But they was hypocrites and he a very light chaffy man, and the way was too strait for him.
"A Book of Quaker Saints"
Lucy Violet Hodgkin
To these meetings anyone might come and listen to the preachers' message, which 'threshed them like grain, and sifted the wheat from the "light chaffy minds" among the hearers.
"A Book of Quaker Saints"
Lucy Violet Hodgkin
Moldy, chaffy, grains and weed seeds may be cheaper to buy than sweet, sound materials, but the latter are cheaper to feed.
"Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry"
Pratt Food Co.