How To Use Chaste In A Sentence

  • With the loss of so many illusions at once I cannot remember when I have felt so vulnerable or chastened, but neither can I remember when I have felt so alive.
  • Several herbs also help rebalance the female endocrine system, including angelica (dong quai), licorice root, black cohosh, and chasteberries.
  • Eva would want to know, but the kiss was too private, too perfect, too wonderful, too pure and chaste to be shared.
  • Her chasteness was somehow the outward proof, the external manifestation, of a potential for sexual abandon all the more alluring for being hidden, invisible.
  • The chasteberry (also called vitex) fruit was used for centuries to quench sexual desire, particularly in monks.
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  • The effort by the defendant to present Ellen as an "unchaste" woman would not have disproved Catharine's suit, as the action was for compensation for loss of household services only; however, he may have been hoping to lower the valuation for Ellen as "damaged goods. Gutenber-e Help Page
  • He is the chastest prince for women that ever was, for he would often swear that he never kissed any other woman than his own queen. Will gay unfriendly Southern Baptists expel King James?
  • There are people within the Catholic Church who might argue that those who label themselves ‘gay’ or ‘lesbian’ aren't necessarily living unchastely.
  • Only within a conjugal union could women be chaste and virtuous, and nurture a positive influence on children and men.
  • Come a ‘chaste art festival’, then the distemper art rules the roost in major spots.
  • No doubt the school will feel suitably chastened by her absence.
  • She wore a chaste gold chain around her neck.
  • Vitex is another popular treatment for PMS. Also known as chasteberry, vitex was once used in monasteries to reduce sexual desire. Earl Mindell’s New Herb Bible
  • These were not the dainty and chaste twirls and curtseys of the ballerinas at Lincoln Center.
  • In general terms Spenser's female characters are praised for fulfilling the roles of supportive partner or chaste virgin.
  • Forced to witness the collapse of everything they had once dreamed of and worked to achieve, they have emerged unchastened and unchanged in their destructive illusions.
  • The Bangladeshi left-handers, who had posted their country's previous best opening stand against England in the first innings, quickly demonstrated that was merely a 'sighter' as the tourists raced to 189 for two in only 43 overs off a chastened home attack. IcCheshireOnline
  • In the past, a woman needed to be chaste to make a good marriage.
  • I have a hard time with it, knowing that if my brother ever found out I was, you know, * festive*, he'd likely think I was too perverted to be near his kids and grandkids, even though I'm chaste and have been even back when I was a neopagan and didn't believe chastity was mandated or even all that great. Keeping the Riff-Raff Out of Heaven
  • As if there is any alternative to "institutionalised" celibacy in a religious institution besides married and/or unchaste priests. . . The "homosexualization" of the clergy in Latin America
  • Matthew and I never talked about our desires, or even our chasteness, for that matter. Promise Me
  • Calista, I swear to thee, by the spotlessness of thy own soul, by the brilliancy of thy immitigable eyes, by everything pure and chaste in heaven and in thy own heart, that I will never cease from following thee! The Memoires of Barry Lyndon
  • Although he is now housed in an open prison, and he maintains a certain hearty cheerfulness, few doubt that Archer has been chastened by his prison experience.
  • The man who is not currently a fornicator can only marry a woman who is not currently a fornicatress or a chaste woman from the people of the Book. Ave Sharia
  • Because of his position as official court historian, we may be tempted to regard Chastellains testimony as panegyrical embellishment. The Funeral of Duke Philip the Good
  • a polite public will no more bear to read an authentic description of vice than a truly refined English or American female will permit the word breeches to be pronounced in her chaste hearing. Vanity Fair
  • But compared with what you hear in most school playgrounds it's positively chaste. Times, Sunday Times
  • The clean-shaven gentleman on the couch, with the excellent posture, the pastel golf shirt, and that strangely chaste yet fiery look in his eye?
  • Bergson is a kind of chastened and spiritualized Herbert Spencer. In the Noon of Science
  • Douglas makes the concerto sound almost chaste in its clinical brilliance.
  • Their love of sumptuous clothes is simultaneously the inspiration for and the evidence of their ‘wanton, lewd, and unchaste behavior’.
  • she lived chastely
  • He was sure she was too overcome with emotion to answer, and while she sat in stunned silence, he stole a chaste kiss.
  • How come the only organ the left insists be chaste is the lung? Archive 2004-06-01
  • Their lips met, and for a second it was a chaste, innocent kiss, but suddenly something flared to life.
  • The word used for discipline in the Bible refers to the chastening, training, or instructing of our children. The Power of A Positive Mom
  • Michael Stuhlbarg is a suitably chastened Xerxes, and Len Cariou is properly ghostly as Darius's minatory ghost.
  • As he passed her, he caressed her cheek with the palm of his hand and gently gave her a chaste kiss on the cheek.
  • A good night kiss, as chaste and as innocent as it could be, just seemed the fitting response to that sensitivity.
  • Hence the virginal Elizabeth, who was chaste and civilised where her queenly predecessor was promiscuous and barbaric.
  • He used the Golden Legend, Huon de Meri's allegorical poem of the fight between Jesus and the Antichrist, Peter Comestor's Bible History, Rustebeuf's La Voie de Paradis, Grosseteste's religious allegory of Le Chastel d 'Amour, the paraded learning of Vincent of Beauvais in Speculum Historiale, and other works -- numerous and small signs of booklore, which are completely overshadowed by his illuminating comprehension of the popular side in the politics of his day. Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages
  • Rudeness is defined as: lacking delicacy or refinement; coarse; of untaught manners; uncivil; ignorant; lacking chasteness or elegance. Ed and Deb Shapiro: How Does A Waitress Deal With Rude People?
  • After the blackout of August 14, 2003, all of us in Ontario seemed suitably chastened in our attitudes towards electricity usage.
  • The beautiful subalar plumage is then thrown out and cleaned from any spot that may sully its purity by being passed gently through the bill, the short chocolate-colored wings are extended to the utmost, and he keeps them in a steady flapping motion, at the same time raising up the delicate long feathers over the back, which are spread in a chaste and elegant manner, floating like films in the ambient air. In Nesting Time
  • The passage has an almost classical chasteness.
  • It is on this account that this class of woman are called unchaste women by voluptuaries. The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana
  • As lovely as this seems, there is a dark cloud threatening to corrupt this pure, chaste, unspoiled sensation.
  • Having inflicted a 15th place Kentucky Derby finisher on Out of Left Field readers, this chastened tout will perform the public service of not tipping any horse in the Preakness.
  • I must love all men, and never quarrel, nor be drunk, nor be unchaste, nor steal, nor tell a lie, nor be discontent with my condition.
  • Iago has already convinced him that Desdemona is unchaste.
  • Little Malcolm won the Silver Bear at Berlin in 1974 Cooper's next movie, the sombre and chastening Overlord, won another Silver Bear in 1975, and the post-ceremonial bacchanals were memorable indeed. Eunarchy in the UK: George Harrison's first movie
  • I hope and pray that the chastenings of our blessed Lord, in depriving us of our worldly possessions, may be sanctified to us, and lead us, more earnestly and undoubtingly, to seek for possessions in that Kingdom where all is joy, and peace, and love. A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren
  • In that show's final episode last season, Donna, the last remaining chaste character, gave up her virginity at age 22 to achieve deeper intimacy with boyfriend David.
  • -- Chaste-tree (Vitex agnus-castus) is a shrub that can be cut hard in winter, leaving 6 - to 10-inch woody stubs. Knowing when to prune is crucial for dependable flower blossoms
  • The Society of St. Vincent de Paul was probably the earliest lay orgainzation established in new Zealand, a conferrence formed at Christchurch in July, 1867, by the Rev.Fr. Chasteagner, S.M., being the first founded in Australasia. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
  • Flimsy storylines concentrate on chaste boy-girl relationships, with hip-grinding dance numbers providing enough sex to titillate the audience without upsetting India's puritanical film censors.
  • The chastened man set off into York, where his tanner bought him cow's liver, half a pound of onions, two penny ‘ducks’ and a packet of Woodbines, providing enough food for two days' dinner.
  • Richard Polwhele's "Unsexed Females," where he asks us to picture an "unsex'd" woman's body: "Scarce by a gossamery film carest,/Sport [s], in full view, the meretricious breast;" he then guides us to undress the woman farther, to "Loose the chaste cincture, where the graces shone,/And languish'd all the Loves, the ambrosial zone. 'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_
  • Ruti Nkuna and her irresistible clan of children and adult kin guided, taught, buoyed, rescued, relaxed, chastened, and reassured me every step of the way in Magude. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
  • But he'll probably be well chastened, I suppose.
  • Age has chastened his violent temper.
  • Men were advised to redirect their sexual energies into work, and women were told that females were naturally nonsexual and that “good” women were pure and chaste. A Renegade History of the United States
  • This was a most chastening time for him, as he began to think about his future and what he was hoping to do with his life. A Channel of Peace
  • Their rule of chastening is what may seem fit to their own often erring judgment, temper, or caprice. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • She recoiled in horror when the noble young assistant offered his chaste embrace. A BOOK OF LANDS AND PEOPLES
  • WORD CORRECT PRONUNCIATION alma mater _alma mater_ apparatus _apparatus_ apricot _apricot_ attaché _attasha'_ audacious _audashus_ ballet _bal'la_ blasé _blaza'_ blatant _blatant_ chasten _chasen_ Practical Grammar and Composition
  • But by "pureness" here, he means either chasteness again, or general purity, or incorruptness, or even his preaching the Gospel freely. NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
  • Besides, a goat might butt Peregrine - tumble him, with his chaste nankeens, his sherry-colour body-coat, and his certainties into the scuppers.
  • He was, according to one of his many illustrious pupils, ‘a charming teacher, so simple, unaffected and sincere in manner, so chaste in style, so clear in demonstration’.
  • 'Tis not scurrile this, but chaste, honest, most part serious, and even of religion itself. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • But for the senior Saints these are chastening times. Times, Sunday Times
  • She gave him a chaste kiss on the cheek.
  • If she dared to violate the rules in the patriarchal society, she would be regarded as an unchaste and vicious woman.
  • Now trust me thou hast said very well: And me wi drawing hence the argument of his setled perswasion; that he had the chastest Woman living to his wife, and so just a Servant, as could not be fellowed: there never was any further discoverie of this Garden-night accident. The Decameron
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  • Lewdness abounds, but after all of this repressed sexuality, the next scene is a chaste dance between Mina and the addled Harker.
  • But after three chastening years, the city is rediscovering its old swagger. Times, Sunday Times
  • The souls of such separate themselves from the unlimited love for the sex, and devote themselves to one, with whom they look for an everlasting and eternal union and its increasing blessednesses, as the cherishers of the hope which continually recreates their mind; but it is quite otherwise with the unchaste, that is, with those who do not think religiously of marriages and their holiness. The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love
  • PC Clegg said the woman's husband left her on account of her drinking habits and then she commenced to lead an unchaste life.
  • _grandiflorus_ (A); pomegranate; white kerria, _Rhodotypos kerrioides; _ smoke tree, _Rhus Cotinus; _ rose locust, _Robinia hispida_ (A); spireas of several kinds; _Stuartia pentagyna_ (A); snowberry, _Symphoricarpos racemosus_ (A); lilacs of many kinds; viburnums of several species, including the European and Japanese snowballs; weigelas of the various kinds; chaste-tree, _Vitex Agnus-Castus; _ Thunberg's barberry; red pepper, _Capsicum frutescens; Plumbago Capensis; _ poinsettia. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)
  • They ‘live in Concubinage - swopping their Wivesas Cattle, and living in a State of Nature, more irregularly and unchastely than the Indians,’ wrote an observer in the South nearly 200 years ago.
  • Far more chaste and with far fewer surprises up its stiff - starched tutu is Moscow City Ballet's Swan Lake.
  • Last season, it was an MTV adaptation of a British show, the racy, teen sex-laden "Skins," that drew the ire of protestors, though "The Playboy Club," with its public airwave chasteness and age of consent actors, shares little in common with that show. 'The Playboy Club' Anti-Porn Groups Boycott: Pink Cross, Morality In Media Protest NBC Show
  • A number of times in Scripture when addressing the Jews, God chastened them for not obeying His Word.
  • The President now seems a more chastened and less confident politician than when he set out a week ago.
  • Pakistan suffered a chastening time. Times, Sunday Times
  • Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition.
  • Or dost thou, the habitant of some bright star, where frailty such as ours is yet unknown, lend to lovers a rapture unalloyed by passion's grosser sense; as, symphonious with the tremulous zephyr, chastened vows of constancy are there exchanged? A Love Story
  • Pallotti offers this bit of ecclesiastical hokum as it if it made perfect, pious sense: the point of the program isn't celibacy "as much as creating what they call a chaste kind of life. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • Those who looked chastely upon women heard the song as something harmonious and sweet; but those who looked unchastely upon women heard it as inharmonious and sad.
  • Bonnier was equally well-known for his famously roving eye, which may have been alluded to here by the artist in his patron's confident, all-knowing gaze; Nattier's portrait of his wife as the chaste goddess Diana offers a witty antipode. With All the Time in the World
  • The objection that chastening is grievous is here anticipated and answered. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • In the shadow of the Great Depression and chastened by the horror of war, Western societies sought to redefine social provision and the notion of public good.
  • Emilia asks to be placed next to her dying mistress, and as she dies, she tells Othello that Desdemona is innocent and chaste.
  • Thus, the chaste woman was sealed, impermeable; the unchaste woman was porous, incontinent.
  • In the past, a woman needed to be chaste to make a good marriage.
  • The memory remains with him for the rest of his chaste life. Times, Sunday Times
  • The gorgeousness is in the imagery not in the language; the words are weak while the sense, as in the classical Scandinavian books, is strong; and here the Arabic differs diametrically from the florid exuberance and turgid amplifications of the Persian story-teller, which sound so hollow and unreal by the side of a chaster model. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Germans are not the rod predestined for the chastening of these degeneracies, who knows whether we may not again, like our fathers in dim antiquity, have to gird on our swords and go forth to seek dwelling-places for our increase? Gems (?) of German Thought
  • My second uniform is less dogmatic, more feminine, yet still a tad chaste. Times, Sunday Times
  • The most chastening passage in the book concerns a woman called Lisl Auman.
  • Is he in any way chastened by this experience do you think?
  • Howsoever the best way is to contemn it, which [6214] Henry II. king of France advised a courtier of his, jealous of his wife, and complaining of her unchasteness, to reject it, and comfort himself; for he that suspects his wife's incontinency, and fears the Pope's curse, shall never live a merry hour, or sleep a quiet night: no remedy but patience. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • And so we entered the thrilling, horrifying, chastening period of the past two weeks. Times, Sunday Times
  • This is Athens, the city that gave man marriage ‘by which the unchaste nature of the female was at last governed.’
  • Ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto sons, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him; for whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and _scourgeth every son_ whom he receiveth. God's Plan with Men
  • I know that the current view of sex is unbridled recreation, but that fact is the very reason why the word chaste is quasi obsolete and often equated with marital infidelity. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
  • she acts prudishly, but I wonder whether she is really all that chaste
  • Since then, I have spent my week in carefree, moral, and chaste ecstasy.
  • First, I'm constantly impressed by the email I receive, and I'm chastened to be reminded of the things I forget to think about.
  • Auerbach tries later to combine two contradictory conceptions of realism; first something which might be called existentialism: the agonizing revelations of reality in moments of supreme decisions, in “limiting situations”: Abraham about to sacrifice Isaac, Madame du Chastel deciding not to rescue her son from execution, the Duke of REALISM IN LITERATURE
  • Resolution, his acquisition vehicle, is domiciled in the island tax haven and is out of step with these more chastened times. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the fyrste parte is showne, the vnsufferable abuse, of a lewde Magistrate: The vertuous behauiours of a chaste ladye: The vncontrowled leawdenes of a fauored Curtisan. Even in a little thing
  • A chastened Agassi flew home for a period of deep contemplation.
  • It was a chastening time. Times, Sunday Times
  • The president combatively showed himself unchastened by the Senate's embarrassing rejection of his first choice.
  • Raised a Jehovah's Witness, he never had a reputation for drinking or taking drugs, and his only public "romance" was with Brooke Shields, another former child star who wears her chasteness like a badge. Michael's World
  • Yet he appears to have been unchastened, continuing to enjoy long and lubricous lunches.
  • She gave him a chaste kiss on the cheek.
  • Harvard Business School Professor John Quelch has called the chastened former indiscretionary spenders "simplifiers". Peggy Drexler: The End of Normal: The New Simplicity -- Real or Reaction?
  • The Lady with a modest blush, much condemned this folly in him, that his covetousnes should serve as a cloake to cover any unfitting speeches which her chaste eares could never endure to heare. The Decameron
  • Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and chaste of heart, whose souls have been coarsely and impudently invaded; and who, until the last moment, refuse to yield out of pride and are afraid to express their own feelings to you. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
  • But after three chastening years, the city is rediscovering its old swagger. Times, Sunday Times
  • We need to be morally upright, like chaste virgins before God, pure and clean.
  • A woman's chastity is considered as her highest virtue and all Hindu traditional literature extols the greatness of a chaste woman.
  • Segal is suitably chastened after last week's events.
  • Like Heaven's Gate, Where the Wild Things Are was a movie whose budget was totally out of whack with the financial realities of what was on-screen, and it has been widely described as a chastening flop. Mark Kermode: How to make an intelligent blockbuster and not alienate people
  • But, above all, they had the modesty of pride, a chaste reserve, a/touch-me-not/which at a maturer age might have seemed intentional coyness, so much did their demeanor inspire a wish to know them. The Commission in Lunacy
  • Perhaps chastened by the experience, and certainly restricted by a hung council, Labour have subsequently become more conciliatory.
  • If -- The oldest manuscripts read, "With a view to chastening (that is, since God's chastisement is with a view to your chastening, that is, disciplinary amelioration) endure patiently"; so Vulgate. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • The succah expresses chastening grace. Times, Sunday Times
  • What more could be done that I have not done, both in mercies and chastenings Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • Peter shows, that when, on a previous occasion, she called Abraham lord, she did not do so feignedly; since he proposes her, as an example of voluntary subjection, to pious and chaste matrons. Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1
  • But to the unchastened White House, apparent opposition to contraceptives, abortion and science was the opposite of disqualifying.
  • Chastened, I file right behind Ed into the auditorium.
  • One of the most chastely beautiful of our native wild flowers -- so lovely that many shady nooks in English rock-gardens and ferneries contain imported clumps of the vigorous plant -- is the Large-flowered Wake-Robin, or White Wood Lily (_T. grandiflorum_). Wild Flowers Worth Knowing
  • You do not say whether the length of the marriage is a little more than 10 years, therefore essentially chaste from early on… or the last 10 years have been sexless after some years of intimacy.
  • He pressed a chaste kiss on her cheek and breezed out of her office.
  • By the 1800s polite society began to place a premium on brides being virgins, and the Victorian ideal was that women should be chaste before marriage and modest afterwards.
  • Cimbri used the _Tamarix germanica_, the Scandinavians the fruit of the sweet gale (_Myrica gale_), the Cauchi the fruit and the twigs of the chaste tree (_Vitex agrius castus_), and the Icelanders the yarrow Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
  • He wrote in a chaste style.
  • Now this was according to God's will, so that the church might be provided with pure altar bread made by the hands of a chaste and innocent youth.
  • It's also available in blends combining standardized extract with powdered or liquid chaste tree berries.
  • The milliner’s intentions on the subject of this dress — the milliner was a Frenchwoman, and greatly resembled Mrs Skewton — were so chaste and elegant, that Mrs Skewton bespoke one like it for herself. Dombey and Son
  • Fortune, unchastened in its shameless sucking up to CEO's, is running a puff piece about Terry Semel at Yahoo.
  • Oh, they flirt casually, make eyes at each other, and share a chaste embrace or two, but we never see anything that makes us say, ‘Now they're a couple.’
  • He kissed her chastely on the cheek.
  • WORD CORRECT PRONUNCIATION alma mater _alma mater_ apparatus _apparatus_ apricot _apricot_ attaché _attasha'_ audacious _audashus_ ballet _bal'la_ blasé _blaza'_ blatant _blatant_ chasten _chasen_ Practical Grammar and Composition
  • His poetry had a chaste reserve that reflected his Englishness, but off the page he was a merry wit who laughed loudly, told raunchy jokes and felt more at home in a leather bar than a stuffy literary function.
  • He has clearly not been chastened by his thirteen days in detention.
  • Despite a law that requires all unmarried clergy to remain chaste, she didn't hide the nature of her relationship.
  • Denouncing unchaste women, Hamlet madly advises Ophelia to become a celibate nun.
  • Joseph is not a chaste man sexually harassed by the wife of Potiphar, but a male beauty who sexually teases her.
  • Very different from the social position of chaste women was that of the hetairai. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
  • The elegance which she wished to introduce was termed lasciviousness; yet I do not find that the absence of gallantry renders the wives more chaste, or the husbands more constant. Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
  • Mostly, though, I object to the fact that the authors show you how to behave as if you were reticent, modest, and chaste - without insisting you actually adopt those virtues.
  • Most of the females were girls fresh from the country, young and chaste, who had been cozened or stolen into a life of prostitution with no idea what they were in for. Shameless
  • Clark's talent has always been about paradox, the chaste classical lines of his choreography inflected with a blatant sexual frisson.
  • (Note the discrimination against the "unchaste" woman in the statutory law; whether this scruple was closely adhered to by the local courts in bastardy actions is uncertain, but as noted, there was no reference to the previous character of the mother in any of the southern Avalon cases herein.) Gutenber-e Help Page
  • After her sojourn at Greenham Common she had returned to London chastened, but at least still certain of that particular cause. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
  • Very few people, I suppose, are so foolish as to believe that man is by nature either a chaste or a constant animal, and indeed in this respect he appears to his disadvantage when compared with certain varieties of birds, which are _by nature_ constant to each other. Birth Control A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians
  • I walk from the pitch as humiliated as I am chastened.
  • For Nietzsche, there is no modesty, no chaste self-governing in the sexual antagonism and the unrestrained gift of the woman.
  • There was a streak of the carnal in her; a passion that seemed to slip from beneath the chasteness imposed by the convent.
  • Plays about passion are profuse and easy: heterosexual or homosexual, interracial or senescent, kinky or chaste.
  • The chaste but imposing exterior is revetted with a grid of limestone slabs and punctuated by broad wooden doors.
  • And the 'bhai' would either be speaking Urdu or wearing ankle-high lungi and skull cap and speaking chaste Ramnad Tamil. The Hindu - Front Page
  • The memory remains with him for the rest of his chaste life. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was chastened by the traffic accident; he had nearly died.
  • It was a chaste kiss ended in a comforting embrace.
  • Which Rossiglione perceiving, hee stoode like a body without a soule, confounded with the killing of so deare a friend, losse of a chaste and honourable wife, and all through his owne overcredulous conceit. The Decameron
  • For the Yorkshire attack it proved to be a chastening day. Times, Sunday Times
  • Now that Wisconsin's governor has given the Guard its marching orders, we can discern a new pattern of global repressive solidarity emerging - from the chastened pharaoh of the Middle East to the cheese-head pharaoh of the Middle West. The Media Consortium: Showdown in Madison: A Primer for the Wisconsin Protests
  • Elis, unsubdued and unchastened, heaved himself free and grappled in his turn. A Caregiver's Homage To The Very Old
  • During the holiday, visitors were separated according to gender on Meah Shearim Street in order to maintain chasteness. 20 « October « 2008 « Niqnaq
  • Under Hardin, a woman who had been unchaste, but had reformed herself could become ‘an innocent woman in the eyes of the law.’
  • Use the person that represent kind, high, chasteness finally, and original the meaning that it is golden hair, the aboriginal just with deep color of skin, black hair is opposite.
  • Morrissey is always taking off his shirt but he is also proudly and publicly chaste.
  • The subject matter ranges from dignified nature-poetry (Du Bellay) and Petrarchesque lyrics (Ronsard), through sententious and moralizing texts, to the familiar drinking-songs, some macaronic texts, and Rabelaisian amorous and bawdy narratives; no one wrote more amusing chansons of this last type (En un chasteau and Il esteoit une religieuse are excellent examples). Archive 2009-06-01
  • The President now seems a more chastened and less confident politician than when he set out a week ago.
  • That is not, however, to say there was anything unchristian, unchaste, or subversive to the Faith.
  • While I think Frum is probably right that this movement, much like the Obama "movement", will eventually crest -- it's not clear that losing political battles chastens the right, at least not yet. Steve Clemons: Guns, Religion and the Glenn Beck Rally
  • There is another traditional verse celebrating five satis, chaste wives: Sati, Sita, Savitri, Damayanti and Arundhati.
  • So as not to disturb this important natural phase of growth, parents will recognize that prudent formation in chaste love during this period should be indirect, in preparation for puberty, when direct information will be necessary. [more ...] Archive 2008-04-01
  • Rebuked, the unchastened Catalyst replied, `But master, you yourself foresaw this. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
  • Christ would be born, not of an empress or queen, for he appeared not in outward pomp or splendour, but of a virgin, to teach us spiritual purity, to die to all the delights of sense, and so to keep ourselves unspotted from the world and the flesh that we may be presented chaste virgins to Christ. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
  • Large numbers of chaste widow and worthy daughters-in-law appeared in thee reords of Shanxi province in Qing Dynasty.
  • A friend of mine suggested that "lilied" was peculiarly appropriate to form "cold nymphs chaste crowns," from its imputed power as a preserver of chastity: and in MR. HALLIWELL'S folio, several examples are quoted from old poets of "peony" spelt "piony;" and of both _peony_ and _lily_ as Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.
  • Yet these are chastened times for the oil industry. Times, Sunday Times
  • The French president was chastened by the recent defeat of his European constitution referendum initiative.
  • People in some religious orders remain chaste.
  • The heart must be kept pure from fleshly lusts, all unchaste thoughts and desires; and from worldly lusts; covetousness is called filthy lucre; from all filthiness of flesh and spirit, all that which come out of the heart, and defiles the man. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
  • But there is still only one BuzzFlash: unchastened, unapologetic, and unrelenting in its pursuit of justice.
  • The women, becoming unchaste, will freely wander from one man to the next.
  • On impulse, she leaned over and placed a chaste kiss on his cheek and was smug to see a slight tinge of red creep over his cheeks.
  • Then they held each other in an embrace that was not altogether chaste.
  • But for the senior Saints these are chastening times. Times, Sunday Times
  • In burghs throughout the country ‘black Genevan ministers and kirk sessions had it in for the ungodly and unchaste, and at one palace or another Buchanan beat learning into young King James.
  • And so we entered the thrilling, horrifying, chastening period of the past two weeks. Times, Sunday Times
  • We all have a need to commune with our gods, whether they be male or female, sexual or chaste, whether they reside in the devil's asshole or in the soul of a yak.

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