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While Taste with pleasure bends his eye surprised In modern days at Nature unchastised.

From The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes by Darwin, Erasmus

There are laws to punish thieves and counterfeits—but such as you may go unchastised, except by the abhorrence of all honourable men.

From The Garies and Their Friends by Webb, Frank J.

As good a one as your companion, I suppose— You know, Fairfax, it is not customary with me to suffer insolence to triumph unchastised, and I ordered him immediately to draw.

From Anna St. Ives by Holcroft, Thomas

This is that ancient doctrine of Nemesis, who keeps watch in the universe and lets no offence go unchastised.

From Essays — First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Mothers press their yet unchastised infants to their breasts; and the schoolmaster, fastening a knowing eye on dunce and neerdoweel, holds up, in silent warning, the terror of the tawes.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde