1 Scarlett seemed demure and sweet enough these days, but there was a pleased complacency in her eyes which annoyed people and she carried a chip on her shoulder which no one cared to disturb.
2 And if Will Benteen can't make a go of the cotton, I'm willing to chip in and help out on that white elephant in Clayton County that you love so much.
3 Not a chip of the boat was harmed, nor a hair of any oarsman's head; but the mate for ever sank.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story. 4 But Napoleon came and swept him aside, unconscious of his existence, as he might brush a chip from his path, and his Bald Hills and his whole life fell to pieces.
5 Pierre felt himself to be an insignificant chip fallen among the wheels of a machine whose action he did not understand but which was working well.
6 Now it would roll on its back, yelping with delight, now bask in the sun with a thoughtful air of importance, and now frolic about playing with a chip of wood or a straw.
7 Like a chip on a dreary pond, she felt.
8 Holmes held out a small chip with the letters NN and a space of clear wood after them.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS 9 The stranger shoved in all his chips and followed with the deed to his plantation.
10 Gerald shoved in all his chips and laid on top of them his wallet.
11 Every morning he went out importantly with a basket to pick up twigs and chips to start the fires with.
12 The universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago.
13 It was full of little brown chips that looked like the shavings of some root.
14 She threw the package into the stove, but I bit off a corner of one of the chips I held in my hand, and chewed it tentatively.
15 Here and there were officers carried along on the stream like exasperated chips.