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While many speakers acknowledged the current hardship, they also took comfort in the idea of an eventual rebound, asserting that the era of low prices has chastened them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2016

"Oh, the poor man! how terribly Allah has chastened him!" the young men exclaimed in concert, looking with pity at the sheik, who, with such magnificent surroundings, sat sad and lonely under the palms.

From Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace by Hauff, Wilhelm

A broken-hearted man, but still, after all my sufferings, grateful to the hand which has chastened me.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI by Leighton, Alexander

If a cloistered life has chastened thy roses, their tender bloom has only become more touching.

From The Poor Gentleman by Conscience, Hendrik

"I mean marriage has chastened him—the only way it ever improves anybody."

From The Second Generation by Phillips, David Graham