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  • "Nothing holds an edge like Valyrian steel," Little-finger said as Varys sucked at his bleeding thumb and looked at Catelyn with sullen admonition.†   (source)
  • My stepfather's final admonition to me went unheeded as I absolved myself of all responsibility and stayed out of the house as much as possible, thus avoiding the emotional impact of watching Mommy suffer.†   (source)
  • A lot of her admonitions had to do with not showing what you really meant about all sorts of things: hope, disappointment, and especially love.†   (source)
  • He issued instructions that anticipated by many years Louis Sullivan's famous admonition that form must follow function.†   (source)
  • The soldiers around him stood closer, barking admonitions and threats back at him.†   (source)
  • Then Iremembered Chicharron's admonition.†   (source)
  • I listened to her, and thought, as only a bachelor uncle can: "That's just the sort of admonition that sets kids up for failure.†   (source)
  • Miyamoto," he said, and his tone suggested admonition.†   (source)
  • Usually, Dede was full of admonitions about Jaimito's reckless driving, but now she found herself pressing her own foot on an invisible gas pedal.†   (source)
  • A bookmark lay between its pages, a stiff piece of watered silk upon which an admonition had been embroidered: "Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is."†   (source)
  • I remembered the lieutenant's admonition and stayed put.†   (source)
  • They added urgent admonitions to Mr. MacPherson to have locked up in the Company's safe various important papers which they had sent, at Stoddard's request, for signature, and which they supposed from the date, must be lying with his other mail.†   (source)
  • Aureliano and Amaranta Ursula were not aware of the family precedent, nor did they remember Ursula's frightening admonitions, and the midwife pacified them with the idea that the tail could be cut off when the child got his second teeth.†   (source)
  • The youngsters were sent ashore with their personal gear and an admonition that they had not seen, felt, heard, or otherwise noticed anything unusual on the Ethan Allen.†   (source)
  • Despite Glaedr's admonition, he again whispered his true name, and once more his entire being shook from the force of the words.†   (source)
  • A number of shaped sayings, words that formed triangles and tall palms, trees of life perhaps—sayings in English about the passage of the soul and the eye of God, and there were mystical eyes and admonitory hands on all four walls and the ceiling.†   (source)
  • Then his SAC's admonition came back to him.†   (source)
  • One or two were angry that they had to respond, felt the poem, combined with Gallagher's admonition that they react, was an act of aggression on her part and mine.†   (source)
  • I remembered Cheery's admonition: "Keep it light.†   (source)
  • I sat reflecting upon what he'd said, and what weighed as heavily upon me through all of it were Claudia's strange admonitions, that this gentle-eyed young man had said to her, 'Die,' and beyond that my slowly accumulating disgust with the vampires in the ballroom above.†   (source)
  • Madame Wang offered the same admonition she had given Snow Flower the last time.†   (source)
  • Principal Jones, suave as always, sporting a dark, tailored suit, today with a sharp, yellow tie, starts with an admonition, chiding the assembled that "our young people have prepared speeches and if you are quiet, they can continue…."†   (source)
  • His mother, Felicitas Faz, warned him that the women there were faster and wilder than the mujer catolica joven, the good churchgoing girls from San Antonio, lie took his mother's admonition in stride and prayed she was right.†   (source)
  • And as if to underscore the ambiguity of the admiral's mission, transports loaded with troops bore such names as Good Intent, Friendship, Amity's Admonition, and Father's Good Will.†   (source)
  • It's the shield Panov did not precisely subscribe to the admonition, but there were times when he felt it had socially interactive validity.†   (source)
  • In a few seasons he straitened the coltishness with admonitions, faded the pink and gold with preaching, and produced a sad, grey wraith of wifehood who died, unprotesting, a year after her second son was born.†   (source)
  • They based this new rule on the admonition found in Proverbs 27:2: Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.†   (source)
  • Cuffing a youth who was prying at the caravan doors, the ferryman repeated his admonition in a louder voice.†   (source)
  • She wondered why it kept growing in direct proportion to her self-admonitions that faith was the duty she owed him.†   (source)
  • "Handle with care" was the admonition scrawled on the remains of a photo album.†   (source)
  • Her admonition is interrupted by a loud shout from one of the workers.†   (source)
  • As the deputy hands Mick Moron his ticket, I'm feeling all warm and fuzzy, until his final admonition.†   (source)
  • He could always unsettle her face with a stem admonition or an old joke or pun in Korean.†   (source)
  • When a situation arises, the legislature will interpret the clause as only an admonition and yield to the real or imagined needs of the State.†   (source)
  • "Shakespeare's admonition that the first thing we do is kill all the lawyers."†   (source)
  • Recalling recent admonitions I kept this message to the ten-word minimum, which was probably just as well, for those ten words, inadequately understood in Peru, and no doubt thoroughly corrupted by double translation, were sufficient to cause something of a crisis — as I was to learn many months later.†   (source)
  • Fifteen years later, while in the toils of a successful battle with my addiction to cigarettes, I would recall Nathan's admonition—for some reason especially that word haggard—like a voice from the grave.†   (source)
  • The messages that were meant to "go with him"—and which did—the farewell from his mother on the day of her death; and the doctor's following words that thechild's own life would be short; the admonition from his Aunt Penina to bear his cross and murmur not—made a sum that he had been left to ponder over from the time he had learned to read.†   (source)
  • But– (hand raised in admonition)– but behind this veil of gentleness and peace, night is charging (vibrantly) and will burst upon us (snaps his fingers) pop! like that!†   (source)
  • By means of teachings, prayer, admonition?†   (source)
  • Neither Dudorov nor Gordon realized that even their admonitions to Zhivago were prompted less by a friendly wish to influence his conduct than by their inability to think with freedom and to guide the conversation at will.†   (source)
  • "From that hour," he later wrote, "not a day passed that did not bring me, by mail and telegraph and inpersonal intercourse, appeals to stand fast for impeachment, and not a few were the admonitions of condign visitations upon any indication even of lukewarmness."†   (source)
  • More than once the air has been filled with the van Daans' admonitions and my saucy replies.   (source)
  • ...and since I'm generally considered to be the worst behaved of the three young people, it's all I can do to avoid having the same old scoldings and admonitions repeatedly flung at my head and to pretend not to hear.   (source)
  • Between the red stones of the highest peak!" shrieked Skeedle, despite Hrunta's glaring admonition.†   (source)
  • Admonitions to search my dark corners, as if she weren't the most evil soul I've ever met.†   (source)
  • Conklin did not hear the Soviet's final admonition.†   (source)
  • At last, Narcissa hurried up a street named Spinner's End, over which the towering mill chimney seemed to hover like a giant admonitory finger.†   (source)
  • Despite the ominous admonitions of Leviticus 19:28, which forbade the marking of one's flesh, tattoos had become a rite of passage shared by millions of people in the modern age—everyone from clean-cut teenagers to hard-core drug users to suburban housewives.†   (source)
  • For the first time ever, she was at least as inattentive to Professor Binns in History of Magic as Harry and Ron were, keeping up a stream of whispered admonitions that Harry tried very hard to ignore.†   (source)
  • For three hours—until six o'clock—he persisted in the same inexorable vein: that Judge Fielding's admonitions should be heeded with the utmost seriousness and that reasonable doubt existed.†   (source)
  • Then he remembered his mother's admonition about training the dogs on exercises they had already mastered, so he chose Finch instead.†   (source)
  • Despite her admonition not to start fights, our unspoken honor code made it easy to convince someone else to start a fight for you.†   (source)
  • She led him out of her office and up the stone stairs, calling out instructions and admonitions to helpers and children as she passed.†   (source)
  • Starrett recalled being moved by Burnham's frequent admonition: "Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood."†   (source)
  • "If you gave me a peso for every premonition, dream, admonition we've been told this month, we'd be able to —"†   (source)
  • He leaned against the wall and thought of his grandfather and of Brooks's never-ending admonitions, and he thought of Hachiko.†   (source)
  • Wondering what was in store for their children, he poured out heartfelt advice and admonitions to each of them.†   (source)
  • The small band of concerned citizens broke up quickly, a few making gestures of admonition, others running back to their escorts and companions.†   (source)
  • Now of course I fear darker chance lies ahead for her and Thomas if I don't soon retract myself from their lives, that something terrible and final will befall them as did Anne Hickey, smash them without any sign of admonition.†   (source)
  • Then the stories vanished abruptly and the newspapers kept silent, then began to print admonitions urging people not to believe unpatriotic rumors.†   (source)
  • Earlier, Adams had vowed to Rush that the admonition "rejoice ever more" would "never be out of my heart, memory, or mouth again as long as I live, if I can help it."†   (source)
  • "I've talked with her a few times and I'm thinking about asking her out," he continues excitedly, before an admonition from Bishop Long suddenly echoes through his conscience.†   (source)
  • With that admonition expressed, Aunt then rewarded us with the romantic story of the local woman who invented our secret writing.†   (source)
  • It certainly fit within the framework of the admonition of Proverbs 27:2 to "Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips."†   (source)
  • Cedric takes more notes, most reflecting on how Mr. Fleming passes judgment with his booming admonitions and cutting asides.†   (source)
  • ENTRANCE FORBIDDEN AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY It was a foolish admonition, he thought, as he took out a thin plastic card from his pocket and shoved it slowly, carefully, into a slot on the right.†   (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'm just saying that you need to discharge Snow Flower from your thoughts," my mother-in-law said, and finished with a variation of her usual admonition.†   (source)
  • What frightened Cedric about this place, what kept him away all year, went beyond a lifetime of admonitions from Bishop Long about black . people ruinously giving in to temptation or Barbara's zero tolerance for alcohol and sexual indiscretion.†   (source)
  • Cedric knows all this, just as he knows his resistance was made possible, back when, by Barbara's fierce code, Pastor Long's admonitions against all such licentiousness, and the constant reminders of Cedric Gilliam's broken journey, testifying to what can happen when someone without hope of personal betterment discovers drinking and drugs.†   (source)
  • " Leslie's response to this was gratifying—a throaty, deeply appreciative contralto whoop which caused heads to turn at adjoining tables, along with an admonitory look from an elderly waiter.†   (source)
  • He listened with constricted face to Eliza's admonition.†   (source)
  • "Easy Kushyl" their admonitions seethed.†   (source)
  • He jeered at his wickedness and at all the things that make the admonitory world groan.†   (source)
  • But now, Scarlett pushed that admonition into the back of her mind.†   (source)
  • Pat disregarded these admonitions.†   (source)
  • Her manners had been imposed upon her by her mother's gentle admonitions and the sterner discipline of her mammy; her eyes were her own.†   (source)
  • The heat was almost gone out of the radiators: the cold iron fluting stern signal and admonition for sleeping, the little death, the renewal.†   (source)
  • His principal pleasure, apart from his work, was to take an occasional trip to Hiroshima to eat Chinese food in the basement of the Grand Hotel, lighting up, at the end of the meal, a cigarette of the brand Mild Seven, which had printed on its packet, besides its name in English, this courteous Japanese admonition: "Let's be careful not to smoke too much, for the sake of our health.†   (source)
  • As for the Latin, it was talked at such a speed that the rafters rang with genitive plurals—and there was such a prelatical issuing of admonitions, exhortations and benedictions that it was a wonder the whole congregation did not go to heaven on the spot Even the Pope, who was as keen as anybody that the thing should go with a swing, had kindly sent a number of indulgences for everybody he could think of.†   (source)
  • Of all the thousand women who wrote novels then, they alone entirely ignored the perpetual admonitions of the eternal pedagogue—write this, think that.†   (source)
  • Lombard held up an admonitory finger.†   (source)
  • But now Gerald had bawled the words "Fort Sumter," and every man present forgot his host's admonition.†   (source)
  • He left home with his mother's hasty kiss on his cheek and her fervent Catholic blessing in his ears, and his father's parting admonition, "Remember who ye are and don't be taking nothing off no man."†   (source)
  • Rebelliously she leaned her elbows on the counter and looked at the crowd, flouting Mammy's oft-repeated admonition against leaning on elbows and making them ugly and wrinkled.†   (source)
  • Ellen, by soft-voiced admonition, and Mammy, by constant carping, labored to inculcate in her the qualities that would make her truly desirable as a wife.†   (source)
  • And perhaps dear Scarlett could find some ease for her sorrow, as Melly is doing, by nursing our brave boys in the hospitals here—and, of course, Melly and I are longing to see the dear baby…… " So Scarlett's trunk was packed again with her mourning clothes and off she went to Atlanta with Wade Hampton and his nurse Prissy, a headful of admonitions as to her conduct from Ellen and Mammy and a hundred dollars in Confederate bills from Gerald.†   (source)
  • The lank brown horses knew it and shook their bells to the clear night in admonition.†   (source)
  • How supreme its command of admonition and of poetry!†   (source)
  • Flo left with a parting admonition not to let the stove get red-hot.†   (source)
  • Presently Bo, who was not obeying admonitions, drew her head out of the window.†   (source)
  • Milly did not need such admonition, so far as her stepfather was concerned.†   (source)
  • She shot an admonitory glance at her son, who said: "Immensely, sir.†   (source)
  • He even laid a hand on the shoulder of the Indian, as a sort of admonition to command himself.†   (source)
  • So the maternal admonition seemed rather to fail of effect.†   (source)
  • The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may.†   (source)
  • Ah, ye admonitions and warnings! why stay ye not when ye come?†   (source)
  • "Come not away!" cried Esther, in tones that sounded like the admonitions of some sibyl.†   (source)
  • "Red man," said June, lifting a finger in admonition to be prudent.†   (source)
  • " "And what's the meaning of 'no lack of admonitions and warnings'?" asked Alyosha.†   (source)
  • The only scriptural admonition that Ralph Nickleby heeded, in the letter, was 'know thyself.'†   (source)
  • The power of admonition which had begun to stir in Mrs. Garth had not yet discharged itself.†   (source)
  • I promised, as well as I could, that I would not abuse her kindness or forget her admonition.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, the purport of the remark, which was either jealousy or admonition, haunted him with the possibility of its meaning.†   (source)
  • He made remarks that were not witty, whilst his chief launched forth patriarchal admonitions against the colliers.†   (source)
  • The old dignitary, as patron of the family, took the opportunity of murmuring some kind of admonition to the general, and added, in flattering terms, that he was most interested in Aglaya's future.†   (source)
  • He arose coldly and distantly, but Clyde, very much encouraged and enthused by the sudden jump in salary, as well as the admonition in regard to dressing well, felt so grateful toward his cousin that he longed to be friendly with him.†   (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)
  • And abruptly he took up a new attitude towards his friend, the attitude of the protector who knows the dangers of India and is admonitory.†   (source)
  • The Countess greeted them with her grave smile, and Archer, feeling his host's admonitory glance on him, rose and surrendered his seat.†   (source)
  • There were scores of advertisements in the booklet, and on one page the admonition: "There's no rule that you have to trade with your Fellow Boosters, but get wise, boy—what's the use of letting all this good money get outside of our happy fambly?"†   (source)
  • After a final admonition to use each needle only once and to treat the disks "the way you would raw eggs," Behrens had retired for the evening.†   (source)
  • His conversation was a series of maxims and admonitions: "If you stay with the Department of Public Health for a couple of years and take care to meet the right people, you'll be able to go into very lucrative practice here.†   (source)
  • He settled to his repast with the charming little "table manner" that, from the day of his arrival, had relieved me of all grossness of admonition.†   (source)
  • And the thews of Billy were hardly compatible with that sort of sensitive spiritual organisation which in some cases instinctively conveys to ignorant innocence an admonition of the proximity of the malign.†   (source)
  • It was the last tram; the lank brown horses knew it and shook their bells to the clear night in admonition.†   (source)
  • For fifteen wild minutes she talked, pouring out admonitions to flee the wrath to come, and her face flushed, her dead voice recaptured something of the shrill energy of the old Zilla.†   (source)
  • And with this parting admonition, leaving Clyde to his thoughts and himself feeling no least doubt of his guilt and that nothing less than the Griffiths' millions, if so they chose to spend them, could save him from a fate which was no doubt due him.†   (source)
  • Martin was off again, and if Leora did not altogether understand the relation of the synthesis of antibodies to the work of Arrhenius, yet she listened with comfortable pleasure in his zeal, with none of Madeline Fox's gently corrective admonitions.†   (source)
  • While the Miss Schlegels were together he had felt them scarcely human—a sort of admonitory whirligig.†   (source)
  • There he sits in the grass, sheepishly rubbing his eyes, like a man who, despite many an admonition, has failed to read the daily papers.†   (source)
  • But the hour being late and the admonitions of Hegglund, Ratterer and Higby being all for speed, and the mood of Sparser, because of the looks bestowed upon him by Hortense, being the gayest and most drunken, it was not long before the outlying lamps of the environs began to show.†   (source)
  • And whereas Settembrini had spoken behind Naphta's back in tones of pathos-laden admonition about the Jesuit, as if he were somehow diabolic, Naphta made unperturbed fun of the other man and the sphere he came from, suggesting that the whole thing was terribly old-fashioned and backward, an attempt at bourgeois enlightenment perpetrated by yesterday's freethinkers, when in fact it was nothing more than a wretched intellectual mirage, which its self-deluded adherents ludicrously…†   (source)
  • The confession came only from Stephen's lips and, while they spoke the words, a sudden memory had carried him to another scene called up, as if by magic, at the moment when he had noted the faint cruel dimples at the corners of Heron's smiling lips and had felt the familiar stroke of the cane against his calf and had heard the familiar word of admonition: —Admit.†   (source)
  • The priest stepped back and turned to say a few words of admonition and consolation to Katerina Ivanovna on leaving.†   (source)
  • With an admonitory gesture to keep them back, he stooped, and looked in through the crevice in the wall.†   (source)
  • He told them that steps would be taken immediately to free his serfs—and that till then they were not to be overburdened with labor, women while nursing their babies were not to be sent to work, assistance was to be given to the serfs, punishments were to be admonitory and not corporal, and hospitals, asylums, and schools were to be established on all the estates.†   (source)
  • "I have solicited this interview from your superior, monsieur," he said, "because I believe he will allow himself to be persuaded that he has already done everything which is necessary for the honor of his prince, and will now listen to the admonitions of humanity.†   (source)
  • Pansy's sympathy was a direct admonition; it seemed to say that here was an opportunity, not eminent perhaps, but unmistakeable.†   (source)
  • She was disheartened by Lady Bertram's silence, awed by Sir Thomas's grave looks, and quite overcome by Mrs. Norris's admonitions.†   (source)
  • With which remark, which appears from its sound to be an extract in verse, Mr. Chadband stalks to the table, and before taking a chair, lifts up his admonitory hand.†   (source)
  • The clergyman stayed to exchange a few sentences, either of admonition or reproof, with his haughty parishioner; this duty done, he too departed.†   (source)
  • "You'll catch it, you know," said Tom, nodding his head in an admonitory manner, and hesitating a little as he took the scissors.†   (source)
  • We have no need, therefore, to say that d'Artagnan dared not join in the conversation, only he looked with all his eyes and listened with all his ears, stretching his five senses so as to lose nothing; and despite his confidence on the paternal admonitions, he felt himself carried by his tastes and led by his instincts to praise rather than to blame the unheard-of things which were taking place.†   (source)
  • It may be that our brother Bois-Guilbert does in this matter deserve rather pity than severe chastisement; rather the support of the staff, than the strokes of the rod; and that our admonitions and prayers may turn him from his folly, and restore him to his brethren.†   (source)
  • But I recall vividly enough that the response most elicited, in general, to these restless appeals was the rather grim admonition that romantic and historic sites, such as the land of Italy abounds in, offer the artist a questionable aid to concentration when they themselves are not to be the subject of it.†   (source)
  • Content with his brief admonition, the naturalist had surmounted half the difficulties of the ascent before the deliberate Abner ended his justification.†   (source)
  • Silas, feeling bound to accept rebuke and admonition as a brotherly office, felt no resentment, but only pain, at his friend's doubts concerning him; and to this was soon added some anxiety at the perception that Sarah's manner towards him began to exhibit a strange fluctuation between an effort at an increased manifestation of regard and involuntary signs of shrinking and dislike.†   (source)
  • I felt perplexed: I didn't know whether it were not a proper opportunity to offer a bit of admonition.†   (source)
  • He caught sight of a corner of the wall on which was placarded the most peaceable sheet of paper in the world, a permission to eat eggs, a Lenten admonition addressed by the Archbishop of Paris to his "flock."†   (source)
  • A few light field-pieces stood in the area of the fort, ready to be conveyed to any point where they might be wanted, and one or two heavy iron guns looked out from the summits of the advanced angles, as so many admonitions to the audacious to respect their power.†   (source)
  • Now, valuing his morning services as I did, and resolved not to lose them; yet, at the same time made uncomfortable by his inflamed ways after twelve o'clock; and being a man of peace, unwilling by my admonitions to call forth unseemly retorts from him; I took upon me, one Saturday noon (he was always worse on Saturdays), to hint to him, very kindly, that perhaps now that he was growing old, it might be well to abridge his labors; in short, he need not come to my chambers after twelve…†   (source)
  • "That is a seasonable admonition," said Mr. Casaubon; "but now we will pass on to the house, lest the young ladies should be tired of standing."†   (source)
  • His good nature checked his resenting the young minister's lofty admonitions, and his tough, inelastic sense of humor forbade his taking them seriously.†   (source)
  • The rites were the same as those performed at the beginning of a voyage, and to him, when noticed, they were always an admonition.†   (source)
  • Bull's-eye wagged his tail in acknowledgment of this unusually endearing form of speech; and, giving vent to another admonitory growl for the benefit of Oliver, led the way onward.†   (source)
  • 'Assuredly, sir,' returned Mrs. Sparsit, 'you did, in a highly impressive manner, give him such an admonition.'†   (source)
  • Truly, having by this time said everything she could say in maintenance of her wonderfully mythical position, and in admonition to Mr Meagles that he must not expect to bear his honours of alliance too cheaply, Mrs Gowan was disposed to forgo the rest.†   (source)
  • Twilight combined with the scenery of Egdon Heath to evolve a thing majestic without severity, impressive without showiness, emphatic in its admonitions, grand in its simplicity.†   (source)
  • 'Thou hast had no lack of admonitions and warnings, but Thou didst not listen to those warnings; Thou didst reject the only way by which men might be made happy.†   (source)
  • Returning suddenly to her admonitory tone, she said, dropping her voice, "If you must have a 'vent', Teddy, go and devote yourself to one of the 'pretty, modest girls' whom you do respect, and not waste your time with the silly ones."†   (source)
  • It was the pregnancy of solemn admonition in the singular, low, hissing utterance; and, above all, it was the character, the tone, the key, of those few, simple, and familiar, yet whispered syllables, which came with a thousand thronging memories of bygone days, and struck upon my soul with the shock of a galvanic battery.†   (source)
  • Nicholas needed no further admonition, but 'tumbled up' at once, and proceeded to dress himself by the light of the taper, which Mr Squeers carried in his hand.†   (source)
  • On whose judgement,' said my aunt, with emphasis, as an admonition to Mr. Dick, who was biting his forefinger and looking rather foolish, 'I rely.'†   (source)
  • Mrs. Bird, looking the very picture of delight, was superintending the arrangements of the table, ever and anon mingling admonitory remarks to a number of frolicsome juveniles, who were effervescing in all those modes of untold gambol and mischief that have astonished mothers ever since the flood.†   (source)
  • One morning, he threw him this admonition:— "My dear fellow, you produce upon me the effect of being located in the moon, the realm of dreams, the province of illusions, capital, soap-bubble.†   (source)
  • The more he thought of the Jew's admonition, the more he was at a loss to divine its real purpose and meaning.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Touchett had telegraphed an acknowledgement of this admonition, and the only further news Isabel received from her was the second telegram I have just quoted.†   (source)
  • Her frequent forgetfulness of this admonition intensified her startled manner, since Mr Flintwinch's habit of avenging himself on her remissness by making springs after her on the staircase, and shaking her, occasioned her to be always nervously uncertain when she might be thus waylaid next.†   (source)
  • "True, girl, true; but we feel sorrow for everybody that's in trouble, you know," returned the other in a quick, admonitory manner and a low tone.†   (source)
  • Isabel listened with extreme respect to this admonition, but she said after a minute: "I must tell you that what I shall think about is some way of letting you know that what you ask is impossible—letting you know it without making you miserable."†   (source)
  • Fortunately his elder sister perceives the cause of the agitation in Mrs. Bagnet's breast and with an admonitory poke recalls him.†   (source)
  • "Ay, ay," said uncle Glegg, with admonition which he meant to be kind, "we must look to see the good of all this schooling, as your father's sunk so much money in, now,— 'When land is gone and money's spent, Then learning is most excellent.'†   (source)
  • …of youth declines; as years and dumps increase; as reflection lends her solemn pauses; in short, as a general lassitude overtakes the sated Turk; then a love of ease and virtue supplants the love for maidens; our Ottoman enters upon the impotent, repentant, admonitory stage of life, forswears, disbands the harem, and grown to an exemplary, sulky old soul, goes about all alone among the meridians and parallels saying his prayers, and warning each young Leviathan from his amorous errors.†   (source)
  • When he sees a folded and sealed scrap of paper float around the globe in a pine ship and come safe to the eye for which it was written, amidst a swarming population, let him likewise feel the admonition to integrate his being across all these distracting forces, and keep a slender human word among the storms, distances and accidents that drive us hither and thither, and, by persistency, make the paltry force of one man reappear to redeem its pledge after months and years in the most…†   (source)
  • 'Ah, she's a clever girl, my dears,' said the Jew, turning round to his young friends, and shaking his head gravely, as if in mute admonition to them to follow the bright example they had just beheld.†   (source)
  • It cannot answer to be eccentric; you should think what will be generally liked," said Rosamond, in a decided little tone of admonition.†   (source)
  • The chidings of Esther were not heard among her young, or if heard, they were more in the tones of softened admonition, than in her usual, upbraiding, key.†   (source)
  • They were not without admonitions and warnings, however, and Judith felt the blood mounting to her temples, and a cold shudder succeeding, as she read one in which the propriety of the daughter's indulging in as much intimacy as had evidently been described in one of the daughter's own letters, with an officer "who came from Europe, and who could hardly be supposed to wish to form an honorable connection in America," was rather coldly commented on by the mother.†   (source)
  • The jarring natures of the two boys effected what Mr. Tulliver's admonition alone might have failed to effect; in spite of Philip's new kindness, and Tom's answering regard in this time of his trouble, they never became close friends.†   (source)
  • A gun at this moment was discharged from a blockhouse near the fort; and the shot, one of light weight, came whistling over the cutter's mast, an admonition to approach no nearer.†   (source)
  • There is for everything a theory, which proclaims itself "good sense"; Philintus against Alcestis; mediation offered between the false and the true; explanation, admonition, rather haughty extenuation which, because it is mingled with blame and excuse, thinks itself wisdom, and is often only pedantry.†   (source)
  • Nikolay Parfenovitch was obviously apprehensive of the effect her appearance might have on Mitya, and he muttered a few words of admonition to him, but Mitya bowed his head in silence, giving him to understand "that he would not make a scene."†   (source)
  • "Don't you think any more," returns Mr. Bucket with admonitory finger, "of throwing yourself out of window.†   (source)
  • It was difficult to interrogate without appearing to suggest; Pansy's supreme simplicity, an innocence even more complete than Isabel had yet judged it, gave to the most tentative enquiry something of the effect of an admonition.†   (source)
  • Bestowing no further notice upon his eccentric follower than a threatening look, and an admonition to be careful and make no mistake, Ralph took his hat and gloves, and walked out.†   (source)
  • Not to obtrude doctrine upon you,' she looked at the rigid pile of hard pale books before her, '(for you go your own way, and the consequences are on your own head), I will say this much: that I shape my course by pilots, strictly by proved and tried pilots, under whom I cannot be shipwrecked—can not be—and that if I were unmindful of the admonition conveyed in those three letters, I should not be half as chastened as I am.'†   (source)
  • I heard so much of Twenty Seven, of his pious admonitions to everybody around him, and of the beautiful letters he constantly wrote to his mother (whom he seemed to consider in a very bad way), that I became quite impatient to see him.†   (source)
  • His appearance, after visiting Mrs. Smallweed with one of these admonitions, is particularly impressive and not wholly prepossessing, firstly because the exertion generally twists his black skull-cap over one eye and gives him an air of goblin rakishness, secondly because he mutters violent imprecations against Mrs. Smallweed, and thirdly because the contrast between those powerful expressions and his powerless figure is suggestive of a baleful old malignant who would be very wicked if…†   (source)
  • Masses of the ignorant people as well as men of distinction flocked, for instance, to the elders of our monastery to confess their doubts, their sins, and their sufferings, and ask for counsel and admonition.†   (source)
  • Middleton lost all recollection of Ellen, in the danger which now so eminently beset his recovered bride; nor is it necessary to add, that Dr. Battius did not wait for a second admonition to commence his retreat.†   (source)
  • But a full-fed fountain will be generous with its waters even in the rain, when they are worse than useless; and a fine fount of admonition is apt to be equally irrepressible.†   (source)
  • Master Bates backed this advice with sundry moral admonitions of his own: which, being exhausted, he and his friend Mr. Dawkins launched into a glowing description of the numerous pleasures incidental to the life they led, interspersed with a variety of hints to Oliver that the best thing he could do, would be to secure Fagin's favour without more delay, by the means which they themselves had employed to gain it.†   (source)
  • "Well," said Mr. Riley, in an admonitory, patronizing tone as he patted Maggie on the head, "I advise you to put by the 'History of the Devil,' and read some prettier book.†   (source)
  • I was greatly elated by these orders; but my heart smote me for my selfishness, when I witnessed their effect on Mr. Dick, who was so low-spirited at the prospect of our separation, and played so ill in consequence, that my aunt, after giving him several admonitory raps on the knuckles with her dice-box, shut up the board, and declined to play with him any more.†   (source)
  • …the old sailor was little accustomed to view even death with any approach to the gravity which its importance demands; and notwithstanding all that had passed, and his real regard for his brother-in-law, he now entered the room of the dying man with much of that callous unconcern which was the fruit of long training in a school that, while it gives so many lessons in the sublimest truths, generally wastes its admonitions on scholars who are little disposed to profit by them.†   (source)
  • As this admonition was accompanied with a threatening gesture, and uttered with a savage aspect, the little boy rubbed his face harder, as if to keep the tears back; and, beyond alternately sniffing and choking, gave no further vent to his emotions.†   (source)
  • …under his nose, it followed, as a matter of course, that he looked all over his desk for it, without finding it; and happening in the course of his search to look straight before him, his gaze encountered the pale and terrified face of Oliver Twist: who, despite all the admonitory looks and pinches of Bumble, was regarding the repulsive countenance of his future master, with a mingled expression of horror and fear, too palpable to be mistaken, even by a half-blind magistrate.†   (source)
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