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chide
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  • Anne chided.†   (source)
  • 'Don't leave it till later, you big second-rater!' chided the book as Harry scribbled down Umbridge's homework.†   (source)
  • My mother's acute senses sometimes surprise me, but now they chide me.†   (source)
  • "Yyouu arre sstill verry yyoungg," Mrs Which said, her voice faintly chiding.†   (source)
  • "Grover," Annabeth chided.†   (source)
  • "Oh Eugenia," Mother chides and pats my hand.†   (source)
  • Celaena chided, concealing her wicked amusement beneath a giggle.†   (source)
  • Most ungentlemanly, he chided, wondering how long Rebecca Strauss would last in a stink-pit like this.†   (source)
  • At meals they chide younger children for admiring anything foreign: a British car advertisement, a French picture book.†   (source)
  • "Don't use that language, Cassie," he chided me.†   (source)
  • "His mother will treat you like a servant …." chided one half-sister upon hearing the other's choice.†   (source)
  • He turns a chiding eye on him.†   (source)
  • She chided herself for feeling paranoid and immature, but she couldn't help it.†   (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)
  • Tita didn't know whether to chide or thank Gertrudis for her interference.†   (source)
  • Hoster will be chiding me about the Redwyne girl even as we light his funeral pyre, damn his bones.†   (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)
  • It's a bit late for doubts, he chided himself, and sank into unconsciousness.†   (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)
  • Sam chided.†   (source)
  • "Is this him?" someone with long blond hair chided.†   (source)
  • "Peace, peace," chided Angela with amusement.†   (source)
  • Later Booth would write a letter to Dr. Stuart, chiding him for his lack of Southern hospitality and honor.†   (source)
  • First he had set down a few principles and done a little chiding.†   (source)
  • The gentle chiding was there again.†   (source)
  • " "Doing what?" he chided.†   (source)
  • Adam chided me after one show.†   (source)
  • I made a mental note to speak to the boy, gently chide him about his manners.†   (source)
  • "Mackenzie!" she chided, her words flowing with affection.†   (source)
  • "Bast," Kvothe chided, seemingly too quiet to be heard.†   (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)
  • "It was my mother's," said Clary, then she mentally chided herself Is my mother's.†   (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)
  • Her voice was serious, almost chiding.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • I was called Old Lady and chided for moving and talking like winter's molasses.†   (source)
  • Dan immediately chided himself.†   (source)
  • "You're thinking again," he chided.†   (source)
  • She could chide herself for her silly infatuation with a dullard.†   (source)
  • "But I can't tell you for free," she said in a chiding tone.†   (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)
  • "Colin," I chide.†   (source)
  • Afterward I spoke with Walter and voiced myfrustration, chiding him for not coming to my aid.†   (source)
  • "If it isn't one thing, it's another," chided the minister.†   (source)
  • You told Lath you'd take it to her, Elias, a voice chides me.†   (source)
  • "You really should learn yoga with us," she gently chided me.†   (source)
  • "A true Marxist is objective, Comrade Political Officer," Ramius chided, savoring this last argument with Putin.†   (source)
  • Sally was more reserved and often chided her sister for prying into Lorena's affairs.†   (source)
  • Chide me, urge me to see things differently.†   (source)
  • "Come now," Felicity chides.†   (source)
  • Kevin Houston chided Adam as they faced each other alongside the plywood building.†   (source)
  • "That's too much," Cristian chided.†   (source)
  • I chide myself to slow down before I end up with sores.†   (source)
  • Charles chided.†   (source)
  • "Such posture," Obasan says in a chiding voice to Stephen.†   (source)
  • 'I still can't hear you,' Aaxfy chided.†   (source)
  • Phillip parties with his buddies on weekends, and his friends lately chide him for having red eyes in school.†   (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)
  • Hema said, chiding him for his melancholic expression.†   (source)
  • The smaller Roush didn't seem at all put off by Michal's chiding.†   (source)
  • "Trials are not about fairness, Wade," Mr. Sullivan chided.†   (source)
  • You're the catcher," chided Hector.†   (source)
  • "Language, citizen," I chided.†   (source)
  • Besides, she chided him, "a gentleman has no business to concern himself about the legs of a lady."†   (source)
  • I chided her for it, after Anys was gone.†   (source)
  • He wore his sun-bleached hair longer than before and she chided him for it but secretly liked it.†   (source)
  • Jorge del Pino chides gently.†   (source)
  • Each time she chided herself for this unreasonable foolishness, but within the next few minutes some strange force still drove her back.†   (source)
  • Max started to trot ahead but hung back when he heard Connor chiding David.†   (source)
  • "Quit calling me that," he softly chided.†   (source)
  • "You were late," Mrs. Tafa chides.†   (source)
  • HONEY (Chiding) Oh, now ….†   (source)
  • "Chide him no more, Sire, if it please you," said Lord Darrin.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • "Well it was only a dream, Mary," he chides.†   (source)
  • Despite his chiding, Drizzt was truly awe-stricken by Bruenor's workmanship.†   (source)
  • —thought Prof was going to chide me for failing to yank it out.†   (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)
  • Always the schoolmarm when it came to words, my mother chided him for ignorance.†   (source)
  • "It's frightful, what you've come down to, Nikolai Nikolaievich," Alexander Alexandrovich chided him.†   (source)
  • "Always worrying," he chided.†   (source)
  • "So close to your own destruction, little hero," the voice of Kronos chided.†   (source)
  • "An old trick, Julius," the fiery man chided.†   (source)
  • Her bossy nasal voice made her sound like she was chiding a playmate in a game of make-believe.†   (source)
  • "That's it, Homer," Mr. Dubonnet chided him, "cough your lungs out.†   (source)
  • After a moment, my head cleared and I chided myself for my foolishness.†   (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)
  • "Stop glowering and sulking," Chaol chided.†   (source)
  • Hasn't taken a permanent host yet," the rooster-footed guy chided.†   (source)
  • Would you attack your patron? the woman chided.†   (source)
  • I wasn't looking forward to telling the country that I had chided the future king.†   (source)
  • Isabelle gives her a wounded look, and Pari chides herself for not wording it better.†   (source)
  • "Zombie, that's Cassie," Sam chides him.†   (source)
  • "What is your American adàgio?" he chided.†   (source)
  • Fremen do not like to abandon equipment, Muad'Dib," one of his Fedaykin chided.†   (source)
  • "Traveling with a Cyclops," Luke chided.†   (source)
  • As soon as I thought this, I chided myself: Of course it would bring me where I least wanted to be.†   (source)
  • You should have been more careful,she chided.†   (source)
  • "Please stop fighting," Caleb interrupts, his voice chiding.†   (source)
  • "That is not your mission," Horus chided.†   (source)
  • "Come now," chided Brom, "you should know the answer to that.†   (source)
  • "Yeah, Valentina, control yourself," Damien chided, though his eyes were red.†   (source)
  • Skarpi chided as though talking to a small child.†   (source)
  • Don't fight force with force, a voice chided him—the wolf Lupa, who'd told him that long ago.†   (source)
  • Chiding himself for daydreaming, he tilted his head and looked out at the dragonhold.†   (source)
  • It's not like there was any potential, Sadie, I chided myself.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • "Well, let the man enjoy his breakfast," Gherkin chided, moving toward the table.†   (source)
  • Your amusements are your own, I will not chide you on that count, but you must be more discreet.†   (source)
  • "You are not kind, my prince," Ser Rodrik chided gently.†   (source)
  • "I saw you and me," she said in a chiding tone.†   (source)
  • "Oh, senor, senor," Jack chided, "you really need to come out with us.†   (source)
  • As I remembered that fact, I chided myself.†   (source)
  • "Hush, Edurna …. hush," chided another.†   (source)
  • "Oh, put the sword away," Stheno chided.†   (source)
  • "Come now, Skilfz Delva," chided Hvedra.†   (source)
  • Chiding herself, she moved behind the desk.†   (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)
  • "Oh, give her some credit," she chided them.†   (source)
  • "Leo," Hazel chided, "it's not a shopping trip."†   (source)
  • Somehow he knew that Renly had never chided them in such a fashion.†   (source)
  • You got a full load now," Mattie chided lightly.†   (source)
  • "Well, of course it is," Bert said, chiding.†   (source)
  • "Be more watchful there," chided Brother Narbert.†   (source)
  • Mary Lincoln chides her husband, standing in his office doorway.†   (source)
  • Of course nothing happened, I chided myself.†   (source)
  • At first, I think I'm imagining it and chide myself for letting Zak's talk of the fey get to me.†   (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)
  • "What are you doing looking like that?" she chided.†   (source)
  • Aw, c'mon," chided Mr. McDaniels, already disappearing down the stairs.†   (source)
  • I felt he was chiding me for being childishly afraid when he said abruptly, "Mo ikutsu?†   (source)
  • "You might be a little more appreciative," Alice chided him.†   (source)
  • You fancy yourself quite a summoner, don't you, David?" chided the Demon.†   (source)
  • "You drink too much, my friend," Ustinov chided.†   (source)
  • Now, now, Randolph, Loki chided, behave yourself Magnus, I apologize about your uncle.†   (source)
  • "Oh, stop chewing your shirt," Dionysus chided.†   (source)
  • Oh, look, it's the amazing nerdboy," Phillip chides as he approaches.†   (source)
  • "I knew this was a bad idea," Pippa chides.†   (source)
  • And he chided himself for now giving her the chance to say it.†   (source)
  • "Toby," chided David, his pale eyes never leaving the patterns.†   (source)
  • "None of that, son of Jupiter," Achelous chided.†   (source)
  • No, you can't eat that, you old git," Sadie chided.†   (source)
  • Imagine the nerve of Durrell, that upcountry dandy, chiding me for shoddy scholarship.†   (source)
  • "Oh, please," Reyna chided, "don't develop a guilty conscience now.†   (source)
  • And so you run away again, Cupid chided.†   (source)
  • I know that you've been at it, you little thief," David chided, mussing her hair.†   (source)
  • Don't be bitter, she chided herself Aeneas suffered too.†   (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'll score one for you and one for Vietnam," I chided him.†   (source)
  • Don't fuss, Death-to-Corks," Menshikov chided.†   (source)
  • You didn't cut your hair," chides Barbara, looking him over.†   (source)
  • "You may be invulnerable in combat," Chiron chided, "but that only makes your body tire faster.†   (source)
  • I bristle at this comment, at being chided in front of my friends.†   (source)
  • You can't seriously believe you have the strength, Clytius chided.†   (source)
  • Leave us the man and we'll let you run a little longer," it chided with a cunning smile.†   (source)
  • "Now, Aven," Bert chided, "Jamie has his own life to lead, and we can't begrudge him that.†   (source)
  • I should have used our coin for wood, Sam chided himself every time.†   (source)
  • while Annabeth chided him for pouring on too much syrup.†   (source)
  • I'll tell you on the way back," Felicity chides.†   (source)
  • "'Ere now," a lady holding a baby chides.†   (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, I can't let you ruin my fun," Polybotes chided.†   (source)
  • "Ladies," Mademoiselle LeFarge chides, "if you ever wish to leave the confines of Spence again—"†   (source)
  • "Coach," Reyna chided, "you'll make him sorry he came out of his coma."†   (source)
  • "You should always wear clean underwear to the doctor's office," chided Hygeia.†   (source)
  • "Oh, Mr. Kent," Mademoiselle LeFarge chides.†   (source)
  • "Miss Worthington, we are not savages, if you please," she chides, handing Felicity a napkin.†   (source)
  • "Their males aren't slaves, Celyn," Thalia chided.†   (source)
  • "You know they can't, brother," Artemis chided.†   (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)
  • "Brother," Artemis chided.†   (source)
  • It was too long at the moment, falling into his eyes—something Maryse would be sure to chide him about.†   (source)
  • Chiding himself for letting his situation get to him, Lale goes back outside and chases the children around, letting them catch him and climb all over 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)
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