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Example sentences for "chidden"

Lexicographically close words:
chicks; chickweed; chicle; chicory; chid; chide; chided; chides; chiding; chidings
  1. Kolb went off, growling like a chidden dog, obedient but protesting; and David proposed to give his father indisputable proof of his discovery, while reserving his secret.

  2. Her distress was so real and so great, that Lucien, but even now chidden for his connection with an actress, saw Coralie as a saint ready to assume the hair-shirt of poverty.

  3. And yet I was last chidden for being too slow.

  4. Who marvels, then, when Helenus beholds A Grecian and his sword, if he do set The very wings of reason to his heels And fly like chidden Mercury from Jove, Or like a star disorb'd?

  5. Cigarette laughed scornfully; she was furious with herself for standing obediently like a chidden child to hear this patrician's bidding, and to do her will.

  6. Who has not on a beautiful September day sometimes chidden himself for having given in to the impression that the season was so far advanced, and clung to the belief that it is almost summer still?

  7. And the boy, being chidden for doing something which might rank under the general head of taking care of himself, proposed (as that course appeared unsatisfactory) to take the opposite one.

  8. Lucina remembered Elmira well enough, and had thought she remembered Jerome since last Sunday, when her father, calling to mind their frequent meetings in years back, had chidden her lightly for not speaking to him.

  9. Her lady had said something that she was to be chidden for.

  10. The horse must not be allowed to start immediately after the rider has become seated, but must be restrained until he is perfectly quiet, and must be chidden every time he commences to prance.

  11. A horse should never be allowed to change his leading leg except at the will of his rider; and should he do so, he should be chidden and stopped instantly, and then started anew.

  12. Am I a child to be chidden and rendered submissive by imposing airs?

  13. If his manifestations of affection had been few and far between, on the other hand he had never chidden her, and she had been indulged in every way, and her lightest wishes gratified.

  14. This will show him--should you beat him, you would confuse his ideas--that he is chidden for not paying attention to the whistle.

  15. Or, if one dog was attentive to the whistle, did he not gradually learn to disregard it from observing that his companion was never chidden for neglecting to obey it?

  16. Appointed tryst defiantly she balked, And with her lightest comrade lightly walked, Who scared the chidden Love to hide apart, And peep from some unnoticed corner of her heart.

  17. In his house frightened boys, as they repeated verses of the Yajur and Sama Veda, were chidden at every word by caged parrots and mainas, who were thoroughly versed in everything belonging to words.

  18. I think you have no pink pearls; it is the only thing you have not,' he said; as humble still as a chidden dog.

  19. And yet I was last chidden for being too slow Val.

  20. She rose from where she sat, and with that the flame in her eyes was quenched, and they were appealing only as of a chidden dog.

  21. She would call them dogs and devils, and, the chidden dogs, they would tuck their tails away and only snarl.

  22. Cherry was called upon for an account of her adventures, and was chidden sharply by her aunt for her folly and carelessness after being warned not to be overtaken by the darkness.

  23. I have chidden thee many a time before this for the meekness that raised no protest let him be never so harsh.

  24. This will show him (should you beat him, you would confuse his ideas) that he is chidden for not paying attention to the whistle.

  25. You have chidden me, and again will, I doubt not, for the liberties I take with some of your relations.


  26. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chidden" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.