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If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett

These words pierced my heart and soul, to hear a subject thus audaciously to reprehend his Sovereign, who ever and anon replied with great magnanimity and prudence.’

From Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams

And yet I cannot reprehend the flight, Or blame th'attempt, presuming so to soar; The mounting venture for a high delight Did make the honour of the fall the more.

From Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia - Diana by Martha Foote Crow

If you can reprehend me of anie one illiberall licentious action I haue disparaged your name with, heape shame on me prodigally, I beg no pardon or pittie.

From The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse by Edmund Gosse

And no Man, whether Foe or Friend, Your sorry Match can reprehend.

From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Chauncey Brewster Tinker

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

In which words Cælestinus reprehends this apparel, as a novelty which tended to superstition, and made way to the mocking and deceiving of the faithful.

From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie

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

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

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

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

She never reprehended him but mildly, 450 When he demean’d himself rough, rude, and wildly.

From The Comedy of Errors The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by William George Clark

Another question, which may, indeed, be inquisitive, but can scarcely be reprehended, is sure to be asked: What was the experience of Lazarus during these four days?

From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I by Marcus Dods

Such jokes are entirely out of place and cannot be too strongly reprehended.

From From Place to Place by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

Further, Mr. Prohack noticed that Sissie was eyeing her mother's necklace with a reprehending stare.

From Mr. Prohack by Arnold Bennett

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

The excellent Jonas Hanway wrote a pamphlet reprehending this objectionable custom.

From De Libris: Prose and Verse by Austin Dobson

It does not assume the office of reprehending or warning through a motive of bitter zeal.

From Fraternal Charity by Benôit Valuy

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