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They were felt to be in character by the older officers; and, while obliged to reprehend, I doubt whether some of them would not have more enjoyed taking a share.

From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

When a man of seventy married a girl of twenty-five Calvin said it was the pastor's duty to reprehend them.

From The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith

A man makes his conscience dumb by the very sins that require a conscience trumpet-tongued to reprehend them.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Alexander Maclaren

You are not to palliate or aggravate the offences of your brethren; but in the decision of every trespass against our rules, you are to judge with candor, admonish with friendship, and reprehend with justice.

From The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge by William Morgan

They kindly, but strongly, reprehend the first error, and guard them by the most prudent admonitions against a repetition of their fault.

From A Description of Millenium Hall And the Country Adjacent Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants and Such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections As May Excite in the Reader Proper Sentiments of Humanity, and Lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue by Sarah Scott

For the first attempt he reprehends Bernini, who, from want of a right conception of the province of sculpture, never fulfilled the promise given in his early work of Apollo and Daphne.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 by Various

Gregory himself reprehends the patriarch Eulogius for giving him in the superscription of his letter the title "universal Pope".

From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

This we learn from an epistle of that father, in which he very severely reprehends them.

From Ebrietatis Encomium or, the Praise of Drunkenness by Robert Samber

He reprehends other anchorets, who, upon a pretence of continual prayer, did not work at certain hours of the day, making it a cloak of gluttony and laziness.

From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Alban Butler

Marville justly reprehends the fastidious feelings of those ingenious men who have resisted the solicitations of the artist, to sit for their portraits.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli

Ernesto, 91, was famously reprehended in public by Pope John Paul during a visit to Nicaragua in the 1980s.

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2016

Yet that is what a crowd did at St. Louis last week and, curiously enough, its indecorum was too inevitable to be reprehended.

From Time Magazine Archive

For this he was severely reprehended by the king and Wellington, and was virtually forced to resign office.

From The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) by George C. (George Charles) Brodrick

It is not only such boldness that is to be reprehended, but extravagance of costume.

From The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage

This is, of course, gross degradation; it destroys much of the dignity even of the rest of the building, and is in the very strongest terms to be reprehended.

From The Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin

If he read with care and reflection of the death of a leading citizen, he pursued the same course with regard to the reprehending of a relatively harmless vagabond.

From The Goose Man by Allen Wilson Porterfield

A similar case, at Newfoundland, was discussed in the House of Commons, and the ministers joined the opposition in severely reprehending the practice.

From The History of Tasmania, Volume I by John West

A relative of mine who is a monk," he said, "is always reprehending me, and saying: 'Lucas, you are a Free-Thinker.'...

From Cæsar or Nothing by Louis How

Then pardon me for reprehending thee, For thou hast done a charitable deed.

From The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare

Judith noted the other players not at all; her hot reprehending eyes were on the girl in the blue dress.

From Judith of the Cumberlands by Alice MacGowan