was chafing … it wouldn’t be long before he developed a thorough-going blister
4. Still chafing from the aspersions against his grandfather Lorro (and his dubious acquisition of the family fortune!), Dorro made a momentous decision
5. To put on his gotchies without thoroughly drying his crotch was to get chafing on the bike
6. The gun in his waistband was chafing, so he stuck it in the side pocket of the seat
7. Out of the corner of my eye I see Tris stiffen, chafing against the reminder that our lives have been on camera
8. “All I know is that all my life I’ve been chafing against the Empire,” Pat said, “and now for the first time I may be able to hit it where it hurts
9. She’d been chafing at the bit for most of the winter
10. With night’s fall, he couldn’t go back to Londal until the next morning, and the wait was chafing at him as nothing else did
11. *A chafing dish is a container used for keeping cooked foods warm, usually on a buffet or for catering
12. A chafing dish is typically constructed with a dish for the food situated above a heat source of some kind
13. Chafing dishes can be set up with a water bath, or bain-marie, between the heat source and the food
14. Chafing dish fuel is typically a solid fuel that comes in a small can and is easily ignited with a match or lighter
15. When I thought about the effect of chafing earlier I had something
16. I don’t think I can bear another minute of my thighs chafing
17. and chafing on her wrists and ankles
18. She had constantly pulled at her bonds while tied and now found her wrists raw from the chafing they had received
19. This compressive feature offers little chance of chafing
20. Chafing at the rules imposed by the Father, he wanted the big city,
21. He stood below the overhead grate, looking up, and he mustered the will to start the short climb up, the heavily rusted and flaking rungs of the ladder chafing even his calloused palms
22. “My ass is chafing as it is and this chair isn’t
23. My clothes made a chafing sound that wouldn’t have been noticeable under normal circumstances, but nothing about our circumstances was normal
24. Kennedy was chafing under the restraint which kept him in the background and prevented any of his wizardry of mechanical eavesdropping
25. "That is a good idea," agreed Kennedy, who was now chafing under the enforced inaction of the case
26. more uncomfortably conscious of the fabric chafing
27. As I sagged onto it, he came around the island and crouched in front of me, grabbing my hands and chafing them
28. Rub to me with your chafing beard, rub to my breast and shoulders
29. Great was the enjoyment the duke and duchess derived from the irritation the worthy churchman showed at the long-winded, halting way Sancho had of telling his story, while Don Quixote was chafing with rage and vexation
30. "But, say whether I should have done so---do!" she exclaimed in an irritated tone; chafing her hands together, and frowning
31. Mac draws up short to keep from slamming into Barrons, and her blond hair swings back over her shoulder, brushing his face as it does, and my hearing is so good I catch the rasp of it chafing the shadow stubble on his jaw, then one of his hands grazes her breast and his eyes narrow when he looks at what he touched in a hungry way I want a man to look at me like one day and, as they continue to recover from the near-collision, their bodies move in a graceful dance of impeccable awareness of precisely where the other is at all times that is unity, symbiosis, partnership I only dream of, wolves that chose to pack up and hunt together, soldiers who will always have each other’s backs no matter what, no sin, no transgression too great, ’cause don’t we all transgress sometimes and it fecking slays me, because once I got a little taste of what that was like, and it was heaven and they’re so beautiful standing there, the best of the best, the strongest of the strong, that they practically glow to me, on fire with all I ever wanted in my life—a place to belong and someone to belong there with
32. Her funeral dress had dried, but it was stiff and chafing
33. The news was imparted with a circumspection recalling the ceremonial usage of the Sublime Porte by the second female infirmarian to the junior medical officer in residence, who in his turn announced to the delegation that an heir had been born, When he had betaken himself to the women's apartment to assist at the prescribed ceremony of the afterbirth in the presence of the secretary of state for domestic affairs and the members of the privy council, silent in unanimous exhaustion and approbation the delegates, chafing under the length and solemnity of their vigil and hoping that the joyful occurrence would palliate a licence which the simultaneous absence of abigail and obstetrician rendered the easier, broke out at once into a strife of tongues
34. that his bare ankles were red and raw from the chafing of the iron
35. It would later seem a wonder that the worst he came away with was a little chafing
36. Grace was trying to read, but at some point in the last week, she had lost her watch, and her mind kept chafing about where it could have gone
37. Whilst we were busy chafing her limbs there was a knock at the hall door
38. collected in the knot of his cravat; his limbs were cold, and blood was clotted at the corners of his mouth; his shirt had thrust itself into his wounds, the cloth of his coat was chafing the yawning gashes in the living flesh
39. The boy no longer moved, but turned, chafing his elbows
40. Rub it on to protect from sunburn, and chafing from saltwater, to repel insects, as a salve for sores and blisters or, mixed with wood ash, as a substitute for soap
41. Pad at neck to ease pressure or chafing
42. They should also inspect the raft for signs of leakage or chafing
43. She set herself, with all the tenderness of a good woman, to minister to the other's need, sending her own maid for sal volatile, chafing the fainting woman's hands, and giving orders that a bed should be prepared for her in another room, further away from the bier
44. Peggy, too, was a wizard with the chafing dish