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  • Chang gave Shi a reprimanding look.†   (source)
  • This lack of sportsmanship led to a stiff reprimand from the Count's father and a trip to bed without supper.†   (source)
  • "What's the bag fore" snaps Yuri, smarting at having been reprimanded in front of Lale.†   (source)
  • But their leader didn't look in the least bit reprimanded or remorseful.†   (source)
  • You can't reprimand a boy for wanting to love God.†   (source)
  • Fache drew a seething inhalation, clearly preparing to launch into a reprimand.†   (source)
  • "I'm sorry" I was devastated to be reprimanded by my mom so harshly.†   (source)
  • He hesitated here, wondering if a reprimand was coming, but Dumbledore merely said, "Quite understandable.†   (source)
  • Why doesn't she reprimand me for staring at myself?†   (source)
  • Over the years, Mariam had learned to harden herself against his scorn and reproach, his ridiculing and reprimanding.†   (source)
  • When we teased her too much, Father intervened and reprimanded us.†   (source)
  • Surprisingly, Chaol didn't reprimand her, either.†   (source)
  • I saw my grandmother lose her mind in pieces like that; when she was so old that she could remember almost nothing—certainly not Owen Meany, and not even me—she would occasionally reprimand the whole room, and anyone present in it.†   (source)
  • But when I reached his study—low-ceilinged, gloomy with books, black leather chairs, a pipe rack, frayed brown rug, a room which students rarely entered except for a reprimand—I saw on the pad not an operator's number from my home town, but one which seemed to interrupt the beating of my heart.†   (source)
  • Twice in one day, Briony had caught the disapproval of the ward sister for running in the corridor, and on each occasion the reprimand was delivered tonelessly.†   (source)
  • The reprimand is calm, quiet, and threatening.†   (source)
  • Marin reprimanding Hanna for, oh, stealing a car and driving pissdrunk, she told Hanna that she "was taking care of it."†   (source)
  • The only trouble in her file was a slight altercation early in the year when a teacher reprimanded her for bringing obscene literature—Fear of Flying—into the classroom.†   (source)
  • "Please, Klaus," Mr. Poe admonished, a word which here means "reprimanded Klaus even though he was interrupting for a very good reason."†   (source)
  • As they are talking a woman across the aisle reprimands them; she's been trying to take a nap, she says.†   (source)
  • Still it would grieve Gertrudis to throw him out since Trevino was very emotional, and when she reprimanded him for anything he always took to drink.†   (source)
  • "Who are you to reprimand me, girl?" he snarled, putting his face up to the bars.†   (source)
  • ELIZABETH, with a sense of reprimanding herself for having forgot : Aye!†   (source)
  • It was the reprimand of a mother.†   (source)
  • One shot, and the snooty officer who dared to reprimand him passes into eternal life (or is it eternal death?†   (source)
  • We're all laughing so hard at Mitchell's attempt to project his idea of desperation, which involves teeth grinding and nostrils flaring, that Boggs has to reprimand us.†   (source)
  • Not long after Fischer reached Kruse and began the troublesome descent to Base Camp, they encountered Boukreev at the top of the Icefall, ascending alone, and Fischer harshly reprimanded the guide for shirking his responsibilities.†   (source)
  • "Echo," Lila said in reprimand.†   (source)
  • When students moved away from me, hurling insults, she gave them a stern reprimand.†   (source)
  • That and the quick, almost sardonic smile I would catch him hiding from Siri when she reprimanded him.†   (source)
  • If a reprimand was due, he accepted the blame.†   (source)
  • Violators would be reprimanded by the barrios involved.†   (source)
  • When the scientists and the lawyers find out about this, they go slightly berserk, they reprimand Mink, they put all their resources into computer testing.†   (source)
  • She was quick to reprimand her children, but even quicker to take offense on their behalf.†   (source)
  • I would do it whenever I visited my parents' house, and my mother would constantly reprimand me.†   (source)
  • He sat there for almost five minutes reprimanding himself for being such a fool.†   (source)
  • Her father reprimanded her and begged Florentino Ariza's pardon.†   (source)
  • Bellamy ran down the walkway, ignoring his neighbors' grumbles and the empty threats of the guards he knew were too lazy to chase a remarkably fast nine-year-old just to issue a reprimand.†   (source)
  • I thought she was going to reprimand Mameha, but in fact she said, "Yes, I'd like to tell it to you, now that you mention it.†   (source)
  • On one occasion, the captain had ordered a U.S. Army medevac flight for a pregnant Haitian woman in distress, and his commanders had reprimanded him for his pains.†   (source)
  • Miss Desjardin has been reprimanded.†   (source)
  • Luke pointed at the horse like a schoolteacher reprimanding a child.†   (source)
  • Where I come from, when a woman lies, she is reprimanded.†   (source)
  • He didn't want to waste it, but was worried that the squad leader might be reprimanded if the trowels were handed in late.†   (source)
  • She did, however, have a three-year-old nephew, who'd been reprimanded in his nursery school for pointing his finger at a classmate and saying, 'Bang, you're dead.'†   (source)
  • "Carlos!" miama reprimands sharply as she comes forward, but I get in between them and grab my brother's collar.†   (source)
  • Yet, no one reprimanded the two women, and they continued to travel with the stronger ones — until one fateful day.†   (source)
  • He waggles a finger in reprimand.†   (source)
  • She would reprimand him, without heat at all, and he would stand and listen till she was finished and then destroy her whole effect by asking something like did she wear a B cup, he wondered, or a C cup, or any ol' cup at all?†   (source)
  • Once, two line judges were reprimanded by a head referee for snickering when the name of a player named Mohammed Mohammed was called.†   (source)
  • "Oh, you shouldn't have her out in this," one woman with gray hair reprimanded her.†   (source)
  • I know how scared you were:' Stevie Rae's grin faded at the reprimand in my voice.†   (source)
  • But this was worse than a teacher reprimanding a student.†   (source)
  • I certainly wasn't about to reprimand another prisoner's kid—just imagine how that would go over.†   (source)
  • Later, Bishop Crandall dropped by the house to give me a stern reprimand.†   (source)
  • Gus didn't reprimand her.†   (source)
  • That is, who else besides the girls of Spence, who eye me and whisper to each other, stopping only when Mrs. Nightwing reprimands one girl for letting her fork droop.†   (source)
  • The fact that the board was coaching Adam, not reprimanding him, meant the instructors liked him.†   (source)
  • It's hard to push socks on someone who doesn't want them, and Marlene was always getting reprimanded for not being aggressive enough about it.†   (source)
  • They shut up like they were being reprimanded by an angry dad, because that's exactly what he sounded like.†   (source)
  • For an instant John considered whether this visit might be the universe's equivalent of sending him to the rector's office for a reprimand, notwithstanding the fact that the rector was dead.†   (source)
  • Today is not, I repeat, reprimanding myself—today is not the day for unnecessary questions.†   (source)
  • She would not let anyone reprimand him or tell him what to do, refused to listen when people commented on the strange life to which she was subjecting him, and defended him like a lioness, even though no one was planning to attack him.†   (source)
  • The chaplain's initial fear had been that the colonel intended reprimanding him for having gone back into the officers' club without permission the evening before.†   (source)
  • He didn't reprimand me or say anything to anyone else.†   (source)
  • He feared it would be worse, that he'd be reprimanded and sent back to serve more time.†   (source)
  • The children—" my mother reprimanded him.†   (source)
  • My voice is as sharp as ice cracking, as loud as a parent's reprimand.†   (source)
  • He was forty-six years old and unaccustomed to being reprimanded by a man who was not his boss.†   (source)
  • Instead, Thomas had delivered this unflinching reprimand.†   (source)
  • She'd had to swallow a reprimand from the chief's office for veering from the official statement during the press conference.†   (source)
  • The men in Swayne's compound were either soldiers or ex-soldiers still under military authority; they would try to avoid reprimands, especially over the inconsequential.†   (source)
  • For the life of her, Berger couldn't see why Holm had adopted this attitude towards her, but she knew that calm discussions and friendly reprimands didn't work.†   (source)
  • The exact nature of Charles's difficulties was never defined in the correspondence, but from fragmentary Harvard records it appears that one student was expelled, others reprimanded, when the one, or all, ran naked through Harvard Yard, and the implications are that there had been drinking involved.†   (source)
  • Upon landing I was immediately reprimanded by my superior, who rolled his eyes in mock dismay.†   (source)
  • "I told you not to bring shells into this house," she reprimanded when Felicia held up her prize.†   (source)
  • I expected a reprimand from my father or a tongue-lashing from my grandmother, but to my relief they simply nodded as we came in.†   (source)
  • He had been slacking late one afternoon on the battlements of Lugh's castle when she had whipped her blade across his face in a sudden, stinging reprimand.†   (source)
  • The judge to the right of the court president reprimanded the defendants.†   (source)
  • He takes it as a reprimand.†   (source)
  • She smiled the same way she did when she had to reprimand me in public.†   (source)
  • Mike briefed him, then I waited, expecting one of his mild reprimands—bracing self to answer sharply: "And what was I supposed to do?†   (source)
  • They were doing some pretty wild and crazy things, and Phil was reprimanded a few times by the school board for his boorish behavior.†   (source)
  • Grover and Ralph exchanged glances; and later, in the kitchen, Ralph reprimanded her.†   (source)
  • Not that Dan had reprimanded him.†   (source)
  • The silence rattled between us and I felt sorry for the reprimand that grew from me to him in the silence.†   (source)
  • Even praise and reprimand he would not delegate.†   (source)
  • -Don't bawl, you stupid!" he reprimanded the crying Marinka.†   (source)
  • After a moment he opened his eyes and said, "Little boy, little sister (he nudged his long blue chin towards Catherine), "this is neither the time nor place for reprimands.†   (source)
  • Elisha would smile and reprimand him gently, and the lesson would go on.†   (source)
  • Wish she'd go ahead and die and get it over with," said Little Sister Spights, who had been thumb-sucking all afternoon without a reprimand.†   (source)
  • He reprimanded himself for not acting on his gut.†   (source)
  • That was what Mike's life had been worth-a reprimand and reduction in rank.†   (source)
  • At the company meeting the next day, both men were reprimanded.†   (source)
  • Harry began, not entirely sure whether he was being reprimanded or not.†   (source)
  • "Noah," she moaned in equal parts pleasure and reprimand.†   (source)
  • So, meal after meal after meal, I'd lean back and she'd reprimand.†   (source)
  • Not sure you've practiced enough," Nahil says with cautious reprimand.†   (source)
  • "No better than the child," his father often reprimanded her.†   (source)
  • All brutality and reprimand were wrested from her face.†   (source)
  • I close my eyes and wait for the reprimand.†   (source)
  • In addition, there was a written reprimand and temporary reduction in rank.†   (source)
  • Aren't you going to reprimand me for abandoning my faction and seeking out my brother?†   (source)
  • His face paled and he shook his head at Tyler in reprimand while pointing at the stage.†   (source)
  • Cheng gave a reprimanding look to the head of the detention center standing at the door of the cell.†   (source)
  • "I will leave the reprimands to the Dauntless," she says, leaning back in her chair.†   (source)
  • I let out a yelp and again was reprimanded by the big woman's glance.†   (source)
  • The reprimand was mild, but the aim deadly.†   (source)
  • She was going outside of procedure, risking a reprimand or worse.†   (source)
  • "No!" he said sternly, as though a reprimand had ever worked.†   (source)
  • Mademoiselle LeFarge reprimands, and Fee falls quiet.†   (source)
  • "But there you are, blocking my way," said Mr. Sikes, a note of reprimand in his voice.†   (source)
  • I'm afraid a reprimand will not be sufficient.†   (source)
  • Mademoiselle LeFarge never does reprimand us.†   (source)
  • "I don't have to be told that, Lou, I really don't," reprimanded Mario in his soft-spoken voice.†   (source)
  • I didn't know what he meant or how to respond to the reprimand.†   (source)
  • You're risking a possible reprimand if you stay.†   (source)
  • She looked almost like a chastened schoolgirl awaiting a reprimand.†   (source)
  • "Fred," my mother said in a reprimanding tone.†   (source)
  • She delivered this reprimand sternly, reminding us that these questions weren't our concern.†   (source)
  • His tone was a reprimand, now that I already had.†   (source)
  • She strides across the lawn like Queen Victoria reprimanding her guard.†   (source)
  • I would consider that action a reprimand, Lieutenant.†   (source)
  • Cecily opens her mouth to reprimand Felicity, but no words come.†   (source)
  • There was no need to layer on punishment with official reprimands.†   (source)
  • Harry glanced quickly at Snape, who also looked annoyed, though Harry strongly suspected that this was less because of Malfoy's rudeness than the fact that McGonagall had reprimanded one of his house.†   (source)
  • Idris expected Amra to reprimand them, at least Timur, but her manner is more flirtatious than scolding.†   (source)
  • Anderson shot a quick glance at Sato, clearly expecting a reprimand, but Director Sato seemed uninterested.†   (source)
  • The Inquest was held in the City Hall, with a number of Magistrates present, all staring and frowning; and an immense crowd of spectators, and Press men, pushing and shoving and jostling, so as to be in a better position to see and hear; and these had to be reprimanded several times, for disruption.†   (source)
  • In normal circumstances, someone would probably reprimand her for discussing her old faction, but these are not normal circumstances.†   (source)
  • We carry them from place to place, often at considerable expense and inconvenience; we dust and polish their surfaces and reprimand children for playing too roughly in their vicinity—all the while, allowing memories to invest them with greater and greater importance.†   (source)
  • Naturally, my pleas regarding the inevitable, grandmotherly reprimand were not only unheeded; they went as unnoticed as Owen Meany, who stood with his hands clasped behind his back, the sun from the attic skylight shining through his protrusive ears, which were a glowing pink—the sunlight so bright that the tiny veins and blood vessels in his ears appeared to be illuminated from within The powerful morning sun struck Owen's head from above, and from a little behind him, so that the…†   (source)
  • Is Pastor Dan here to reprimand him?†   (source)
  • And I suppose this was enough of a reprimand, for Nobu let out a sigh and stepped down into the garden in his stocking feet to begin the task of bringing the Minister back to consciousness.†   (source)
  • The friends who painted with her told her that Lorenzo Daza had been invited to lunch at the Social Club by Dr. Juvenal Urbino, who had received a severe reprimand for breaking club rules.†   (source)
  • That was easier said than done; we were often reprimanded for trying to sneak in a whisper or a playful nudge when we were supposed to be standing like statues.†   (source)
  • The net effect is that she has made me feel vaguely reprimanded and, what's more, deserving of it, guilty of wrongs unspoken, offenses I've never been formally charged with.†   (source)
  • Florentino Ariza did not see the resemblance that people observed, but according to his Uncle Leo XII, Pius V was also reprimanded for the lyricism of his documents.†   (source)
  • Grandmother suffered ambivalent feelings every Fourth of July; she was patriotic enough to stand on her doorstep waving a small American flag—the flag itself was not any larger than the palm of her hand—but at the same time, she frowned upon all the ruckus; she frequently reprimanded the children who rode their bicycles across her lawn, and she shouted at the dogs to stop their fool barking.†   (source)
  • With sorrowing heart she reprimanded him in what appeared to be a casual question in the midst of other trivial remarks: "Why do you insist on talking about what does not exist?"†   (source)
  • There were invoices, receipts, and overdue bills, along with dunning letters of reprimand awaiting Lavier's signature.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Nightwing reprimands.†   (source)
  • "Eadlyn," Mom reprimanded.†   (source)
  • Yes, he lived in the house; yes, he provided for my mom and me; but he was never around, unless it was to reprimand me about the B I'd received on a report card.†   (source)
  • He was never reprimanded; he was right.†   (source)
  • I took each reprimand for what it was: an awareness that the specificity of my rape did not matter, but only how and if it conformed to an established charge.†   (source)
  • Mr. Sikes lingered a moment on his shoulder and then scurried back to Max's pocket with a squeak of reprimand.†   (source)
  • Reprimand John Nelson verbally.†   (source)
  • Jake braced himself for the reprimand, but instead Judge Atlee managed a tight grin as he continued staring at nothing outside.†   (source)
  • She was about to reprimand him for even suggesting such a thing, but then it occurred to her that, as Mikil, she agreed.†   (source)
  • That stern reprimand set the tone for the next three weeks as Adam tried to embrace gravity, not fight it.†   (source)
  • I cannot remember that I was ever reprimanded or punished for anything, although that seems strange and unlikely now.†   (source)
  • They were shifty, cheerful, subservient men who were comfortable only with each other and never met anyone else's eye, not even Yossarian's eye at the open-air meeting they called to reprimand him publicly for making Kid Sampson turn back from the mission to Bologna.†   (source)
  • Jake glared at the old man as he spoke, though he was well aware that Reuben V. Atlee was not one to be reprimanded.†   (source)
  • Like a young child reprimanded by an adult, the Komitet officer, his puffed eyes widened, was both astonished and frightened by his subordinate's incomprehensible rebuke.†   (source)
  • Nelson is reprimanded — by me —and the Consul General will not be informed and nothing goes into his record.†   (source)
  • "Miss Doyle, it was most ungracious of you to run off and abandon Miss Poole," Mrs. Nightwing reprimands.†   (source)
  • Tom reprimands me.†   (source)
  • She walked to the carport, head averted as if avoiding a bad odor, her stiff carriage a reprimand, and did not answer.†   (source)
  • They ducked through the sitting-room door and watched her pass; they were as insane with excitement as if they could still dare hope they had not been discovered, and solemnly paralyzed in the inevitability of dreadful reprimand and of physical pain.†   (source)
  • He looked at both of them, feeling that their rude staring was undermining his gaze and his silence, by which he had intended to impress them into a sufficiently solemn and receptive state for the things he intended to say to them; and wondering whether or not he should reprimand them.†   (source)
  • Reprimandingly.†   (source)
  • There is always more to be understood; a discord to be listened for; a falsity to be reprimanded.†   (source)
  • Yet the slow and fading glow disregards it, impervious to reprimand.†   (source)
  • In other days she would have been forced at least to reprimand him severely.†   (source)
  • "We are singing because we are happy," we answered the one of the Home Council who reprimanded us.†   (source)
  • He liked to carry large sums of money in his pocket, a practice of which Eliza disapproved, and for which she reprimanded him frequently.†   (source)
  • If he takes time to reprimand us, my father is always very stern but otherwise he doesn't bother at all.†   (source)
  • I told Simon, who listened to me with suspicion, irony, reprimand, already hard and waiting to spurn my explanation that I had to get off early to see a friend in the hospital.†   (source)
  • He could not bear to see a slave pouting under a reprimand, no matter how well deserved, or hear a kitten mewing or a child crying; but he had a horror of having this weakness discovered.†   (source)
  • But while no other creature is reprimanded for its noise, for yelling, roaring, screaming, cawing, or braying, there is supposed to be more delicate relief for the human species.†   (source)
  • He only laughed and would not permit Scarlett even to slap the little girl's hand by way of reprimand.†   (source)
  • He was her god, the center of her small world, and that was too precious for him to risk losing by reprimands.†   (source)
  • It annoyed her that her quick reprimands brought such acute fright to his round eyes, for he looked so simple minded when he was frightened.†   (source)
  • "What sort of an expression is that," Joachim reprimanded him discreetly.†   (source)
  • The boy was rather miserable at being reprimanded.†   (source)
  • Thinking that he was asleep, and wishing him to escape reprimand or worse, I spoke to him.†   (source)
  • He was annoyed, and reprimanded the bailiff.†   (source)
  • I need your cloak; you took no trouble about mine, but reprimanded me; so now give up your own.†   (source)
  • "I congratulate you," said he, in the tone which one uses for a reprimand.†   (source)
  • Sure to be a fatal accident, with a reprimand from the coroner's jury for my negligence.†   (source)
  • Well, I spent the rest of the money on such an orgy that the new major was obliged to reprimand me.†   (source)
  • Varenka, hearing Kitty's voice and her mother's reprimand, went with light, rapid steps up to Kitty.†   (source)
  • Grandfathers are made to reprimand fathers.†   (source)
  • By noon she had concluded that Anne was smart and obedient, willing to work and quick to learn; her most serious shortcoming seemed to be a tendency to fall into daydreams in the middle of a task and forget all about it until such time as she was sharply recalled to earth by a reprimand or a catastrophe.†   (source)
  • The teacher, a grave, elderly man, interfered; then turned his back a moment and Tom pulled a boy's hair in the next bench, and was absorbed in his book when the boy turned around; stuck a pin in another boy, presently, in order to hear him say "Ouch!" and got a new reprimand from his teacher.†   (source)
  • The weakness passed, leaving her somewhat thick witted, so that as she climbed out of the wagon she nearly fell, and later her clumsiness at her assigned camp tasks fetched a reprimand from Mrs. Jett.†   (source)
  • When they had gone downstairs they found that she did not follow them into the dining-hall to breakfast, and they then learnt that she had been severely reprimanded, and ordered to a solitary room for a week, there to be confined, and take her meals, and do all her reading.†   (source)
  • "Block," said Leni, as if reprimanding him, and, taking hold of the collar of his coat, pulled him up slightly higher.†   (source)
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