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And Dolly Longstaff had chaffed his friend Popplecourt on the subject, Popplecourt having laid himself open by indiscreet allusions to Dolly's love for Miss Boncassen.

From The Duke's Children by Trollope, Anthony

He had chaffed her on account of her fear of the fierce clumsy birds.

From The Shadow of the Past by Young, F.E. Mills

“Bravo Bumpkin!” said one of the men who had chaffed him. 

From The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit by Harris, Richard

The girls had not succeeded in spoiling the scene, for, encouraged by the applause, Kate had chaffed and mocked at the Baillie so winningly that she at once won the sympathy of the house.

From A Mummer's Wife by Moore, George (George Augustus)

Yet Phemie had not ceased to be virtuous, only as her friends had chaffed her several times about her ring with red hair, she had had it dyed black.

From Bohemians of the Latin Quarter by Murger, Henry