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chafing
1. That nation will be a blessing – even though they are currently bringing strife and chafing
2. With tooth-cracking determination he jogged on thru the pain in his side and shins, the rawness in his throat and the sweat chafing his crotch
3. One boot was chafing … it wouldn’t be long before he developed a thorough-going blister
4. Still chafing from the aspersions against his grandfather Lorro (and his dubious acquisition of the family fortune!), Dorro made a momentous decision
5. To put on his gotchies without thoroughly drying his crotch was to get chafing on the bike
6. The gun in his waistband was chafing, so he stuck it in the side pocket of the seat
7. Out of the corner of my eye I see Tris stiffen, chafing against the reminder that our lives have been on camera
8. “All I know is that all my life I’ve been chafing against the Empire,” Pat said, “and now for the first time I may be able to hit it where it hurts
9. She’d been chafing at the bit for most of the winter
10. With night’s fall, he couldn’t go back to Londal until the next morning, and the wait was chafing at him as nothing else did
11. *A chafing dish is a container used for keeping cooked foods warm, usually on a buffet or for catering
12. A chafing dish is typically constructed with a dish for the food situated above a heat source of some kind
13. Chafing dishes can be set up with a water bath, or bain-marie, between the heat source and the food
14. Chafing dish fuel is typically a solid fuel that comes in a small can and is easily ignited with a match or lighter
15. When I thought about the effect of chafing earlier I had something
16. I don’t think I can bear another minute of my thighs chafing
17. and chafing on her wrists and ankles
18. She had constantly pulled at her bonds while tied and now found her wrists raw from the chafing they had received
19. This compressive feature offers little chance of chafing
20. Chafing at the rules imposed by the Father, he wanted the big city,
21. He stood below the overhead grate, looking up, and he mustered the will to start the short climb up, the heavily rusted and flaking rungs of the ladder chafing even his calloused palms
22. “My ass is chafing as it is and this chair isn’t
23. My clothes made a chafing sound that wouldn’t have been noticeable under normal circumstances, but nothing about our circumstances was normal
24. Kennedy was chafing under the restraint which kept him in the background and prevented any of his wizardry of mechanical eavesdropping
25. "That is a good idea," agreed Kennedy, who was now chafing under the enforced inaction of the case
26. more uncomfortably conscious of the fabric chafing
27. As I sagged onto it, he came around the island and crouched in front of me, grabbing my hands and chafing them
28. Rub to me with your chafing beard, rub to my breast and shoulders
29. Great was the enjoyment the duke and duchess derived from the irritation the worthy churchman showed at the long-winded, halting way Sancho had of telling his story, while Don Quixote was chafing with rage and vexation
30. "But, say whether I should have done so---do!" she exclaimed in an irritated tone; chafing her hands together, and frowning
31. Mac draws up short to keep from slamming into Barrons, and her blond hair swings back over her shoulder, brushing his face as it does, and my hearing is so good I catch the rasp of it chafing the shadow stubble on his jaw, then one of his hands grazes her breast and his eyes narrow when he looks at what he touched in a hungry way I want a man to look at me like one day and, as they continue to recover from the near-collision, their bodies move in a graceful dance of impeccable awareness of precisely where the other is at all times that is unity, symbiosis, partnership I only dream of, wolves that chose to pack up and hunt together, soldiers who will always have each other’s backs no matter what, no sin, no transgression too great, ’cause don’t we all transgress sometimes and it fecking slays me, because once I got a little taste of what that was like, and it was heaven and they’re so beautiful standing there, the best of the best, the strongest of the strong, that they practically glow to me, on fire with all I ever wanted in my life—a place to belong and someone to belong there with
32. Her funeral dress had dried, but it was stiff and chafing
33. The news was imparted with a circumspection recalling the ceremonial usage of the Sublime Porte by the second female infirmarian to the junior medical officer in residence, who in his turn announced to the delegation that an heir had been born, When he had betaken himself to the women's apartment to assist at the prescribed ceremony of the afterbirth in the presence of the secretary of state for domestic affairs and the members of the privy council, silent in unanimous exhaustion and approbation the delegates, chafing under the length and solemnity of their vigil and hoping that the joyful occurrence would palliate a licence which the simultaneous absence of abigail and obstetrician rendered the easier, broke out at once into a strife of tongues
34. that his bare ankles were red and raw from the chafing of the iron
35. It would later seem a wonder that the worst he came away with was a little chafing
36. Grace was trying to read, but at some point in the last week, she had lost her watch, and her mind kept chafing about where it could have gone
37. Whilst we were busy chafing her limbs there was a knock at the hall door
38. collected in the knot of his cravat; his limbs were cold, and blood was clotted at the corners of his mouth; his shirt had thrust itself into his wounds, the cloth of his coat was chafing the yawning gashes in the living flesh
39. The boy no longer moved, but turned, chafing his elbows
40. Rub it on to protect from sunburn, and chafing from saltwater, to repel insects, as a salve for sores and blisters or, mixed with wood ash, as a substitute for soap
41. Pad at neck to ease pressure or chafing
42. They should also inspect the raft for signs of leakage or chafing
43. She set herself, with all the tenderness of a good woman, to minister to the other's need, sending her own maid for sal volatile, chafing the fainting woman's hands, and giving orders that a bed should be prepared for her in another room, further away from the bier
44. Peggy, too, was a wizard with the chafing dish
