Example Sentences

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And loyal Henry Wallace, smitten hip & thigh himself, still loved his chastener.

From Time Magazine Archive

She could not surrender herself entirely to the chastener.

From Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky by Simms, William Gilmore

There is a comforter, and there is a chastener.

From Wylder's Hand by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

Had she lived, or had she only known before she died, the constancy and purity of my love; but forgive me, thou Almighty chastener of man's erring heart!

From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Hentz, Caroline Lee

He is not yet, however, married, and marriage is a great chastener.

From The Solitary Summer by Elizabeth