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Being young, he remembers and goes abroad, at six months, a well-mannered little beast with a chastened appetite.
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He returns home chastened and must ask for forgiveness.
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The chastened survivors cautiously built their world.
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He returns home chastened and asks forgivenness.
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Chastened by this experience, he agreed to submit to any procedure that would cure his appetite, and was treated with laudanum, tobacco pills, wine vinegar and soft-boiled eggs.
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Duly chastened, the boys rush off to the schoolhouse just in time for the first bell.
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However, the chastened townspeople have not changed their ways too much it seems.
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His sonnets and sodales reveal his personality; his odes and epistles reveal an inspired poet and a man chastened by suffering.
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