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  • This is the chastisement of a renegade and no more.†   (source)
  • Chastised, young Jimmy stood outside in the cold until Mamaw and Papaw strolled by and asked if he'd like to go inside the pharmacy.†   (source)
  • Fache immediately marched Sophie several steps away and began chastising her in hushed tones.†   (source)
  • I don't like to be chastised.†   (source)
  • "Grover," Aunty Em chastised, "look this way, dear."†   (source)
  • I waited for her to chastise me.†   (source)
  • Will you obey now, or shall I have him chastise you again?†   (source)
  • "Just hear me out," Kai said, raising his hands to silence Torin before he could be chastised.†   (source)
  • In his other life Maurice had received chastisement for filling a younger eye with sand.†   (source)
  • And again he chastised Rufus before me.†   (source)
  • Feel so frustration in making me obnoxious within me, Asking for a (speedly trial) to Let me know what lays ahead in the future, I feel as thod I sure be castigate or chastise for the wronge I've did, So I'm ready to get it over now with it.†   (source)
  • Then I'd chastise myself for playing the victim, when really, I'd always been so fortunate.†   (source)
  • He would chastise them both, and harshly.†   (source)
  • I could see her talking and smiling, turning that earnest gaze on the guy, who nodded as she spoke, looking like a chastised adolescent.†   (source)
  • There was fire in Daddy's eyes, but once again Grandma looked at him and he backed down; the three of them cowered like children before a chastising parent.†   (source)
  • Chastised, Eragon adopted a staid demeanor, but inside he still bubbled with energy.†   (source)
  • We all left, duly chastised, his words ringing in our ears for …. a good five seconds or so.†   (source)
  • I'd sit on the balcony chastising myself a million times for what I'd done and waiting for the Klan to come kill him and for my father to kill both of us, but the days passed and nothing happened.†   (source)
  • He chastised the congregation calmly at first, and then with increasing annoyance.†   (source)
  • "You were supposed to dress up," a skeleton guy chastised me before offering me a beer.†   (source)
  • Baby Kochamma lowered her eyes like a chastised child.†   (source)
  • I dropped my eyes and tried to look appropriately chastised.†   (source)
  • He endlessly chastises fellow clients, lets loose bigoted tirades and maligns Robinson for offering safe harbor to those who cuss, smoke or otherwise violate his sense of civility.†   (source)
  • He pointed me toward an armchair with a particularly rigid back; I tried to make myself comfortable, as urged, but found the only posture the chair allowed was that of a chastised student: Pay attention and sit up.†   (source)
  • The correspondence back and forth became so frequent and intense that he forgot about his leg and the chastisement of the bed, he forgot about everything, and he dedicated himself totally to writing on the kind of portable table used in hospitals to serve meals to patients.†   (source)
  • After I had yelled at God, chastising him, questioning his wisdom and his faithfulness?†   (source)
  • One acquaintance went so far as to chastise Jenny for allowing me to knock her up again, asking, in a tone best reserved for someone who had just signed over all her worldly possessions to a cult in Guyana: "What were you thinking?"†   (source)
  • Chastised, he shut the refrigerator door.†   (source)
  • Dede chastised him for suggesting such a thing about her sister.†   (source)
  • Dan slumped, feeling chastised.†   (source)
  • Thus chastised, I bought the pistachios and, on the way home, cautioned Mahtob not to tell Daddy about the incident.†   (source)
  • I breathe deeply, chastising myself for feeling more comfortable with Alex than here in a bed with Colin.†   (source)
  • I had even had a party the night before I left, and I chastised myself for letting down my guard.†   (source)
  • Though I used to think at one time, a few years ago, my turtleneck years, that society's chastising was the sole force that drove one along the road to crazy, but you've caused me to re-appraise my theory.†   (source)
  • When my father is stern, no one chastises him.†   (source)
  • I nodded, remembering when Penthesilea had chastised Elliott for letting Dragon down.†   (source)
  • Truth to tell, the old Scotchman had dreaded having this rich young man for an associate, and had put a rod in pickle for his chastisement.†   (source)
  • He didn't chastise me for being a reckless, thoughtless, selfish idiot.†   (source)
  • His dad didn't chastise him, but Colin knew he'd failed.†   (source)
  • Or the next time Puller saw him he might bring it up and chastise his son for not executing the given order.†   (source)
  • When Kelley chastised Adam for spending that kind of money, he told her, "You deserve the best."†   (source)
  • The teacher chastised him and told him never to do something so reckless again.†   (source)
  • I had actually chastised myself for being upset that they had come and let myself think that maybe this would be a turning point.†   (source)
  • Mama and Aunt didn't chastise her as they did my cousin and me if we didn't sweep the floor well enough or didn't get all of the dirt out of our fathers' tunics.†   (source)
  • She set Olive on the sidewalk and was about to chastise her further when tears began streaming down the little girl's face.†   (source)
  • She chastised herself for not thinking of the gloves.†   (source)
  • Mr. Crawford sat down, thoroughly chastised and humiliated.†   (source)
  • I'm not eager to be chastised for my nosiness, but I know a little boy who died because no one likes a busybody.†   (source)
  • The old charge of vanity, the character flaw that Adams so often chastised himself for, had been made again, and on the floor of Congress, justas he was to assume his most important role.†   (source)
  • Mr. Stanley believed that sickness was sent by God to test and chastise those souls He would save.†   (source)
  • Idiot,Melanie chastised me.†   (source)
  • Shame on you," chastised one of the seals, rolling over on its side.†   (source)
  • After Simon's book became a national best-seller, making him the arch-prescriptivist of the moment, Nunberg published a blistering rebuttal in the Atlantic Monthly, chastising "the pop grammarians who play to the galleries.†   (source)
  • A great teacher is my adversary, my conqueror, commissioned to chastise me.†   (source)
  • "You should not have brought him here, old man," Rellin chastised.†   (source)
  • The regal Lee, Virginian gentleman, was appalled when he caught sight of Grant and loudly chastised him for his appearance.†   (source)
  • You chastise him for the crimes of his race, yet have none of you ever considered that Drizzt Do'Urden walks among us because he has rejected the ways of his people?†   (source)
  • Chastised, Peabody eased back.†   (source)
  • She seemed too scared of the guard chastising us if we continued speaking, so she remained tight-lipped after that.†   (source)
  • She glared at the fighter, silently chastising him for daring to touch her, a woman who was not a blood relative, and then fixed the Iraqi with the same stare.†   (source)
  • After the first offering, they counted the money and Reverend Grant chastised his flock for being so cheap!†   (source)
  • He got up at last, reaching into his coat absently to turn off the tape recorder, and stepped out into the aisle like a man publicly chastised.†   (source)
  • A mile more: of chastising thorns, burrs and briers that catch at our clothes; of rusty pine needles brilliant with gaudy fungus and molted feathers.†   (source)
  • But his extemporaneous speech, in which he chastised Senator Foote for ignoring the instructions of the Mississippi Legislature (as he himself was to do twenty-eight years later), was a notable success, and at the end of the debate the students of the university "bore him away upon their shoulders."†   (source)
  • Rod leaned his head on his hands and chastised himself.†   (source)
  • Sweet amens fell from her lips as she was chastised for all her sins.†   (source)
  • Adel understood vaguely that he'd been chastised.†   (source)
  • Whatever it had been, he had caught her at it, and he had chastised her sharply.†   (source)
  • They do not take lightly the careless chastising of our blood.†   (source)
  • LuLing looked at Ruth as though she were the one being chastised.†   (source)
  • Chastising herself for being squeamish, she reached for the panel in the back of her head.†   (source)
  • He was a liar and a cheat and he would have to be chastised … harshly.†   (source)
  • "Dead people," Echo said, like she was chastising him.†   (source)
  • Your pimples are the Lord's way of chastising you.†   (source)
  • "Save some for your brothers," Emily chastised him, hitting him on the head with a wooden spoon.†   (source)
  • Don't climb hills," she chastised me, as though I had ever been allowed to do that.†   (source)
  • "Lizzie, Lizzie," he chastises me merrily, "I see empty glasses on this tray.†   (source)
  • The nurse, completely chastised, took a step back from the bed.†   (source)
  • Once the defeated knights chastised their squires sharply, their horses and armor were returned.†   (source)
  • I was inwardly chastising myself for not having noticed her wounds while still back in the bedroom.†   (source)
  • He expected to be chastised by his fellow physicians.†   (source)
  • She wrung her hands, squirmed and chastised herself for forgetting.†   (source)
  • Seemed to me she was doing the chastising.†   (source)
  • She'd pulled me out of the closet, chastised me, and repainted it before my father returned.†   (source)
  • I chastised myself for lumping him in with the other two stomach bleeders.†   (source)
  • She bemoaned fate, God, the Emperor, and chastised Zemui for leaving her.†   (source)
  • And we never chastised nobody else like we chastised him.†   (source)
  • Like she's chastising him.†   (source)
  • Fortunately for her, reporters lived in eternal fear of missing the big story, so they seldom chastised her for passing along the occasional delusional psychotic.†   (source)
  • But as soon as she left the room, the Count chastised himself for not having considered his next hiding place before initiating the second round.†   (source)
  • The Chancellor glared at Hemme, chastising him silently for speaking out of turn, then turned back to me.†   (source)
  • She sat in the chair licking her lips like a chastised child while Beloved ate up her life, took it, swelled up with it, grew taller on it.†   (source)
  • Amy would want one of two things: for me to learn my lesson and fry like the bad boy I was; or for me to learn my lesson and love her the way she deserved and be a good, obedient, chastised, dickless little boy.†   (source)
  • I chastised him.†   (source)
  • Helped her endure the chastising ghost; refurbished the baby faces of Howard and Buglar and kept them whole in the world because in her dreams she saw only their parts in trees; and kept her husband shadowy but there--somewhere.†   (source)
  • Though it was an awful thing to think, and she immediately chastised herself for it, she couldn't help it—with Emperor Rikan dead, Peony was the first in line for an antidote.†   (source)
  • So, having wagged a chastising finger at the Count, he moved to the corner of the bar, laid his head on his arms, and dreamed of the Sugar Plum Fairy.†   (source)
  • Before 124 and everybody in it had closed down, veiled over and shut away; before it had become the plaything of spirits and the home of the chafed, 124 had been a cheerful, buzzing house where Baby Suggs, holy, loved, cautioned, fed, chastised and soothed.†   (source)
  • Chastised.†   (source)
  • Chastised … harshly.†   (source)
  • Arya cast her eyes at the ground, somewhat like a chastised child, while the fur on Blodhgarm's shoulders rippled and stood on end, and he pulled back his lips to reveal the tips of his sharp white fangs.†   (source)
  • You caught me chastising my wife.†   (source)
  • "Sorry, Dad," he said, chastised.†   (source)
  • He has been chastised.†   (source)
  • Jeb chastised him halfheartedly.†   (source)
  • I'm sorry, Master," he said, chastised.†   (source)
  • Suitcase had no reply, and the lieutenant did something I have rarely seen a superior officer do: he chastised his subordinate in the presence of prisoners.†   (source)
  • Murtagh and Thorn had been seen flying toward Uru'baen-no doubt to be chastised in person-and Nasuada and Arya agreed with Eragon that those two would probably then continue northward to confront Queen Islanzadi and the army under her command once the elves made their first strike and revealed their presence.†   (source)
  • He remembered when Brom and Garrow had chastised him for making mistakes, and to now find himself the one doing the chastising left him feeling …. different …. more mature.†   (source)
  • Kaden chastised.†   (source)
  • I took my feelings and harnessed them, driving my daughter back and forth across the floor of our upstairs room, wrapping her bindings ever tighter on those days that her feet were rewrapped, and chastising her—no, crying bitterly at her—with what my mother had drilled into me.†   (source)
  • He remembered when Brom and Garrow had chastised him for making mistakes, and to now find himself the one doing the chastising left him feeling …. different …. more mature.†   (source)
  • She kept thinking of Ghosh and wondering if he would have chastised her for letting Shiva take such a risk.†   (source)
  • No. At that he looks up, his glasses askew, scowling like he's about to chastise me.†   (source)
  • The Count began to chastise himself: How could he have let Sofia play such a reckless game?†   (source)
  • It would dump the boiler and then chastise the boy harshly.†   (source)
  • His grandmother's chastisement: Men do not cry.†   (source)
  • Sarcasm, of course, Mr. McLean, and I cannot blame you nor will I chastise you for your impudence.†   (source)
  • Who but a negligent father allows his children to grow up unguided by sometime chastisements?†   (source)
  • He might not like the conversation, but he would never chastise Jake.†   (source)
  • Now I didn't bring you here just to chastise you.†   (source)
  • On this you shall obey me, lest I be forced to chastise you.†   (source)
  • These are demons in the skins of wolves, sent to chastise us for our sins.†   (source)
  • It wasn't to chastise Lord Tabor over his behavior—although he certainly did—it was to find me.†   (source)
  • And mind your tongue, or I'll chastise you again."†   (source)
  • I have never taken kindly to chastisement, as any number of dead men could tell you.†   (source)
  • I have heard it said that Joffrey made use of you to chastise Sansa Stark.†   (source)
  • Ser Meryn went on to relate how Tyrion had stopped Joffrey's chastisement of Sansa Stark.†   (source)
  • The old man glared, his lips moving as if working up the spittle to chastise her for such blasphemy.†   (source)
  • When Fia and Dory finally showed up, Ruth did not feel she could chastise them in front of their mother or Arlene and Marty.†   (source)
  • The piece of paper was still in her hand, and every now and then she would shake it in front of her own nose as if in self-chastisement.†   (source)
  • He half expected Torin to chastise him for the sorry escape plan, but Torin seemed too relieved that the argument was over.†   (source)
  • I'll chastise her.†   (source)
  • Chastise your son.†   (source)
  • Then Eragon, who had no interest in continuing to chastise Sloan, uttered the butcher's true name loud enough for him to hear.†   (source)
  • "Four wouldn't be that petty," Christina says, either to chastise Cara or to reassure me, I'm not sure.†   (source)
  • Yet somehow she had found the courage to tell Ser Humfrey that she would accept chastisement only from a man who could outfight her.†   (source)
  • You've had good reason to chastise and warn me in the past, and now I must do the same for you: stop pestering Glaedr with your attentions.†   (source)
  • I am the Lord of Harrenhal and a member of the king's council, who are you to chastise me like this?"†   (source)
  • No crying, I chastise myself.†   (source)
  • Together, Randoll and the Millers went about the village exhorting others to join them in their bloody self-chastisement.†   (source)
  • However, he did not chastise Roran for his disobedience but merely said, "Have those men come down at once.†   (source)
  • From the moment I'd left Sofia trembling in my bed, I'd done nothing but chastise myself for my behavior.†   (source)
  • And though it pains our lord-for he knows that most of these rebellious acts are instigated by bitter and misguided leaders-we shall gently chastise the unlawful territory known as Surda and return it to the benevolent rule of King Galbatorix, he who sacrifices himself day and night for the good of his people.†   (source)
  • I don't hear my father-in-law grumble about the weakness of his tea, my mother-in-law chastise me for the softness of my heart, my sisters-in-law demand clean clothes, my husband order me to be less of an embarrassment in the village, or my son demand, demand, demand.†   (source)
  • Most likely, he and Thorn are winging their way back to Uru'baen even as we speak so Galbatorix may interrogate them about the battle and chastise them for their failure.†   (source)
  • She knew such garb would discomfit her father when he came to chastise her for making off with Myrcella.†   (source)
  • Kissing the rod that chastised me is not in my line.†   (source)
  • But hitherto none hath chastised thee.†   (source)
  • He began to speak on the subject of chastising boys.†   (source)
  • I took this as a direct disproof of his having really been chastised.†   (source)
  • I have been well chastised for it, and God is extraordinarily just.†   (source)
  • "What, without chastising this insolent boy?" asked the lady.†   (source)
  • Ordinarily, I should have chastised him and let him go, because I believe him to be a thief.†   (source)
  • "Chastised, Monsieur!" said d'Artagnan, "the expression is strong."†   (source)
  • "The Lady Rowena," said the Prior, "has punished us all, in chastising the boldness of my friend.†   (source)
  • Gluttony chastises the glutton, Gula punit Gulax.†   (source)
  • Let us have compassion on the chastised.†   (source)
  • "Base calumniators!" replied the knight; "I would I had the chastising of them.†   (source)
  • But because of the sheer contentiousness and determination of his nature, he would not permit himself to be completely baffled by this smashing announcement Instead he turned, and after surveying the flustered and yet self-chastising Belknap and Clyde, commented: "I don't believe it He's lying, I think, or bluffing.†   (source)
  • Yet I could easily recognise this class of transgressions by the anguish of mind which preceded, as well as by the rigour of the punishment which followed them; and I knew that what I had just done was in the same category as certain other sins for which I had been severely chastised, though infinitely more serious than they.†   (source)
  • Before our eyes, in the distance, a promised or an accursed land, Roussainville, within whose walls I had never penetrated, Roussainville was now, when the rain had ceased for us, still being chastised, like a village in the Old Testament, by all the innumerable spears and arrows of the storm, which beat down obliquely upon the dwellings of its inhabitants, or else had already received the forgiveness of the Almighty, Who had restored to it the light of His sun, which fell upon it in…†   (source)
  • The subjects may murmur at the sovereign's decree, but they are grieved to displease him; and the sovereign chastises his subjects with the light hand of parental affection.†   (source)
  • "What mean these fellows by their capricious insolence?" said the Templar to the Benedictine, "and why did you prevent me from chastising it?"†   (source)
  • I heard her with wonder: I could not comprehend this doctrine of endurance; and still less could I understand or sympathise with the forbearance she expressed for her chastiser.†   (source)
  • Godfrey's was an essentially domestic nature, bred up in a home where the hearth had no smiles, and where the daily habits were not chastised by the presence of household order.†   (source)
  • The children running up and down the slopes and broad paths in the gardens reminded her of George, who was taken from her; the first George was taken from her; her selfish, guilty love, in both instances, had been rebuked and bitterly chastised.†   (source)
  • Appearances would warrant that conclusion: and, no doubt (though, with an audacity that wants chastising out of you, you seem to question it), they will be a superlatively happy pair.†   (source)
  • "This insolent boy chastises others," cried he; "and I hope that this time he whom he ought to chastise will not escape him as before."†   (source)
  • Whether Porthos understood him or did not understand him, giving way to his anger, "Monsieur," said he, "you stand a chance of getting chastised if you rub Musketeers in this fashion."†   (source)
  • He had a daughter over fifty years of age, and unmarried, whom he chastised severely with his tongue, when in a rage, and whom he would have liked to whip.†   (source)
  • "Do you dispute with me, slave!" said the soldier; and, setting spurs to his horse, he caused him make a demivolte across the path, raising at the same time the riding rod which he held in his hand, with a purpose of chastising what he considered as the insolence of the peasant.†   (source)
  • Often, in the middle of the night, he rose to listen to the grateful song of those innocent creatures weighed down with severities, and the blood ran cold in his veins at the thought that those who were justly chastised raised their voices heavenward only in blasphemy, and that he, wretch that he was, had shaken his fist at God.†   (source)
  • However, reward was created for man the same as chastisement.†   (source)
  • But Juan said to him, "Dear father, just as our Father in heaven has the right to chastise when he pleases…"†   (source)
  • It was difficult to punish Ellsworth under any circumstances, because of his fragile body and delicate health; besides, it seemed wrong to chastise a boy who had sacrificed himself to avenge injustice, and done it bravely, in the open, ignoring his own physical weakness; somehow, he looked like a martyr.†   (source)
  • I must have sounded reekingly blasphemous, for Granny said, "Shut up, you!" and leaned forward promptly to chastise me with one of her casual,back-handed slaps on my mouth.†   (source)
  • Upon the sons of his wealthiest and most prominent clients, as well as upon his own children, Leonard was careful to inflict no chastisement, and these young men, arrogantly conscious of their immunity, were studious in their insolence and disobedience.†   (source)
  • He murmured in a slightly ironic voice: "My dear lady, in my experience of ill-doing, Providence leaves the work of conviction and chastisement to us mortals-and the process is often fraught with difficulties.†   (source)
  • He knows that they see more than that: that they see the trust of which he proved himself unworthy, being used now for his chastisement; it seems to him now that he talks to the Face: "Perhaps I accepted more than I could perform.†   (source)
  • "And after, if thou wilt," said he, "chastise me or enslave me; for it is thine to bid and to forbid."†   (source)
  • I behold and I know the secret things and the things that are revealed, and ye shall witness what I will do unto this sinner and blasphemer, for I will turn My hand against him to chastise him.†   (source)
  • But Collie did not give over, as was her wont, after a decent interval of chastisement.†   (source)
  • It was not for nothing that you suddenly found you had a moral duty to chastise and reform Rachel.†   (source)
  • Perhaps he would mete out some terrible chastisement against my presumption.†   (source)
  • There was some doubt in his mind about the chastisement of unbelievers.†   (source)
  • I deserve the chastisement your words give me.†   (source)
  • That union can only be severed by a crime, and a crime of that nature brings its own chastisement.†   (source)
  • HIS chastisements are mighty; and one smote me which has humbled me for ever.†   (source)
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