As the chasteness of the inward man also passes to the chastity of the body. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2] Reference
Matthew and I never talked about our desires, or even our chasteness, for that matter. From Wordnik.com. [Promise Me] Reference
There was a chasteness to their relationship which she could never remember having with a man before. From Wordnik.com. [The Miko]
He made the thing an artistic method, using it with the same power, though not the same chasteness, as George. From Wordnik.com. [Balzac] Reference
It appears to us that this gentleman's physical powers are sometimes subdued by an over-scrupulous chasteness. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1] Reference
Admit that Gandhi is a catastrophe for India; that chasteness in the choice of means leads to political impotence. From Wordnik.com. [Autumn] Reference
During the holiday, visitors were separated according to gender on Meah Shearim Street in order to maintain chasteness. From Wordnik.com. [the taliban of meah shearim] Reference
He was aware of her face, the expression of chasteness, but joy, too, as if she was both ashamed and glad of the moment. From Wordnik.com. [Alba] Reference
They combine classical chasteness of contour with the fragrance of romanticism. From Wordnik.com. [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]
Swain was "distinguished by eminent courtesy of sentiment and chasteness of diction.". From Wordnik.com. [History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868] Reference
They were more remark - able for acuteness and for wit, than for elegance and chasteness. From Wordnik.com. [Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical] Reference
Their office is in Union-street, which for chasteness of design is equal to any other building in the town. From Wordnik.com. [A Description of Modern Birmingham Whereunto Are Annexed Observations Made during an Excursion Round the Town, in the Summer of 1818, Including Warwick and Leamington] Reference
The elegance and the chasteness of Jowett's English did more for me in this respect than my years of pruning. From Wordnik.com. [From the Bottom Up]
The critics who are able to read the book, are enthusiastic in its praise, for power and chasteness of language. From Wordnik.com. [Items.] Reference
The movie uses the chasteness necessitated by a PG-13 rating to show lots of looks of pain and passion that can't be spent. From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
He made the thing an artistic method, using it with the same power, though not the same chasteness, as George Eliot after him. From Wordnik.com. [Balzac]
But by "pureness" here, he means either chasteness again, or general purity, or incorruptness, or even his preaching the Gospel freely. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians] Reference
As if no chasteness hallowed female breasts. From Wordnik.com. [The Age Reviewed] Reference
"Its chasteness of morals, and its exalted role of virtue pervades every page. From Wordnik.com. [Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel] Reference
But chasteness is more than cleanliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Epistles of St. Peter] Reference
Fouling the lovely chasteness of your morals. From Wordnik.com. [Athaliah A Tragedy, Intended For Reading Only, Translated Into English Blank Verse, From Racine (A. Gombert's Edition, 1825)] Reference
But that in strife for chasteness with the Moon. From Wordnik.com. [Hero and Leander and Other Poems] Reference
Nudity, chasteness of. From Wordnik.com. [Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917] Reference
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