That our merchants have already been severely chastised for their insolence in complaining of their losses, and their temerity in raising in the nation a regard for its commerce, its honour, and its rights, is evident from a dreadful list of three hundred ships taken by the Spaniards, some of which were abandoned by their convoys, and others seized within sight of the coasts of Britain.

No one could more earnestly chastise his thoughts than Keats.

For this infringement of rules, Burke personally chastised him.

For venial sins it is not right to chastise them remorselessly, but rather to admonish them gently.

Venice, England, France, had repeatedly chastised the pirates in times past.

Then I saw in my dream, that he commanded them to lie down; which when they did, he chastised them sore, to teach them the good way wherein they should walk; and as he chastised them, he said, "As many as I love I rebuke and chasten; be zealous, therefore, and repent."

Sedley Archfield clenched his fists, and gazed round wildly in search of the goblin to chastise him soundly, and Charles was ready to rush all over the castle in search of him.

Of course there must be many other similar productions to which we have no cluethe old Morning Post days doubtless saw many an epigram that cannot now be definitely claimed for Lambbut those that are preserved here sufficiently show how feelingly Lamb could hate and how trenchantly he could chastise.

Enoughhe threatened me unspeakably, and when this turned out to be of no avail, he chastised me most barbarously, adding that this punishment was to be repeated every day because I was an absolutely useless creature.

He pitied many without cause and chastised even a greater number unjustly.