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Even my protector—he who has sworn before God and man;—but you, Louisa, will reprehend my indiscreet expressions.

From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Georgiana Cavendish

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

While we freely reprehend their many and glaring faults, we are forced to admire and praise their energy, their heroic bravery, and their undoubted spirit of enterprise.

From The Story of Malta by Maturin Murray Ballou

I will take my liberty to praise what I like, as well as they do to reprehend what they do not like.”

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli

Lord, in thine anger do not reprehend me, Nor in thy hot displeasure me correct; Pity me, Lord, for I am much deject, And very weak and faint; heal and amend me.

From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden

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

Mr. Hope wisely reprehends, for this reason, the arrangement of the main piers of St. Sophia at Constantinople.

From The Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin

Timocreon, the Rhodian poet, reprehends him somewhat bitterly for being wrought upon by money to let some who were banished return, while abandoning himself, who was his guest and friend.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough

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

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

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

North's conduct was severely reprehended in both chambers, and in two divisions on the question in the commons the opposition voted 106 to 137 and 163 to 209.

From The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration by Reginald Lane Poole

There is a teasing that is pleasurable, and is only another form of innocent raillery, but that which provokes, and irritates, and makes the eye flash with anger is to be reprehended.

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

Let the reins of government, then, be braced and held with a steady hand, and every violation of the constitution be reprehended.

From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Washington Irving

You may sneer at, you may censure, you may castigate them for what they really do, but beware of reprehending them for that which they have never done.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 by Various

Stoddard looked with reprehending yet still incredulous eyes, to where Johnnie and her small following disappeared within the mill doors.

From The Power and the Glory by Arthur Ignatius Keller

We of to-day must not regard the last three passages cited from the Corpus Juris Civilis as particularly reprehending the property of the master in his slave.

From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed

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

Nevertheless the vicar was fearless in reprehending it, and his frank exhortations were, at least, listened to on account of the simple honesty of the man, and his well-known kindness of heart.

From The Haunters & The Haunted Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural by Ernest Rhys