" John picked the child up in his arms and marched back to the room and popped him down on the floor, then gave him a good scolding.

Perhaps he had received a scolding at home or a whipping at school, or perhaps he was in the midst of one of those queer attacks of megalomania from which adolescents are chronic sufferers.

" "As if I minded that little feathery scolding!

Whilst staying at a friend's house some years ago, I one day saw the mistress with a cow-hide in her hand, and heard her scolding in an under tone, her waiting man, who was about twenty-five years old.

I got a scolding from the General for outflanking the skirmishers, which I did to get out of the dust.

His wrath had not cooled, but somehow his confidence in himself seemed slowly to evaporate, as it came time for him to administer the scoldingthe scolding which he had rehearsed over and over in his mind.

You deserve a scolding.

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."

I tried scolding, and scolding failed.

In a storm it is disputable whether the noise be more his or the elements, and which will first leave scolding; on which side of the ship he may be saved best, whether his faith be starboard faith or larboard, or the helm at that time not all his hope of heaven.

Many years afterward, when Friend Hopper met Mahlon Dickinson on board a steam-boat, he inquired whether he recollected the scolding he gave him on a certain occasion.

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.

Scarcely less reluctant to repeat the scolding she felt so acutely than to employ the methods of rebuke she deemed less severe, I had no little difficulty in evading her entreaties.

However, Susan remained, to find her mistress flown, and in her fright, give Lady Rosamond as round a scolding as if she had been Charlie, for her rashness in attempting a transit, which Dr. Hayter had pronounced to be as much as her mistress's life was worth.

And the villagers said "Well, that is a good reason, a man can stand scolding but not starvation; we all work to fill our bellies, hunger is the worst disease of all."

Blessed be, they understand my scolding, the dears.

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.

A few months ago Brossard had put him out in the field to keep the goats from straying away from their pasture, two stubborn creatures, whose self-willed wanderings had brought many a scolding down on poor Jules's head.

She arose quickly, and her light laugh drowned her mother's scolding.

" 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.

The best way was to scold them, for a good dog feels a severe scolding as much as a whipping.

I cannot tell, I can only guesshow the end befell: A wifely word, an angry scowl, A bit of a grumble, a bit of a growl, A scolding here, a squabbling there, And here the sound of an ugly swear, A cry of despair from the sore opprest, A secret call to the "Miners' Rest," A sudden revolt from the brooms and mats, And a roar from a thousand throats"Down brats!" * *

The next day he threshed the paddy and instead of twenty bushels as usual he found that he had got sixty bushels of rice, That evening he again went to the field and this time he found that the bonga had returned and was having a fine scolding from his wife, because he had let the farmer reap the whole crop.

The latter seemed to be in the worst of tempers, and he kept up a continual scolding, which the other listened to with a gloomy face.