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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Chaste
 
  Chaste as marble.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Chaste as Minerva.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Chaste as the moon.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Chaste as ice.
            —Beaumont and Fletcher		  4
  Chaste as angels are.
            —Aphra Behn		  5
  Chaste as the thought of the maid on whose sight first shines the glow of love’s planet.
            —Louis James Block		  6
  Chaste as Medicean Venus.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  7
  As chaste as the silver-white beams of the moon.
            —John Gilbert Cooper		  8
  Chaste as innocent white souls.
            —John Day		  9
  Chaste as Cynthia’s breast.
            —Thomas Dekker		  10
  Chaste as a lily.
            —Julia C. R. Dorr		  11
  Chaste as nudity.
            —George Du Maurier		  12
  Chaste as though bathed in breaking day.
            —Edgar Fawcett		  13
  Chaste as fate.
            —John Ford		  14
  Chaste as a veiled nun.
            —Joseph Hall		  15
  Chaste … as an unfleshed sword.
            —Victor Hugo		  16
  Chaste … as the veil of a nun.
            —Henry James		  17
  Chaste as a chyld.
            —William Langland		  18
  Chaste as th’ Arabian bird, who all the ayr denyes.
            —Richard Lovelace		  19
  Chaste as the air.
            —Richard Lovelace		  20
  Chaste as the pious rapture of the nun.
            —George Mac-Henry		  21
  As chaste as was Penelope.
            —Christopher Marlowe		  22
  Chaste as snow.
            —Thomas Moore		  23
  Chaste as the virgin, and the cold pure saint.
            —Lewis Morris		  24
  Chaste as light.
            —John Pomfret		  25
  Chaste as cold Cynthia’s virgin light.
            —Alexander Pope		  26
  Chaste as Diana.
            —William Shakespeare		  27
  Chaste as ice.
            —William Shakespeare		  28
  Chaste as is the bud ere it be blown.
            —William Shakespeare		  29
  Chaste as the icicle.
            —William Shakespeare		  30
  Chaste as unsunned snow.
            —William Shakespeare		  31
  Like faire Venus Chaste.
            —Sir Philip Sidney		  32
  Chaste as purest vestals.
            —Lewis Theobald		  33
  Like an unlighted taper, was cold and chaste.
            —Cyril Tourneur		  34
  Chaste … as April’s mildest tear.
            —Henry Vaughan		  35
  Chaste as morning dew.
            —Edward Young		  36
  Chaste as the morning.
            —Edward Young		  37
 
 
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