"Chaff" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... breakfasts as far as Chatelherault, Loches, Vendome, and Blois. This said man, an old fox, perfect in his business, never lighted lamps in the day time, knew how to skin a flint, charged for wool, leather, and feathers, had an eye to everything, did not easily let anyone pay with chaff instead of coin, and for a penny less than his account would have affronted even a prince. For the rest, he was a good banterer, drinking and laughing with his regular customers, hat in hand always before the persons furnished with plenary indulgences entitled Sit nomen Domini ...
— Droll Stories, Complete - Collected From The Abbeys Of Touraine • Honore de Balzac
... this Head, is to consider the Age of your Mistress: Old Birds are not taken with Chaff; and an old Hare ...
— The Lovers Assistant, or, New Art of Love • Henry Fielding
... thus in two minds, Neptune sent a terrible great wave that seemed to rear itself above his head till it broke right over the raft, which then went to pieces as though it were a heap of dry chaff tossed about by a whirlwind. Ulysses got astride of one plank and rode upon it as if he were on horseback; he then took off the clothes Calypso had given him, bound Ino's veil under his arms, and plunged into the sea—meaning to swim on shore. King ...
— The Odyssey • Homer
... a cad with my chaff,' he said to himself, 'but hang me if I see how to help her. And I ...
— The Disentanglers • Andrew Lang
... Collection, which the Basel Museum bought long afterwards. And such was the love of both that they included, perhaps deliberately, much that has small probability of claim to be Holbein's work. They would reject nothing attributed to him; thinking a bushel of chaff well worth housing if it might yield one genuine grain. And in view of these expressive facts, it is hardly necessary to argue in behalf of the tradition that more than a conventional friendship bound the two young men together,—printer's son and painter's ...
— Holbein • Beatrice Fortescue
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