I hope that you slept well, that you were undisturbed, that you will not rise too early, that you will not catch cold, nor stoop too much, nor overstrain yourself, nor scold your servants, nor stumble over the threshold of the adjoining room.

This ducking stool was intended for the special benefit of vixens and scolding wives.

I never knew; but I recollect, that after he was gone, I heard one of the old ladies scolding a servant-girl for wasting so many matches in lighting the candles, and making such a terrible smell of brimstone in the house.

You are surely not going to scold a son of yours because he happens to be on friendly terms with a pretty girl!

Such things should not be reckoned as faults big enough to scold children for.

"That's the way he's been acting all day," scolded Betty.

And I scolded the Maid a little, in that she had not waked me; but I said not that I would attend to the duties that she did heed to; for I knew that she had joy of these things, in that she did love to do aught that should be done unto me.

He scolded the waiter, saying, 'It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.' He bore the journey very well, and seemed to feel himself elevated as he approached Oxford, that magnificent and venerable seat of learning, Orthodoxy, and Toryism.

The Government had, to-day, to moderate on the left, circulate despatches, wellnigh to scold men for hoping too much.

" "Den let 'im git out'n dis business an' git in anudder," scolded the old woman.

She scolded her august husband so perpetually that he gave way to complaints before the assembled deities, and that too with a bitterness hardly to be reconciled with our notions of dignity.

" The terrified father came in haste and scolded the boy.

She began at last to scold a little, however; to make prudent remonstrances; for, in truth, it was an absurdity to bring her all these gifts which she must afterward shut up in a drawer, without ever wearing them, as she went nowhere.

Very often she would take a position at her window, in an upper story, and scold at her slaves while working in the garden, at some distance from the house, (a large yard intervening,) and occasionally order a flogging.

" Macquart, who alone continued to sneer, scolded the old mother.

She was a sensible young lady, and she used to scold her aunt for the way in which she brought up her dogs.

He had scolded a coward with hasty words, and been forced to follow where they led.

This is your bailiwick, not mine, and until I ask you to scold my clerks you mustn't ask me to scold your servants.

Thereafter the Lords Proprietors relapsed into passiveness, commissioning a new governor now and then and occasionally scolding the colonists for disobedience.

The old lady, catching up her coffee-colored skirt, of the Sisterhood of St. Rita, to reveal her big feet and white stockings, scolded her companion and shot furious glances at the staring bystanders.

When the family came home there was no dinner for them, and they scolded the third daughter-in-law just as hard as they had scolded the second one.

He bullied the waiter, and criticised the wine, as if he had done nothing else but dine and drink and scold there all the days of his life.

Henri, therefore, instead of growling at Joe for rousing him, scolded Dick for not rising.

After the performance was over, Betterton scolded old Downes, the prompter, for "sending a child to him instead of a man advanced in years.

And surely you don't think that I ought to scold Esther?