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  • Rumors spread of half-clad women jiggling away, when in fact the dance was elegant, stylized, and rather chaste.†   (source)
  • After all, his culture does all it can to keep boys and girls separate and pure, and his reading has described relations between the sexes in only the most general and chaste of terms.†   (source)
  • The occasional Circler looked up to smile at her, to wave chastely at the camera, at her audience, before returning to the work at hand.†   (source)
  • "It's all a chase, and when the race is done, I think I pity chaste women who run."†   (source)
  • My parents divorced when I was twelve, and I think maybe, when I was very young, I witnessed a chaste cheek kiss between the two when it was impossible to avoid.†   (source)
  • His visits to the transient hotel became less frequent, not only because his interests lay elsewhere but because he did not like them to see him there under circumstances that were different from the chaste domesticity of the past.†   (source)
  • I resolve to be chaste, as that is a noble thing to do.†   (source)
  • He opened a copy of Lektyr from 1964 and smiled to see how chaste the pin-up was.†   (source)
  • And Eric had waited, attentive and utterly chaste.†   (source)
  • I'm not exactly chaste.†   (source)
  • It then served variously as the gasp of humility, gratitude, admiration; the gasp of chaste emotion, the gasp of reprobation toward others who did not come forward to be uplifted.†   (source)
  • "You want to know if I'm still chaste."†   (source)
  • Very chaste.†   (source)
  • Ultimately, Don Quixote had a hard time loving chaste and pure from afar.†   (source)
  • We must stay in our upstairs rooms, be chaste, be modest, and perfect the womanly arts.†   (source)
  • Because not all nuns were chaste before they became nuns!†   (source)
  • Even back when I did the groupie thing, I'd always escort the girl du jour out of my hotel room or limo or whatever, give her a chaste kiss on the cheek and a "Thanks, that was a lot of fun," or something with a similar note of finality in it.†   (source)
  • She colored a little and went on in a whisper, "By no means were we to take any comfort of each other's bodies, but lie always chaste.†   (source)
  • I must be chaste and humble and contrite.†   (source)
  • Before he could answer, she stretched up to kiss him—a chaste press of lips to lips at first, but it deepened quickly, and soon he was parting her lips with his, tongue stroking into her mouth, and she could taste him: the sweetness of Jace spiked with the bite of champagne.†   (source)
  • At the lectern before the party faithful in New York City, the president adopts the chaste mien of an altar boy.†   (source)
  • He also showed that, for all the British fulminations about American usage, they could not resist adopting Americanisms: "Even to belittle, which had provoked an almost hysterical outburst from the European Magazine and London Review when Thomas Jefferson ventured to use it in 1787, was so generally accepted by 1862 that Anthony Trollope admitted it to his chaste vocabulary."†   (source)
  • I'm a senior now, I thought, looking to my right and seeing the restrained chaste skyline of Charleston again.†   (source)
  • And all throughout you must be the favorite chaste love of the people.†   (source)
  • I think she is a completely chaste person.†   (source)
  • I became very much a listener, and I'm certain that my archly chaste detachment allowed me eventually to learn as much about Sophie and her past (or more) as Nathan ever learned.†   (source)
  • It was a chaste romance.†   (source)
  • In spite of the corrupt physical ways our passion had begun to take, the photographs of Yvette that I preferred were the chastest.†   (source)
  • A person who has learned to open Gates can indulge such vice; he—or she—can sneak up on a sleeping person—maid, chaste wife, virgin boy—work his will and be long gone before cockcrow.†   (source)
  • So chaste and inexperienced was he that Lara embarrassed him by coming in without knocking and finding him with this minor incompleteness in his dress.†   (source)
  • All this during the second in which Powell again kissed Maria's brow with chaste devotion and gently disengaged himself from her tremulous grasp.†   (source)
  • They were chaste, they were disciplined.†   (source)
  • It's like screwing on the altar or something: your gang are supposed to be such chaste vessels.†   (source)
  • Then it was all quite swift and natural, as chaste as it could ever be.†   (source)
  • It was extremely pleasant and so chaste in its way that Ursula ceased her vigilance.†   (source)
  • These were not the dainty and chaste twirls and curtseys of the ballerinas at Lincoln Center.†   (source)
  • The grey rats are not as chaste as they would have us believe.†   (source)
  • If they'd been chaste, they might enter.†   (source)
  • But finally she's chaste, or, better, she treats me as if I am.†   (source)
  • She held the kiss for several seconds; it was chaste, motherly, the way women always kissed me.†   (source)
  • I looked up all the words and versions—virgin, virginity, virginal, chaste, chastity.†   (source)
  • Our tongues met and we kissed with a formal, comical chasteness.†   (source)
  • After religion class we had chaste but passionate sessions about that day's topics.†   (source)
  • Carlo, his love …. was chaste.†   (source)
  • He was chaste.†   (source)
  • The exposition by day might wear a chaste gown of white staff, but at night it danced barefoot and guzzled champagne.†   (source)
  • …him, with anyone for that matter, having at such great difficulty moved out in the first place, and become quite attached to her small flat, to the life, albeit often lonely, that she had built there, and also finding the idea of living as a chaste half lover, half sister to Saeed in close proximity to his parents rather bizarre, and she might have waited much longer had Saeed's mother not been killed, a stray heavy-caliber round passing through the windshield of her family's car and…†   (source)
  • It was not easy to know who was more constrained, the doctor with his chaste touch or the patient in the silk chemise with her virgin's modesty, but neither one looked the other in the eye; instead, he asked questions in an impersonal voice and she responded in a tremulous voice, both of them very conscious of the man sitting in the shadows.†   (source)
  • Saeed had once more asked her to move in with him and his family, telling her that he could explain things to his parents, and she could have his room, and he would sleep in the sitting room, and they would not have to marry, they would only, out of respect for his parents, have to remain chaste in the house, and it would be safer for her, for this was no time for anyone to be alone.†   (source)
  • I have heard that in the Sunset Kingdoms men take solemn vows to keep chaste and father no children, but live only for their duty.†   (source)
  • There was something wonderfully wicked about the thought of peeling the septa out of those chaste white robes and spreading her legs.†   (source)
  • The harpist and the piper bowed and hurried out, while Cersei kissed her cousin chastely on the cheek.†   (source)
  • I was fifty-seven when my husband went to the afterworld, too old for my sons to think about having me marry out again or even worry about whether or not I would be a chaste widow.†   (source)
  • Her skin was cool and chaste to me, almost sisterly, alabastrine, and I thought I had convinced her to remain yet again, remembering now how many times I had done so, today and yesterday and all the days before that, in a strange and backward perpetuity.†   (source)
  • Chaste Chase?†   (source)
  • Husband and wife ate from a single plate, drank from a single cup, and exchanged chaste kisses between sips.†   (source)
  • Her gown was cream and green, with long lace sleeves, so modest and so innocent that any man who looked at her might think her the most chaste of maids.†   (source)
  • The second was the Four Virtues, which delineate women's behavior, speech, carriage, and occupation: "Be chaste and yielding, calm and upright in attitude; be quiet and agreeable in words; be restrained and exquisite in movement; be perfect in handiwork and embroidery.†   (source)
  • In keeping with the liver's chaste and understated demeanor, the gallbladder is tucked out of sight, just under the overhang of the liver.†   (source)
  • Your skies were too grey, your wines too sweet, your women too chaste, your food too bland …. and you yourself were the greatest disappointment of all.†   (source)
  • I was chaste.†   (source)
  • If someone, through ignorance, propositioned one of these chaste ladies, he risked neither a slap nor a knife; she would turn him down and go right on talking.†   (source)
  • Her sweet young breasts remain firmly imprisoned, rigid in their iron Maidenform behind the chaste cotton blouse.†   (source)
  • She gave a frightened cry and murmured: "Mighty protectress of the sorrowful, chaste Mother of God, help of the afflicted, shelter of the universe …"†   (source)
  • I had not idealized "femininity" in the silly fashion of the time and therefore I am sure I did not foresee bedding down some chaste Sweet Briar maiden only after a trip to the altar.†   (source)
  • I got up then and watched her go, transfixed; I mean it when I say that no chaste and famished grail-tormented Christian knight could have gazed with more slack-jawed admiration at the object of his quest than I did at my first glimpse of Sophie's bouncing behind—a delectable upside-down valentine.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, I had passionately but chastely adored her, adored her for such a simple-minded reason as that she was beautiful enough to wreck the heart, and now I discovered that she was dead.†   (source)
  • But the chaste and beautiful Countess of Cornwall—†   (source)
  • She looked impersonal, untouched by the words she pronounced, chaste like a young boy.†   (source)
  • He bounded away from the nunnery of the chaste breast and quiet mind.†   (source)
  • There were chaste and tender blooms, garish ones that blazed, dark ones swiftly fading.†   (source)
  • And I think I can claim that our people are moderately sober, moderately chaste, and moderately honest.†   (source)
  • A chastity or honesty, or mercy, which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions.†   (source)
  • Sometimes I believe that they are the only true chaste women, not to say virgins, in America, and they remain true and faithful to that man not merely until he dies or frees them, but until they die.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, if she permitted one chaste peck, he might bring her other lovely presents in the hope of getting another kiss.†   (source)
  • "Boy—" he said and toyed with his glass of Scotch and soda and dug the heel of one of his unpolished, thirty-dollar, chastely designed bench-made shoes into the best bed-spread the St. Regis Hotel could afford.†   (source)
  • But Georgie loved her--and Grandma, whom he would kiss on the sleeve, on the knee, taking knee or arm in both hands and putting his underlip forward, chaste, lummoxy, caressing, gentle and diligent when he bent his narrow back, blouse bagging all over it, whitish hair pointy and close as a burr or sunflower when the seeds have been picked out of it.†   (source)
  • She is at the root of such unattainable great goddess figures as that of the chaste and terrible Diana—whose absolute ruin of the young sportsman Actaeon illustrates what a blast of fear is contained in such symbols of the mind's and body's blocked desire.†   (source)
  • In this chaste drawing room Goethe would certainly never have allowed himself to use an outrageous, a genuine and unqualified expression.†   (source)
  • The chaste and beautiful Igraine——-†   (source)
  • Surely there can be no harm in discussing so chaste an idyl— when there hasn't been anything wrong.†   (source)
  • One night I came into the Mansion, saw Sugar-Boy, who was lounging in the high, chastely proportioned hall with a sheet of newspaper across his knee, a dismantled .†   (source)
  • He knew some of Ben Jonson's poems, including the fine Hymn to Diana, "Queen and huntress, chaste and fair," and the great tribute to Shakespeare which lifted his hair at "….†   (source)
  • "Of course, you've probably wondered why I never tried to follow up that chaste peck I gave you, the day I brought you that bonnet—"†   (source)
  • The chaste and beautiful Countess of Cornwall," resumed Gawaine, "spurned the advances of King Uther Pen-dragon, and she told our Grandfather about it She said: 'I suppose we were sent for that I should be dishonoured.†   (source)
  • …the Baptists were the most populous and were considered the most common: their minister was a large plump man with a red face and a white vest, who reached great oratorical effects, roaring at them like a lion, cooing at them like a dove, introducing his wife into the sermon frequently for purposes of intimacy and laughing, in a programme which the Episcopalians, who held the highest social eminence, and the Presbyterians, less fashionable, but solidly decent, felt was hardly chaste.†   (source)
  • Keep your chaste bed, my dear.†   (source)
  • "Good God!" cried the doctor, thunderstruck, for it had never occurred to him that the curiosity of a chaste woman concerning her unchaste sisters was so devouring.†   (source)
  • Since she is pure and chaste, she would have been refined enough for me.†   (source)
  • It was a secret, sensate stirring in the chaste chill of space.†   (source)
  • Paul took his pitch from her, and their intimacy went on in an utterly blanched and chaste fashion.†   (source)
  • It chastely rebuked the restless husbands, yet brought them a message of healing.†   (source)
  • Ah, the laddie has been having a scrap with his chaste lil Madeline!†   (source)
  • His little windows were chastely swathed in Nottingham lace.†   (source)
  • The comeliness of the Roman was severe and chaste, that of the Jew rich and voluptuous.†   (source)
  • This chaste astonishment is the shade of difference which separates Psyche from Venus.†   (source)
  • If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.†   (source)
  • How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look, begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!†   (source)
  • Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste.†   (source)
  • Then by degrees the reality broke upon me, full of chaste terrors.†   (source)
  • In the prison he had been vicious, gloomy, chaste, ignorant, and shy.†   (source)
  • She is almost morbidly chaste, in spite of her broad intelligence, and it will stand in her way.†   (source)
  • Which chaste hearts, notwithstanding, cannot spare;†   (source)
  • This word is formed from pilsit, "chaste,"†   (source)
  • In fact, I feel it strange myself how timid, chaste and modern she is with me!†   (source)
  • This chaste, almost shy love was not devoid of gallantry, by any means.†   (source)
  • That sigh was the soul, so chaste and so loving, which reascended to heaven.†   (source)
  • He chastely dropped his eyes before everything which was not the Republic.†   (source)
  • Avdotya Romanovna is awfully chaste, incredibly and phenomenally so.†   (source)
  • Suddenly she came upon a stout gentleman in a silk hat and a chaste black coat, whose decorous row of buttons reached from his chin to his knees.†   (source)
  • Ahmed, apprized by Mohammed Latif of the character of the bee, said, "They will not hurt us, whose lives are chaste," and pushed boldly in; his sister was more cautious.†   (source)
  • You may talk of Bouguereau if you will: there is a cheerful disgustingness in the sound which excites laughter; but let us not sully our chaste lips with the names of J. Ruskin, G. F. Watts, or E. B. Jones.'†   (source)
  • Carol's small town thinks not in hoss-swapping but in cheap motor cars, telephones, ready-made clothes, silos, alfalfa, kodaks, phonographs, leather-upholstered Morris chairs, bridge-prizes, oil-stocks, motion-pictures, land-deals, unread sets of Mark Twain, and a chaste version of national politics.†   (source)
  • Now she was crouching in the corner trying to extract a circular note from a kind of linen nose-bag which hung in chaste concealment round her neck.†   (source)
  • But she could not resist the attraction of being treated with affection by a woman who had just shewn herself so implacable towards the defenceless dead; she sprang on to the knees of her friend and held out a chaste brow to be kissed; precisely as a daughter would have done to her mother, feeling with exquisite joy that they would thus, between them, inflict the last turn of the screw of cruelty, in robbing M. Vinteuil, as though they were actually rifling his tomb, of the sacred…†   (source)
  • In Lodge's strange romance "A Margarite of America" it was stated that in the chamber of the queen one could behold "all the chaste ladies of the world, inchased out of silver, looking through fair mirrours of chrysolites, carbuncles, sapphires, and greene emeraults."†   (source)
  • When a man seeks to "simplify" life bestially, throwing aside every relic of humanity, every chaste aspiration, every pure feeling, all sense of ideality, duty, modesty, shame…then nothing is more revolting and nauseous than a certain kind of remorse — crocodiles' tears, that's what it is.†   (source)
  • It was a platinum fob chain simple and chaste in design, properly proclaiming its value by substance alone and not by meretricious ornamentation--as all good things should do.†   (source)
  • You do not scruple to make a libertine of that noble man; you call him a sensualist as coolly as if you were speaking the truth, and yet it would not be possible to find a chaster man.†   (source)
  • Staveley curled his lip, and said that you might have the most artistic tastes, but that you were a man whom no pure-minded girl should be allowed to know, and whom no chaste woman should sit in the same room with.†   (source)
  • He would not say whether or not she had attached herself to the sound Low Church School of his father; but she would probably be open to conviction on that point; she was a regular church-goer of simple faith; honest-hearted, receptive, intelligent, graceful to a degree, chaste as a vestal, and, in personal appearance, exceptionally beautiful.†   (source)
  • We know that he studied mathematics—know it from the director himself—and recall the chaste motive behind his devotion to the discipline, whose cooling effects and ability to blunt the thorn in the flesh we have heard praised and whose more general rewards would probably have rendered unnecessary certain measures that the authorities had recently been forced to adopt.†   (source)
  • The bed in his room was lumpy but covered with a chaste figured spread, and the flowery pitcher and bowl rested on a cover embroidered in red with lambs, frogs, water lilies, and a pious motto.†   (source)
  • It was a strange life, dark and tortured, in which men and women showed to remorseless eyes the evil that was in their hearts: a fair face concealed a depraved mind; the virtuous used virtue as a mask to hide their secret vice, the seeming-strong fainted within with their weakness; the honest were corrupt, the chaste were lewd.†   (source)
  • There was an aura of Nordic coolness about her, a glasslike chasteness, a virginal, childish quality that was quite attractive, as were both the full, pure look in her blue, childlike eyes and her pointed, refined way of speaking, in a slightly broken German with the typical mispronunciations of Danes—like "fleck" for "flesh."†   (source)
  • The astounded world, the astounded and profane Clif Clawson, had the spectacle of Martin in shiny pressed clothes, a painful linen collar, and an arduously tied scarf, accompanying Mrs. Fox and the chastely chattering Madeline to the Mohalis Methodist Church, to hear the Reverend Dr. Myron Schwab discourse on "The One Way to Righteousness."†   (source)
  • It really is not becoming,' said Mrs Wititterly, closing her chaste eyes as she spoke; 'it is improper—quite improper.'†   (source)
  • It took four men, all four ablaze with gorgeous decoration, and the Chief of them unable to exist with fewer than two gold watches in his pocket, emulative of the noble and chaste fashion set by Monseigneur, to conduct the happy chocolate to Monseigneur's lips.†   (source)
  • Though his love was as chaste as that of Petrarch for his Laura, it had made fetters of what previously was only a difficulty.†   (source)
  • He had resolved from the first to tell her two things—that he was not chaste as she was, and that he was not a believer.†   (source)
  • It's a superior article, a most desirable color, quite chaste and genteel," he said, shaking out a comfortable gray shawl, and throwing it over Jo's shoulders.†   (source)
  • One dares not that before chaste ears declare, Which chaste hearts, notwithstanding, cannot spare; And, once for all, I grudge thee not the pleasure Of lying to thyself in moderate measure.†   (source)
  • Her beautiful face followed, with singular mobility, all the caprices of her song, from the wildest inspiration to the chastest dignity.†   (source)
  • The same wan day peeps in at Sir Leicester pardoning the repentant country in a majestically condescending dream; and at the cousins entering on various public employments, principally receipt of salary; and at the chaste Volumnia, bestowing a dower of fifty thousand pounds upon a hideous old general with a mouth of false teeth like a pianoforte too full of keys, long the admiration of Bath and the terror of every other community.†   (source)
  • I had believed in the best parlor as a most elegant saloon; I had believed in the front door, as a mysterious portal of the Temple of State whose solemn opening was attended with a sacrifice of roast fowls; I had believed in the kitchen as a chaste though not magnificent apartment; I had believed in the forge as the glowing road to manhood and independence.†   (source)
  • A certain percentage, they tell us, must every year go…. that way…. to the devil, I suppose, so that the rest may remain chaste, and not be interfered with.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER X Catherine received the young man the next day on the ground she had chosen—amid the chaste upholstery of a New York drawing-room furnished in the fashion of fifty years ago.†   (source)
  • Then among them glided like a pure ray, like a Christian angel in the midst of Olympus, one of those chaste figures, those calm shadows, those soft visions, which seemed to veil its virgin brow before these marble wantons.†   (source)
  • He was neatly attired in a plum-coloured coat, with as large a collar of black velvet as his figure could carry; a silken waistcoat, bedecked with golden sprigs; a chaste neckerchief much in vogue at that day, representing a preserve of lilac pheasants on a buff ground; pantaloons so highly decorated with side-stripes that each leg was a three-stringed lute; and a hat of state very high and hard.†   (source)
  • She sank into Mr. Bumble's arms; and that gentleman in his agitation, imprinted a passionate kiss upon her chaste nose.†   (source)
  • In America all books, novels not excepted, suppose women to be chaste, and no one thinks of relating affairs of gallantry.†   (source)
  • Coming at twenty to his father's house, which was a very sink of filthy debauchery, he, chaste and pure as he was, simply withdrew in silence when to look on was unbearable, but without the slightest sign of contempt or condemnation.†   (source)
  • But, irreverently consorting with these grave, reputable, and pious people, these elders of the church, these chaste dames and dewy virgins, there were men of dissolute lives and women of spotted fame, wretches given over to all mean and filthy vice, and suspected even of horrid crimes.†   (source)
  • Lady Bareacres and the chiefs of the English society, stupid and irreproachable females, writhed with anguish at the success of the little upstart Becky, whose poisoned jokes quivered and rankled in their chaste breasts.†   (source)
  • I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded, and that their pride makes them refuse to surrender till the last moment and shrink from giving expression to their feelings before you.†   (source)
  • That dress with the narrow folds hid a distracted fear, of whose torment those chaste lips said nothing.†   (source)
  • Thus, his sentiment for Phoebe, without being paternal, was not less chaste than if she had been his daughter.†   (source)
  • In war, he is daring, boastful, cunning, ruthless, self-denying, and self-devoted; in peace, just, generous, hospitable, revengeful, superstitious, modest, and commonly chaste.†   (source)
  • The same Signor Jupe was to 'enliven the varied performances at frequent intervals with his chaste Shaksperean quips and retorts.'†   (source)
  • What a really beautiful and chaste-looking mouth! from floor to ceiling, lined, or rather papered with a glistening white membrane, glossy as bridal satins.†   (source)
  • Suddenly his fancy would bring before him those chaste hands twining one day about his neck, those proud lips responding to his kisses, those intellectual eyes dwelling with tenderness—yes, with tenderness—on his, and his head went round, and he forgot himself for an instant, till indignation boiled up in him again.†   (source)
  • With these reproaches Miss Squeers flung the door wide open, and disclosed to the eyes of the astonished Browdies and Nicholas, not only her own symmetrical form, arrayed in the chaste white garments before described (a little dirtier), but the form of her brother and father, the pair of Wackfords.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Sparsit was so much affected on this particular occasion, that, assisting Mr. Bounderby to his hat after breakfast, and being then alone with him in the hall, she imprinted a chaste kiss upon his hand, murmured 'My benefactor!' and retired, overwhelmed with grief.†   (source)
  • And finally, I am at your orders, I and my wits, and my science and my letters, ready to live with you, damsel, as it shall please you, chastely or joyously; husband and wife, if you see fit; brother and sister, if you think that better.†   (source)
  • But she refused him resolutely, feeling that to accept him would be an act of treachery to her son, though Dardanelov had, to judge from certain mysterious symptoms, reason for believing that he was not an object of aversion to the charming but too chaste and tender-hearted widow.†   (source)
  • It might be very well for my Lady Bareacres, my Lady Tufto, Mrs. Bute Crawley in the country, and other ladies who had come into contact with Mrs. Rawdon Crawley to cry fie at the idea of the odious little adventuress making her curtsey before the Sovereign, and to declare that, if dear good Queen Charlotte had been alive, she never would have admitted such an extremely ill-regulated personage into her chaste drawing-room.†   (source)
  • This allusion to Nancy's doubtful character, raised a vast quantity of chaste wrath in the bosoms of four housemaids, who remarked, with great fervour, that the creature was a disgrace to her sex; and strongly advocated her being thrown, ruthlessly, into the kennel.†   (source)
  • How shall a man know if he is chaste?†   (source)
  • A light yacht, chaste and elegant in its form, was gliding amidst the first dews of night over the immense lake, extending from Gibraltar to the Dardanelles, and from Tunis to Venice.†   (source)
  • The Indian made no reply for near a minute, but bent his fierce looks on the countenance of Cora, in such wavering glances, that her eyes sank with shame, under an impression that for the first time they had encountered an expression that no chaste female might endure.†   (source)
  • [220] I shall endeavor to nourish my parents, to support my family, to be the chaste husband of one wife,—but these relations I must fill after a new and unprecedented way.†   (source)
  • There are things we do and know perfectly well in Vanity Fair, though we never speak of them: as the Ahrimanians worship the devil, but don't mention him: and 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.†   (source)
  • These last consisted of all the young people whom Valentine's death had struck like a thunderbolt, and who, notwithstanding the raw chilliness of the season, could not refrain from paying a last tribute to the memory of the beautiful, chaste, and adorable girl, thus cut off in the flower of her youth.†   (source)
  • The white night-cap, embellished with two peacock's feathers and a pigtail bolt upright, in which Signor Jupe had that very afternoon enlivened the varied performances with his chaste Shaksperean quips and retorts, hung upon a nail; but no other portion of his wardrobe, or other token of himself or his pursuits, was to be seen anywhere.†   (source)
  • Nancy remained, pale and almost breathless, listening with quivering lip to the very audible expressions of scorn, of which the chaste housemaids were very prolific; and of which they became still more so, when the man returned, and said the young woman was to walk upstairs.†   (source)
  • Not indeed that the equality of conditions can ever succeed in making men chaste, but it may impart a less dangerous character to their breaches of morality.†   (source)
  • What I know is, that, like a fool, a greater fool than he of whom I spoke just now, I mistook for this peasant girl a young bandit of fifteen or sixteen, with a beardless chin and slim waist, and who, just as I was about to imprint a chaste salute on his lips, placed a pistol to my head, and, aided by seven or eight others, led, or rather dragged me, to the Catacombs of St. Sebastian, where I found a highly educated brigand chief perusing Caesar's 'Commentaries,' and who deigned to…†   (source)
  • The same nations have been chaste or dissolute at different periods of their history; the strictness or the laxity of their morals depended therefore on some variable cause, not only on the natural qualities of their country, which were invariable.†   (source)
  • Milady had, then, made a breach by her false virtue in the opinion of a man horribly prejudiced against her, and by her beauty in the heart of a man hitherto chaste and pure.†   (source)
  • In fact, I triumphed, while my lady remained firmly convinced that she was innocent, chaste, and faithful to all her duties and obligations and had succumbed quite by accident.†   (source)
  • In the course of the last half-century, whilst laws and customs have impelled several European nations with unexampled force towards democracy, we have not had occasion to observe that the relations of man and woman have become more orderly or more chaste.†   (source)
  • It seemed that this garden, created in olden days to conceal wanton mysteries, had been transformed and become fitted to shelter chaste mysteries.†   (source)
  • His strength, which was prodigious, as the reader knows, and which had been but little decreased by age, thanks to his chaste and sober life, began to give way, nevertheless.†   (source)
  • To earn the esteem of their countrymen, the Americans are therefore constrained to adapt themselves to orderly habits—and it may be said in this sense that they make it a matter of honor to live chastely.†   (source)
  • That chaste, healthy, firm, upright, hard, candid nature charmed him, without his being clearly aware of it, and without the idea of explaining it to himself having occurred to him.†   (source)
  • The thoughts which Cosette cherished, her tender preoccupations, Marius' image which filled her heart, took away nothing from the incomparable purity of her beautiful, chaste, and smiling brow.†   (source)
  • Oh! at such moments, what mournful glances did he cast towards that cloister, that chaste peak, that abode of angels, that inaccessible glacier of virtue!†   (source)
  • On the one hand, a moral pest, guarded from sight, penned up under the range of cannon, and literally devouring its plague-stricken victims; on the other, the chaste flame of all souls on the same hearth.†   (source)
  • Their innocent faces were two delighted surprises; a blossoming shrub which grew near wafted to the passers-by perfumes which seemed to emanate from them; the child of eighteen months displayed her pretty little bare stomach with the chaste indecency of childhood.†   (source)
  • The down on the peach, the bloom on the plum, the radiated crystal of the snow, the wing of the butterfly powdered with feathers, are coarse compared to that chastity which does not even know that it is chaste.†   (source)
  • He said to himself that that chaste and valiant sword had done well to escape from him, and to depart in wrath into the gloom; that if it had thus fled, it was because it was intelligent and because it had foreseen the future; that it had had a presentiment of this rebellion, the war of the gutters, the war of the pavements, fusillades through cellar-windows, blows given and received in the rear; it was because, coming from Marengo and Friedland, it did not wish to go to the Rue de la…†   (source)
  • I was made to be a Turk, watching oriental houris all day long, executing those exquisite Egyptian dances, as sensuous as the dream of a chaste man, or a Beauceron peasant, or a Venetian gentleman surrounded by gentlewoman, or a petty German prince, furnishing the half of a foot-soldier to the Germanic confederation, and occupying his leisure with drying his breeches on his hedge, that is to say, his frontier.†   (source)
  • …language is still he who desires to possess by robbery, whilst we call one miserly who deprives himself too much of the use of his own); one is reputed generous, one rapacious; one cruel, one compassionate; one faithless, another faithful; one effeminate and cowardly, another bold and brave; one affable, another haughty; one lascivious, another chaste; one sincere, another cunning; one hard, another easy; one grave, another frivolous; one religious, another unbelieving, and the like.†   (source)
  • Then he said there should be three white bulls that should enchieve it, and the two should be maidens, and the third should be chaste.†   (source)
  • Now for no fear that thou hast, ne for no dread that thou hast of God, thou shalt not warn her, but thou wouldst not do it for to be holden chaste, for to conquer the loos of the vain glory of the world; for that shall befall thee now an thou warn her, that Launcelot, the good knight, thy cousin, shall die.†   (source)
  • Does it make me look intemperate and unchaste?†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unchaste means not and reverses the meaning of chaste. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • Oh sister of Aaron; your father was not unrighteous nor was your mother unchaste.†   (source)
  • She said, "How can I have a child, when no man has touched me, and I am not unchaste?"†   (source)
  • I kept imagining the three of them, one to a room, the lights unchastely left on.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unchastely means not and reverses the meaning of chastely. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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