Legendre, the butcher, raised his pike as if to strike him, while he reproached him as a traitor and the enemy of his country.

Yes, for such are really the temptations to which America has been exposed, such are really the vices with which it might have often been reproached; no, for a principle of resistance has always revealed itself in the darkest moments, an irrepressible something has always remained.

Behold in what school the democratic party had placed the American peoplethat noble people which, despite the grave faults with which it may be reproached, represents in the main many of the lofty principles which are allied to the future of modern communities.

In two hours after, he ordered his servant to bring him a drawer, out of which he chose one lancet, from amongst some others, and pierced his legs; and then seizing a pair of scissars that lay near him, plunged them into both his calves, no doubt with the hopes of easing them of the water; for he had often reproached his medical attendants with want of courage in not scarifying them more deeply.

And I reproached myself; for, indeed, I had slept oversound by reason of my having lacked a regular way and time, as I had with a proper wisdom made to be my rule.

It would be a very good thing if every trick could receive some short and obviously appropriate name, so that when a man used this or that particular trick, he could be at once reproached for it.

People are often reproached for wishing for money above all things, and for loving it more than anything else; but it is natural and even inevitable for people to love that which, like an unwearied Proteus, is always ready to turn itself into whatever object their wandering wishes or manifold desires may for the moment fix upon.

As an honourable man he had kept away from the house, and then on being reproached by his friend, had frankly told him the reason.

All attempts to carry out great undertakings by means of Chinese labor were frustrated by the native workmen intimidating them, and driving them away either by open violence or by secret persecution; and the Colonial authorities were reproached for not affording suitable protection against these and similar outrages.

Then, casting his stern eyes threateningly upon all the nobles of the Etruscans, he now challenged them singly, now reproached them all as the slaves of haughty tyrants, who, unmindful of their own freedom, came to attack that of others.

At length, when their passion had subsided, and the consuls reproached them that there was no more presence of mind in the senate than in the forum, the matter began to be considered in order.

Somebody reproached him for doing good to the wicked"I have honoured," he replied, "not the man, but humanity in his person.

My guide reproached me for this thoughtin which there was more astonishment than compassionand said to me, "Suffer then what she has suffered!"

This liberality in individuals flowed from the city into the camp also, insomuch that no horseman or centurion would accept of his pay, and those who would accept it were reproached with the appellation of mercenary men.

And then it would ease you; it would be less expense" "When I complain of having to support my children, it will be time to speak of that" "But you have complained," hotly interrupted the son; "you have reproached us many a time for what we cost you for clothes and food" "Yes, when you have shown yourselves ungrateful for them, as you do to-night" "Ungrateful!

' "He tried to feel satisfied, now that he was certain of escape; but at that very moment his heart reproached him.

Nor could her mother, as she bent over her daughter, understand why her liberation should have been followed by so much sorrow; nay, loving her as she did, she even reproached her as being ungrateful to God.

It would have been easier if he had reproached her vehemently, if he had turned and tried to win her again, and poured out his heart full of love.

He went up to her, and found it was his sister-in-law, who reproached him with his cruelty, and told him to return to his own people.

John reproached himself bitterly, but he made no further attempt to screw his courage up to the point of proposing.

He reproached himself for having dreamed of her rather as a wife than as a sister, and then all art and all conscience went down as a broken wreck in the wild washing sea of deep human love: he knelt by her bedside, and sobbed piteously, a man whose life is broken.

I reproached him with becoming a rôdeur, and I told him that I should be happier about him if I knew where he was every night, and what he did.

Lermontoff, being reproached by the critics of his time for imitation of Byron in this poem, defended himself by the following, "I am not Byron!" I AM NOT BYRON I am not Byronyet

I never reproached any man for having his house burnt, ships cast away, or his family ruined.

'Thirdly, I never reproached any man for his opinion in religion, or esteemed him the worse for differing in judgment from me.