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  • "Ah, Cassie, leave him be," Stacey admonished, frowning and kicking testily at the road.†   (source)
  • While helping Aunt Wee move across the country, she admonished him for his earlier alcoholism and asked why they rarely had the chance to talk.†   (source)
  • Lale admonishes himself for not having made friends with his block companions sooner.†   (source)
  • I remember admonishing her on several occasions to take good care of it.†   (source)
  • She leaned across the table and fixed Teabing with an admonishing glare.†   (source)
  • The man in the front row gave them another admonishing look.†   (source)
  • She admonished Serena to donate the fees from her endorsements to charity, and Serena did.†   (source)
  • She addressed this to Linda, an admonishment, a moral lesson.†   (source)
  • she started to say, but the rector silenced her with an admonishing wave of his hand.†   (source)
  • She had come looking for her sister—no doubt with the exhilarated notion of protecting her, or admonishing her, and had heard a noise from behind the closed library door.†   (source)
  • Annie asked, admonishing Venkat.†   (source)
  • "Slowly, go slowly," admonished Amah.†   (source)
  • The judge admonished Sampson about staying out of trouble, for his mother's sake, if for no other reason.†   (source)
  • "Don't be late," Emily admonishes.†   (source)
  • "Please, Klaus," Mr. Poe admonished, a word which here means "reprimanded Klaus even though he was interrupting for a very good reason."†   (source)
  • Unlike her parents, and her other relatives, her grandmother had not admonished Ashima not to eat beef or wear skirts or cut off her hair or forget her family the moment she landed in Boston.†   (source)
  • I wouldn't put it past her to admonish May for something like this, even though May didn't know any better.†   (source)
  • Phyllis had written back expressing interest and admonishing him to read O'Casey before sitting down to it.†   (source)
  • He always remembered Brom's admonishment not to violate someone's mind unless absolutely necessary.†   (source)
  • "That's enough, Jimmie," Mom admonished him while Dad stood in stricken silence.†   (source)
  • I believe he is admonishing us to go with cheese, which is always sound advice.†   (source)
  • Yesterday his egg was like india-rubber; he'd mentioned it to his landlady, the wan Mrs. Humphrey, and she must have admonished Dora, because today the egg is so undercooked as to be scarcely jellied, with a blueish tinge to it like an eyeball.†   (source)
  • I braced myself for the agony of hearing his voice the voice that used to speak to me with laughter and light and now is used only to admonish or console or pity but it wasn't him.†   (source)
  • His words came back, admonishing me: What?†   (source)
  • She thought she saw some admonishment in them.†   (source)
  • I admonished him and tried it again.†   (source)
  • Every so often, some well-meaning geisha admonished me that as an apprentice, my responsibility—besides trying to look pretty—was to sit quietly and listen to conversations in the hopes of one day becoming a clever conversationalist myself.†   (source)
  • The kindness gives way a moment when he snaps his fingers and curtly admonishes the guardias for not putting out chairs for his guests.†   (source)
  • He took his dinner off the stove where she had carefully covered it and which she had admonished us not to bother.†   (source)
  • And once more the court admonished the witness: "Answer yes or no, do you have an opinion?"†   (source)
  • Despite the admonishment in her voice, Ch'idzigyaak was deeply relieved that no harm had come to her friend.†   (source)
  • "Then I suggest you begin at once," admonished the Dodecahedron from his admonishing face, "for here in Digitopolis everything is quite precise."†   (source)
  • The organist was a friend of his, a woman from Peru named Alejandra, who wore her burgundy hair pulled back tightly in a long ponytail and who, in the bleak days after Michelle left, had appeared at his apartment with soup, iced tea, and admonishments.†   (source)
  • "Hush," admonished Buckheath harshly.†   (source)
  • Even if they serve you eggplant on rutabaga with tofu, I want you to eat what they put in front of you and then make sure you compliment them on the meal," Tom admonished.†   (source)
  • She admonished them gently when they were behaving badly, and exhorted them to educate themselves, get with God, and love themselves.†   (source)
  • For example, verse 4:34 refers to wives and is usually translated roughly like this: "As for those from whom ye fear rebellion, admonish them and banish them to beds apart, and beat them.†   (source)
  • "Grace, charm, and beauty, Miss Worthington," Miss Moore admonishes, waving a finger disapprovingly.†   (source)
  • The woman said in an admonishing tone, "Young lady, you haven't been to church in a while."†   (source)
  • "I hope you're taking notes" was a common admonishment as they jumped from task to task.†   (source)
  • "Don't annoy me, you liar!" our niang admonished, and she picked some food up with her chopsticks and put it in our dia's bowl.†   (source)
  • She winked at me, making her admonishment a little joke.†   (source)
  • "You must mind your decorum," Charles admonished Jack.†   (source)
  • 'Breaded veal cutlets are very nutritious,' Milo admonished him piously.†   (source)
  • But no matter where I was, people were beginning to give me looks that I read as admonishments for my lack of fertility.†   (source)
  • He dramatically clears his throat and sweeps his gaze across the students who happen to be present today-a chilly February morning in 1994— at Frank W. Ballou Senior High, the most troubled and violent school in the blighted southeast corner of Washington, D.C. Usually, he uses assemblies as a forum to admonish students for their stupidity or disrespect.†   (source)
  • He chose as his text the verses in Ephesians in which St. Paul admonishes us to follow the Lord in good works.†   (source)
  • That's neither here nor there, Hema admonished herself, while she thrust her hands into gloves that Matron produced.†   (source)
  • "Now, Lieutenants," Lieutenant Issaaia admonished.†   (source)
  • "Now then, Helene," he admonished, "you know you shouldn't be on there.†   (source)
  • "Oh, General," Lee admonished Washington in a letter, "why would you be over-persuaded by men of inferior judgment to your own ?"†   (source)
  • Salander logged off by writing a brief message: Everyone sent her hugs and kisses and admonished her to keep the hole in her head warm.†   (source)
  • He did not think to tell them how she should be confined, nor to admonish them against taking her punishment into their own hands.†   (source)
  • Javier never runs to greet his father like his sisters do because he knows the lessons, the admonishments will begin the minute his father sees him.†   (source)
  • We're coming,' admonished the Sea-land woman.†   (source)
  • F. The newspapers of the following morning admonished the public not to believe the rumors that there was any trouble in the Southern states.†   (source)
  • Shocked mutterings rose from the left and admonishments to let them finish from the right.†   (source)
  • "Yes, I have heard this is a military college," I answered, irritated by his tone of voice, but I caught an admonishing gesture from Tradd warning me that this was an inappropriate time to practice the craft of my wiseass humor.†   (source)
  • When Tappan admonished him for doing so, Singbe shrugged.†   (source)
  • Once, in admonishment, I mentioned to Sunny what could happen to young women who strayed from the security of their families, how they would inevitably descend to the lowest level of human society and be forced to sell every part of themselves, in mind and flesh and spirit.†   (source)
  • "That's not only unnecessary, Conklin," admonished the senator, "but patently offensive.†   (source)
  • Luciana moved her head from side to side, as if she were admonishing him, and then she raised her right index finger.†   (source)
  • She, threatening, cajoling, admonishing them: "Go free or die."†   (source)
  • We used the slingshots to bring down small birds, but Granny and my grandmothers always admonished us not to shoot the mockingbirds or "redbirds," as they called cardinals.†   (source)
  • Chairman said, "The witness is admonished to refrain from making speeches.†   (source)
  • "Leila would never be attracted to a non-Muslim," she admonished her pupil, "let alone a Jew.†   (source)
  • When she first came to America, her English teacher had admonished her, not for speaking too much, but too little.†   (source)
  • GUIL (admonishing) : Not now ROS: Statement.†   (source)
  • Amazing to say, it was an ancient but still serviceable wagons-lits carriage complete with carpeted aisle, compartments, lavatories and small lozenge-shaped metallic signs in Polish, French, Russian and German at each window, admonishing the passengers not to lean out.†   (source)
  • I will repeat only one admonishment from a native of Maine, and I will not put a name to that person for fear of reprisal.†   (source)
  • After lecturing him on the evil of gambling and admonishing him never to do it again, she demanded $35 of his winnings to put in the bank and let him keep $5.†   (source)
  • Tyrone frowns admonishingly.†   (source)
  • His constituents and Massachusetts newspapers admonished him strongly not to waver in his consistent anti-slavery stand, and many urged him to employ still tougher tones against the South.†   (source)
  • The midnight walls are checkered again with admonishing "Not Responsible" signs and black-figured, smoky calendars.†   (source)
  • Katherine shot Langdon an admonishing look as if to say: "Leave no trail."†   (source)
  • "I will tolerate no dissension up there," he admonished, staring pointedly at me.†   (source)
  • "Reshi," Bast admonished him, "you're just being maudlin.†   (source)
  • His second," Tariq's mother said, giving her husband an admonishing look.†   (source)
  • He raised a finger, admonishing, guiding.†   (source)
  • At one point, she admonished the small boy, until finally, he began to cry.†   (source)
  • Before they started, Brom admonished, "These swords won't cut us, but they can still break bones.†   (source)
  • Come, come, little sister," I'd admonish her.†   (source)
  • Bailey sat down beside me, and that time didn't admonish me not to cry.†   (source)
  • When Mom saw Quentin, she admonished me for being heartless and cruel to the poor boy.†   (source)
  • I remember once I asked her why she didn't date," Clary said, ignoring his admonishing tone.†   (source)
  • "Dummkopf!" he admonished himself, smacking his ear.†   (source)
  • "It's only for a day or two," Amatis admonished her, "and besides, you're not well.†   (source)
  • "Never ask me to alter a weapon merely in order to improve its appearance," admonished Rhunon.†   (source)
  • He admonished them to eat and rest, and then he withdrew from their minds and said no more.†   (source)
  • "You are too modest, Argetlam," she admonished.†   (source)
  • Despite the admonishment of my friend, I rose from my chair and followed upon Melissa's heels.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Nightwing's admonishment brings a flush to my cheeks.†   (source)
  • I see my earlier admonishments were more than justified.†   (source)
  • "Good heavens," Mrs. Nightwing admonishes.†   (source)
  • Also, my mother admonished us to bow our heads when we passed in front of the house.†   (source)
  • It won't do Katrina any good if you get yourself killed," admonished Jeod.†   (source)
  • "Lie still!" she admonished, and then turned to Seivarden.†   (source)
  • "Behave yourselves, for God's sake," Gebrew admonished.†   (source)
  • "Hurry up—he'll be gittin' away," she admonished.†   (source)
  • Delicious admonished from the other side of B Dorm.†   (source)
  • "His choice, Aven," Bert admonished her.†   (source)
  • Remember, Saphira, to use your tongue to direct the stream,admonished Glaedr.†   (source)
  • He began to say something, then seemed to reconsider, adding only a soft admonishment.†   (source)
  • "Shhh, that's enough," Miss Moore admonishes.†   (source)
  • "It will be easier for her to keep silent," admonished the medic, "if you don't talk to her."†   (source)
  • An admonishment of sorts, the gentle warning of one who arrived on an earlier ship: You there!†   (source)
  • She had always been admonished not to marry an American, as had he, but he gathers that in her case these warnings had been relentless, and had therefore plagued her far more than they had him.†   (source)
  • In quiet anger she glared at Stacey and admonished, "In this house we do not give away what loved ones give to us.†   (source)
  • I seemed, on the surface, to be continually talking to myself, giving myself instructions or admonishments, asking myself what I really wanted, making comparisons, busily working my rational faculties over every aspect of Jess and my feelings for him as if there were actually something to decide.†   (source)
  • For example, a lawyer from Florida admonished, All I can say is that I agree with Mr. Krakauer when he said, "My actions-or failure to act-played a direct role in the death of Andy Harris."†   (source)
  • My older brothers came home from college and admonished me, beating me from one end of the house to the other.†   (source)
  • Whenever Walt McCandless, in his stern fashion, would dispense a fatherly admonishment to Chris, Carine, or their half siblings, Chris would fixate on his father's own less than sterling behavior many years earlier and silently denounce him asa. sanctimonious hypocrite.†   (source)
  • He didn't want to play with the other brothers because they had pushed him off to the side, admonishing him, "No, Bing, you'll just wreck it.†   (source)
  • The parade of witnesses over, the judge called a recess for the weekend, admonishing the jurors not to talk about the case to anyone and not to look at newspaper and television coverage of it.†   (source)
  • He then adjourned the proceedings until ten o'clock the next morning, admonishing the jurors, as he had done many times before, not to read, listen to, or watch news reports of the trial, and not to discuss the case with anyone.†   (source)
  • You're not thinking," admonished Brom.†   (source)
  • T. Ps eyes roamed the length of the room, then he admonished, "See, if you was smart like me, Stacey, you'd use the old brain to get the questions on that big test comin' up.†   (source)
  • The faction she led in the Sub-Deb girls' club had been admonished to stop wearing low-cut dresses, smoking in the rest rooms, and sneaking out of class to smooch with boys in the band-instrument storeroom.†   (source)
  • Mr. Bykovski admonished.†   (source)
  • ADMONISHMENTS Once a modicum of strength returned to him, Eragon staggered out of the alley, skirting the dead monsters.†   (source)
  • 'Gongju ne?' cried Jason, admonishing a colleague for having left behind a valuable set of tools by the aircraft.†   (source)
  • English was then still a party favor for me-crack open the dictionary, find out if I'd just been insulted, praised, admonished, criticized.†   (source)
  • "For God's sake, my dear sir," Jefferson would admonish Madison, "take up your pen, select the most striking heresies, and cut him to pieces in the face of the public."†   (source)
  • I no longer have to be admonished, I bow my head automatically when Grace says, "For what we are about to receive may the Lord make us truly thankful, Amen."†   (source)
  • While our best endeavors for the preservation of harmony with all nations will continue to be used, the experience of the world and our own experience admonish us of the insecurity of trusting too confidently to their success.†   (source)
  • Twice he tried to broach the subject of relays and the current situation and twice Jason cut him off, admonishing the undersecretary with a stare, as the conduit, in gratitude, looked away.†   (source)
  • "You need to tell the whole story," John Faas admonished me as we ate at a favorite restaurant of Adam's near the Virginia Beach boardwalk.†   (source)
  • "Then I suggest you begin at once," admonished the Dodecahedron from his admonishing face, "for here in Digitopolis everything is quite precise."†   (source)
  • His big notebook had been hidden, for "the capture of John Brown's papers and letters, with names and plans in full, admonished us that such papers and correspondence as had been preserved concerning the Underground Rail Road, might perchance be captured by a pro-slavery mob.†   (source)
  • "Girls!" admonished Helen.†   (source)
  • She's trying to shock, and Mademoiselle LeFarge supplies the requisite admonishment—"Really, Miss Worthington"—but then she changes course.†   (source)
  • The eldest, a child psychologist, admonished the mother in an autobiographical paper, "I Was There Too," by saying that the color system had weakened the four girls' identity differentiation abilities and made them forever unclear about personality boundaries.†   (source)
  • HONEY (Admonishing GEORGE) Ohhhhhhhhhh!†   (source)
  • After swinging wildly at two pitches, Cesar carefully admonished his young player, "Don't try to save the game with one swing, Beto.†   (source)
  • It is a mind propelled by emotional response to memory and frustration; consequently, however wise her admonishments might be, they fail to inspire resolve, unless it would be the resolve to retaliate by hurting her in your next letter.†   (source)
  • He opened his mouth to ask if she wanted him to heal the wound, but then he thought better of it, remembering Orik's admonishments about the deep dwellers' strange customs and strong sense of honor.†   (source)
  • Don't ask him for anything," admonished the priest, but Cesar already had a suspicion Padre Esteban was in cahoots with the boys.†   (source)
  • Ann's admonishments fall on deaf ears.†   (source)
  • HONEY (Admonishing) Dear ….†   (source)
  • Can't you keep a steadier hand?" he admonished John Quincy in response to a hurried scrawl from the boy listing his course of study.†   (source)
  • Ignoring Clovis's admonishment that he was their commander, not Roran, the villagers looked at Roran to see if they should obey.†   (source)
  • In later years, in Boston, he famously punctuated his admonishment to his interns of "Semper per rectum, per anum salutem, if you don't put your finger in it, you'll put your foot in it," by holding up the former middle finger, now elevated to the status of index finger.†   (source)
  • "Now, Cul dear," Ceridwen admonished.†   (source)
  • On the bus ride to the field, Cesar admonished his players, "You're going to see and hear applause, shouts, boos, whistles, autograph seekers, music, pictures, microphones and people-lots of them.†   (source)
  • Miss Moore nods and marches toward the open door, admonishing the girls peering inside at us to get away.†   (source)
  • The man who had admonished generations of aspiring Americans to "Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee" seemed but vaguely interested in the day-to-day operations of the commission.†   (source)
  • "Walk faster," Bert admonished.†   (source)
  • The closest he seems to have come in blaming himself was in a letter to John Quincy admonishing him that "children must not be wholly forgotten in the midst of public duties."†   (source)
  • The largest squadron, which included theheavy frigates United States and Constitution, was under Commodore John Barry, who was admonished in his orders that "a spirit of enterprise and adventure cannot be too much encouraged in the officers under your command…… We have nothing to dread but unactivity."†   (source)
  • "Jack," Charles admonished.†   (source)
  • Bert admonished.†   (source)
  • I do not believe in corporal punishment, yet I did not feel it was my place to admonish Mrs. Brown about her corrective actions.†   (source)
  • Often, Siddhartha thought in those days of the dying wise man, the great teacher, whose voice had admonished nations and had awoken hundreds of thousands, whose voice he had also once heard, whose holy face he had also once seen with respect.†   (source)
  • But, standing erect, his chin thrust forward, picturesque if not eccentric in his military cloak and pantherskin waistcoat (at times he appeared in a vast sombrero and Mexican blanket), Sam Houston, the "magnificent barbarian," made one of his rare speeches to a weary but attentive Senate: This is an eminently perilous measure; and do you expect me to remain here silent, or to shrink from the discharge of my duty in admonishing the South of what I conceive the results will be?†   (source)
  • Without fully understanding what was happening to him, Siddhartha found himself being dragged away by the maid, brought into a garden-house avoiding the direct path, being given upper garments as a gift, led into the bushes, and urgently admonished to get himself out of the grove as soon as possible without being seen.†   (source)
  • Thus admonished, our landlady hurried out and returned a moment or two later, ushering in Miss Dunn.†   (source)
  • No one cared what he did any longer, no whistle woke him, no telescreen admonished him.†   (source)
  • —and the sergeant, going his rounds, admonished them through the grille.†   (source)
  • She admonished me with the look of a severe governess of sixty.†   (source)
  • "Eight cents change," his father admonished.†   (source)
  • ROCKY—(admonishing them good-naturedly) Sit down before I knock yuh down.†   (source)
  • I saw youl" She lifted a mildly admonishing finger.†   (source)
  • They were like an innumerable crowd of fish-wives on the largest grandstand in the world, breaking out into private disputes, eating out of paper bags, chipping the referee, singing comic songs, admonishing their children and complaining of their husbands.†   (source)
  • "Son!" the preacher admonished.†   (source)
  • Better than the musty offices where the lawyers waited lurking among ghosts of old lusts and lies, or where the doctors waited with sharp knives and sharp drugs, telling man, believing that he should believe, without resorting to printed admonishments, that they labored for that end whose ultimate attainment would leave them with nothing whatever to do.†   (source)
  • And now the house grew very still: he saw his mother very little, he did not leave the house, he was in the care of his sisters, and he was constantly admonished to silence.†   (source)
  • He expressed admiration for all the great historical styles, but admonished against their wanton mixture.†   (source)
  • …now avuncular, that voice which cannot let women alone, but must be at them, like some too-conscientious governess, adjuring them, like Sir Egerton Brydges, to be refined; dragging even into the criticism of poetry criticism of sex; [*1] admonishing them, if they would be good and win, as I suppose, some shiny prize, to keep within certain limits which the gentleman in question thinks suitable—'…. female novelists should only aspire to excellence by courageously acknowledging the…†   (source)
  • Having admonished the ogre to be heedful, the youth departed from the forest, and at the mouth of the forest told his story to human beings; then went his way.'†   (source)
  • …and lace, though to them all there was something in this of the essence of beauty, which called out the manliness in their girlish hearts, and made them, as they sat at table beneath their mother's eyes, honour her strange severity, her extreme courtesy, like a queen's raising from the mud to wash a beggar's dirty foot, when she admonished them so very severely about that wretched atheist who had chased them—or, speaking accurately, been invited to stay with them—in the Isle of Skye.†   (source)
  • Gant was embarrassed and hang-dog; a duty of gentle admonishment devolved upon him—he had been counselled to it by Helen and Eliza.†   (source)
  • Two-thirds of my countrymen read this kind of newspaper, read things written in this tone every morning and every night, are every day worked up and admonished and incited, and robbed of their peace of mind and better feelings by them, and the end and aim of it all is to have the war over again, the next war that draws nearer and nearer, and it will be a good deal more horrible than the last.†   (source)
  • Mulcaster had kept silent about his grievance; he and I were admonished and fined five shillings each and fifteen shillings costs.†   (source)
  • Ben was a stranger: some deep instinct drew him to his child-brother, a portion of his small earnings as a paper-carrier he spent in gifts and amusement for Eugene, admonishing him sullenly, cuffing him occasionally, but defending him before the others.†   (source)
  • "Now watch!" he admonished them.†   (source)
  • "You're letting your supper get cold," she admonished him with a pale gleam of gaiety.†   (source)
  • Thus admonished Tom wheeled his team away from the camp.†   (source)
  • In this strain Mrs. Trenor continued for nearly an hour to admonish her friend.†   (source)
  • "You needn't stray off too far in doin' it," his partner admonished.†   (source)
  • Posters admonished: Sell your hammer and buy a horn, But hang onto the old fly-swatter.†   (source)
  • "You'll have to remember a little better if you stay here," admonished Marilla.†   (source)
  • Son, you mustn't forget anythin' in this game," admonished Pilchuck.†   (source)
  • "Sure," replied Pearce, thus admonished.†   (source)
  • Christopher Newman stood gravely silent, while his native penetration admonished him.†   (source)
  • The old count began irresolutely to admonish Nicholas and beg him to abandon his purpose.†   (source)
  • And let me in this place movingly admonish you, ye ship-owners of Nantucket!†   (source)
  • "Prisoner, be careful in your language," the President admonished him.†   (source)
  • He promised a continuance of his favors, and admonished them to be grateful.†   (source)
  • God will punish you," she said admonishingly, turning to Pierre.†   (source)
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