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And so he departed, continuing as long as he remained in my hearing to reprehend his younger daughter concerning her unseemly and ill-timed outbursts.

From Fibble, D.D. by Tony Sarg

If we see a person wilfully abusing the goods of an individual, we may reprehend him, but with comparative mildness.

From Thoughts on African Colonization by William Lloyd Garrison

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

Besides, they belong to the service of the Muse; and so the other servant of the Muse, the Satirist, as the superintendent of the household, may reasonably reprehend or commend them.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various

If the public taste in any direction, in politics, in letters, or any of the other Arts grows debased, and current critical opinion follows the debasement, Literature can only stand apart, or loftily reprehend them.

From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Alfred Austin

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

Spelman, in replying to this concealed motive of the Catholic, reprehends him with equal humour and bitterness for his desire of roasting a Protestant parson.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli

Each is invited in a separate stanza in which the poet reprehends the failings of the several potentates.

From The Troubadours by H.J. Chaytor

He had a fine artistic sense, and Milton reprehends him for having made Shakespeare “the closest companion of his solitudes.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" by Various

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

It is the unwarranted invasion of individual privacy which is reprehended, and to be, so far as possible, prevented.

From The Right to Privacy by Louis D. Brandeis

The Colonel reprehended them sharply, suspended them, and struck them out of the list of aids-de-camp of the General.

From An Historical View of the Philippine Islands, Vol I (of 2) Exhibiting their discovery, population, language, government, manners, customs, productions and commerce. by Martinez de Zuniga

Which when I saw I reprehended them, And ask'd the mayor what meant this wilful silence?

From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury

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

Here conscience flew in my face, reprehending me as a blasphemer; crying with a loud and piercing voice, Unworthy wretch! how dare you ask what you have done?

From The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1801) by Daniel Defoe

I grant there is a manner of reprehending which turns a benefit into an injury, and then it both strengthens error and wounds the giver.

From Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources by William Alexander Clouston

This the curious Gul did clatter in the ears of Venus, reprehending her son.

From The Golden Asse by William Adlington

He shook a reprehending head, hoary with the snows of years, and containing therefore, presumably, wisdom.

From Judith of the Cumberlands by Alice MacGowan