Chastisement
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Moreover, Charles expected her, and in her heart she felt already that cowardly docility that is for some women at once the
chastisement
and atonement of adultery.
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Barr, the kind of attorney general Trump had been wanting, is now subject to congressional
chastisement
in some form.
"For myself I must say I cannot guess how many," said the battered knight Don Quixote; "but I take all the blame upon myself, for I had no business to put hand to sword against men who where not dubbed knights like myself, and so I believe that in punishment for having transgressed the laws of chivalry the God of battles has permitted this
chastisement
to be administered to me; for which reason, brother Sancho, it is well thou shouldst receive a hint on the matter which I am now about to mention to thee, for it is of much importance to the welfare of both of us.
But our depraved age does not deserve to enjoy such a blessing as those ages enjoyed when knights-errant took upon their shoulders the defence of kingdoms, the protection of damsels, the succour of orphans and minors, the
chastisement
of the proud, and the recompense of the humble.
"By the God that gives me life," said Don Quixote, "if thou wert not my full niece, being daughter of my own sister, I would inflict a
chastisement
upon thee for the blasphemy thou hast uttered that all the world should ring with.
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