1385 examples of rebuked in sentences

And presently came they within a small chamber and here Beltane did off his armour, and here they supped together, though now the lady Helen spake little and ate less, and oft her swift-flushing cheek rebuked the worshipping passion of his eyes; insomuch that presently she arose and going into the great chamber beyond, came back, and kneeling at his feet, showed him a file.

Thus Shakespeare has Kent, who has been rebuked for his bluntness, indulge in a grandiloquent outburst: "Sir, in good sooth, in sincere verity, Under the allowance of your grand aspect, Whose influence, like the wreath of radiant fire On flickering Phoebus' front," No wonder Kent is interrupted with a "What meanest by this?"

Father Michael took all in good part, answering, as was his wont in mildness and good-tempered charity; for he was a priest of much learning, deep reflection, and rebuked opinions.

They therefore sought the advice of a holy man, who rebuked the wife, saying that he had not the power to grant her what Heaven had denied.

One in particular, who seemed to pride himself on the manner in which he vociferated 'Amen,' was casting his eyes among the crowd, winking and laughing at various persons, and, from the extravagance of his manners, bawling out most irreverently and closing by laughing, I wondered that he was not perceived and rebuked by the priests.

It was at his own suggestion that this was done; and when Mr. Clay objected, on the ground that it would be unfair for the Committee to claim the credit which belonged exclusively to another, he rebuked him, and asked by what right he (Mr. Clay) jeoparded the peace and harmony of the nation, in order that this or that man might receive the credit due for the origin of a bill.

For this he was rebuked by critics who thought that her age should correspond more naturally to that of her adult son.

I am glad that you should rebuke me, because I deserve to be rebuked as a ne'er-do-well and sinner as much as any one, or perhaps more.

I rebuked him, told him that it was not well to talk so, and begged him not to do so again to me.

It is supposing that we may "To do a great right, do a little wrong;" a rule, which the master poet of human nature has rebuked.

And yet again with disconcerting effect comes the story of Ambrosio de Cotes, who was a gambler and a drunkard, who kept a mistress, and was rebuked publicly for howling indecent refrains to the tunes in church.

In order to prove whether his wife or daughter loved him the better, Argan pretended to be dead, whereupon the wife rejoiced greatly that she was relieved of a "disgusting creature," hated by every one; but the daughter grieved as if her heart would break, rebuked herself for her shortcomings, and vowed to devote the rest of her life in prayer for the repose of his soul.

Macbeth says that "under Banquo his own genius was rebuked [or snubbed], as it is said Mark Antony's was by Cæsar" (act iii.

When he hinted suspicions of infidelity, she was too proud to deny their truth, but her pure and ardent love instantly rebuked her for giving her lover causeless pain.

The corporal rebuked them, and lights were put out, but that boy was braver than many a hero on the battlefield.

His father in 1500 rebuked him for the meanness of his establishment; ibid.

"Yet he was humble, kind, forgiving, meek, Easy to be entreated, gracious, mild; And, with all patience and affection, taught, Rebuked, persuaded, solaced, counselled, warned.

"The multitude rebuked them, that they should hold their peace.

The Duke of Wellington's "Twopenny dn" has become proverbial; and Sydney Smith neatly rebuked a similar propensity in Lord Melbourne by saying, "Let us assume everybody and everything to be d- d, and come to the point."

"I can forgive you for having betrayed your republican sentiments, but I can never forgive the King for not having properly rebuked them!"

'Tis much pleasanter to be approved of than to be rebuked, as I know by personal experience," said Adrienne, with a slight blush and a half glance at Calvert.

Oh, how should I be rebuked by the thought, "One thing is needful, and but one: Why do thy thoughts on many run?" 12th Mo. 30th.

He passed his strictures on what he judged to be my errors, and he rebuked my assailant for profane recklessness.

If I had called that a dog's life, how eloquently would Mr. Rogers have rebuked me!

The young Duke of Burgundy, grandson of Louis the Fifteenth, was brought up in the midst of flatterers as fulsome as those rebuked by Canute.

1385 examples of  rebuked  in sentences