reproved

Example Sentences

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Reproved the guide politely: "Just the history is treasure enough for us."

From Time Magazine Archive

Tenth month: Reproved by matron for visiting the pictures in company with one of the patients, namely: the aforementioned Lieutenant Thomas Beresford.

From Secret Adversary by Christie, Agatha

Reproved and censured without stint, for the president knew that to insult a priest was to merit promotion in high quarters, Gesualdo was at last permitted to escape from his place of torture.

From A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June by Ouida

The Wit that genteely glances at a Foible, is smartly retorted, or generously forgiven; because the Merit of the Reprover is as well known as the Merit of the Reproved.

From Essays on Wit No. 2 by Flecknoe, Richard

Love unreproved is a delicious food; Reproved, is Feeding on one’s own Heart’s Blood.

From Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Salámán and Absál Together With A Life Of Edward Fitzgerald And An Essay On Persian Poetry By Ralph Waldo Emerson by FitzGerald, Edward