Thesaurus / take to task
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Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSONI take the Extream Bells, and set down the six Changes on them thus.
TINTINNALOGIA, OR, THE ART OF RINGINGRICHARD DUCKWORTH AND FABIAN STEDMANAll the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.
HILDA LESSWAYSARNOLD BENNETTWycliffe translates the Vulgate: “And it as a modir onourid schal meete hym, and as a womman fro virgynyte schal take him.”
SOLOMON AND SOLOMONIC LITERATUREMONCURE DANIEL CONWAYBut it was necessary to take Silan, which the rebels hastened to strengthen, closely followed up by the Spaniards.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDSJOHN FOREMANAnd this summer it seemed to her that she never would be able to take proper care of her nestful of children.
THE TALE OF GRANDFATHER MOLEARTHUR SCOTT BAILEYAnd it was no light task, then, for six hundred men to keep the peace on a thousand miles of frontier.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIRWill the new issues promptly retire when their special task is over?
READINGS IN MONEY AND BANKINGCHESTER ARTHUR PHILLIPS"Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSSomething remote and ancient stirred in her, something that was not of herself To-day, something half primitive, half barbaric.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODWORDS RELATED TO TAKE TO TASK
- admonish
- bawl out
- berate
- blame
- call on the carpet
- carp on
- castigate
- censure
- chew out
- chide
- climb all over
- dress down
- fry
- give a talking-to
- go after
- jawbone
- jump down one's throat
- jump on
- lay into
- lean on
- lecture
- lesson
- monish
- oppose
- pay
- rake
- read
- reprehend
- reprimand
- reproach
- reprove
- rip
- scold
- sit on
- sound off
- take to task
- tear apart
- tell off
- tick off
- upbraid
- zap
- admonishing
- calling on the carpet
- castigating
- censuring
- checking
- chewing out
- chiding
- coming down on
- criticizing
- denouncing
- dressing down
- giving piece of one's mind
- giving the dickens
- lecturing
- lessoning
- light into
- lower the boom
- monishing
- rapping
- rebuking
- reprehending
- reproaching
- reproving
- taking to task
- telling off
- ticking off
- upbraiding
- admonishes
- calls on the carpet
- castigates
- censures
- checks
- chews out
- chides
- comes down on
- criticizes
- denounces
- dresses down
- gives piece of one's mind
- gives the dickens
- lectures
- lessons
- light into
- lower the boom
- monishes
- raps
- rebukes
- reprehends
- reproaches
- reproves
- takes to task
- tells off
- ticks off
- upbraids
- abuse
- admonish
- asperse
- berate
- blame
- castigate
- cavil
- censure
- chasten
- chide
- criticize
- denounce
- disparage
- dress down
- expostulate
- give a talking-to
- jump on
- keep aft
- lay down the law
- lecture
- light into
- nag
- objurate
- preach
- put down
- rail
- rake over the coals
- rate
- ream
- rebuke
- recriminate
- reprimand
- reproach
- reprobate
- reprove
- revile
- take to task
- taunt
- tell off
- upbraid
- vilify
- vituperate
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