Reproached

Examples

• She reproached herself, coloured, and looked fearfully towards her father and mother. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• A thousand times she reproached herself, as with a crime, that she should revive to happiness with him. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• She told him how she had traced him, reproached him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• But when I sat in the carriage just now and saw you coming along the pavement, I reproached myself. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• And as she looked at her husband's portrait of nights, it no longer reproached her--perhaps she reproached it, now William was gone. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He was implored, reproached, and belabored by his wife, who begged him to leave his furnace, and turn to work that would feed and clothe his growing family. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• And in his last breath reproached me for stooping to a boor! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Perdita reproached us bitterly. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He reproached me with having deceived and made a fool of him; but all he could say or do could not effect any change of my sentiments in his favour. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I tried to bring her idea before him in any form; I even reproached him with not having firmness to spare her the knowledge of such a scene as this. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He had no enemies, and he could get nobody to reproach him, which was why he so bitterly reproached himself. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Margaret reproached herself acutely as the cause of his distress. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Now, I seem to have reproached you, instead of revealing to you the state of my own mind! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• In his own tim e he was rather reproached for what was c onsidered an undignified and sordid familiarity with observed facts. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• You take up an idea, Mrs. Weston, and run away with it; as you have many a time reproached me with doing. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Rashly and uselessly, I reproached her for the silence which had kept me until that moment in ignorance of the truth. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• And I have reproached you for being happy! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• You have at least the satisfaction of knowing that for thirty years of his life his conscience bitterly reproached him for this wicked deed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• She had promised to love him for better or worse, and then she, his wife, had reproached him with his poverty, after spending his earnings recklessly. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• She reproached herself for her share of the ill feeling and resolved to exonerate Amy as soon as possible. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.

Typist: Molly