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It was intended to be a short pamphlet, reprobating the matter and style of those critiques, and pointing out their perilous tendency, as guides of public feeling.

From Modern Painters Volume I (of V) by Ruskin, John

But I had no eyes for landscape and the summer, being engaged in reprobating Bullivant and cursing my fantastic fate.

From Mr. Standfast by Buchan, John

The high contracting parties join in reprobating any other than an entirely voluntary emigration.

From Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by Blaine, James Gillespie

Footnote 33: I.e., if the despatch were to abstain from reprobating the French policy.

From The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 3, 1854-1861 by Benson, Arthur Christopher

We saw them join in reprobating the Address to the Prince Regent proposed by Sir Francis Burdett.

From Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3 by Hunt, Henry