1 The conscience of the woman was troubled; she began to think that the deaths of her favourites was a judgement from heaven to chastise her partiality.
2 Some shove and strain with their shoulders at big grains, some marshal the ranks and chastise delay; all the path is aswarm with work.
3 For the prince who does not chastise offenders in a way that puts it out of their power to offend again, is accounted unwise or worthless.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXIII. 4 He had a daughter over fifty years of age, and unmarried, whom he chastised severely with his tongue, when in a rage, and whom he would have liked to whip.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH 5 Let us have compassion on the chastised.
6 For if these erred of set purpose, they chastised them with gentleness; while if they erred through ignorance, so far from punishing, they even honoured and rewarded them.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXI. 7 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.
8 And whether, the fault once committed and confessed, the chastisement had not been ferocious and disproportioned.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR 9 Cosette could not make a motion which did not draw down upon her head a heavy shower of violent blows and unmerited chastisement.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—THE LARK 10 The dust, that end of all joys, was charged with the chastisement of those poor little rose-leaves which had been guilty of chirping.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS 11 Therein lies chastisement made visible.
12 Swear, by your hopes of salvation, to keep her safely for the chastisement she has merited.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 50 CHAT BETWEEN BROTHER AND SISTER 13 'Order to conduct to--the person named Charlotte Backson, branded by the justice of the kingdom of France, but liberated after chastisement.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 54 CAPTIVITY: THE THIRD DAY 14 It was a melancholy sight--that of these six men, traveling in silence, each plunged in his own thoughts, sad as despair, gloomy as chastisement.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 64 THE MAN IN THE RED CLOAK 15 I did not need to be guided to the well-known room, to which I had so often been summoned for chastisement or reprimand in former days.