The gorilla will chasten its young if it leaves the tree. From LearnThat.org.
Verb (used with object) : Age has chastened his violent temper. From Dictionary.com.
Him you chasten, that is he!. From Wordnik.com. [Lay this laurel on the one.] Reference
"If thou art rebellious, Masanath, I must chasten thee.". From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
The flap over the leak did nothing to chasten the Pentagon. From Wordnik.com. [Secrets From Inside the Obama War Room] Reference
She will chasten the exuberant ardour of the Provençal warrior. From Wordnik.com. [French and Oriental Love in a Harem] Reference
Quite striking also how chasten he is on the issue of immigration. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2007] Reference
Like you, Mr. Tackett, they didn't chasten me for having an affair. From Wordnik.com. [Where There's Smoke]
But we're not writing to chasten you today, we're writing to thank you. From Wordnik.com. [Disgrasian: Thank You, Rep. Betty Brown (UPDATE)] Reference
Love will thus prompt the parent to chasten his son while there is hope. From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Home] Reference
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. From Wordnik.com. [An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism] Reference
County Council type, yearn to chasten and æstheticise the Muse of the Music. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 3, 1891] Reference
O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. From Wordnik.com. [Psalms 38.] Reference
O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. From Wordnik.com. [Psalms 6.] Reference
It should chasten and humble other countries, which can only dream of such mobility. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
I would chasten your expectations of getting back to some sort of idealism, however. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Varieties of Realism and Idealism in the Obama Administration:] Reference
Though I chasten and correct them, yet my loving-kindness shall be continued to them. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed] Reference
“It may please a kind father to chasten even his beloved children,” answered the vicar. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley] Reference
They anticipated the leveraging of power would chasten North Korea, Iraq, Syria, Libya, etc. From Wordnik.com. [TPM Election Central | Talking Points Memo |] Reference
Hasn't the applecart of orthodox science been upset often enough to chasten us into caution?. From Wordnik.com. [The God Delusion]
Chapter 6 1. O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. From Wordnik.com. [Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences] Reference
Is it going to chasten some hardliners in the Iranian government or is it going to embolden them?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 31, 2002] Reference
On the seventeenth, he hastened, at the close of the ancestral sacrifices, out of town to chasten himself. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
We may discipline the soul and chasten the body, but how may we govern the mind and its disorderly beliefs?. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
Instead of the catholic leagu to chasten (Catholic) Rev Michael Pfleger, they are pushing the blame to Obama!. From Wordnik.com. [Obama takes heat from Catholic League over Pfleger] Reference
You see how urgent it is that each should guard his lips, chasten his pen, and aspire to simplicity of speech. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
And if this is the effect this transparancy on our MPs, then just think how it would chasten Whitehall departments. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
One would think that this terrible result would chasten PNAC and cause them to rethink their militaristic strategy. From Wordnik.com. [Iraq and the Republican and PNAC Miscalculation and Lesson they never seem to learn] Reference
He'll chasten where he sees fault, but he'll stand by his own against any power where they are threatened blameless. From Wordnik.com. [St. Peter's Fair]
The Apprentice: Early tales of Jacques Pepin's coming of age in the kitchen will chasten today's born-yesterday chefs. From Wordnik.com. [Five Knockouts] Reference
I was his singular bond to the world he would otherwise be keen to be leaving, set me to chasten my dalliance with fate. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
Be patient, wait, reflect, chasten your taste by study, and wean yourself from that hankering after prettiness and dandyism. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
Again, suppose the father should scourge and chasten the son for such offences, is the relation between them therefore dissolved?. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
But almost more importantly, Blue Blood demonstrates how sharpening to the senses it is when language and reality chasten one another. From Wordnik.com. [A Quietly Remarkable Memoir Walks a Beat From H.U. to NYPD] Reference
To expect politicians to behave otherwise than to only chasten their views, over time, in the face of political defeat, seems naive to me. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Well, Then, Do Something] Reference
This cost at least two seats in the Senate, and it ought to chasten tea partiers who want House Republicans to perform immediate miracles. From Wordnik.com. [The Boehner Evolution] Reference
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