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chasten
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  • Chastened, I reckon, 'cause Mr. Bodwin say he selling it soon's he can.†   (source)
  • When she mentioned the first husband, I noticed that, for the first time since I had met her, a shadow had settled on her face, a momentary intimation of something dark and chastening, wounding, at odds with the energetic laughs and the teasing and the loose pumpkin floral dress she was wearing.†   (source)
  • Detective Inspector Gaskill's up there, looking pale and gaunt and chastened.†   (source)
  • "Chastened," Tanner interrupted.†   (source)
  • I'm properly chastened," Gurney said.†   (source)
  • Not far away was the alleyway where Nobu had chastened me for taking the General as my danna.†   (source)
  • A kindergarten teacher led the small children onto the stage and the buttercups and daisies and bunny rabbits marked time and tried to follow: "Stony the road we trod Bitter the chastening rod Felt in the days when hope, unborn, had died.†   (source)
  • Chastened, Eragon dipped his head and murmured, "Yes, Master."†   (source)
  • Inwardly Badenhorst must have been fuming, but outwardly he seemed chastened.†   (source)
  • David took a deep breath, chastened.†   (source)
  • Harriet Hardwick, who had returned from Watauga, since her sister would not come to her, stood in the door of the big house regarding them with a countenance of distinctly chastened rejoicing.†   (source)
  • Carlisle chastened.†   (source)
  • It was what he had expected, but Newt still felt chastened as he turned back to the drags.†   (source)
  • Chastened and deflated.†   (source)
  • I definitely felt chastened.†   (source)
  • Chastened, Pippa says softly, "Come to us now in this place."†   (source)
  • The dove fluttered, twisting, to the ground, and Roland ran toward the kill, leaving Cort and the chastened Cuthbert behind him.†   (source)
  • "I'm sorry," I said, chastened.†   (source)
  • I look up at his face, still crinkled in laughter … and suddenly feel very chastened.†   (source)
  • "Oh," I say, chastened, confused.†   (source)
  • Once the chastened secretary closed the door, Madam Petra turned to her daughter.†   (source)
  • Kennedy refused to back down, and a chastened Khrushchev began construction of the Berlin Wall to save face.†   (source)
  • A chastened Diamond slumped in the front seat andlet Jeb idly lick dirt and worm juice from his fingers.†   (source)
  • A chastened man, an older man, he remembered: All summer, to begin with, he felt elated.†   (source)
  • At first they hoped Stink might appear, wet and grinning and chastened, but as time passed so did their expectations.†   (source)
  • Pete was not chastened.†   (source)
  • I returned to the classroom a chastened man.†   (source)
  • Absurd syllables come into his head: I dimly guess from blessings known Of greater out of sight, And, with the chastened Psalmist, own His judgments too are right.†   (source)
  • Slowly Lena shrank into herself, shocked and chastened by Claudie's words.†   (source)
  • It is said an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him with the words, "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!   (source)
  • And it wasn't just our team that was chastened and doubtful.†   (source)
  • No one was there to warn or hold them; their parents, chastened and grieving, were far away.†   (source)
  • Even the deaths of three friends had not served to chasten him, it would seem.†   (source)
  • Under their watchful gaze, the chastened warriors returned the spoils to the marble-clad mansion.†   (source)
  • She looked almost like a chastened schoolgirl awaiting a reprimand.†   (source)
  • He paused, chastened.†   (source)
  • All of that had chastened her.†   (source)
  • Something had begun to change in the world since Norah was a girl, and Bree had not come home as expected, chastened and embarrassed.†   (source)
  • Chastened that our advice had produced such a painful experience, we asked Sydnee if that meant that she regretted having gone.†   (source)
  • She looks chastened, slapped down.†   (source)
  • Moreover, I had come back glutted and a little chastened; with the resolve to go slow.†   (source)
  • It happened over one of those dinners that chasten all women sometimes.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it was that she seemed chastened now; awake, anyway.†   (source)
  • She was subdued by the new life: chastened by her obscurity.†   (source)
  • He stopped abruptly, bewildered, chastened.†   (source)
  • In other parts of Gramarye, of course, there did exist wicked and despotic masters—feudal gangsters whom it was to be King Arthur's destiny to chasten—but the evil was in the bad people who abused it, not in the feudal system.†   (source)
  • He was never again able to close it, and there was something strangely chastened in his manner, a gleam of awe and terror in his eyes.†   (source)
  • And, as her love for Scarlett and her pride in her were enormous, the chastening process was practically continuous.†   (source)
  • But for a long time I was chastened whenever I remembered that my mother had come close to killing me.†   (source)
  • …faded gray, the hat with its broken plume cocked a little yet not quite so much as the beaver of the old days, as if (Grandfather said) even with his martial rank and prerogatives he did not quite swagger like he used to do, not because he was chastened by misfortune or spent or even war-wearied but as though even while riding he was still bemused in that state in which he struggled to hold clear and free above a maelstrom of unpredictable and unreasoning human beings, not his head for…†   (source)
  • Is it possible to recall anyone else in modern history who could exercise so much power and yet feel so slightly the private corruption of Lincoln's personal eminence in the human calendar—that he was chastened and not intoxicated by power.†   (source)
  • In school Kantorek used to chasten Mittelstaedt with exactly the same expression—"Inadequate, Mittelstaedt, quite inadequate."†   (source)
  • Whom Mammy loved, she chastened.†   (source)
  • Uncle Dap's reaction was to give his pupil a lecture, as they stood in the mews with the chastened jer.†   (source)
  • I offered Swann an apology but, as the leader of the Chicago John Reed Club, I was a completely sober and chastened Communist.†   (source)
  • He returned, outwardly chastened, but inwardly a raging furnace, toward the end of June: the day before he came back, Eliza, obviously big with child, her white face compactly set, walked sturdily into each of the town's fourteen saloons, calling up the proprietor or the barman behind his counter, and speaking clearly and loudly in the sodden company of bar clientry: "See here: I just came in to tell you that Mr. Gant is coming back to-morrow, and I want you all to know that if I hear…†   (source)
  • In her chastened mood she no longer despised the Emersons.†   (source)
  • "Oh—nothing, nothing; except chasten yourself with the thought of 'how are the mighty fallen.'†   (source)
  • I want a humble heart; and a chastened mind; and I have never had them yet!†   (source)
  • For a moment a flash of his old irony marked his face; but he determinedly chastened it down.†   (source)
  • 'I don't grieve for myself,' he says, 'God, it seems, has chastened me.†   (source)
  • Even the most rude and brawling are chastened by the ceremonies of a funeral.†   (source)
  • His wild and enthusiastic imagination was chastened by the sensibility of his heart.†   (source)
  • It is right that I should be chastened in some penalty.†   (source)
  • It created in him at the same time a sympathy with Phillotson as an obviously much chastened and disappointed man.†   (source)
  • Then, after a time he began: "Oh, Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger; neither chasten me in Thy hot displeasure.†   (source)
  • In some way chastened and purified by the mood they had been in, they became, not man and woman, not boy and girl, but excited little animals.†   (source)
  • All this you will understand; for there is community of material between us: we are both critics of life as well as of art; and you have perhaps said to yourself when I have passed your windows, "There, but for the grace of God, go I." An awful and chastening reflection, which shall be the closing cadence of this immoderately long letter from yours faithfully, G. BERNARD SHAW.†   (source)
  • You have spoken to our pupils here about the Church's bloody deeds and her chastening impatience—but that was very foolish of you, for the zeal of the godly cannot, by definition, be pacifistic.†   (source)
  • "Yours devotedly, "Anne" The geometry examination and all the others were over in due time and Anne arrived home on Friday evening, rather tired but with an air of chastened triumph about her.†   (source)
  • But, perhaps, because of the continual business of birth and of begetting which goes on upon every farm, Miriam was the more hypersensitive to the matter, and her blood was chastened almost to disgust of the faintest suggestion of such intercourse.†   (source)
  • "I suppose—you are not going to live with me—long, are you, Angel?" she asked, the sunk corners of her mouth betraying how purely mechanical were the means by which she retained that expression of chastened calm upon her face.†   (source)
  • Chastened, world-weary, remorseful, the strain on her nerves had preyed upon her flesh and bones, and she appeared smaller in outline than she had formerly done, though Sue had not been a large woman in her days of rudest health.†   (source)
  • Jude almost tore his hair at having missed this letter till it was too late to act upon its contents; but he had chastened himself considerably of late, and at last his chimerical expedition to Kennetbridge really did seem to have been another special intervention of Providence to keep him away from temptation.†   (source)
  • Not to obtrude doctrine upon you,' she looked at the rigid pile of hard pale books before her, '(for you go your own way, and the consequences are on your own head), I will say this much: that I shape my course by pilots, strictly by proved and tried pilots, under whom I cannot be shipwrecked—can not be—and that if I were unmindful of the admonition conveyed in those three letters, I should not be half as chastened as I am.'†   (source)
  • 'I remember,' said the gentleman, striking his nose with the knuckle of his forefinger as a chastening for his forgetfulness.†   (source)
  • She did not divine the ample explanation of his manner, without personal vanity, that was afforded by the fact of Donald being the depositary of Henchard's confidence in respect of his past treatment of the pale, chastened mother who walked by her side.†   (source)
  • Miss Temple had always something of serenity in her air, of state in her mien, of refined propriety in her language, which precluded deviation into the ardent, the excited, the eager: something which chastened the pleasure of those who looked on her and listened to her, by a controlling sense of awe; and such was my feeling now: but as to Helen Burns, I was struck with wonder.†   (source)
  • "And Koorshid pointed out one who had more than any contributed to the death of my father," said Haidee, in a tone of chastened anger.†   (source)
  • How differently do the same acts of parental rigor appear in the eyes of the suffering child and of the chastened man!†   (source)
  • Rays of male vision seem to have a tickling effect upon virgin faces in rural districts; she brushed hers with her hand, as if Gabriel had been irritating its pink surface by actual touch, and the free air of her previous movements was reduced at the same time to a chastened phase of itself.†   (source)
  • His observation of Ellen was less marked, but notwithstanding the warlike and chastened expression of his eye, there was much of the homage, which man is made to pay to woman, even in the more cursory look he sometimes turned on her maturer and perhaps more animated beauty.†   (source)
  • That sounds ill-natured: but she was so proud it became really impossible to pity her distresses, till she should be chastened into more humility.†   (source)
  • When the Jew was gone, and I was alone again, I chastened my soul with a new prayer—that I might be permitted to see the King when he was come, and worship him.†   (source)
  • I had fallen sick with this disease, and it was to the priest I said the words, for he was come to chide me for lack of due humility under the chastening hand of God.†   (source)
  • The most abstruse, the most far-reaching, perhaps the most chastened of the poet's thoughts, crowd on the imagination as he gazes into the depths of the illimitable void.†   (source)
  • As I look out on the night, my tears fall fast, and my undisciplined heart is chastened heavily — heavily.†   (source)
  • He immediately began to talk to Pansy—on whom it was certainly mystifying to see that he dropped a smile of chastened devotion.†   (source)
  • The imagery of the Indian, both in his poetry and in his oratory, is oriental; chastened, and perhaps improved, by the limited range of his practical knowledge.†   (source)
  • Desire is chastened into submission, and we are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence and act as if we were not suffering.†   (source)
  • The time seems near, if it has not actually arrived, when the chastened sublimity of a moor, a sea, or a mountain will be all of nature that is absolutely in keeping with the moods of the more thinking among mankind.†   (source)
  • She was more softened, more gentle; and, though equally assiduous in every duty, it was with a chastened and quiet air, as one who communed with her own heart not in vain.†   (source)
  • Sacred moments, when heart talked to heart in the silence of the night, turning affliction to a blessing, which chastened grief and strengthned love.†   (source)
  • "I do—when I have an opportunity, which latterly has not been often (my mother was a Parisienne)—and there's a proverb they have, _Qui aime bien chatie bien_—'He chastens who loves well.'†   (source)
  • Alice unconsciously dried her tears, and bent her melting eyes on the pallid features of Gamut, with an expression of chastened delight that she neither affected or wished to conceal.†   (source)
  • The consideration of this subject is full of consolation, my hearers, and does not fail to bring with it lessons of humility and of profit, that, duly improved, would both chasten the heart and strengthen the feeble-minded man in his course.†   (source)
  • Even the Delaware turned aside to conceal his weakness, while the common men gazed on the ceremony with wondering eyes and chastened feelings.†   (source)
  • He was evidently a chastened man.†   (source)
  • The sounds of mirth and contention sensibly lowered at this unexpected visit; but, after a moment's pause, the curious interest exhibited in the face of the young lady, together with her smiling air, restored the freedom of the morning; though it was somewhat chastened, both in language and vehemence, by the presence of such a spectator.†   (source)
  • The book was open at a hymn not ill adapted to their situation, and in which the poet, no longer goaded by his desire to excel the inspired King of Israel, had discovered some chastened and respectable powers.†   (source)
  • Had he lived a century, the occurrences of the few momentous minutes during which he was in the lake would have produced a chastening effect on his character, if not always on his manner.†   (source)
  • Within this fragile barrier he arranged the blankets abandoned by the foresters, darkening the inner extremity of the cavern, while its outer received a chastened light from the narrow ravine, through which one arm of the river rushed to form the junction with its sister branch a few rods below.†   (source)
  • Nat and the redheaded seaman who had painted the Dolphin's figurehead that morning on the river were cheerfully exchanging insults with a cluster of young bound boys who had stopped to enjoy the spectacle, the two culprits holding their own in an unchastened manner that delighted the onlookers.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unchastened means not and reverses the meaning of chastened. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • "Still …. we wouldn't want him to leave here entirely unchastened, so"—through the night and the rain, he glimpsed the white of Jaime's smile—"kill his men."†   (source)
  • He could only be charged for his actions during the four years preceding his trial in 399 B.C.E. It appears that Socrates, unchastened by the antidemocratic revolts and their aftermaths, resumed his teachings and once again began attracting a similar band of youthful followers.†   (source)
  • He seems to see reflected in them a figure antic as a showman, a little wild: a charlatan preaching worse than heresy, in utter disregard of that whose very stage he preempted, offering instead of the crucified shape of pity and love, a swaggering and unchastened bravo killed with a shotgun in a peaceful henhouse, in a temporary hiatus of his own avocation of killing.†   (source)
  • They had done so—until, in the course of time, the ends had been achieved, but the force had remained upon his hands unchastened.†   (source)
  • As an endless dream it went on; the spirit of the past brooding over a new generation, the chosen youth from the muddled, unchastened world, still fed romantically on the mistakes and half-forgotten dreams of dead statesmen and poets.†   (source)
  • All the girls drew onward to the spot where the cows were grazing in the farther mead, the bevy advancing with the bold grace of wild animals—the reckless, unchastened motion of women accustomed to unlimited space—in which they abandoned themselves to the air as a swimmer to the wave.†   (source)
  • Nay, by St Mary, brother Brian, you must not think you are now in Palestine, predominating over heathen Turks and infidel Saracens; we islanders love not blows, save those of holy Church, who chasteneth whom she loveth.†   (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She chasteneth" in older English, today we say "She chastens."
  • In all these they will exhibit the highest form of the peculiarly Christian life, and, perhaps, as God chasteneth whom he loveth, he hath chosen poor Africa in the furnace of affliction, to make her the highest and noblest in that kingdom which he will set up, when every other kingdom has been tried, and failed; for the first shall be last, and the last first.†   (source)
  • 13:24 He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.†   (source)
  • 94:12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law; 94:13 That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.†   (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-est" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou chastenst" in older English, today we say "You chasten."
  • He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain….†   (source)
  • Slightly chastened by this episode, I accepted without argument the men's judgment that even the lighter smallsword was too heavy for me to wield efficiently.†   (source)
  • —It was the speech, mark you, the professor said, of a finished orator, full of courteous haughtiness and pouring in chastened diction I will not say the vials of his wrath but pouring the proud man's contumely upon the new movement.†   (source)
  • 6:1 O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.†   (source)
  • 19:18 Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.†   (source)
  • 38:1 O lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.†   (source)
  • 118:18 The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death.†   (source)
  • 73:14 For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.†   (source)
  • 69:10 When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.†   (source)
  • 3:11 My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction: 3:12 For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.†   (source)
  • 5:17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: 5:18 For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.†   (source)
  • Ascend, I follow thee, safe Guide, the path Thou leadest me; and to the hand of Heaven submit, However chastening; to the evil turn My obvious breast; arming to overcome By suffering, and earn rest from labour won, If so I may attain.†   (source)
  • 33:19 He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain: 33:20 So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.†   (source)
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