His horse began to chafe as it found itself forced back.

This is a good place, and the rope won't chafe as it runs over that.

This campanilian oracle fretteth me to the guts,- aMarchhare was never in such a chafe as I am.

His first thought was for the boy, whose hands and chest he began to chafe as well as his weakness would allow.

Fret and chafe as much as we will, we are bound to gravitate, more or less, toward this mountain, and feel its bracing, rugged air.

Sir John and the knights chafed as they saw they would be too late.

Chafed as he was, M. Étienne could not deny a laugh to the rascal's impudence.

Frank chafed as he struggled with his thoughts.

But before the Deer be killed, he ought to be hunted and chafed as much as may be.

Dare you trust yourself in your boat upon the sea, chafing as it still is from the late storm?

His war-horse stands at the cairn pawing the earth and chafing as though impatient to start on the long journey.

To her it was a relic of superstition, at which she chafed as interfering with the usual routine of affairs.

She heard a man moan, and the black barrel chafed as it tipped upward and retreated from the hole in the door.

Now at last it became an irritation to him: he chafed as the war horse chafes at being made a beast of burden.

But the father soon left him on some foreign mission for his government and the boy chafed as usual under his tasks and confinement.

The discontent was most threatening among the sturdy Presbyterians of Ulster, chafed as they were by the exaction of tithes by the Protestant Established Church.