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  • Without words, they made their mutual reproaches and thereby severed the strong tie of blood and obedience that had always bound them together, but could never be reestablished.   (source)
    reproaches = criticisms
  • Reproach me not with the fear in the country; there is fear in the country because there is a moving plot to topple Christ in the country!   (source)
    reproach = criticize
  • As she stood before me on the porch, I could see the exhaustion in her face, and all the words of reproach I'd been rehearsing drained away.   (source)
    reproach = criticism
  • In the end, she was forced to acknowledge that anger was not an option and that as a colored Jamaican whose family had benefited for generations from the hierarchy of race, she could hardly reproach another for the impulse to divide people by the shade of their skin:   (source)
    reproach = criticize
  • The women next door have another reproach:   (source)
  • In the middle of the letter, for example, he reproached himself for complaining too much:   (source)
    reproached = criticized
  • Elinor cleared her throat and gave Mo a reproachful glance, as if it could only be his fault that his daughter was precocious enough to know such things.   (source)
    reproachful = critical (full of criticism)
  • Buglar and Howard grew furious at the company of the women in the house, and spent in sullen reproach any time they had away from their odd work...   (source)
    reproach = criticism
  • I bombarded him with questions and reproaches before he could get a word of explanation in,   (source)
    reproaches = criticisms
  • He stares at Moushumi as he says it, but she's too drunk to absorb his reproach.   (source)
    reproach = expression of criticism
  • She looked loving and reproachful, and I wanted her to go away.   (source)
    reproachful = full of criticism
  • His daughter Barbara was reproaching him for writing ridiculous letters to the newspapers.   (source)
    reproaching = criticizing
  • Giving Max a reproachful glance, Nick climbed back into the small tree that served as his perch.   (source)
    reproachful = critical (full of criticism)
  • It was as if he'd put his service mask on the savage reproachful face I had seen.   (source)
  • He bitterly regretted his foolishness, and reproached himself for weakness of will; for he now perceived that in putting on the Ring he obeyed not his own desire but the commanding wish of his enemies.   (source)
    reproached = criticized
  • Philip's face assumed a look of reproach.   (source)
    reproach = a criticism; or to express criticism
  • With a great deal of bustle, muttering reproaches to itself, the Dwarf half led and half supported Shasta at a great speed further into the wood and a little downhill.   (source)
    reproaches = criticisms
  • The misery of self-reproach struck me so that I shook all over.   (source)
    reproach = criticism
  • Taylor drew back in frosty reproach,   (source)
  • Sometimes I would go to see my parents, but seldom, since there was so much to be done in my own home; and my mother, knowing this, did not reproach me for the long intervals between my visits.   (source)
    reproach = criticize
  • "You never call me anymore," Hammond said reproachfully.†   (source)
    reproachfully = in a manner that criticizes
  • There was no self-reproach, no uneasiness in those eyes.   (source)
    reproach = criticism
  • Straight from the depths of a non-existent heart, "My friends, my friends!" said the Voice so pathetically, with a note of such infinitely tender reproach that, behind their gas masks, even the policemen's eyes were momentarily dimmed with tears, "what is the meaning of this?"   (source)
    reproach = gentle criticism and disappointment
  • I know that you're bound to reproach me - but before you do take into consideration - you left!   (source)
    reproach = criticize
  • A swarm of sisters appear and reproach us in concert.   (source)
  • I have not come here to reproach you.   (source)
  • You do not reproach me?   (source)
  • But he didn't sound reproachful; he simply wanted to know.   (source)
    reproachful = full of criticism
  • "Oh," she added reproachfully, turning to Matthew, "why didn't you tell me at the station that you didn't want me and leave me there?"   (source)
    reproachfully = in a disapproving manner
  • He appeared at the bathroom door, braced against the door-jamb, staring at me with a face of sad reproach bedewed with the glitter of cold sweat.   (source)
    reproach = criticism
  • He walks straight to Higgins, and accosts him with vehement reproach.   (source)
  • And there was no reproach in her voice.   (source)
  • Whatever unfortunate entanglement my dear boy may have got into, I will never reproach him with it after we are married.   (source)
    reproach = criticize
  • Miriam was an eternal reproach.   (source)
    reproach = criticism
  • That Sir Henry should have been exposed to this is, I must confess, a reproach to my management of the case, but we had no means of foreseeing the terrible and paralyzing spectacle which the beast presented, nor could we predict the fog which enabled him to burst upon us at such short notice.   (source)
    reproach = a criticism; or to express criticism
  • He reproached Philip for laziness, asked him when he was going to start work,   (source)
    reproached = criticized
  • She said not a word of reproach--she and Marija had chosen that course before; she would only plead with him, here by the corpse of his dead wife.   (source)
    reproach = criticism
  • And amid the various cries one heard disputes, reproaches, groans of weariness and fatigue; the voices of most of them were hoarse and weak.   (source)
    reproaches = criticisms
  • He did not mind the entreaty, but the tone with its delicate note of pathos was like a reproach.   (source)
    reproach = a criticism; or to express criticism
  • The news that the regiment had been reproached went along the line.   (source)
    reproached = criticized
  • "Better in body perhaps—" I began, and stopped short, for he sat up straight and looked at me with such a stern, reproachful look that I could not say another word.   (source)
    reproachful = critical (full of criticism)
  • I reproach myself bitterly for it sometimes.   (source)
    reproach = criticize
  • There was a unanimous groan at this, and much reproach;   (source)
    reproach = criticism
  • I have never reproached you,   (source)
    reproached = criticized
  • she reproached him lovingly for this   (source)
    reproached = expressed criticism to
  • He was very kind, forgave her readily, and did not utter one reproach, but Meg knew that she had done and said a thing which would not be forgotten soon,   (source)
    reproach = a criticism; or to express criticism
  • I wanted to make Joe less ignorant and common, that he might be worthier of my society and less open to Estella's reproach.   (source)
    reproach = criticism
  • princes ought to leave affairs of reproach to the management of others, and keep those of grace in their own hands.   (source)
  • Stalking off, she simply raised her right arm and reproachfully wagged a forefinger in the air.†   (source)
  • Some tittered to relieve the unbearable tension, some cast him a reproachful glance, Grace Wexler clicked her tongue, and Sydelle Pulaski shhh-ed. "It was just a joke," Sandy tried to explain.†   (source)
  • Stacey glanced reproachfully at me, then lay flat upon the ground, his head resting in the cushion of his hands clasped under his head.†   (source)
  • This must have been the reproachful undertone of more than one discussion, around the dinner table, over the port.†   (source)
  • Then he had to stop, partly because his head was swimming, and partly because Tinder yelped and yanked his foot away, licking it with long, slow swipes and looking reproachfully at Edgar.†   (source)
  • This elicited a scream from the young woman in the blue kimono, tears from the tenor's daughter, and a stern reproach from the Swiss diplomat.†   (source)
  • When Lotte came to find him one evening, he covered it up quickly, earning himself a look of reproach.†   (source)
  • I saw Dad's hand reach out to Mum's arm, whether in reproach or comfort I couldn't tell.†   (source)
  • However, I believe I shall leave it to your parents to administer whatever discipline and reproach they believe to be needed.†   (source)
  • Of all Joe's neighbors, however, none was more reproachful a presence than the Lafayette apartment house, that monument to Joe's financial debacle of just a few years back.†   (source)
  • The alertness and anxiety in the Meanys' expressions suggested to me that they remembered how Owen had reproached them for their uninvited attendance at that Nativity.†   (source)
  • She was seated between Septa Mordane and Jeyne Poole, as far from Arya as she could get without drawing a reproach from Father.†   (source)
  • Briony could not see her mouth, but she knew its downward curve, easily mistaken for the sign—the hieroglyph—of reproach.†   (source)
  • Rachel greeted her reproachfully.†   (source)
  • She gave me her shy smile and fidgeted with the fringe of her scarf as if expecting a reproach.†   (source)
  • Everything else would have to wait, from the house and its silent reproach to her son and daughter.†   (source)
  • Margaret Kochamma was reproached by her employer and given a lecture on Café Ethics.†   (source)
  • He stared deep into my eyes, waiting for me to reproach him and hoping I wouldn't at the same time.†   (source)
  • I gave him a reproachful look and walked off without responding, but already, I suppose, I'd begun to entertain the possibility that he wasn't, after all, making it up about Miss Lucy.†   (source)
  • Horst tugged at his beard before saying reproachfully, "Fine, you can deal with me.†   (source)
  • "Oh come now," Bast reproached, his smile falling away.†   (source)
  • But it wasn't a reproachful stare.†   (source)
  • His tone was reproachful; it made me laugh.†   (source)
  • You have nothing to reproach yourself with.†   (source)
  • Every now and then when I remembered that Betsie's cold had settled in her chest and threatened, as hers always did, to turn into pneumonia, I would reproach myself for being anything but distressed at the present arrangement.†   (source)
  • She ran to them both, pried Danny out of Jack's arms somehow (she saw the look of angry reproach on his face but filed it away for later consideration), and lifted him up.†   (source)
  • She sometimes felt that his praying was not neutral towards her, in fact she suspected it carried a hint of reproach, though why she felt this she could not say, for he had never told her to pray nor berated her for not praying.†   (source)
  • Wasn't it her father who put those reproachful—or self-reproachful—words in Alberto's mouth?†   (source)
  • 'You care here to ponder mortals, justice done to mortals?' he asked; but there was no reproach or mockery in his tone.†   (source)
  • Grace —and then cried out in reproachful surprise as Magnus snatched the book off her lap.†   (source)
  • His freedom to come and go stung her like a reproach, like an injustice.†   (source)
  • He looked at me reproachfully.†   (source)
  • She took advantage of the hiatus of his convalescence to reproach him for his passivity as he waited for the answer to his letter.†   (source)
  • "Xander," his mother says next to him, amusement mingled with reproach in her voice.†   (source)
  • "Except for the lives, m'Lord," Gurney said, and there was a tone of reproach in his voice as though to say: "When did an Atreides worry first about things when people were at stake?"†   (source)
  • The stain this has left on my psyche is not the sort of thing that washes off after a few months of grief and guiltridden self-reproach.†   (source)
  • But to me, Emily Sue was what I came to think of as a forever friend, somebody I could tell the truth to without fear of reproach.†   (source)
  • I have a sense that his ready yielding to our wishes and demands is a private weapon of reproach.†   (source)
  • Now, looking at him in this picture, Annie felt herself reproached.†   (source)
  • They seemed to watch him with a kind of despairing, beseeching reproach.†   (source)
  • Who is it who teaches me that in the language of eyes a stare is an invasion and a reproach?†   (source)
  • She's sitting on the stairs, waiting for me—and there's a reproachful expression on her face.†   (source)
  • They reluctantly bowed in the face of her quiet reproach and soothed their bruised authority by giving her cheaper and cheaper baby dolls.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Hickock, a plump woman with a soft, round face un-marred by a lifetime of dawn-to-dark endeavor, reproached him.†   (source)
  • But she felt it anyway, fair judgment or not, and lay awake on her cot through half the night, tense with self-reproach.†   (source)
  • The woman in the bed—she was scarcely more than a girl, with shining dark eyes and a profusion of jetty ringlets about her elfish, pretty little face—seemed to feel that this speech was in the nature of a reproach.†   (source)
  • And it was harder for him to stay quiet, which drew more reproachful glares from Alec.†   (source)
  • A retreating army was always "encircled with difficulties," and "declining an engagement subjects a general to reproach."†   (source)
  • The moment he hung up, he reproached himself for not telling her to go straight there.†   (source)
  • He converted it to self-reproach.†   (source)
  • He was downcast and burdened with self-reproach when he stepped without noise from the colonel's office on his rubber-soled and rubber-heeled brown shoes.†   (source)
  • "Only in size, not in history," said the old man reproachfully, glancing at his watch and moving the telescope with the care of someone who has done this a thousand times before.†   (source)
  • And so the four of us are assembled in Mrs. Nightwing's office, under the reproachful eyes of the peacock-tail wallpaper, listening to accusations and blame, watching helplessly as our freedom unravels thread by thread.†   (source)
  • He figured the steely-eyed officer was someone above reproach, whose commitment to his duty was unquestioned.†   (source)
  • His skis, lying dusty and neglected at the back of his closet, reproach him each morning.†   (source)
  • When he found that was all I had he swam around in circles, looking at me reproachfully.†   (source)
  • I did not go, and for that I will forever reproach myself.†   (source)
  • He closed the door, then saw Hespira's look of reproach and opened it again to thank whoever or whatever lingered in the hall.†   (source)
  • He's reproachful but sees how it's going to be.†   (source)
  • Seeing them look back at me as though even then in that nineteenth-century day they had expected little, and this with a grim, unillusioned pride that suddenly seemed to me both a reproach and a warning.†   (source)
  • That evening, she waited until prayer time—which was a daily ritual in the house—and confronted me with my misdeed, reproaching me for taking the bread from a poor servant of God and disgracing the family.†   (source)
  • He could not have mistaken the reproach on the faces of those around him.†   (source)
  • He offers Celia a packet, and she accepts it without reproaching him.†   (source)
  • I'd never heard these kinds of reproaches in our home, not even from Uncle.†   (source)
  • She said reproachfully, "Jean!"†   (source)
  • His mother noticed how irritable he was and reproached him frequently for his excessive smoking.†   (source)
  • Some people reproach the Southern States for the barbarous policy of considering part of their human brethren as property.†   (source)
  • This was meant as some kind of reproach, some kind of diminishment.†   (source)
  • Natalie didn't feel much like drinking coffee, but she didn't want to earn another reproach from Safia, either.†   (source)
  • He stood at her door, behind him the oblong pool shimmering silent in a mild diffusion of light from the nighttime sky, saying, "Mrs. Maas," like a reproach.†   (source)
  • And at last this awkward vulnerability and self-reproach, which in some remote and indefinable way reminded her of a small boy.†   (source)
  • VINEY [REPROACHFULLY]: Cap'n Keller, now how'm I gone get her to eat her supper you fill her up with that trash?†   (source)
  • CROMWELL (Reproachful) Well, I always understood he set you up in life.†   (source)
  • Alexander Alexandrovich turned, gave her a reproachful look, and shrugged his shoulders, but she stood her ground.†   (source)
  • TYRONE Plays mechanically-gently reproachful.†   (source)
  • I phoned Mother; she was reproachful about my not having written and I promised to visit Alaska as soon as I could.†   (source)
  • But his reproach was not enough to stop her from pouring out the fear curdled up inside.†   (source)
  • And if I do break down, why don't reproach yourself.†   (source)
  • There's no point in reproaching yourself now.†   (source)
  • With a reproachful look at him the woman reached up and took off her hat.†   (source)
  • And the half-humorous, half-reproachful voice left her disarmed against him.†   (source)
  • For a while yet she looks at him, without reproach, without anything at all,   (source)
  • The others reproached her sharply, and they went outside.   (source)
    reproached = criticized
  • "I don't want you to make excuses for me." He said it simply, without reproach.   (source)
    reproach = criticism
  • "But sometimes I wish you hadn't asked me them questions," Bigger said in a voice that had as much reproach in it for Max as it had for himself.   (source)
  • Poirot cast on him a look of reproach.   (source)
  • I tore open the letter (Poirot for once did not reproach me for untidiness) and extracted the printed sheet.   (source)
    reproach = criticize
  • Helmholtz gave it; and gave it without a reproach, without a comment, as though he had forgotten that there had ever been a quarrel.   (source)
    reproach = criticism
  • The look she gave him was charged with an unspeakable terror–with terror and, it seemed to him, reproach.   (source)
  • "Her eyes," he murmured, "Her eyes, her hair, her cheek, her gait, her voice; Handlest in thy discourse O! that her hand, In whose comparison all whites are ink Writing their own reproach; to whose soft seizure The cygnet's down is harsh…"   (source)
  • ...he had not been able to resist the shopman's persuasion. Looking at the tins now, he bitterly reproached himself for his weakness.   (source)
    reproached = criticized
  • Her eyes were tenderly reproachful.   (source)
    reproachful = critical
  • The Savage looked at her reproachfully; then suddenly fell on his knees before her and, taking Lenina's hand, reverently kissed it.   (source)
    reproachfully = in a disappointed manner
  • Not without reproaches.   (source)
    reproaches = criticisms
  • never any more did he reproach himself for feelings that were natural and sincere.   (source)
    reproach = criticize
  • She delivered reproaches, swallowed potatoes and drank from a yellow-brown bottle.   (source)
    reproaches = criticisms
  • It was neither whining nor reproachful, but drily resolute.   (source)
    reproachful = critical
  • "You've been working too hard today, Matthew," she said reproachfully.   (source)
    reproachfully = in a disapproving manner
  • "I think he's lovely," said Anne reproachfully.   (source)
  • "It isn't nonsense at all," said Anne, gazing at Marilla with solemn, reproachful eyes.   (source)
    reproachful = full of disapproval
  • But she always checked the thought reproachfully, remembering what she owed to Marilla.   (source)
    reproachfully = self-critically
  • "You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair," said Anne reproachfully.   (source)
    reproachfully = in a manner that criticizes
  • "I thought you liked that Stella Maynard better than me," said Diana reproachfully.   (source)
    reproachfully = in a disapproving manner
  • There was no higher praise for her; no higher reproach for me.   (source)
    reproach = criticism
  • I do not reproach you, father, I make no complaint.   (source)
    reproach = criticize
  • The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable,   (source)
    reproach = criticism
  • Anything might be bearable rather than such reproaches.   (source)
    reproaches = criticisms
  • She made haste to smile, afraid that he might not like the reproach.   (source)
    reproach = criticism
  • Can you suppose I should ever think of such a thing as repudiating you, or even reproaching you?   (source)
    reproaching = criticizing
  • That fault is not what I am usually reproached with.   (source)
    reproached = criticized
  • "She has been forgotten," he said, in a tone of pity not free from reproach.   (source)
    reproach = criticism
  • Well, I don't think you need reproach yourself on his account.   (source)
    reproach = criticize
  • but finally he reproached himself for staying so long without having done anything relevant to his own affair.   (source)
    reproached = criticized
  • Robert must be above reproach.   (source)
    reproach = criticism
  • But when I came to think the matter over my conscience reproached me bitterly for having on any pretext allowed him to go out of my sight.   (source)
    reproached = criticized
  • "Oh how could you, Anne?" breathed Diana as they went down the road half reproachfully, half admiringly.   (source)
    reproachfully = in a disapproving manner
  • Because whenever I was naughty Mrs. Thomas would ask me how I could be such a bad girl when she had brought me up by hand—reproachful-like.   (source)
    reproachful = full of criticism
  • "How can you call it a GOOD night when you know it must be the very worst night I've ever had?" she said reproachfully.   (source)
    reproachfully = in a disapproving manner
  • I was so interested in it that I never noticed Miss Stacy coming down the aisle until all at once I just looked up and there she was looking down at me, so reproachful-like.   (source)
    reproachful = full of criticism
  • But the reproach was the unendurable thing; the one thing worse than parting with her was, that she should feel he had acted unworthily toward her.   (source)
    reproach = criticism
  • your eyes have been reproaching them every day for incautiousness.   (source)
    reproaching = criticizing
  • Catherine thought this reproach equally strange and unkind.   (source)
    reproach = criticism
  • There's more than a little difference there:' Deoch said with a hint of reproach.†   (source)
    reproach = a criticism; or to express criticism
  • The Chancellor looked at me with a tinge of reproach.†   (source)
  • "Blackened hands, Cob," Carter said, his voice thick with reproach.†   (source)
  • But I didn't think I came off sounding as reproachful as I meant to.†   (source)
  • I am a reproach to her; and a necessity.†   (source)
  • Christ on Calvary looked down at her with his wounded, suffering, reproachful eyes.†   (source)
  • Perhaps Saknis had come to reproach him.†   (source)
  • "I wish yeh'd stop sayin' tha name, Harry," said a reproachful voice behind them.†   (source)
  • Alice's expression was full of reproach.†   (source)
  • He curled up atop her wallet, looking reproachful.†   (source)
  • "How would I know?" said Oryx reproachfully.†   (source)
  • But she not only rejected the idea, she reproached herself for the frivolity of her thought.†   (source)
  • I was trying to sound reproachful, but I couldn't help laughing.†   (source)
  • Arya seemed to bridle at the reproach in his voice.†   (source)
  • "Father," Ser Stevron said reproachfully, "you forget yourself.†   (source)
  • Her eyes opened, and she looked at me most reproachfully for a few seconds.†   (source)
  • His tone reproached me now, reminded me that it was hard for him when I kept my thoughts to myself.†   (source)
  • In the first place, she reproached him, the delivery boys were "total strangers."†   (source)
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