Reproaches

Examples

• Yet this consideration does not, or rather did not in after time, diminish the reproaches of my conscience. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Your words are bitter, Rebecca, said Bois-Guilbert, pacing the apartment with impatience, but I came not hither to bandy reproaches with you. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• She had often vainly applied to her parents, as well as to her uncle, Lord Carysfort, who only wrote to load her with reproaches. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Sir Knight, said Rebecca, I would avoid reproaches--But what is more certain than that I owe my death to thine unbridled passion? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Is it likely that I would wilfully add to my other self-reproaches, that of being ungrateful or treacherous to you. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• But I make no reproaches. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• There was pain and there was pleasure in the girl's face as she listened to these implied reproaches. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I stood ready to receive and reply to his reproaches. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It was over, and she had escaped without reproaches and without detection. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Nothing was clear but that the unpopular steamer was assailed with reproaches on all sides. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• For sixteen years he had to resist the reproaches of wife and children, and the threats of neighbors. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• She is tenderhearted on the subject of her pupil; yet she reproaches you sometimes for obeying your uncle's injunctions too literally. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I am deeply sorry for the reproaches you have borne on my account. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• With strong concern, and with many reproaches for not being called to their aid, did Mrs. Jennings hear in the morning of what had passed. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• My sorrow may bear involuntary witness against you at the judgement Throne; but my angry thoughts or my reproaches never will, I know! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He remembered her by fits and starts, even with bursts of tears, and at such times would confide to me the heaviest self-reproaches. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• If the worst befell; if she learnt the truth, he would neither stand her reproaches, or the anguish of her altered looks. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Isocrates, in what is called his discourse against the sophists, reproaches the teachers of his own times with inconsistency. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Reproaches and hysterics, and all that sort of thing, answered Mildmay. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The monster continued to utter wild and incoherent self-reproaches. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• He was prepared to take whatever his former comrades had to offer in the way of insults and reproaches, and take them in manly silence and stoicism. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• To be spared from her aunt Norris's interminable reproaches! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• On her accompanying each of these reproaches with a threatening stamp of the foot, the wretched creature protested with a whine. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Anything might be bearable rather than such reproaches. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The life and honour of Bois-Guilbert must not be hazarded, where contempt and reproaches are his only reward. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• It will contain no reproaches. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Truce with thine upbraidings, Rebecca, said the Templar; I have my own cause of grief, and brook not that thy reproaches should add to it. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• She could not bear the reproaches of the husband there before her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I can bear the reproaches of a loser, even when that loser is a Jew. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.

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