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He chafed under the groundless criticism.

Largesse he could not attempt, but the proud spirit of himself and his train could not but be chafed at the expectant faces of the crowd, and the intuitive certainty that 'Beggarly Scotch' was in every disappointed mind.

'The Lord Cardinal deems it thus more fitting,' said the portly priest who acted as Beaufort's secretary, and who spoke with an authority that chafed the Duke.

He had endured obedience to the Knight of Glenuskie as a Scot, and with the Duke of York and through England the discipline of the troop had not been severe; but Suffolk, though a courtly, chivalrous gentleman to his equals, had not the qualities of popularity, and chafed his inferiors.

' the Marquis added in a lower, softer tone, which, however, extremely chafed the proud young Scot, all the more that he felt himself blushing.

But Brian chafed under a sense of degradation all day.

In the first place, he was honestly glad to have got so neatly out of an impending trouble; while, on the other hand, he fretted and chafed when he thought of the hand which had lifted the trouble from him.

A skiff, a crumpled throwaway, Elijah is coming, rode lightly down the Liffey, under Loopline bridge, shooting the rapids where water chafed around the bridgepiers, sailing eastward past hulls and anchorchains, between the Customhouse old dock and George's quay.

In scrutinizing the edges of the paper, I observed them to be more chafed than seemed necessary.

By far the greater number of the articles were shattered in the most extraordinary way-so chafed and roughened as to have the appearance of being stuck full of splinters-but then I distinctly recollected that there were some of them which were not disfigured at all.

They chafed her breast, hands, and temples; but the blood had stopped forever.

Jarndyce, "for being chafed and irritated-" "There again!

Lemmy, who is nominally a consultant for Sirenia, has chafed at the insistence that he adopt for the duration of the contract the Sirenian strictures on costume, diet and celibacy.

Carver never admitted to being Lish's creation, but he chafed and finally rebelled, forbidding Lish to edit heavily or rewrite anymore.

KSM and Binalshibh both acknowledge that Jarrah chafed under Atta's authority over him.

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