chaster

The gorgeousness is in the imagery not in the language; the words are weak while the sense, as in the classical Scandinavian books, is strong; and here the Arabic differs diametrically from the florid exuberance and turgid amplifications of the Persian story-teller, which sound so hollow and unreal by the side of a chaster model.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Aimed at: The Cosmo reader's younger (chaster) sister Pros: Even with 'Cosmo' in the name and Christina on the cover, there's still no raunchy sex talk.

Cheat Sheet | Teen Magazines 2007

If the amendment of manners be aimed at, look into Italy and Spain, whether those places be one scruple the better, the honester, the wiser, the chaster, since all the inquisitional rigour that hath been executed upon books.

Areopagitica 2007

I'm not sure, I think it was in the chaster I drank with it!

Thursday Poetry Corner: #3 Terry Nelson 2007

If the amendment of manners be aimed at, look into Italy and Spain, whether those places be one scruple the better, the honester, the wiser, the chaster, since all the inquisitional rigour that hath been executed upon books.

Areopagitica 2007

Street and tapestry from France, bits of armour, double-handed swords and battle-axes made of carton-pierre, looking-glasses, statuettes of saints, and Dresden china — nothing, in a word, could be chaster.

The History of Pendennis 2006

Whether the intimacy created there between Madame Hanska and himself was that of two lovers in the chaster sense, or, as Monsieur Gabriel Ferry assets, in his

Balzac 2003

The women of New Caledonia, and those likewise of Tanna, were found to be much chaster than the females of the more eastern islands.

Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003

The women of New Caledonia, and those likewise of Tanna, were found to be much chaster than the females of the more eastern islands.

Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003

Still, as everyone must admit, Burton could have said all he wanted to say in chaster language.

The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003