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  • Little sentences, little reproofs reminding me every hour, every day.   (source)
    reproofs = criticisms
  • Poirot shook his head reprovingly.   (source)
    reprovingly = in a critical manner
  • Norwegian Anna, always dignified, looked at her reprovingly.   (source)
  • Marilla smothered a smile under the conviction that Anne must be reproved for such a speech.   (source)
    reproved = criticized
  • I am justly reproved for what I feel was an unjustifiable intrusion, and I promise you that I will not mention the matter again.   (source)
  • But he had an approved tolerance for others; sometimes wondering, almost with envy, at the high pressure of spirits involved in their misdeeds; and in any extremity inclined to help rather than to reprove.   (source)
    reprove = express disapproval
  • The perplexity and dissatisfaction of the house expressed itself in murmurs and provoked a reproof from the bench.   (source)
    reproof = criticism
  • I desired her to reprove them, on their return, for starting away without leave; but, as it appeared they had taken Turk, I satisfied myself that no harm was likely to befall them,   (source)
    reprove = criticize
  • ...the voice of a reproving conscience.   (source)
    reproving = criticizing
  • But for the sake of both men Nestor arose, the Pylians' orator, eloquent and clear; argument sweeter than honey rolled from his tongue. ... In kind reproof he said: "A black day, this...."   (source)
    reproof = criticism
  • Many said the floods were another reproof from God for the music and dancing we had enjoyed at the recent festivals.†   (source)
  • We had developed slothful mental habits — we had been allowed to develop them, he added reprovingly.†   (source)
  • I give her a reproving look, and she ignores me.†   (source)
  • He was as good at that as all the rest, amused at their antics, gently reproving, reassuringly untroubled.†   (source)
  • He was a plump, mild, middle-aged man who taught something in the sciences at Gravesend Academy; and when he turned round in his seat to reprove the girl with a scientific glance, she popped a bubble at him with her gum.†   (source)
  • But she also felt reproved for her homebound boredom.†   (source)
  • All the same, the reproof in John Holbrook's voice left her discomforted.†   (source)
  • Jasper snickered and Esme gave Edward a reproving look.†   (source)
  • "Not competitors, Peter!" he said reprovingly.†   (source)
  • "Cut in haste, repent at leisure," Yetta said, waving scissors at her reprovingly.†   (source)
  • He realized she had done this to taunt him subtly, a reproof against his recent pose of coldness.†   (source)
  • "Oh, John!" she said reprovingly, 'Daily bread' is all we have anything to do with.†   (source)
  • Orenthaler shot me a reproving look, one that read, I told you, Lindsay.†   (source)
  • 'I still can't hear you,' Aarfy called back innocently with an expression of mild and reproving perplexity.†   (source)
  • When I set the pot back down, I heard Snow Flower suck in air reprovingly.†   (source)
  • Mum gives me a surprised, slightly reproving look and turns to the next page of her catalogue.†   (source)
  • A woman at a nearby table turned and made a reproving, shushing noise.†   (source)
  • He traveled the road to Versailles in a state of extreme apprehension, wondering, as he later wrote, whether he was to "hear an expostulation? a reproof? an admonition? or in plain vulgar English, a scolding? or was there any disposition to forget and forgive? and say all malice depart?†   (source)
  • I heg you, save your reproofs, if you must make them, until her wits are cleared.†   (source)
  • " He stopped, because the others were looking at him severely, in reproof for the breach of an unwritten law: one did not mention a failure of this kind, one did not discuss the mysterious ways of Jim's powerful friendships or why they had failed him.†   (source)
  • "Stop it, darlings," Mum said with soft reproof.†   (source)
  • "This is serious," he said reprovingly.†   (source)
  • "Shush!" she would say in a certain tone of sham reproof, and a man would simply wilt and end up grinning.†   (source)
  • Abra reproved him.†   (source)
  • Near that window stood a church warden paying no attention to the service and loudly reproving a deaf, half-witted beggarwoman in a voice as flat and commonplace as the window and the street.†   (source)
  • …as if she meant that Mary was much too thirsty to wait out any more of it; and Joel gave a snort of amusement and then was caught into the contagion of this somewhat hysterical laughter, and they all roared, laughing their heads off, while Catherine sat there watching them, disapproving such levity at such a time, and unhappily suspecting that for some reason they were laughing at her; but in courtesy and reproof, and an expectation of hearing the joke, smiling and lifting her trumpet.†   (source)
  • MARY Reprovingly.†   (source)
  • MORE (Bursting out) Your Grace, I'm not fit to meddle in these matters-to me it seems a matter for the Holy See— HENRY (Reprovingly) Thomas, Thomas, does a man need a Pope to tell him when he's sinned?†   (source)
  • Poirot threw me a glance of reproof.   (source)
  • "I'm surprised at you for spreading rumors, William," she reproved him.†   (source)
  • 'No,' she said reprovingly, folding up the newspaper.†   (source)
  • 'Well, now, you shouldn't take that attitude,' said Nick reprovingly.†   (source)
  • 'Professor Snape, dear,' said Mrs Weasley reprovingly.†   (source)
  • I know,' said Aunt Harriet's voice, accepting the reproof in my mother's tone, but I had to, Emily.†   (source)
  • 'Chuck,' Colonel Korn corrected reprovingly.†   (source)
  • I really haven't the heart to reprove her.†   (source)
  • He added the saving clause under Milo's reproving eye.†   (source)
  • I had everything ready,' she told me reprovingly.†   (source)
  • 'You just came out of the hospital ten days ago,' Milo reminded him reprovingly.†   (source)
  • Her eyes dwelt reprovingly and curiously on the white-suited figure.†   (source)
  • Milo looked at him with reproof and turned back to his work.†   (source)
  • JAILER (Reprovingly) Now, miss, you don't want to get me into trouble.†   (source)
  • That's a silly question," reproved Rupert.†   (source)
  • Vita Brevis snorted; Ars Longa pricked up her ears and looked around reprovingly.†   (source)
  • Let me see that, my dear," she said reprovingly to Ron, sweeping over and snatching Harry's cup from him.†   (source)
  • "Corrie!" said Betsie reprovingly.†   (source)
  • This was not represented to the boy as a punishment, the idea being to instruct his unconscious that future lapses would entail inconvenience and hard work; but he was bound to feel it as reproof as he stood at the vast stone sink which rose level to his chest, suds creeping up his bare arms to soak his rolled-up shirtsleeves, the wet sheets as heavy as a dead dog and a general sense of calamity numbing his will.†   (source)
  • "Jace," Hodge said reprovingly.†   (source)
  • Jane shot the girl a reproving look.†   (source)
  • "Thee doesn't become a Quaker just to escape the Meeting," she said, and Kit flushed at the gentle reproof in her tone.†   (source)
  • That's wonderful!" said Hermione, giving Ron a reproving look because he looked as though he was close to laughing.†   (source)
  • Tom, Tom, if I knew I couldn't tell you," said Slughorn, wagging his finger reprovingly at Riddle, though winking at the same time.†   (source)
  • Don't I"-until she heard the cold, reproving voice of the operator say, "Your party does not answer."†   (source)
  • His look of accusation, as he whirled to Rearden, broke against the faintly contemptuous reproof of Rearden's voice: "That's no way to guard a building-if this is what you allowed to happen.†   (source)
  • Her face did not change, but a fault note in her voice acknowledged him, a note of gentleness, not reproof: "The old maps of the days before the tunnel.†   (source)
  • Aren't you always having to reprove me because I so persistently like what I like, without reference to the opinions of the world?†   (source)
  • 'You'd better not talk that way about Him, honey,' she warned him reprovingly in a low and hostile voice.†   (source)
  • When Stoddard's presence and help had been proffered to herself, Johnnie had not failed to find a gracious way of declining or avoiding; but you cannot reprove a sick man—a dying man.†   (source)
  • It thrilled Nurse Duckett rapturously that Yossarian could not keep his hands off her when they were together, although she would not let him slip them inside her bathing shorts during the day when anyone was near enough to see, not even when the only witness was Nurse Cramer, who sat on the other side of her sand dune with her reproving nose in the air and pretended not to see anything.†   (source)
  • A weaver works by the piece, but Mandy had been reproved too often for slovenly methods not to know that she might be fined for neglect.†   (source)
  • They were both naked, and raising a rumpus that brought everyone in the apartment into the hall to watch, each couple in a bedroom doorway, all of them naked except the aproned and sweatered old woman, who clucked reprovingly, and the lecherous, dissipated old man, who cackled aloud hilariously through the whole episode with a kind of avid and superior glee.†   (source)
  • Miss Sessions had smiled upon the piteous little group with a judicious mixture of patronage and mild reproof, and her driver had shaken the lines over the backs of the fat horses preparatory to moving on, when Stoddard's car turned into the street from the corner above.†   (source)
  • "Sis' Johnnie—Sis' Johnnie!" crowed Deanie; and then she was aware of sober, eleven-year-old Milo climbing down over the wheel and trying to help Lissy, while Pony got in his way and was gravely reproved.†   (source)
  • The pimp spun the turban high on his finger like a trophy and kept himself skipping inches ahead of her finger tips as he led her in a tantalizing circle around the square congested with people who were howling with laughter and pointing to Yossarian with derision when Milo strode up with a grim look of haste and puckered his lips reprovingly at the unseemly spectacle of so much vice and frivolity.†   (source)
  • The sexual memory in which I was drenched during that season in Brooklyn, whenever I forlornly unloosed the floodgates, was of uneasy darkness, sweat, reproving murmurs, bands and sinews of obdurate elastic, lacerating little hooks and snaps, whispered prohibitions, straining erections, stuck zippers and a warm miasmal odor of the secretions from inflamed and obstructed glands.†   (source)
  • TVRONE Reproving and pitying.†   (source)
  • George flushed slightly and gave Jean a glance of reproof, but there was no sign that their hostess noticed the barb.†   (source)
  • CHAPUYS (Glibly) "Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's— (He raises a reproving finger) But unto God-"†   (source)
  • Star turned her head, spoke in quiet reproval in the same language, made room for him and offered him a trout.†   (source)
  • "Good Heavens!" thought Scarlett, reproved into silence.†   (source)
  • His grim and caustic tongue reproved my indolence.†   (source)
  • And being of the older generation, he could not be reproved.†   (source)
  • 'He might have done worse,' he said reprovingly.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Keating shook her head, flustered, reproving and happy.†   (source)
  • And now how dared he reprove him for weeping when she was gone!†   (source)
  • That was what she wanted—the asperity in his voice reproving her.†   (source)
  • You're teaching your daughters to exaggerate," said Mr. Ramsay, reproving her.†   (source)
  • Across Eliza's white puckered face, thoughtful and reproving, a sly smile broke.†   (source)
  • "Not Hood," said Little John reprovingly.†   (source)
  • Melanie's voice, measured and peaceful, a little reproving, rose above the others.†   (source)
  • When I go to visit Contento in his stall, he looks at me reprovingly.†   (source)
  • Instead of punishment or reproof, she only regretted he had been shot.†   (source)
  • Then, with a laugh of teasing reproof, she said: "I believe you're a bad boy, Eugene.†   (source)
  • "And got the hawk, Master Kay," said Hob reprovingly.†   (source)
  • Conway glanced at him in appreciation, and at Mallinson with some hint of reproof; but then abruptly he had the feeling that they were all acting on a vast stage, of whose background only he himself was conscious; and such knowledge, so incommunicable, made him suddenly want to be alone.†   (source)
  • Because of the Bishop's reproof he had fallen into doubt, and did not return to the spot where the Lady said She would await him.†   (source)
  • He dreamed of himself as the redemptive hero, saving her in an hour of great danger, making her penitent with grave reproof, accepting purely the love she offered.†   (source)
  • "They are scarcely in season," said the old man reprovingly, and he walked off in the direction of the cottage.†   (source)
  • Her voice sounds gently reproving.†   (source)
  • Once my father found me peeping; questioned me; and said rather anxiously but reprovingly, "You shouldn't be so nervous, Jinny.†   (source)
  • Then I babbled, speaking with emotional reproof, censuring her for having misunderstood me; I must have spoken more loudly and harshly than was called for—the others had now gathered about me and Granny—for Granny drew away from me abruptly and went to a far corner of the church and stared at me with a cold, set face.†   (source)
  • Lucy raised her head, met the sister's reproving gaze, murmured humbly, "I'm sorry, Ellie, I'm sorry.†   (source)
  • Startled, at first horrified, at this lese majesty toward Atlanta's most beloved citizen, she stared reprovingly at him.†   (source)
  • Harold!" said Elk Duncan reprovingly.†   (source)
  • "This ain't no weather for a lady to be out in," said the soldier reprovingly, "with all this la grippe in the air.†   (source)
  • Eugene!" she said in mocking reproof.†   (source)
  • The sailor was shocked at his emaciation, and bullied him with blustering reproof: "Why didn't you t-t-tell me where you were, idiot?†   (source)
  • To think of her gentle mother reproving her so harshly and her father coming to town to talk to Captain Butler.†   (source)
  • More's the pity none of you have such hands," he added, casting fond but reproving glances at his girls.†   (source)
  • There was behind his scowling quiet eyes, something strange and fierce and unequivocal that frightened them: besides, he had secured for himself the kind of freedom they valued most—the economic freedom—and he spoke as he felt, answering their virtuous reproof with fierce quiet scorn.†   (source)
  • So, all was gone again—Cynthia, the shop, the hard-bought praise of soberness, the angel's head—he walked through the streets at dark, yelling his pentameter curse at Rebel ways, and all their indolence; but sick with fear and loss and penitence, he wilted under the town's reproving stare, becoming convinced, as the flesh wasted on his own gaunt frame, that Cynthia's scourge was doing vengeance now on him.†   (source)
  • It protected her from reproof, and it left no doubt in anyone's mind as to her exact views on any subject.†   (source)
  • Whenever Scarlett raised her voice in reproof, he went weak with fright as his vague childish memory brought up the horrors of the first time she had ever done it.†   (source)
  • Oh, I shan't marry anyone," said Wade confidently, luxuriating in a man-to-man talk with the one person, except Aunt Melly, who never reproved and always encouraged him.†   (source)
  • Her eyes were red-rimmed from tears and, after giving Scarlett a reproving look, she turned her gaze back to Suellen, a fierce angry gaze that boded ill for her.†   (source)
  • And then— Scarlett came abruptly out of her dream of delight, for she had neglected to make the responses and her mother was looking at her reprovingly.†   (source)
  • It was a voice never raised in command to a servant or reproof to a child but a voice that was obeyed instantly at Tara, where her husband's blustering and roaring were quietly disregarded.†   (source)
  • He took her to plays and annoyed her by whispering that God probably didn't approve of such amusements, and to churches and, sotto voce, retailed funny obscenities and then reproved her for laughing.†   (source)
  • He arranged his face in what he fancied was an expression of careless unconcern and cautiously returned Scarlett's pinch to show that he was man of the world enough to understand and accept her reproof.†   (source)
  • "I think—" said Pitty, "yes, I think I'd better write Henry a letter about it—much as I hate it—but he's our only male relative, and make him go speak reprovingly to Captain Butler— Oh, dear, if Charlie were only alive— You must never, never speak to that man again, Scarlett."†   (source)
  • As far back as Scarlett could remember, her mother had always been the same, her voice soft and sweet whether in praising or in reproving, her manner efficient and unruffled despite the daily emergencies of Gerald's turbulent household, her spirit always calm and her back unbowed, even in the deaths of her three baby sons.†   (source)
  • Ted was leaning back, smoking a cigarette without reproof.†   (source)
  • Dave, that's no way to tease Ory," he reproved, severely.†   (source)
  • It was difficult to reprove Bo just then, for that young lady had not the slightest fear of Riggs.†   (source)
  • Almost she felt like reproving herself for the comfort surrounding her.†   (source)
  • The Marchioness shook her head reprovingly.†   (source)
  • On this account the silence was irritably broken by a reproof.†   (source)
  • After the reproof the youth said no more.†   (source)
  • After reproving him for avoiding her, she took him for a long tete-a-tete in the moonlight.†   (source)
  • It was no time for gentlemanly reproof, so I turned round and felled him like an ox.†   (source)
  • "But you mustn't miss your dance," she reproved.†   (source)
  • "Lucy, dear--" said Miss Bartlett, gently reproving her cousin's penetration.†   (source)
  • "Gilbert!" pleaded his mother, reprovingly.†   (source)
  • There was weariness, dignity, even reproof in his question.†   (source)
  • Nicole reproved him when they were in their room alone.†   (source)
  • "We haven't seen you at the library yet," Miss Villets reproved.†   (source)
  • Maud shook her head, and there was reproof in her eyes.†   (source)
  • And my own son reproves me because I haven't given him religious instruction.†   (source)
  • The squat student looked at him seriously and shook his umbrella gently and reprovingly.†   (source)
  • He was a jolly boy, not at all shy, but talkative and with a cheekiness which his father reproved.†   (source)
  • "Now, don't you give way to gluttonous desires, my child," said the woman in weeds reprovingly.†   (source)
  • The reproofs with which he had planned to crush her vanished.†   (source)
  • And he took the shoddy reproof and touched it into immortality.†   (source)
  • Link Stevens looked up at her as if he had been reproved for his care.†   (source)
  • "I will take anything," he said, relieved, and wincing under reproof.†   (source)
  • He expected no answer and a dull one would have been reproved.†   (source)
  • He was cheerful, but never with the reproving and infuriating cheerfulness of an Ira Hinkley.†   (source)
  • But Maud said, "Tut, tut," in gentle reproval, and then asked why I was a blithering idiot.†   (source)
  • "Your humility, Mr. Bingley," said Elizabeth, "must disarm reproof."†   (source)
  • "Albert, Albert," said Madame de Morcerf, in a tone of mild reproof, "what are you saying?†   (source)
  • "No—not at all," said Gabriel, in a reproving tone of considerateness.†   (source)
  • Stepan Arkadyevitch shook his head and laughed reprovingly at Veslovsky.†   (source)
  • The jewelled forefinger shook itself at him reprovingly; but he could hear the old lady's chuckle.†   (source)
  • You could not give me a greater reproof for the mistake I fell into.†   (source)
  • "Fie, for shame!" said aunt Glegg, in her loudest, severest tone of reproof.†   (source)
  • And this particular reproof irritated him more than any other.†   (source)
  • The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.†   (source)
  • My guardian was assured of it, and never coupled his name with a word of reproof.†   (source)
  • The Bishop sent for him, reproved him gently, and appointed him beadle in the cathedral.†   (source)
  • "Go, go!" said Mr. Tulliver, reprovingly; "you mustn't say so.†   (source)
  • The Heights were Heathcliff's land, and he was reproving the poacher.†   (source)
  • My reproofs at Hunsford could not work such a change as this.†   (source)
  • "Why, you are worse than I thought you," says Mr. Tulkinghorn, muttering reproof to his watch.†   (source)
  • But what do you do gettin' out o' the highroad?" he added, with a tone of gruff reproof.†   (source)
  • He was a man reproved, he was the convict.†   (source)
  • But, then, my conduct is so inconsistent with my profession, I don't wonder you reprove me."†   (source)
  • But Levin had not the heart to reprove him.†   (source)
  • "I crave pardon, brave Outlaw," said the Knight, "your reproof is just.†   (source)
  • Tim Linkinwater shook his head with an air of mild reproof.†   (source)
  • If you had just reversed the nod and the bow, it would have been right," said Amy reprovingly.†   (source)
  • What could this man, who was reproved, say to that woman, who was dead?†   (source)
  • Philip's glance unconsciously went to the absinthe, and Cronshaw, seeing it, gave him the quizzical look with which he reproved the admonitions of common sense.†   (source)
  • Spitz was the leader, likewise experienced, and while he could not always get at Buck, he growled sharp reproof now and again, or cunningly threw his weight in the traces to jerk Buck into the way he should go.†   (source)
  • The reproofs she committed to memory, going about the garden and saying them aloud like an actor memorizing his part.†   (source)
  • A soft peal of mirthless laughter escaped from his lips and, bending down as before, he struck Stephen lightly across the calf of the leg with his cane, as if in jesting reproof.†   (source)
  • Her ever-sensitive lip began to quiver, and her eye to blink, at something this reproof was deciding her to say.†   (source)
  • He seemed to feel that by his own irreproachable regularity he would clear himself of blame and reprove the weather.†   (source)
  • He resolved that never through remissness would he make himself liable to such a visitation or do or omit aught that might merit even verbal reproof.†   (source)
  • It was because he understood the reproof of my action, rather than of my words, that he held up his palm for inspection.†   (source)
  • Miss Bart stared in affected reproval.†   (source)
  • Jim's voice, suddenly raised with a stern intonation, carried across the courtyard, reproving the carelessness of some dumb sinner by the river-side.†   (source)
  • Lowering his voice and infusing a hint of reproof into it, he said: "Evie will probably be married in September.†   (source)
  • As he lay in his narrow upper bunk at midnight, he saw her eyes, now impertinent, now reproving, now warm with trust in him.†   (source)
  • We should not reprove or judge.†   (source)
  • For him to resent such reproof was equally unexpected to her, and she sprang upon him in snarling indignation.†   (source)
  • I shall reprove Elder Tull.†   (source)
  • But in that decorum he had never been instructed; in consideration of which the Lieutenant would hardly have been so energetic in reproof but for the concluding farewell to the ship.†   (source)
  • His mother represented power; and as he grew older he felt this power in the sharper admonishment of her paw; while the reproving nudge of her nose gave place to the slash of her fangs.†   (source)
  • It was just what Archer's eldest son, the pride of his life, was doing; and nobody wondered or reproved.†   (source)
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