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Example sentences for "reproach"

Lexicographically close words:
reprints; reprisal; reprisals; reprise; reprit; reproached; reproaches; reproacheth; reproachful; reproachfully
  1. This was not quite true; moreover, it was a dangerous assertion to make, likely to draw upon her the very reproach she had always feared, and which she felt was not undeserved.

  2. The heart of the king, grieved and irritated, became entirely alienated from his Saxon subjects; and when Earl Edwin demanded the hand of Agatha, his claim was rejected with reproach and scorn.

  3. As to the second objection, by which people reproach me that this book does wrong to womankind, they would be right if I were speaking seriously: but who does not see that this is all in jest, and consequently cannot injure?

  4. A glance of the keenest reproach fell upon the prince.

  5. Madeleine von Wildenau felt the mute reproach and disappointment in Ludwig's manner.

  6. Yet, precisely because the reproach appears merited it cuts me so deeply, that is why it would be generous and noble to spare me!

  7. But when I, as burgomaster, rigidly guard the honor of Ammergau and consider whom I recommend to public sympathy, you reproach me for it!

  8. Such tragical information, with so terrible a reproach between the lines--and the effect--a ludicrous one!

  9. It was a perpetual reproach and she avoided talking with him, from a certain sense of diffidence.

  10. A feeling of self-reproach stole into her heart for having let the kind creature go out amid this uproar of the elements.

  11. Who would reproach her, a weak, enthusiastic woman, for yielding to this spell?

  12. Countess Madeleine cast a glance of friendly reproach at him.

  13. Ah, you are so kind, you take pity on me while all reproach and condemn me.

  14. Was not the mute reproach in Ludwig's glance true?

  15. O the Prior of Roche Was without reproach While with saintly monks he chanted; But when from the mass He had turned his face, The prior his saintship scanted.

  16. Then we shall be certain of them, and the reproach of having had not a single immaculate representative cannot be attached to our time.

  17. The justice of the reproach might be denied outright, but a statement enunciated with so much scientific assurance involuntarily prompts questioning and investigation.

  18. The reproach is characteristic which he addressed to his son, when the latter was charged with atheism: "Dear son!

  19. The church-goers reproach them for not being Catholics.

  20. The Nationalist Socialists reproach them for not being anti-Semites, and all our meetings adjourn to the cry of ‘Down with the Freemasons!

  21. And so I once again implore you to pardon me, scoundrel that I am, and not bring on me the reproach of having turned you out of doors; for that matters more than you imagine to me.

  22. I would demonstrate the superiority of my reserve to your indiscretion, seeing that I, while handling themes lascivious and immodest, use language comely and decorous, speak in terms beyond reproach and inoffensive to chaste ears.

  23. I do not fear reproach or contradiction when I repeat that his statues are, as it were, inimitable.

  24. The time to reproach you, my dear ward, is past," began the Rector.

  25. And you must promise never in the future to reproach me.

  26. This reproach was received in silence; but shortly afterward Grande got up and buttoned his coat.

  27. He knew it only too well--there was nothing he could reproach her with; she had been more than good to him.

  28. Ole's misgivings dissolved and vanished in this warm embrace; how could he reproach her now?

  29. As for the critics,' says he nobly, 'let those who cried out against the immorality of Antony and Marguerite de Bourgogne, reproach me for the chastity of Messalina.

  30. It is, on the other hand, a great reproach to them, considering the quality and character of their slaves, that they should not of themselves have come forward on the subject before this time.

  31. Mosely wrote Charity a letter of heartbroken condemnation, and she slunk away to the mountains to escape from the reproach of all good people and to recuperate for another try at the French war hospitals.

  32. Charity had entered the divorce court and she would always bear the reproach of some of her most valued friends.

  33. I entertained at heart, I repeat, wrongly or rightly, a bitter reproach for the opportunity lost during the morning.

  34. Let me first get myself killed," he answered, "and then you can reproach me with what you like.

  35. Mary is there to hush the voice of reproach and to whisper words of peace; Jesus has come to claim the soul and take it to Himself, and flights of angels are waiting to sing it to its rest.

  36. Evelyn had been for some time sensible of his infatuation, and striven vainly to combat it by every means in her power, forbearance having been her first alternative, vivid reproach her last.

  37. You must not reproach yourself in the least--nor me; and now let me bid you farewell once more, perhaps eternally!

  38. Her surprise, her indignation, at being thus deserted, surpassed even her disappointment at my escape, and her involuntary somnolency was a theme of self-reproach and marvel both.

  39. I have no right to run hither and thither preaching while my business at home lies "in sixes and sevens," bringing great reproach on the holy doctrine of God.

  40. He had to "endure the contradiction of sinners against Himself;" He had to endure "the reproach of them that reproached God.

  41. If for my loved ones' loss I rent my heart for dole, Before I rent my clothes, reproach me not, I pray.

  42. I do not reproach you, for you are only as your narrow Philistine life has made you.

  43. And it is not for us who have been endowed with gifts denied to Rudolph, to reproach him for lacking the finer perceptions and sensibilities of life.

  44. He had nothing very heinous with which to reproach himself; but upon the other side, he had most certainly nothing of which to be particularly proud.

  45. With a forced smile, and in a tone of reproach and irony, she greeted her former lover.

  46. Attached as I was to Russell myself, his undisguised grief really touched me, and almost made me reproach myself with being comparatively unfeeling.

  47. This peculiar form of madness shows the bent of his mind; so that while we laugh our hearts reproach us.


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