It can no longer be wielded to chasten people who enjoy the elaborately skilled, archaically styled, formulaic splendors of the old academy, with its devout ancestor worship and deluxe eroticism. |
With some it may seem severe that God should chasten and scourge His children. |
There is one who shall chasten this body of thine, put out thy torch, and unstring thy bow. |
This business is going to chasten your soul, and make you mend your ways. |
He might help to chasten the sentences laughed at by those newspapers. |
Why was not this Thing ever present, to chasten and sober me? |