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  • The Lafayette stood on the far side of the square in silent rebuke to Joe.†   (source)
  • Hammond felt that Malcolm's death, should it occur, would be the final rebuke, and that was more than Hammond could bear.†   (source)
  • Her rebuke stings a little.†   (source)
  • But Owen rebuked me for this idea, too.†   (source)
  • You can't do that," Finny said rebukingly.†   (source)
  • The sound was sharp—seasoned pine on hardwood—and rang out like a rebuke.†   (source)
  • And when he did this he saw that his father was pleased, and no longer rebuked him or beat him.†   (source)
  • "Animals can't talk because they're dumb beasts," she rebuked when Alyss claimed otherwise.†   (source)
  • You are spoiled girls, she twinkled, as if rebuking a kitten.†   (source)
  • Contrary to Mrs. Scatcherd's expectations—or perhaps in response to her rebuke—we are a quiet lot, even the older boys.†   (source)
  • "Why, Judith," Mercy rebuked her gently.†   (source)
  • She didn't want another rebuke from Mama Elena.†   (source)
  • Ser Rodrik tried to tug at whiskers that were not there, but before he could frame a rebuke the serving boy came scurrying up.†   (source)
  • Piggy gave up the attempt to rebuke Ralph.†   (source)
  • I'm so used to it that I've become completely indifferent to Mother's rebukes and Margot's moodiness.†   (source)
  • Yes sir," said Ender, Bean was still feeling insubordinate, and he didn't think Ender deserved the rebuke.†   (source)
  • It was a gentle rebuke.†   (source)
  • Dad's rebuke had to happen at some point.†   (source)
  • After asserting that "the architects of America had covered themselves with glory" through their exposition designs, Burnham rebuked the nation's civil engineers for failing to rise to the same level of brilliance.†   (source)
  • When Nasser shifted in his seat, there were immediate rebukes.†   (source)
  • Adam blanches at this sudden reality check and Brooke raises her eyebrows in a stern rebuke.†   (source)
  • The mild rebuke made her happy.†   (source)
  • Basta raised his hand, but when Capricorn almost imperceptibly shook his head he lowered it again like a rebuked child.†   (source)
  • And yet there was something so powerfully rebuking, and at the same time so unassailable about his figure looming over them that Mr Charles' two drunken companions seemed to cower back like small boys caught by the farmer in the act of stealing apples.†   (source)
  • His rough accent made it hard for me to tell if he was rebuking the older student, but his dark Cealdish face showed definite reproach.†   (source)
  • Go doled out some solitaire cards, the steady slap of them on the table a rebuke.†   (source)
  • She sat with her second cup of tea halfway to her mouth and rebuked him with eyes that had survived so many inclemencies.†   (source)
  • The rebuke came naturally to his lips.†   (source)
  • I suppose they took what I said as a kind of rebuke but I didn't have that in mind.†   (source)
  • She drew herself up with her hands in her lap; I think she was on the point of rebuking me, but I apologized for my rudeness at once, and she settled back again.†   (source)
  • "A powerful rebuke to the hiding away of poverty," he called it.†   (source)
  • Although Glaedr's rebuke made Eragon's cheeks sting, he still had the wherewithal to respond as he should, with a seated bow and the words "No, Master."†   (source)
  • It was a pointed rebuke; I knew she had been upset when Moody took an American wife.†   (source)
  • That was not the only rebuke I received on account of my trespasses against the reverend.†   (source)
  • When Hansen mentioned his delight at seeing a group of refugee children take the field to play soccer, he was rebuked by a couple of Clarkston residents who served on the center's board and the city council.†   (source)
  • He checked himself in some confusion and, to forestall Bigwig's rebuke, spoke to Hazel at once.†   (source)
  • One seventeen-year-old hanged himself because he had been rebuked by his older brother for making too much noise.†   (source)
  • Johnnie inwardly rebuked the throb of joy which greeted this statement.†   (source)
  • Artkin had accepted Miro's question without anger or rebuke.†   (source)
  • None of these women rebuked me—most of them had been intimately involved in the drug business themselves.†   (source)
  • "He's absolutely right to rebuke me, Bella," Edward said with a grin.†   (source)
  • I asked, forgetting that I risked rebuke by intruding on the conversation of my betters.†   (source)
  • Stephen, unable to bear the density of her inner retreat and the rebuke he felt in her silences, fled to the ends of the earth.†   (source)
  • If I couldn't trust him, then when we got back to town, I could be facing maximum rebuke.†   (source)
  • At times Trueba thought he caught a glimmer of murderous hatred in his eyes, but there was never cause to rebuke him for any insolence.†   (source)
  • Doc Daneeka rebuked him grievingly.†   (source)
  • They were both tempted to rebuke her, to taunt her stupidity, but nothing was said during a long, heavy pause.†   (source)
  • She frowned at me, mock rebuke.†   (source)
  • I sat thinking of the dread possibility of having to leave all this, of being expelled; imagining the return home and the rebukes of my parents.†   (source)
  • I was not refusing Him, rebuking Him.†   (source)
  • I accept the rebuke, but I have lost something of great value to me.†   (source)
  • She was quick of mind and swift of tongue, always ready to answer a set down with the kind of witty rebuke most of us can think of only long after the moment of insult has passed.†   (source)
  • He stopped and something in her face must have told him she felt rebuked because he smiled and went on.†   (source)
  • Ignoring the hissing rebukes and angry muttering, the ferryman tossed ropes to his associates, who moored the raft against the pier.†   (source)
  • Billy Pilgrim rebukes them.†   (source)
  • Therefore I addressed myself a second time to the stabbing, but Hwin came near to me and put her head in between me and the dagger and discoursed to me most excellent reasons and rebuked me as a mother rebukes her daughter.†   (source)
  • He would cackle with laughter and caper, if any jest was made, or even if Frodo spoke kindly to him, and weep if Frodo rebuked him.†   (source)
  • "Creostus," Philon says, rebuking the centaur and offering him the pipe.†   (source)
  • A thirty-three-year-old Irish-born carpenter, a private in the 28th Massachusetts of the famous Irish Brigade, angrily rebuked both his wife in Boston and his father-in-law back in Ireland for questioning his judgment in fighting for the Black Republican Lincoln administration.†   (source)
  • Rebuke.†   (source)
  • It was an embarrassing rebuke, one the thin-skinned, deeply competitive Grant would never forget.†   (source)
  • His absence from the department does not, however, mean that he is unaware of what goes on there and he often summons to his office people (from the most senior professor to the lowest resident), in order to rebuke or congratulate them on things they may have done while he was away, though to this day nobody has found out how the doctor knows what goes on when he isn't there.†   (source)
  • Even Ayman alZawahiri, al-Qaeda's second-in-command, rebuked him.†   (source)
  • The pilot grimaced as if he were a small boy who had been justly rebuked for an impertinence.†   (source)
  • When Mark went to call on her and offer any help he could, he was at once rebuked,, She was a large, mannish, gray-haired woman who informed him that her visit here was a fulfillment of a wish of many years standing.†   (source)
  • Indeed, Jerzy Rawicz, the Polish editor of Hoss's autobiography, himself a survivor of Auschwitz, has the wisdom to rebuke his fellow prisoners for the depositions they had made charging Hoss with beatings and torture.†   (source)
  • And one of the veterans would say quietly but with rebuke in his voice, "Tom Black never won the championship.†   (source)
  • I had felt rebuked by what he had said about not showing him things, and I wasn't going to take the lead in conversation.†   (source)
  • Without him having spoken a word, the speaker sensed how Vasudeva let his words enter his mind, quiet, open, waiting, how he did not lose a single one, awaited not a single one with impatience, did not add his praise or rebuke, was just listening.†   (source)
  • Maybe he thought she was happy, and he didn't want to spoil it by rebuking her.†   (source)
  • Leamas said nothing, looked thoughtfully at the— two men on either side of him, and accepted in silence the filthy rebuke of a warder who knew quite well what had happened.†   (source)
  • Startled by its mysterious rebuke, and uneasy in his stomach because she had said "little Catherine, he hurried out — and all but collided with his Aunt Hannah.†   (source)
  • "A pink-eyed child is no worse than a brown-eyed one," he said, looking at her with cold, rebuking eyes.†   (source)
  • MARY Mechanically rebuking.†   (source)
  • No one, none of the saints in any case, had ever reproached or rebuked his father, or suggested that his life was anything but spotless.†   (source)
  • "The South has been beaten by the South—if united, she would have conquered!" cried an influential Dixie paper when Calhoun rebuked Houston and Benton for providing the win-ning margin for his opponents.†   (source)
  • He nods once or twice) I am well rebuked.†   (source)
  • But he did not answer back, and accepted her often unjust rebukes without even lifting his eyes off the ground.†   (source)
  • Jesus rebuked Peter, stating "all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword."   (source)
  • A rebuke that transcends scholarly analysis.†   (source)
  • "Why, daughter," he rebuked her, "what sort of talk is this?"†   (source)
  • The same part of my mind that had rebuked me over my fishing fiasco scolded me again.†   (source)
  • Thomas knew the rebuke should've stung, but his mind was too preoccupied.†   (source)
  • I left the letter on the dining room table, an open rebuke.†   (source)
  • I flushed a bit at his rebuke, more than I would have normally, as I was feeling the wine.†   (source)
  • After her father's rebuke she developed an even keener appetite for eggs.†   (source)
  • Thomas looked at Newt sharply, hurt by the rebuke.†   (source)
  • Mr. Smith had rebuked him in very strong language, and had not sought his advice that morning.†   (source)
  • "The westering sun is rebuking us," says Farmer.†   (source)
  • The grey-haired ambassador arched his dark eyebrows, and dismissed the rebuke.†   (source)
  • Mark expected Alec to retaliate or defend himself, but he appeared humbled by the rebuke.†   (source)
  • Eragon accepted her rebuke without protest.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, Eragon understood her warning, for her very presence was a rebuke to him.†   (source)
  • Because it wasn't Jessica's voice that rebuked me now.†   (source)
  • If it gets on her nerves enough, she will do the dishes herself, which is intended to be a rebuke.†   (source)
  • Dany gave him a smile, to take a bit of the sting from the rebuke.†   (source)
  • Mine,I rebuked her, the power and authority that belonged to me alone flowing through the word.†   (source)
  • Pycelle had taken the rebuke with ill grace.†   (source)
  • "Then the Church is one up on you," said Alex, angling his head in a humorously mocking rebuke.†   (source)
  • His hushed whisper was a rebuke to our comparatively loud conversation.†   (source)
  • She'd meant it only lightly but Grace decided to take it as a rebuke.†   (source)
  • He was rebuking him as he would rebuke any other fighter, any other soldier.†   (source)
  • I shrug, tighten my mouth in silent rebuke, turn my back in bed, leave questions unanswered.†   (source)
  • "You can't do this," he said, but even his gravelly rebuke didn't have any strength.†   (source)
  • Her stiff skirts whisk-whisk across the floor as if to rebuke it for lying there.†   (source)
  • Rector Mompellion looked at me, but not with the rebuke I'd expected.†   (source)
  • Nately protested with passion that was both a plea and a rebuke.†   (source)
  • The woman looked at Bourne as if rebuking a foolish child.†   (source)
  • "It does not matter," he said, feeling again the humiliation he had known when Artkin rebuked him.†   (source)
  • He was rebuking him as he would rebuke any other fighter, any other soldier.†   (source)
  • EDMUND So Harker came in person to rebuke Shaughnessy.†   (source)
  • "Always in haste," he rebuked me in that gentle, oily voice of his.†   (source)
  • Was she rebuking me for those things she had grown to condemn in herself?†   (source)
  • TYRONE As she starts through the doorway-pleading and rebuking.†   (source)
  • He rebukes himself for it — he's a sad dog and a cold fish — and takes care to thank his mother for her pains, and to reassure her: he will marry eventually, but he isn't ready for it yet.†   (source)
  • The Chairman, seeing this as a further rebuke to the student next to him, smiles and says contemptuously it is certainly a good idea.†   (source)
  • The stern look of Mary Magdalene rebuked them; her former line of work and her harsh reformation shamed them.†   (source)
  • Piggy rebuked him with dignity.†   (source)
  • Tita was striding toward the kitchen, the dirty clothes under her arm, bemoaning the rebuke she'd received and her boundless failings.†   (source)
  • I once told you that, after years of being adored, it was hard for me to adjust to the harsh reality of grown-ups and rebukes.†   (source)
  • Robb's neck reddened at the rebuke.†   (source)
  • Her authority in the pulpit, her dance in the Clearing, her powerful Call (she didn't deliver sermons or preach--insisting she was too ignorant for that--she called and the hearing heard)--all that had been mocked and rebuked by the bloodspill in her backyard.†   (source)
  • The column had never been much more than a bland recitation of guest lists, but its disappearance provoked a stinging rebuke from one of Savannah's leading socialites, Mrs. Vera Dutton Strong.†   (source)
  • The retrenchers' report had been too harsh, too much a rebuke, at a time when the mood throughout Chicago was one of sustained exultation at the fact that the fair had gotten built at all and that it had proven more beautiful than anyone had imagined.†   (source)
  • Lonely and rebuked.†   (source)
  • "Why, daughter," her mother rebuked her, "are you not willing that your cousin should share with you?"†   (source)
  • They'd somehow write another book, a fictional rebuke in which Amazing Amy celebrated the most fantastic, fulfilling, bump-free little marriage ever …. because she put her mind to it.†   (source)
  • The student, whose identity is mistaken, doesn't attack, and the Chairman with great disgust and frustration finally dismisses him with a rebuke that he should have read the material better.†   (source)
  • And how he later rebuked our childishness by refusing to talk about her; if he "did it" with her, The Voice was not bragging about it.†   (source)
  • "As well," the Lord Commander continued, ignoring the bird's protest, "it puts a thousand leagues twixt him and you without it seeming a rebuke."†   (source)
  • SUNDAY, JULY 11, 1943 Dear Kitty, To get back to the subject of child-rearing (for the umpteenth time), let me tell you that I'm doing my best to be helpful, friendly and kind and to do all I can to keep the rain of rebukes down to a light drizzle.†   (source)
  • And when Jesus saw that a crowd came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, "You dumb and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him, and never enter him again."†   (source)
  • The rebuke hurt Thomas far more than it should have, considering he'd known this guy all of three minutes.†   (source)
  • Impolite terms, used intramurally, were meant as philosophical rebukes to the misplaced preoccupations of those who believed in "identity politics," in the idea that all members of an oppressed minority were equally oppressed, which all too conveniently obscured the fact that there were real differences in the "shaftedness," also sometimes called the "degrees of hose-edness," that people of the same race or gender suffered.†   (source)
  • There was rebuke in his voice but a gentle, guarded rebuke, not the hostility he had revealed to Archie.†   (source)
  • One priest looked horrified to see men in loincloths come into the place, but another rebuked him and welcomed them inside.†   (source)
  • She regretted her rebuke.†   (source)
  • Devan's exclusion must have seemed a rebuke, a punishment for some failure on his part, or perhaps for some failure of his father.†   (source)
  • It was the pre-evening hour during an international conference, a thousand tentative plans being made, rank and courtesan separated by glances of approval and rebuke, odd groupings everywhere.†   (source)
  • The only time I ate the wrong food, just about, or drank too much, if ever, was when I was out with Sims, who was a living rebuke to the tactics of moderation.†   (source)
  • She winced at the intended rebuke, but Attolia only pressed her lips together in a thin smile and said, "It's not too late for you to end up chained to a wall."†   (source)
  • The rebuke is deserved.†   (source)
  • But his voice was soft and tired and English-sounding; Alvin wasn't in awe of the Ta-Kumsaw who read White men's books, and so he paid no heed to the mild rebuke.†   (source)
  • Therefore I addressed myself a second time to the stabbing, but Hwin came near to me and put her head in between me and the dagger and discoursed to me most excellent reasons and rebuked me as a mother rebukes her daughter.†   (source)
  • It was a nasty rebuke to lawyer Atlee and he was ridiculed for years, until he got himself elected Chancellor.†   (source)
  • If you strike at us in any possible way, whether with steel or with words, no matter how mild your rebuke, we shall consider it an act of war, and we shall respond appropriately.†   (source)
  • His father would speak no word of rebuke, Quentyn knew, but the disappointment would be there in his eyes.†   (source)
  • Even if you deny that faith, rebuke it, you still carry it around with you like some half-forgotten Indian head penny you keep in your pocket for luck.†   (source)
  • In milliseconds the rebuke was over; a smile as false as it was broad cracked the mask, and with a nod and a flourish the woman took a pencil from the clerk and initialed the sales slip.†   (source)
  • Eddis bowed to the rebuke with a smile.†   (source)
  • She knew Natalie to be of sound mind and body and had heard her speak many times of her relief to be in Israel, where she could live as a Jew without fear of assault or rebuke.†   (source)
  • Robb suffered the rebuke with dignity.†   (source)
  • How nice that the unprinted record of some stray pleasure might rebuke the exclusion out there, the forces that make it chancy for us to take a simple breath of air.†   (source)
  • A semiliterate private in the 54th Pennsylvania, whose wife had rebuked him for thinking more of the Union than of her and the children, wrote to her with some asperity that "if the rebels would invade the north whad whoud become of you and my children …. thay woud be perfeck slaves thay whoud be triede like a doge …. and hour property wodden be worth a cent for thay wold take it to pay thair dates."†   (source)
  • "I do not doubt that you are strong enough to suffer an old man's rebukes as the price of his allegiance, but you have too much of your father in you to sit there while he insults Jeyne to her face."†   (source)
  • Airplanes had crashed and revolutions had erupted bloodily; holy men had spoken only to be rebuked by other holy men; poverty and disease had been found where everyone knew they could be found, but no man of consequence had been killed.†   (source)
  • Colonel Cathcart was stung by the blunt rebuke and skulked guiltily about his room in smarting repudiation.†   (source)
  • A deeper ripple of mirth this time and Bronzini was sad for the boy, skinny Alfonse, but did not rebuke them, kept talking, talked over the momentary rollick—skinny sorry Alfonse, grape-stained with tragic acne.†   (source)
  • The "witness dump" pulled by Wade Lanier would attract a harsh rebuke, but standing alone it would not get the case reversed.†   (source)
  • "When they came through here,"Alec said quietly, seemingly oblivious to Mark's rebuke, "they were definitely running.†   (source)
  • Someone at Twenty-seventh Air Force Headquarters had it in for him and sent back every report he wrote with a blistering rebuke, and Colonel Korn had bribed a clever mail clerk there named Wintergreen to try to find out who it was.†   (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)
  • He tilted his chin in high rebuke, mostly theatrical, and withdrew his body from the surface of the desk, dropping his bottom into the swivel chair and looking at me again and then doing a decisive quarter turn and raising his right leg sufficiently so that the foot, the shoe, was posted upright at the edge of the desk.†   (source)
  • The mere word was anathema to him, and he stormed back and forth in excoriating condemnation, shaking a piercing finger of rebuke in the guilt-ridden faces of Colonel Cathcart, Colonel Korn and the poor battle-scarred captain with the submachine gun who commanded the M.P.s. Is this Russia?†   (source)
  • Finally, Norris closed his address by meeting the religious issue openly: It is our duty as patriots to cast out this Un-American doctrine and rebuke those who have raised the torch of intolerance.†   (source)
  • Lena peeped through the kitchen window and saw Henry Haney, Tater's father, standing in the yard, spraddle-legged from having just taken the wallop of one of Mrs. Chism's rebukes.†   (source)
  • ? beside Ella Mae before the altar while Father James rebuked him for the evil that lived in the flesh.†   (source)
  • She could not give it; but the rebuke that sprang to her lips remained unspoken, and without speaking she pulled the tray to her and began to eat.†   (source)
  • Several times the quick rebukes had come to her lips, and she had seen him look at her deliberately, not accepting it, but challenging her.†   (source)
  • One of the men rebuked me sharply.†   (source)
  • "I was born here," Gitano said in gentle rebuke.†   (source)
  • One must finish the sentence somehow, I rebuked myself.†   (source)
  • Everything must be done to rebuke the horror of deformity.†   (source)
  • A passing priest observed the man reposing thus and rebuked him.†   (source)
  • Young Father Joseph bore his rebuke with meekness, and went sadly to his own chamber.†   (source)
  • She had been breathless up to now on account of Sir Ector's rebuke.†   (source)
  • She continued gentle despite his rebuke.†   (source)
  • Before anyone could rebuke him, his grizzled head went up sharply and he rose swiftly.†   (source)
  • It didn't have any question, or protest, or rebuke, or command, or self-pity, or whine, or oh-so-you-don't-love-me-anymore in it.†   (source)
  • The Judge rebuked him.†   (source)
  • Now the strange thing was that whereas the boy might burst into weeping at a chance rebuke, he stood these beatings under the bamboo without a sound, his face carven and pale as an image.†   (source)
  • JIMMY—(with bleery benevolence, shaking his head in mild rebuke) No, Larry, old friend, you can't deceive me.†   (source)
  • One did not rebuke Mitchell Layton on this subject; one did not rebuke Mitchell Layton on any subject.†   (source)
  • Rebuking them.†   (source)
  • Each tortured the other and was on the point of losing her mind under the alternations of self-rebuke and the outbursts of passion.†   (source)
  • Did he remember days in the seminary, the kindly rebukes of his elders, the moulding discipline, days, too, of frivolity when he acted Nero before the old bishop?†   (source)
  • It was not a rebuke; not a forbidding; simply a statement of his own feeling, about which I could think and decide for myself.†   (source)
  • And to the screams, rebukes and bickerings of these, a seemingly endless file of hucksters joined their bawling cries.†   (source)
  • Never again would I expose myself to my father's humor; his whimsical persecution had convinced me, as no rebuke could have done, of the folly of living beyond my means.†   (source)
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