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upbraid
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  • She telephoned Dominic Poggio almost daily, and she upbraided him that his delivery service was going to the dogs.  (source)
  • It is much harder to work for such a person, as just when you are curtsying and Ma'am-ing them, they turn around and upbraid you for being so stiff and formal, and want to confide in you, and expect the same in return.†  (source)
  • True to her promise, Melanie clung to Scarlett's skirts like a small rustling shadow and Gerald was too much of a gentleman to upbraid his daughter in front of her.†  (source)
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  • You left me too: but I won't upbraid you!†  (source)
  • She was quizzed constantly, praised for her successes, and upbraided for even the smallest mistake or hesitation.†  (source)
  • Mistaking her, upbraiding her, owing her, now he needed to let her know he knew, and to get right with her and her kin.†  (source)
  • Mrs. Nightwing straightens her spine as she does when she upbraids one of us.†  (source)
  • Doctor Mandelet paid no attention to Madame Ratignolle's upbraidings.†  (source)
  • He felt himself riding over the hills in the breezy autumn days, looking after favourite plans of drainage and enclosure; then admired on sombre mornings as the best rider on the best horse in the hunt; spoken well of on market-days as a first-rate landlord; by and by making speeches at election dinners, and showing a wonderful knowledge of agriculture; the patron of new ploughs and drills, the severe upbraider of negligent landowners, and withal a jolly fellow that everybody must like—happy faces greeting him everywhere on his own estate, and the neighbouring families on the best terms with him.†  (source)
  • I see you can say nothing in the first place, you are faint still, and have enough to do to draw your breath; in the second place, you cannot yet accustom yourself to accuse and revile me, and besides, the flood-gates of tears are opened, and they would rush out if you spoke much; and you have no desire to expostulate, to upbraid, to make a scene: you are thinking how TO ACT — TALKING you consider is of no use.†  (source)
  • She upbraided herself for the sentiment, but could not overcome or lessen it.†  (source)
  • You will not thank me for detaining you from the bewitching converse of that young lady, whose bright eyes are also upbraiding me.†  (source)
  • Homer seems to address this difficulty in Book XXI (441-60) where Poseidon upbraids Apollo for having forgot Laomedon's insult, and the poet provides a basis on which we might understand their different loyalties by retelling the story differently: now Poseidon says that what Apollo actually did was tend Laomedon's herds while he built the wall.†  (source)
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