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

But Hymen’s kinder flames unite, And burn for ever one, Chaste as cold Cynthia’s virgin light, Productive as the sun.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John

Chaste Phœebe spake for purest azure dyes; But Jove and Venus green about the light, To frame, thought best, as bringing most delight, That to pined hearts hope might for aye arise.

From Notes and Queries, Number 216, December 17, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various

Chaste and undefiled, she enters the realm of her future husband.

From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Schoenfeld, Hermann