Marcus was glad the chaffing went no further than it did.

"I shall have to give the Prof a good chaffing about this."

I demanded, for his chaffing had made me bold.

And with such chaffing and gaiety the year came to an end.

The merry monsters kept up their vulgar chaffing but Tony scarcely heard.

The Videssians accepted the good-natured chaffing for the praise it was.

There was quite a bit of good-natured chaffing.

After a moment too long, he added, "Sir," Roundbush took the chaffing in good part.

Markham was in too crestfallen a mood to resent this chaffing.

This excited various comments; so did the reddish, powder-puff side whiskers which no chaffing could make him cut.

She was going very slowly now, pufFing hard, sweating; also cursing the chaffing of the damnable ropes.

"A little chaffing, a little stuff- iness; then you'll find you'll feel naked without it."

But the atmosphere here is mostly one o' goodwill, with lots o' loud singing and good-natured chaffing from both sides.

Good-natured chaffing, certainly-a dollop of contention for leadership but nothing beyond the exchanges of old friends.

Due to not wearing an undershirt, Wallard suffered serious chaffing, and required treatment at the infield hospital after the victory lane celebration.

That the Hankel was often exposed to the chaffing of his surrounding area is symbolized by the boy, who is squirting him with water.

Coupled with the "chaffing and winnowing" technique, a sender could get messages out and cover their tracks all at once.

There was some good-natured chaffing, for the Romans knew his acquiescence to their taking companions had been grudging, and here he was with one himself.

'So do I.' Sir Pellinore stopped his chaffing.

The simple variant of the chaffing and winnowing technique described above adds many bits of overhead per bit of original message.

I had to undergo some unmerciful chaffing from Stone about her, and found it impossible to hide from him the truth about my relations with her.

Carialle teased Keff mightily over the mistakes the IT made, but all the chaffing was affectionately meant.

He ignored the chaffing of his enthusiastic audience; he refused to be upset by the games he lost and by Palmer's unworried bonhomie.

"Andy usually put Dave's theories into practice if they were practicable, or bore the blame for the failure and the chaffing of his mates if they weren't."

"I've been so miserable, and for so long, that I never thought you was only a chaffing of me when you said I hadn't used the horses well.

Next thing I knew, it would be coming back at me as political chaff.

We have two phone lines that separate business from chaff.

Chaff could be released both from the front seat and the back.

I was too new at this game to try to sort the wheat from the chaff.

It did not fall to the ground, but drove through the air like a piece of chaff.

There's a genuine story there, but also a lot of chaff.

Blowing away the chaff, he held out his palm to her.

He glanced back to see if the missile had gone for the chaff.

Mix not the little wheat with the great world of chaff.

He punched out more chaff as the pilot started to level off.

I did not have time to sort the wheat from the chaff of a hundred other books.

To be a superior weed among a field of chaff!

The missiles home on the chaff and miss the ship.

And another one moving the chaff away to one side.

But I fear they have been separated as chaff from wheat.

There was nearly always a grain of wheat among the chaff.

So now what I need to work on is context; how to sort the wheat from the chaff.

I tried to filter the wheat from the chaff and make up my own mind.

They allow the wheat to be separated from the chaff.

The work of separating the wheat from the chaff is beginning.

"The secret is to separate the wheat from the chaff."

I think we have managed to separate the wheat from the chaff.

He merely sat down in a chaff and crossed his legs.

I'm telling you, he knows how to separate the wheat from the chaff.

I am too old a bird to be caught with such chaff."

The young man was not used to chaff from women.

Then the dough was all cut out on to a table where you had men chaffing them up.

I also chaffed him about not understanding things in rough and ready practice.

The men got about him, and began to chaff him.

I've just been chaffing your daughter here about her frock.

I was on the point of chaffing him on his state.

As they sat chaffing around the table there was a loud knock on the front door.

So the parents chaff each other, as we gather round the fire before tea.

Sally came in to lay the table, and Philip began to chaff her.

Had the caravan succeeded, he would have taken any and all chaffing in good part.

While she placed the things on the table her father chaffed her.

Hope this peels of without chaffing the sleeve, because I'm up for the record itself.

"I love my wife," he said seriously to those who chaffed him or remonstrated.

Philip looked at Alice to see if she was in earnest and not chaffing him.

I shall chaff them about how they tried to elude me, and failed.

He blushed a great deal when the others chaffed him for his obvious preference.

Poor fellow, he was mad even in those days, and I want to chaff him."

"After all," she said to Jim, "you were chaffing me with it the other day.

Still gently chaffing us, he pushed ahead, up the trail, and soon disappeared.

He attributed them to man's natural desire to chaff his fellow-man.

She accompanied Heron to the door herself, chaffing him about his escort.

You know how you used to chaff me about my whims.

Laughing and chaffing, we all stumbled out into the wintry night.

The old gentleman could not avoid the impression that Philip was chaffing him.

Then he said in harsher tones: We will waste no more time chaffing with you!