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