Sentence Examples

1. 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.
2. I have redressed injuries, righted wrongs, punished insolences, vanquished giants, and crushed monsters I am in love, for no other reason than that it is incumbent on knights-errant to be so but though I am, I am no carnal-minded lover, but one of the chaste, platonic sort.
3. Congratulations, young man, on keeping yourself chaste in preparation for your upcoming marriage.
4. 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.
5. In war, he is daring, boastful, cunning, ruthless, self-denying, and self-devoted in peace, just, generous, hospitable, revengeful, superstitious, modest, and commonly chaste.
6. This same Casildea, then, that I speak of, requited my honourable passion and gentle aspirations by compelling me, as his stepmother did Hercules, to engage in many perils of various sorts, at the end of each promising me that, with the end of the next, the object of my hopes should be attained but my labours have gone on increasing link by link until they are past counting, nor do I know what will be the last one that is to be the beginning of the accomplishment of my chaste desires.
7. See, then, Anselmo, the peril thou art encountering in seeking to disturb the peace of thy virtuous consort see for what an empty and ill-advised curiosity thou wouldst rouse up passions that now repose in quiet in the breast of thy chaste wife reflect that what thou art staking all to win is little, and what thou wilt lose so much that I leave it undescribed, not having the words to express it.
8. 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.
9. When he found that her desire mirrored his own he leaned forward and kissed her softly, a chaste press of his lips to hers, with an answering push of hers to his.
10. I know that the King is not chaste however, any man that I marry, King or not, will take no other to his bed as long as we are wed.