380 examples of chastise in sentences

I assure you, Sir Timothy, I am sorry, and will chastise her.

Sirrah, y'are a Rascal, whom I must thus chastise.

When, in the confusion which the English invasions produced in France, the villains, imagining that they had found the golden hour of emancipation, took arms in their hands, the knights of both nations considered the cause as common, and suspending the general hostility, united to chastise them.

Because you have beaten a few base-borne Moores Me think'st thou to chastise?

You may encourage Genius, you may chastise superficial Arrogance, expose Falsehood, correct Error, and guide the Taste and Opinions of the Age in no small degree by the books you praise and recommend.

The murder of St. Vrain, the events on the Rock River with the Illinois militia, and the movements on foot to chastise the hostile Sauks and Foxes, were among the latest items of intelligence.

We feel no morbid sensibility for the character of a mitred divine: but we cannot see a blow aimed at the head of one of the chiefs of the church, a pious, learned, and laborious man, by the hand of ignorance and presumption, without interposing, not to heal the wound, for no wound has been made, but to chastise the assailant.

Truly may I reckonindeed may I, doubtlessthat the Lord, who has seen fit to chastise you, has also comforted you under this dispensation.

And don't ladies, as delicate as the unknown censor who dared to chastise me with her eyes, eat of the same, with a relish delightful to the tongues that pronounce the fine words of pity and philanthropy?

Malone suggests that the word is a pun on pheese ("to chastise or pay one tit for tat"), and means "quarrelsome fellows.

A splendid day, and we have all been as busy as bees, if not as useful,H. making a whip to chastise the cow with, M., Nep and myself collecting mosses and toadstools; of the latter I brought home 185!

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.

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

The campaign was intended as an expedition to chastise the Indians so that they would be deterred from molesting the settlers, but it resulted in a disaster that greatly encouraged Indian depredations.

Had he seen an enemy to chastise, or an old friend to greet, or a pretty girl?

With great reluctance the National Government concluded that an effort to chastise the hostile savages could no longer be delayed; and those on the Maumee, or Miami of the Lakes, and on the Wabash, whose guilt had been peculiarly heinous, were singled out as the objects of attack.

The storm was weathered; and Louis almost rejoiced at seeing himself called upon to chastise in person the Liegese, who had made him commit such a mistake and run such a risk.

"To the king alone," said he, "belongs the right of regulating the administration of his state obey, or the king will see in you only rebels, whom he will know how to chastise.

This books can do; nor this alone; they give New views of life, and teach us how to live; The grieved they soothe, the stubborn they chastise; Fools they admonish, and confirm the wise.

The owners of slaves are hereby authorized to correct and chastise them for slight misdemeanors, without any civil or military functionary having the right to interfere.

Parents even neither teach nor chastise their children.

"Your idol is smittennot by my hand, but by His who will chastise your wickedness.

Once more, therefore, he restrained by his gestures the angry impetuosity of the nobles around him, who were burning to chastise the rash intruder, and signified his intention of questioning him before any measures were adopted against him.

The States, without extinguishing their sovereignty, created the Federal Government; it is the child of State legislation, and now the child seeks to chastise and control the parent.

Now may the gods chastise me if I had A thought of laughing! KING.

380 examples of  chastise  in sentences