"Chiding" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... clasps me all sudden in her arms and setting soft cheek to mine falls a-chiding me, yet kissing me full oft, calling me "silly," "dear," ...
— Black Bartlemy's Treasure • Jeffrey Farnol
... round in the air, and sport and dive in a playful manner, all the while exerting their voices, and making a loud cawing, which, being blended and softened by the distance that we at the village are below them, becomes a confused noise or chiding, or rather a pleasing murmur, very engaging to the imagination, and not unlike the cry of a pack of hounds in hollow, echoing woods, or the rushing of the wind in tall trees, or the tumbling of the tide upon a pebbly shore. When this ceremony is over, with ...
— The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 • Gilbert White
... morsel than any sugar old man Bean, overborne with a sense of naughtiness and disobedience, like a child, carried home to his wife to quiet her chiding tongue. ...
— Madelon - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... about his ragged locks, apparently the same broad-brimmed straw hat, in short, every mark of identification; nothing was wanting. This individual dashed from point to point, apparently by a mere effort of his will, encouraging here, chiding there, and helping everywhere. The mere fact of his presence, the mere sound of his voice, appeared to endue the pirates with renewed life and courage, and George speedily saw that there would be ...
— The Voyage of the Aurora • Harry Collingwood
... he said, his voice hardening but trying to maintain a chiding note; "you know what you promised after the ...
— The Vertical City • Fannie Hurst
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