reproof

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Wounded by Love—then wounded by Reproof Of Loving—and, scarce stauncht the Blood of Shame By flying from his Love—then, worst of all, Love’s back-blow of Revenge for having fled!

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

Reproof of sin still arouses the spirit of hatred and resistance.

From The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by White, Ellen Gould Harmon

And after that he sang the address which is called “The Reproof of the Bards.”

From The Mabinogion Vol. 3 by Edwards, Owen Morgan, Sir

Reproof should never be administered at the table, either to a child or to a servant; no fault found with anything, and no unkind word should be spoken.

From Our Deportment Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society by Young, John H.

Reproof and teaching often seem like hardness and injustice in the eyes of the unhappy; and Damie took his sister's words as such.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 08 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Various