Chaw Quotes
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The man, who laugh'd but once to see an ass Mumbling to make the cross-grain'd thistles pass, Might laugh again to see a jury chaw The prickles of unpalatable law.
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More Chaw Quotes
This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and "Lord have mercy upon us" writ there; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw. It put me into an ill conception of myself and my smell, so that I was forced to buy some roll-tobacco to smell to and chaw, which took away the apprehension.
Samuel Pepys— June 7, 1665
— Written during the Great Plague.
It's not that he "bites off more than he can chaw," as T. G. Appleton said of Nathan , but he chaws more than he bites off.
— Clover Adams, letter to her father (December 1881), in The Letters of Mrs. Henry Adams, ed. Ward Thoron (1936)
