The Virgin is of that charming Lombard type in which under chaste innocence appears that malicious playfulness which da Vinci excels in rendering.
Our heart remains chaste in the delights of matter, as pure gold keeps its brightness in the mud.
The northern barbarian, a huge guzzler but a chaste liver, despised the voluptuous and timid Syrian who was so frugal in his eating and drinking.
Naked and chaste she rose, as the clear sky soaring above her.
We must now consider the practical question how, in the face of almost inevitable temptation, the young man and woman may keep chaste during the years prior to marriage.
The fearless, heart- free friendship of chaste youths and maidens is a priceless boon.
This my heartfelt but chaste love, I concealed firmly within my breast, and let no living soul know aught concerning it.
It would be mere one-sidedness to dwell solely upon Luther’s doctrine of the necessity and worth of marriage and not to consider the numerous passages in which he speaks in praise of voluntary and chaste celibacy.
In his latter years he penned the following attack upon the older Church of which the obscenity vies with its untruth: “The chaste Pope does not take a wife, yet all women are his.
Endeavouring also to be chaste in our conversation, we cannot adopt their language.
They were modest and chaste in their deportment and manners.
They were chaste in their conversation, tempering mirth with gravity.
Its matter may be dishonoured as well as ennobled by fancy, but the ever chaste form escapes from the caprices of imagination.
He that after ten denials, Dares attempt no farther trials, Hath no warrant to acquire The dainties of his chaste desire.
We assembled twice a week, at a room, to listen to the chaste preaching of a man of deep-toned piety and sound judgment, whose life and manners resemble an apostle's.
Sweetest Infant, make us patient And obedient for Thy sake, Each us to be chaste and gentle, All our stormy passions break.
It is our father Joseph Chaste spouse of Mary mild.
Senors, I will not pollute your chaste ears with what was done.
Its most fervent manifestation, at the summit of its state, was seen in the worship of woman, the chaste and enthusiastic homage paid by the knight to the lady of his choice.
We write at sunset; at moonrise we trace a few more lines, charging its chaste and silent light to hide our thousand desires.
But in chaste hearts, uninfluenced by the power Of outward change, there blooms a deathless flower, That breathes on earth the air of Paradise.
Is there not a Volumnia, as chaste as that star seen in winter dawns shivering on the cold forehead of the morning?
It was caused by the skirt of the chastelady of Pettigrew.
I was tempted myself this afternoon by a shop window full of really remarkably chaste hosiery--pale green with stripes!
His orchestration is chaste and refined rather than sensational and glowing.
For his chaste Muse employed her heaven-taught lyre None but the noblest passions to inspire, Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line, which dying he could wish to blot.
Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thon shalt not escape calumny.
Oh, at such moments what sad glances he turned toward the convent, that chaste summit, that abiding place of angels, that inaccessible glacier of virtue!
It seemed as if this garden, created in former times to conceal libertine mysteries, had been transformed and become fitting to shelter chaste mysteries.
The tints of the carpet were subdued; there was not too much gilding on the cornices; the clock upon the mantel-shelf was chaste and elegant in design.
There is an instinctive delicacy and dislike of publicity in all deep passion, and true and chaste love is ever averse to laying aside the veil with which it conceals itself from the inquisitive.
I suspect that theatrical life is an abominable life for a woman," she said, gravely; "but I know that there are many noble and chaste women who have adopted the profession.
And when I saw the little house and the quiet, peaceful landscape and heard of the lonely, sober, chaste life of this equanimous and devout Jew, I desired for myself no better lot than to be able to follow his example as soon as possible.
It is doubtful if these tales--antedating history in their origin, and yet fresh with all the charms of youth to all who read them for the first time--were ever before presented in so chaste and popular form.
Martial could not fail to be fascinated by the modest artlessness and chastefears of the heart which seemed to be waking for him.
Loving and chaste wives and mothers are always most indulgent to those who have been led astray by the voice of passion.
Crishna was born of a chaste virgin, called Devaki, who was selected by the Lord for this purpose on account of her purity.
On this account he was figured in their astronomical pictures under the form of a child suckled by a chaste virgin.
He was pure andchaste in reality," although represented as sporting amorously, when a youth, with cowherdesses.
Jesus was born of a chaste virgin, called Mary, who was selected by the Lord for this purpose, on account of her purity.
Chaste were his cellars, and his shrivel board The grossness of a city feast abhorr'd; His cooks with long disuse their trade forgot; 620 Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot.
This careful husband had been long away, Whom his chaste wife and little children mourn; Who on their fingers learn'd to tell the day On which their father promised to return.
Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
That drop of blood that's calm proclaims me bastard; Cries cuckold to my father; brands the harlot Even here, between the chaste unsmirched brow Of my true mother.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chaste" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
