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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Chaste

Chaste as marble.
—Anonymous

Chaste as Minerva.
—Anonymous

Chaste as the moon.
—Anonymous

Chaste as ice.
—Beaumont and Fletcher

Chaste as angels are.
—Aphra Behn

Chaste as the thought of the maid on whose sight first shines the glow of love’s planet.
—Louis James Block

Chaste as Medicean Venus.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

As chaste as the silver-white beams of the moon.
—John Gilbert Cooper

Chaste as innocent white souls.
—John Day

Chaste as Cynthia’s breast.
—Thomas Dekker

Chaste as a lily.
—Julia C. R. Dorr

Chaste as nudity.
—George Du Maurier

Chaste as though bathed in breaking day.
—Edgar Fawcett

Chaste as fate.
—John Ford

Chaste as a veiled nun.
—Joseph Hall

Chaste … as an unfleshed sword.
—Victor Hugo

Chaste … as the veil of a nun.
—Henry James

Chaste as a chyld.
—William Langland

Chaste as th’ Arabian bird, who all the ayr denyes.
—Richard Lovelace

Chaste as the air.
—Richard Lovelace

Chaste as the pious rapture of the nun.
—George Mac-Henry

As chaste as was Penelope.
—Christopher Marlowe

Chaste as snow.
—Thomas Moore

Chaste as the virgin, and the cold pure saint.
—Lewis Morris

Chaste as light.
—John Pomfret

Chaste as cold Cynthia’s virgin light.
—Alexander Pope

Chaste as Diana.
—William Shakespeare

Chaste as ice.
—William Shakespeare

Chaste as is the bud ere it be blown.
—William Shakespeare

Chaste as the icicle.
—William Shakespeare

Chaste as unsunned snow.
—William Shakespeare

Like faire Venus Chaste.
—Sir Philip Sidney

Chaste as purest vestals.
—Lewis Theobald

Like an unlighted taper, was cold and chaste.
—Cyril Tourneur

Chaste … as April’s mildest tear.
—Henry Vaughan

Chaste as morning dew.
—Edward Young

Chaste as the morning.
—Edward Young