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  • Calm down, he chided himself, embarrassed.†   (source)
  • At meals they chide younger children for admiring anything foreign: a British car advertisement, a French picture book.†   (source)
  • Anne chided.†   (source)
  • 'Don't leave it till later, you big second-rater!' chided the book as Harry scribbled down Umbridge's homework.†   (source)
  • "Yyouu arre sstill verry yyoungg," Mrs Which said, her voice faintly chiding.†   (source)
  • She chided herself for feeling paranoid and immature, but she couldn't help it.†   (source)
  • 'It's all fun and games until someone turns out to be a judge,' Lacy chided, and she scattered the word with her hand.†   (source)
  • "Oh Eugenia," Mother chides and pats my hand.†   (source)
  • Celaena chided, concealing her wicked amusement beneath a giggle.†   (source)
  • Hoster will be chiding me about the Redwyne girl even as we light his funeral pyre, damn his bones.†   (source)
  • Most ungentlemanly, he chided, wondering how long Rebecca Strauss would last in a stink-pit like this.†   (source)
  • He turns a chiding eye on him.†   (source)
  • "His mother will treat you like a servant ...." chided one half-sister upon hearing the other's choice.†   (source)
  • Tita didn't know whether to chide or thank Gertrudis for her interference.†   (source)
  • "Don't use that language, Cassie," he chided me.†   (source)
  • It's a bit late for doubts, he chided himself, and sank into unconsciousness.†   (source)
  • I mean surely," he said, in a chiding tone, putting down his fork, "surely you didn't think no one would put it together?†   (source)
  • On the phone, he also chides Maraa Isabel: "If you don't take good care of that girl, I will come to Honduras and take her away from you!†   (source)
  • "Is this him?" someone with long blond hair chided.†   (source)
  • Adam chided me after one show.†   (source)
  • Finally, there was Amy, that voice that had made its home in my ear for half a decade, my wife's voice, but now it wasn't chiding, it was sweet again.†   (source)
  • "Peace, peace," chided Angela with amusement.†   (source)
  • The gentle chiding was there again.†   (source)
  • "Mackenzie!" she chided, her words flowing with affection.†   (source)
  • "Bast," Kvothe chided, seemingly too quiet to be heard.†   (source)
  • I grew so despondent I had no energy at all for my chores, and the maids chided me for dragging my cloth along the woodwork I was supposed to be polishing, and pulling a broom along the corridor I was supposed to be sweeping.†   (source)
  • My sisters all looked towards me, expecting I would chide my husband for making light of sacred things.†   (source)
  • She takes a sip of tea and winces, detecting a faint film of dishwashing liquid on this section of the rim, chiding herself for being careless about rinsing.†   (source)
  • I made a mental note to speak to the boy, gently chide him about his manners.†   (source)
  • "Language, citizen," I chided.†   (source)
  • First he had set down a few principles and done a little chiding.†   (source)
  • Sam chided.†   (source)
  • Her voice was serious, almost chiding.†   (source)
  • "A true Marxist is objective, Comrade Political Officer," Ramius chided, savoring this last argument with Putin.†   (source)
  • Later Booth would write a letter to Dr. Stuart, chiding him for his lack of Southern hospitality and honor.†   (source)
  • He recognized her love for him speaking then and chided her gently: "The Sayyadina of the Watch does not caution or warn the candidate."†   (source)
  • "But I can't tell you for free," she said in a chiding tone.†   (source)
  • Dan immediately chided himself.†   (source)
  • "Doing what?" he chided.†   (source)
  • "Well, let the man enjoy his breakfast," Gherkin chided, moving toward the table.†   (source)
  • He wore his sun-bleached hair longer than before and she chided him for it but secretly liked it.†   (source)
  • Kevin Houston chided Adam as they faced each other alongside the plywood building.†   (source)
  • "Such posture," Obasan says in a chiding voice to Stephen.†   (source)
  • I chide myself to slow down before I end up with sores.†   (source)
  • "Colin," I chide.†   (source)
  • Hema said, chiding him for his melancholic expression.†   (source)
  • Each time she chided herself for this unreasonable foolishness, but within the next few minutes some strange force still drove her back.†   (source)
  • She could chide herself for her silly infatuation with a dullard.†   (source)
  • "If it isn't one thing, it's another," chided the minister.†   (source)
  • Phillip parties with his buddies on weekends, and his friends lately chide him for having red eyes in school.†   (source)
  • Sally was more reserved and often chided her sister for prying into Lorena's affairs.†   (source)
  • "It was my mother's," said Clary, then she mentally chided herself Is my mother's.†   (source)
  • It is wrong, then, to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences (like the meeting of Anna, Vronsky, the railway station, and death or the meeting of Beethoven, Tomas, Tereza, and the cognac), but it is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences in his daily life.†   (source)
  • Chide me, urge me to see things differently.†   (source)
  • I was called Old Lady and chided for moving and talking like winter's molasses.†   (source)
  • 'I still can't hear you,' Aaxfy chided.†   (source)
  • Max started to trot ahead but hung back when he heard Connor chiding David.†   (source)
  • "Come now," Felicity chides.†   (source)
  • "You really should learn yoga with us," she gently chided me.†   (source)
  • The sermon was the annual call to stewardship, the usual chiding to tithe a bit more, the challenge to step up and give the Lord his 10 percent, and to do so happily.†   (source)
  • Besides, she chided him, "a gentleman has no business to concern himself about the legs of a lady."†   (source)
  • Charles chided.†   (source)
  • I chided her for it, after Anys was gone.†   (source)
  • The smaller Roush didn't seem at all put off by Michal's chiding.†   (source)
  • You told Lath you'd take it to her, Elias, a voice chides me.†   (source)
  • In these cases he considers the experiment poorly designed, chides himself for stupidity and at best considers the "wasted" experiment which has provided the mu answer to be a kind of wheel-spinning which might help prevent mistakes in the design of future yes-no experiments.†   (source)
  • Afterward I spoke with Walter and voiced myfrustration, chiding him for not coming to my aid.†   (source)
  • You're the catcher," chided Hector.†   (source)
  • "You were late," Mrs. Tafa chides.†   (source)
  • —thought Prof was going to chide me for failing to yank it out.†   (source)
  • Jorge del Pino chides gently.†   (source)
  • "Quit calling me that," he softly chided.†   (source)
  • "Chide him no more, Sire, if it please you," said Lord Darrin.†   (source)
  • "That's too much," Cristian chided.†   (source)
  • Despite his chiding, Drizzt was truly awe-stricken by Bruenor's workmanship.†   (source)
  • HONEY (Chiding) Oh, now .... GEORGE: (Incredulous) You're amused?†   (source)
  • "Well it was only a dream, Mary," he chides.†   (source)
  • He construed his deliverance from the park to have to do with the heat coming up, and that to have to do with the cancelling of Theresa's scholarship, which he now chided himself for having celebrated.†   (source)
  • His eyes followed the children playing in the yard—Petey tussling with Tommy, Elise pulling them apart and chiding them in her thin, bossy voice.†   (source)
  • "Always worrying," he chided.†   (source)
  • "You'd have probably thrown her off the porch if she hadn't passed out," Annie Kate chided me, her finger tracing the stiffly barbered hairline at the back of my neck.†   (source)
  • "It's frightful, what you've come down to, Nikolai Nikolaievich," Alexander Alexandrovich chided him.†   (source)
  • ...it whined softly, then flattened its ears down in anticipation of being chidden by the man.   (source)
    chidden = told it has done wrong
  • "So close to your own destruction, little hero," the voice of Kronos chided.†   (source)
  • Her bossy nasal voice made her sound like she was chiding a playmate in a game of make-believe.†   (source)
  • As I remembered that fact, I chided myself.†   (source)
  • "Oh, señor, señor," Jack chided, "you really need to come out with us.†   (source)
  • "Hush, Edurna ....hush," chided another.†   (source)
  • "Oh, give her some credit," she chided them.†   (source)
  • "Zombie, that's Cassie," Sam chides him.†   (source)
  • "I can't believe you've kept this from us, Nick," Astrid chides.†   (source)
  • He couldn't help chiding himself—it'd been a stupid idea.†   (source)
  • Don't fight force with force, a voice chided him—the wolf Lupa, who'd told him that long ago.†   (source)
  • "Traveling with a Cyclops," Luke chided.†   (source)
  • Isabelle gives her a wounded look, and Pari chides herself for not wording it better.†   (source)
  • You should have been more careful,she chided.†   (source)
  • "What is your American adàgio?" he chided.†   (source)
  • I wasn't looking forward to telling the country that I had chided the future king.†   (source)
  • "Yeah, Valentina, control yourself," Damien chided, though his eyes were red.†   (source)
  • Fremen do not like to abandon equipment, Muad'Dib," one of his Fedaykin chided.†   (source)
  • Now, now, Randolph, Loki chided, behave yourself Magnus, I apologize about your uncle.†   (source)
  • "You might be a little more appreciative," Alice chided him.†   (source)
  • "You drink too much, my friend," Ustinov chided.†   (source)
  • "Oh, stop chewing your shirt," Dionysus chided.†   (source)
  • "Stop glowering and sulking," Chaol chided.†   (source)
  • "Well, that's something, but not much," his sister chides him.†   (source)
  • Don't fuss, Death-to-Corks," Menshikov chided.†   (source)
  • After a moment, my head cleared and I chided myself for my foolishness.†   (source)
  • "Please stop fighting," Caleb interrupts, his voice chiding.†   (source)
  • Skarpi chided as though talking to a small child.†   (source)
  • "Come now," chided Brom, "you should know the answer to that.†   (source)
  • As soon as I thought this, I chided myself: Of course it would bring me where I least wanted to be.†   (source)
  • "You may be invulnerable in combat," Chiron chided, "but that only makes your body tire faster.†   (source)
  • No, you can't eat that, you old git," Sadie chided.†   (source)
  • Chiding himself for daydreaming, he tilted his head and looked out at the dragonhold.†   (source)
  • "Stone to water isn't very efficient," Ben chided me.†   (source)
  • "It's quite enough to have a secret," she chided me gently.†   (source)
  • "Well that's what you get for not listening to a tinker on the road," she chided, her eyes drowsy.†   (source)
  • "Don't look like that," she chided me with a smile.†   (source)
  • "You are not kind, my prince," Ser Rodrik chided gently.†   (source)
  • Not so loudly, Bjartskular, or you will upset the younglings in their eggs, chided Umaroth.†   (source)
  • "Come, Lyn," chided Redfort in a softer tone.†   (source)
  • Your amusements are your own, I will not chide you on that count, but you must be more discreet.†   (source)
  • "I saw you and me," she said in a chiding tone.†   (source)
  • "An old trick, Julius," the fiery man chided.†   (source)
  • Chiding herself, she moved behind the desk.†   (source)
  • "Oh, put the sword away," Stheno chided.†   (source)
  • "Come now, Skilfz Delva," chided Hvedra.†   (source)
  • "Caius, surely you see the potential," Aro chided him affectionately.†   (source)
  • "You shouldn't listen in on other people's conversations," Steve chided.†   (source)
  • "Leo," Hazel chided, "it's not a shopping trip."†   (source)
  • You got a full load now," Mattie chided lightly.†   (source)
  • "Well, of course it is," Bert said, chiding.†   (source)
  • "That's it, Homer," Mr. Dubonnet chided him, "cough your lungs out.†   (source)
  • Hasn't taken a permanent host yet," the rooster-footed guy chided.†   (source)
  • "You know they can't, brother," Artemis chided.†   (source)
  • "What are you doing looking like that?" she chided.†   (source)
  • Okay, she chided herself, so maybe I am worrying about it too much.†   (source)
  • "I don' 'ear ever' fin', Miss Pesterpants," Brigid chides.†   (source)
  • Aw, c'mon," chided Mr. McDaniels, already disappearing down the stairs.†   (source)
  • At first, I think I'm imagining it and chide myself for letting Zak's talk of the fey get to me.†   (source)
  • I felt he was chiding me for being childishly afraid when he said abruptly, "Mo ikutsu?†   (source)
  • Leave us the man and we'll let you run a little longer," it chided with a cunning smile.†   (source)
  • "None of that, son of Jupiter," Achelous chided.†   (source)
  • Of course nothing happened, I chided myself.†   (source)
  • Oh, look, it's the amazing nerdboy," Phillip chides as he approaches.†   (source)
  • "I knew this was a bad idea," Pippa chides.†   (source)
  • "Trials are not about fairness, Wade," Mr. Sullivan chided.†   (source)
  • And he chided himself for now giving her the chance to say it.†   (source)
  • Mary Lincoln chides her husband, standing in his office doorway.†   (source)
  • "Toby," chided David, his pale eyes never leaving the patterns.†   (source)
  • Somehow he knew that Renly had never chided them in such a fashion.†   (source)
  • And so you run away again, Cupid chided.†   (source)
  • "Be more watchful there," chided Brother Narbert.†   (source)
  • "Coach," Reyna chided, "you'll make him sorry he came out of his coma."†   (source)
  • I know that you've been at it, you little thief," David chided, mussing her hair.†   (source)
  • "I thought you might have stolen down here," Nigel chided, looking at his watch.†   (source)
  • He's a fighter, a practical voice chides me.†   (source)
  • "You shouldn't have said that about Pip," Ann chides, offering me her handkerchief.†   (source)
  • I should have used our coin for wood, Sam chided himself every time.†   (source)
  • It's not like there was any potential, Sadie, I chided myself.†   (source)
  • You can't seriously believe you have the strength, Clytius chided.†   (source)
  • You didn't cut your hair," chides Barbara, looking him over.†   (source)
  • I bristle at this comment, at being chided in front of my friends.†   (source)
  • You fancy yourself quite a summoner, don't you, David?" chided the Demon.†   (source)
  • "Now, Aven," Bert chided, "Jamie has his own life to lead, and we can't begrudge him that.†   (source)
  • "That is not your mission," Horus chided.†   (source)
  • I'll tell you on the way back," Felicity chides.†   (source)
  • "'Ere now," a lady holding a baby chides.†   (source)
  • "You should always wear clean underwear to the doctor's office," chided Hygeia.†   (source)
  • "You're the one who can't remember the rhythm," Ann chides, following me into the hall.†   (source)
  • "You're fidgety as a cat," Brigid chides.†   (source)
  • "Oh, please," Reyna chided, "don't develop a guilty conscience now.†   (source)
  • "Ladies," Mademoiselle LeFarge chides, "if you ever wish to leave the confines of Spence again—"†   (source)
  • "Oh, I can't let you ruin my fun," Polybotes chided.†   (source)
  • "Their males aren't slaves, Celyn," Thalia chided.†   (source)
  • "Oh, Mr. Kent," Mademoiselle LeFarge chides.†   (source)
  • Don't be bitter, she chided herself Aeneas suffered too.†   (source)
  • "Miss Worthington, we are not savages, if you please," she chides, handing Felicity a napkin.†   (source)
  • "Gemma, really," Felicity chides from her lookout post at the door.†   (source)
  • Marina, however, looked around angrily, flared up, and began to chide them.†   (source)
  • Imagine the nerve of Durrell, that upcountry dandy, chiding me for shoddy scholarship.†   (source)
  • I'll score one for you and one for Vietnam," I chided him.†   (source)
  • Liz chided.†   (source)
  • Very inappropriate, my mind chides.†   (source)
  • "Brother," Artemis chided.†   (source)
  • Minerva chided him.†   (source)
  • It must have been refreshing for Burnham to stand before the Saturday Afternoon Club and openly chide its members for their failure, because most of his other encounters over exposition business invariably became exercises in self-restraint, especially when he went before the fair's many and still-multiplying committees.†   (source)
  • "Rose," Esme chided gently.†   (source)
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