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  • My neck muscles have only grown a bit sore from blowing my nose and the chafing from the rough toilet paper is already starting to heal. Empty Head « Colleen Anderson
  • He was chafing at her suggestion that he stay at home while she went on a vacation
  • The passengers sat chafing at the long delay.
  • Oddly enough, though the wounds haven't bothered him in years, Jonnie is abruptly aware that his shirt collar is chafing at the rough scar tissue left over from that old attack.
  • Great care must be taken, especially with the fitting of plasters, to prevent chafing and subsequent ulcer formation elsewhere on the foot or ankle.
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  • In medieval times a chafing dish was a portable brazier to hold burning coals or charcoal, designed to be set on a metal stand and to have a dish of food on top.
  • My mother has brought her own bed-linen, from home, and below my hot cheek, chafing it, is a butterfly: spreading luxuriant wings, embroidered on the pillowcase by my mother's own hand.
  • We might not now be a nation with chafing thighs. Times, Sunday Times
  • The collar of the stiff shirt was chafing slightly around the scars on his neck, and the ponytail he'd put his hair in was so tight it was liable to give him a headache.
  • I can hear the rain beating down on the roof like a meteor shower as our car lurches violently from side to side, rocking disobediently on its haunches, fat tyres chafing loudly over what appears to be a long, shallow pond.
  • Suppose thou beholdest her in a frosty morning, in cold weather, in some passion or perturbation of mind, weeping, chafing, etc., riveled and ill-favored to behold .... An Odd Sort of Popular Book
  • Where your lines go through chocks, they will need chafing gear.
  • He was chafing under the company's new ownership.
  • Mitchell looked away chafing against this infiltration, of being led by Kingsley to recognize himself, the meaninglessness of his position.
  • Wearing one for 12 hours a day can lead to skin chafing as well as infections caused by thrush or bacteria. The Sun
  • Haydon, too, was chafing under classical strictures.
  • The chafing was so severe that the wires within the bundle had begun arcing and welding themselves to the beam creating a large crater.
  • In the mean time, let half a pint of Sack or White muscadin boil a very little in a bason, upon a Chafing-dish of Coals, with three quarters of a pound of Sugar, and three or four quartered Nutmegs, and as many pretty big pieces of sticks of The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened
  • You might say that being a best-selling author is all glitz and book signings but let me tell you about the significant chafing around my right buttock which is making it difficult to type tonight. British Blogs
  • The collar of the stiff shirt was chafing slightly around the scars on his neck, and the ponytail he'd put his hair in was so tight it was liable to give him a headache.
  • Live fuel, hoisted in chafing dishes at the end of long poles, and being seen at a great distance, serves, by the smoke in the daytime and the light at night, as a better signal for march than the sound of Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • The seams should be tacked down to avoid chafing.
  • While perhaps chafing at having to submit their organizations to painful A - 76 procedures, the Services signed up on the expectation of diverting the savings to modernization.
  • Her wrists still burned from the rope chafing her flesh and she sucked a breath in through her clenched teeth as her forehead touched their raw skin.
  • The dark meat may be cooked at once and utilized for boudins, croquettes, salad, cecils, creamed hash, or served on toast with sauce Bordelaise, or used in chafing dish next day. Made-Over Dishes
  • A wiring bundle chafing against a fuel line eventually wore through the line and sprayed fuel on a hot bleed-air element.
  • Bafflingly, men can now get 'mantyhose' (sometimes worn to avoid 'chafing'). Times, Sunday Times
  • Behind the scenes, as the New York Times article of April 27 made clear, the US military is chafing at the restrictions being imposed on their operation.
  • The chafing of his chitin from the dryness of the air was plain to see, even though Cullen knew the exoarcheologist employed several specially formulated creams to maintain his exoskeleton's shine and character. Diuturnity's Dawn
  • The ropes were chafing her ankles, but at least her hands were free.
  • More unusual vessels were produced, for example lamps, chafing dishes, shallow pans and aquamaniles.
  • Besides large waves, the harsh chafing of salt water and jellyfish, the passage between Florida and Cuba is full of sharks. But Nyad plans to swim without protection from a shark cage.
  • Not much fun, though, with my damp grundies beginning a savage chafing.
  • His only injuries were sunburn, insect bites and chafing caused by spending more than 40 hours in his wetsuit.
  • Bonham Carter shows us an Olivia who is feisty and strong, chafing at her restrictions and only too happy to entertain the amusing Cesario.
  • Its boffins have also created water-repellent and sun-protection fabrics that reduce chafing. Times, Sunday Times
  • The small pines are budding, and today he brings an armload of stakes, pocketfuls of baling twine, soft rags to keep the bound seedlings from wind-chafing. Mystery
  • Script writers are chafing, television executives tell you privately that they are helpless.
  • Hoodathunk (sponsored by the FSM, Noodles for Freedom!) says: backup, are you just a teeny bit cranky because that fence you constantly straddle is chafing? Think Progress » Perriello Blasts GOP Leaders In Washington For Refusing To Completely Denounce Harassment Of Democrats
  • The passengers are chafing at the delay of the train.
  • Besides large waves, the harsh chafing of salt water and jellyfish, the passage between Florida and Cuba is full of sharks. But Nyad plans to swim without protection from a shark cage.
  • Ernst said a supply hose had been rubbing against the dryer and was chafing through, which contributed to the natural gas smell.
  • It is so strong that a mooring pennant can be shackled through a special fitting so the entire boat can swing off the bobstay fitting, without any concern about chafing.
  • Who shall give me an outgate from this body? cries the great apostle, not chafing in his chains for death, but for the true life that lies beyond death. Samuel Rutherford
  • The three-layer chamois lining gives you extra padding to help prevent saddle chafing.
  • The latter condition of the lips is commonly called chapping, but it is proper to consider chafing and chapping together as the morbid state of the skin, and the treatment is the same for both. The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)
  • He admits that the affair was only the symptom of a deeper malaise- his chafing at a number of things which he now wishes he had been brave enough to confront rather than taking what he calls the coward's way out.... Sleepy, soul sista, reading Hisham Matar, family politics etc
  • I tried many styles of underwear and jockstraps looking for something to wear that would keep me from chafing when I bike and run.
  • Our restaurant's chafing dishes in winter fill the air with warmth.
  • Others may have weighed whether to wear a polo, V-neck, scoop neck or button-down if lanyard chafing around the neck or on the sternum is a concern. Meredith C. Carroll: Aspen's Status Symbol du Jour: Plastic
  • Wearing one for 12 hours a day can lead to skin chafing as well as infections caused by thrush or bacteria. The Sun
  • The news that Sachin Tendulkar has been voted the greatest cricketer of all time, by a landslide in an Australian newspaper poll, would have, until recently, elicited from me a kind of wincing, squinting chafing at the cerebral lobe that controls the urge to enter into ill-advised and unwinnable contrarian debates. Why a Sachin Tendulkar is my signature air-cricket shot
  • So he waited, chafing, while Mervo examined the situation, turned it over in its mind, discussed it, slept upon it, discussed it again, and displayed generally that ponderous leisureliness which is the Mervian's birthright. The Prince and Betty
  • Each inch of exposed skin burned hot from the cutting, sharp wind, chafing cheeks brutally until they were turned bright, candy cane red.
  • Her hands were bound together by a painfully tight rope, chafing badly at her wrists.
  • Especially if you blame their chafing thighs on their genes. Times, Sunday Times
  • (_Synonym: _ Chafing.) #What do you understand by erythema intertrigo? Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine
  • Her jeans, waist-baring low-riders, were rolled up just beyond her calves until Michael (our serene and tan guide for the day) mentioned she might want to roll them back down to avoid "chafing" - the kind of advice you don't ignore. Esquire.com Article Feed
  • In parliament he resembles an overgrown schoolboy, chafing at his collar and tie.
  • As we waited at the entrance, chafing under our cuffs, I chatted with some of the women with whom I'd been arrested: schoolteachers, photographers, students.
  • British officials are chafing that they are unable to influence the US rebuilding program, which has bureaucratic priorities.
  • But while the critics and doctrinaires were contending thus variously about the merits of Schiller, his name endeared itself more and more to the many who were chafing under the regime of princely absolutism and were longing for a freer Germany. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
  • Wearing one for 12 hours a day can lead to skin chafing as well as infections caused by thrush or bacteria. The Sun
  • The passengers are chafing at the delay of the train.
  • We might not now be a nation with chafing thighs. Times, Sunday Times
  • Shall I be a convict in a felt hat and a grey suit, trotting about a dockyard with my number neatly embroidered on my uniform, and the order of the garter on my leg, restrained from chafing my ankle by a twisted belcher handkerchief? The Old Curiosity Shop
  • Wear a T-shirt under your wetsuit to stop it chafing.
  • Especially if you blame their chafing thighs on their genes. Times, Sunday Times
  • Wear a T-shirt under your wetsuit to stop it chafing.
  • My shorts were chafing my thighs.
  • Powder the baby's bottom to stop it chafing.
  • Instead of an air of holiness or solemnity, he shows us kids chafing under restrictions just as they would in a boarding school or a summer camp.
  • We might not now be a nation with chafing thighs. Times, Sunday Times
  • Buy running clothing made from high-tech breathable fabric, which promotes cooling and reduces chafing by wicking moisture from the skin.
  • Chafing-dish of Coals; in the mean time, mingle some small cut juycy hashy of Rabet, Capon or Mutton with another parcel of like Gravy as above, till it be pretty thin. The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened
  • This chafing is bound to act and react, producing divers evils and leading to various misfortunes. In a Far Country
  • Thus, tired of being the poor and comparatively impotent relation, General Synod is now chafing at the bit.
  • Reaching the sitting area, he grinned at Jake and flopped into another chair, chafing his hands to get a modicum of feeling back into them.
  • I prepared with chafing gear and redundancy by having lines secured to multiple cleats in case one failed.
  • He spoke bitterly, aware that the decision had been made, and chafing under its harsh restrictions.
  • At first, whenever this happened, his wife fretted extremely -- _fretted_ is the right word, for it was more a fitful chafing than a positive grief. Olive A Novel
  • These handy new products can keep you in the game all winter long: NIKE SPHERE RUNNING GEAR Serious runners used to scoff at Nike clothes, but this new line could the perfect winter gear, toasty and nonchafing. Fitness:Gearing Up For Winter
  • There was absolutely no evidence of chafing, wear or any damage to it.
  • Chafing at his position of dependence, and indignant at Temple's delay in getting him preferment, he returned to Ireland, was ordained, and received the small prebend of Kilroot.
  • Young people often go through a phase of chafing under parental control.
  • For the chilly version of a chafing dish, serve bowls or cups of food on ice-filled trays, platters, or foil pans.
  • But while the critics and doctrinaires were contending thus variously about the merits of Schiller, his name endeared itself more and more to the many who were chafing under the régime of princely absolutism and were longing for a freer Germany. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
  • There they go round the fire, rubbing and chafing their hands to keep the blood in circulation, and almost fighting each other to see which shall sit on the fire and get warm.
  • In parliament he resembles an overgrown schoolboy, chafing at his collar and tie.
  • Especially if you blame their chafing thighs on their genes. Times, Sunday Times
  • Wearing one for 12 hours a day can lead to skin chafing as well as infections caused by thrush or bacteria. The Sun
  • I heard the wind sighing in the rigging of my boat, I heard the halyards napping on the mast, and I wondered if the mooring chains were chafing at the bobstay in the running tide. Movie Night
  • The multiple Olympic medallist and the serial stage-winner bury their hands in their Lycra and apply enough cream to stop any chafing. Bradley Wiggins: It's a way of life and you need to buy into it
  • I struggled as best I could, but soon I too was bound in chafing rope and hauled up on deck. On Desperate Seas « A Fly in Amber
  • The hawkes are lured to sease vpon the beasts neckes or heads, which with chafing of themselues and sore beating of the hawkes are tired: then the hunter following his game doeth slay the horse with his arrow or sword. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
  • He doesn't like the strict financial constraints governing nations that have taken up the Euro (the Stability Pact) and is chafing under the centralised rules governing deficit spending.
  • In the sixth century the Middle East generally was largely pagan, and chafing under its paganism: it was up for grabs by any conquering missionaries.
  • The accumulation of sweat and dust between the folds of the skin and on the surface of the harness, and the specially acrid character of the sweat in certain horses, contribute to chafing or "intertrigo. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • In this, by the way, they helped another group chafing under the restrictions of Britain's Navigation Laws, the North American colonists.
  • Young people often go through a phase of chafing under parental control.
  • Buck has a lot of changes ahead of him, suggested by the short poem ‘Old longings nomadic lap, / Chafing at custom's chain; / Again from its brumal sleep / Wakens the ferine strain’ Chapter 1, pg.1.
  • The news that Sachin Tendulkar has been voted the greatest cricketer of all time, by a landslide in an Australian newspaper poll, would have, until recently, elicited from me a kind of wincing, squinting chafing at the cerebral lobe that controls the urge to enter into ill-advised and unwinnable contrarian debates. Why a Sachin Tendulkar is my signature air-cricket shot
  • Charcoale fire, let your Grid-iron be hot, rub your Grid-iron with some ruffe Suet; the skinne will not burne; this is good; but take the skin off, and stew the Eele betwixt two Dishes, on a Chafing-dish of The Art of Angling Wherein are discovered many rare secrets, very necessary to be knowne by all that delight in that recreation
  • They are chafing at the continuing delays of the buses.
  • Wear a T-shirt under your wetsuit to stop it chafing.
  • Yet there is no label Beatty would wear without chafing against it.
  • Wearing one for 12 hours a day can lead to skin chafing as well as infections caused by thrush or bacteria. The Sun
  • For both species, a swingletree is necessary to eliminate harness chafing (buyer beware - many cheap, so-called breaking carts don't have one).
  • You end up irritating and chafing a lot of judges doing your job.

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