534 examples of reproof in sentences

For a moment she wondered if perhaps he came to reprove her for too many questionings, and rose up and advanced a little towards him with folded hands and a thankful heart, to receive the reproof if it should be so,for whether it were praise or whether it were blame, it was from the Father, and a great honor and happiness to receive.

Remember clever Mrs. Wesley's answer to the unwise person who said in reproof, "You have told that thing to that child thirty times."

Down go your hands, you straighten your shoulders, adjust yourself to a nicety, think of yourself and of your horse with all the intensity of which you are capable, and make two or three rounds without reproof.

Indeed, the need of it is hardly felt, for that peculiar self-consciousness which makes an American awkward under observation and restive under reproof is scarcely found in countries not democratic, and the "I'm ez good ez you be" feeling that is at the bottom of American intractability, has no chance to flourish in lands where position is a matter of birth and not of self-assertion.

Nor, if she felt uneasiness, did Maria Teresa spare her daughter, or take any great care to moderate her language of reproof.

Every sound drops through the dark On my soul with dull reproof, Like a half-extinguished spark.

And the voice of the dying I seem to hear But whether his breathing is in mine ear, Or the sounds of the breaking billows roll The lingering accents upon my soul, I know not; but thus they seem to bear Reproof to my soul for its faint despair: Blame not life, it is scarce begun; Blame not mankind, thyself art one.

Princes, like beauties, from their youth Are strangers to the voice of truth; Learn to contemn all praise betimes; For flattery's the nurse of crimes; Friendship by sweet reproof is shown, (A virtue never near a throne); 10 In courts such freedom must offend, There none presumes to be a friend.

when I told the Maid this thing, that she did well go to earn a sharp reproof, she turned in a quick instant, and came close to me, all tender and small and to need to be nigh to me.

Now I to shake the Maid very gentle, as I have said, and with much that did be of play, but in the same wise there to be also somewhat of tender reproof.

A Sharp Reproof.

I do it when I sit by the Bishop of London, and with both hands when I sit by the Archbishop.' Be gave a capital reproof to a lively young M.P. who was accompanying him after dinner to one of the solemn evening receptions at Lambeth Palace during the life of the late Archbishop of Canterbury.

There were particular times when Elsie was in such a mood that it must have been a bold person who would have intruded upon her with reproof or counsel.

The blushing poet felt the reproof so deeply, that he could not speak for shame, though he manifested by his demeanour that he longed to do so, and thus obtained the pardon he despaired of.

An excellent example is Nathan's reproof of David by the recital of the fable of the poor man's ewe lamb.

She, who had never been reproved, shrank with a sickly dread from the idea of reproof.

Hannibal, therefore, when his own resolution was fixed to proceed in his course and advance on Italy, having summoned an assembly, works upon the minds of the soldiers in various ways, by reproof and exhortation.

If therefore, with reproof severe I've galled my pigmy Rival here, 'Twas only, as your Lordship knows, Because his foolish envy chose To rank his classic forms of mud Above my wholesome flesh and blood.

Methinks I hear, in that still voice which stole On Horeb's mount o'er rapt Elijah's soul, With stern reproof indignant Heaven reply: 'Tis o'erweening Pride, that blinds the eye Of reasoning man, and o'er his darkened life Confusion spreads and misery and strife.

"He that heareth reproof, getteth (buyeth) understanding," Prov. xv.

And again M'Tosh let the breach of discipline go without reproof.

If from my lips some angry accents fell, Peevish complaint, or harsh reproof unkind, 'Twas but the error of a sickly mind And troubled thoughts, clouding the purer well, And waters clear, of Reason; and for me Let this my verse the poor atonement be My verse, which thou to praise wert ever inclined Too highly, and with a partial eye to see No blemish.

" She accepted his reproof smilingly and thrust out her handa browner hand now, a ringless, earnest little handand put it into his.

" Isabel was on the point of complaining that Albert should lend to Mr. Plausaby, but she disliked to take any liberty, even that of reproof.

The court declared the contract illegal (and hence unenforceable in a court) and administered a severe reproof to the craftsman who made it.

534 examples of  reproof  in sentences