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There is one Thing has almost astonished me in the Criticisms I have heard on Clarissa's Character; namely, that they are in a Manner a Counterpart to the Reproaches cast on her in her Lifetime.

From Remarks on Clarissa (1749) by Fielding, Sarah

Reproaches on his part would only drive her more surely to the place from which she seemed desirous to return.

From The Mayor of Warwick by Hopkins, Herbert M. (Herbert Müller)

I know Reproaches upon you are thrown; But judge your Innocency by my own.

From Anti-Achitophel (1682) Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden by Jones, Harold Whitmore

This morning clouds upon me lowered, Reproaches on my head were showered,360 And Giaffir almost called me coward!

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

Reproaches, open and secret, of ingratitude, unsociability: Except for 'fit men' in all kinds, hard to say for whom Abbot Samson had much favour.

From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas