| The scabbard occasionally had sheets of silver or gilded bronze applied to it to protect the mouth of the scabbard and the chape. |
| As it reached the chape, it was again wound tightly in several layers to protect the more regularly damaged end of the sheath. |
| He had a chape farm, and could afford to wallow like a swine in filth and laziness. |
| They must run a chape little thing to the Dargle, about two miles away, along the roadside, just as Balfour showed them the way. |
| To cut the matter short, he tould me the skipper had sould me as chape as a speckled orange! |
| That chape she had on must have cost as pretty a sum as would have bought a flock of sheep. |
