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Reproachfully, he wrote Drake: Why had his permission not been asked to use St. Paul's?

From Time Magazine Archive

A prodigy astonishing Reproachfully admonishing Those, wicked, heartless married men who ridicule their wives.

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn

Reproachfully he looked at her, turning first red, then white, as anger chased annoyance through his soul.

From The Tavern Knight by Sabatini, Rafael

She startles as I come before, And fixeth soft on me her eyes, Reproachfully forevermore, Yet with a charm and witching wise.

From Enamels and Cameos and other Poems by Lee, Agnes

And the rustling reeds in the marge that stood Reproachfully murmured—"'no good!—no good!'"

From Poems of the Heart and Home by Yule, J. C.