chastiser
Americannoun
plural
chastisersExample Sentences
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I heard her with wonder: I could not comprehend this doctrine of endurance; and still less could I understand or sympathise with the forbearance she expressed for her chastiser.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
This, despite the obscurity caused by the fog, and the crape masking the face of his chastiser.
From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne
Lorenzo! no; the thought of death indulge; Give it its wholesome empire! let it reign, That kind chastiser of thy soul in joy!
From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Young, Edward
I replied unto him, O thou of mighty arms, after the manner I myself had heard, O chastiser of all foes.
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan
The word rendered chastiser is in the original auf, a name made up of three phonetic hieroglyphs, namely, an arm, chick, horned snake.
From Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics by King, James
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