| 1. | Many sweating, ploughing, thrashing, and then the chaff for paymen. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | Me list not of the chaff nor of the str. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 3. | Pick'd from the chaff and ruin of the times. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | What is the chaff to the wheat saith the LORD. - from The King James Bible |
| 5. | Asses, fools, dolts chaff and bran, chaff and bra. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 6. | in, two bushels of chaff you shall seek all day ere you fin. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 7. | is surely written for Take the fruit, and let the chaff be still. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 8. | But he determined to chaff Fix, when he had the chance, with mysterious allusions, which, however, need not betray his real suspicions. - from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne |
| 9. | "And they will bury her and Fyodor the thrasher with his curly beard full of chaff and his shirt torn on his white shoulders--they will bury him. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 10. | Then, if he finds the lingam of the man erect, he presses it with his hands, and chaffs him for getting into that state. - from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Vatsyayana |