chafes
- present tense form of chafe (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Eric: Hark! their savage war-horn blowing Chafes at our delay.
From Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon by Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop
That's the appropriate country; there, man's thought, Rarer, intenser, 10 Self-gathered for an outbreak, as it ought, Chafes in the censer.
From Dramatic Romances by Browning, Robert
That’s the appropriate country—there, man’s thought, Rarer, intenser, Self-gathered for an outbreak, as it ought, Chafes in the censer!
From The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse by Various
Sepultured sits he, Sovereign descended, Battle sword by him, Buckler on arm; Chafes his good charger Champing impatient, Pawing with gold-hoof The gate of the grave.
From Fridthjof's Saga; a Norse romance by Holcomb, Martha A. Lyon
That's the appropriate country; there, man's thought, Rarer, intenser,10 Self-gathered for an outbreak, as it ought, Chafes in the censer.
From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Reynolds, Myra
