17 examples of scoldings in sentences

She dressed her mamma and her sisters, brought her papa his tea in bed, kept the lodgers' bills, bore their scoldings, and sometimes gave a hand in the kitchen if any extra cookery was required.

Dinah herself, now a well-grown damsel, black, but comely, who, during Cornelia's maladministration, had been suffered to follow too much the devices and desires of her own heart, setting at naught alike the entreaties and reproofs of her mistress and her mother's angry scoldings,even Dinah submitted without a murmur to Tira's wholesome authority, and abandoned all her evil courses.

Hard words, irony and sarcasm, complainings and scoldings cut him very deeply!

There they have to dance, sing, and recite all the amusing things they know, whether in the humor or not, whether comfortable or not in their fine clothes, with the eternal pinchings and scoldings if they play any of their tricks.

Let's get closer to somebody's side, See what his dreams are and learn how he tried, See if our scoldings won't give way to praise One of these days.

As he wrote to the Editor: "give me any kind of work, writing for you, reviewing, manuscript or proof reading, I shall do anything, I shall undertake any job, even to taking editorial scoldings in all good nature, only give me work."

Madame Clerambault was so easy-going that she rather liked being pushed about in this way, and as for the children, they knew that these scoldings were sweetened by little presents; so they pocketed the presents and let the rest go by.

" Before he fell asleep, he lay and thought that if he might go along with the wild geese, he would escape all scoldings because he was lazy.

She gazed with sickening apprehension at the dancers; how often she had seen Oliver dancing with Miranda when they were children together at home, the performance usually taking place in the garret, for fear of scoldings upon the sinfulness of dancing from Chloe, Miranda's mother; oh, how did he dare do this

She had not minded the scoldings very much then, and she could not bring herself to mind this scolding very much now.

She very much disliked scoldings, and had not now a word to say against the old body who would frighten the horses.

One heard the sibilance of kisses, the laughter, and the banter, the half-serious blows and scoldings of the vahines who repelled over-bold sailors.

so I suppose there is hardly an intelligent person in the English-speaking communities who has not thought of some possible remedyfrom the naive scoldings of Mr. Roosevelt and the more stolid of the periodicals to sane and intelligible legislative projects.

He did not even refer to the goose when apologizing to me for scoldings he had given me.

There was less of the barin and servant, officer and soldier feeling, less noisy commandings and scoldings, even less beating of the patient horses that have to carry such heavy loads in Russia.

They even affected indifference to parental scoldings, and lingered about the enchanting spot until the shadows fell eastward and the day was old.

He who prided himself upon knowing the names of all the guests in Petershof, made the most absurd mistakes about people and letters too; and received in acknowledgment of his stupidity a series of scoldings which would have unnerved a stronger person than the little hunchback postman.

17 examples of  scoldings  in sentences