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Now, then, look at my neck and see if it is fatter than your master’s, and if you can justly reprehend me.”
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea
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
In submitting to your view the conduct of the troops under my command on this occasion, I find every thing to applaud, nothing to reprehend.
From The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart
Sure, if I reprehend any thing in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!
From The Rivals A Comedy by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I reprehend you for having forgotten, that, in proportion as you had rendered yourself formidable to our enemies, you should have been guarded and temperate in your deportment towards your fellow-citizens.
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
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
Our Saviour never in any single instance reprobated the exercise of reason: on the contrary, he reprehends severely those who did not exercise it.
From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
Another talented zoologist, Hans Driesch, dedicates to the memory of Wigand two books in rapid succession and reprehends the contemporaries of that master of science for ignoring him.
From At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers by Edwin V. O'Harra
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
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Denison was informed, and through him, the chief justice, that his conduct to this judge was decidedly reprehended by the crown.
From The History of Tasmania, Volume I by John West
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
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
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
Besides justly reprehending the French propensity towards braggadocio, it proves very strongly a point on which I am the only statesman in Europe who has strongly insisted.
From The Second Funeral of Napoleon by William Makepeace Thackeray
Methought he made but a poor sermon, but long, and reprehending the common jollity of the Court for the true joy that shall and ought to be on these days.
From The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Richard Griffin, Baron Braybrooke
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
Further, Mr. Prohack noticed that Sissie was eyeing her mother's necklace with a reprehending stare.
From Mr. Prohack by Arnold Bennett