He chose for his subjects Rehoboam's answer to the suffering Israelites: "My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins; my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions"; and Samuel prophesying to Saul how dearly he shall learn that "Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness as an iniquity and idolatry."
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue
He cannot find it in his heart to chastise her now.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
Les felt it his duty, lately,-the day before yesterday, in fact,-to chastise an impertinent scoundrel in Hradnyk, and has conscientiously kept at home since, awaiting the fellow's challenge,-of course in vain.
"Erlach Court"
Ossip Schubin