chafes
- present tense form of chafe (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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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
There fret the ceaseless currents, And the eternal tide Chafes over hidden shallows Where the white horses ride.
From Later Poems by Carman, Bliss
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
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
The wretch condemned, who has not been arraigned, Chafes at his sentence.
From Poems — Volume 1 by Meredith, George
