chaste

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In “Il Mondo Alla Rovescia,” the Count is sent to the temple of the Chaste Pigeons, a kind of rehab for misbehaving men.

From The New Yorker • May 27, 2019

Chaste in black and white marble is the first floor of the Bank of Manhattan Building.

From Time Magazine Archive

And never a bitter word will come from her; Her eyes will always call to my caress, Chaste as the eyes of my own mother were, Melting with my own mother's tenderness.

From Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell by Various

Auguste Nichols tells us, in his "Philosophical Essays on Christianity," that Io is called, in Eschylus, "the Chaste Virgin," and her son "the Son of God."

From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Graves, Kersey

Chaste and pious kisses they may be, but, notwithstanding that, it must be very hard to keep cool, under the circumstances.

From The Land of Thor by Browne, J. Ross (John Ross)