"Reprovingly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... reprovingly, "don't you know how to trim a lamp properly? Enough fluid has been wasted to-night by means of those long wicks to last two evenings with ...
— Eventide - A Series of Tales and Poems • Effie Afton
... captain,' replied Dare reprovingly. 'I am what events have made me, and having fixed my mind upon getting you settled in life by this marriage, I have put things in train for it at an immense trouble to myself. If you had thought over it o' nights as much as I have, you would ...
— A Laodicean • Thomas Hardy
... down against his sides and turned away. The allusion and a consciousness of Vancouver brought a smile into Viviette's eyes. She had a woman's sense of humour, which is not always urbane. When he turned to meet her she shook her head reprovingly. ...
— Viviette • William J. Locke
... She was, of course, greatly embarrassed at Mr. Lincoln's offhand manner of entertaining his caller, and, stepping up behind her husband, she grasped him by the hair and twitched his head about, at the same time looking at him reprovingly. ...
— The Lincoln Story Book • Henry L. Williams
... not so, Sister Agatha," he interrupted reprovingly. "No sinful creature deserves such praise; least of all I. None of us are more than humble instruments for good, and have no merit ...
— Sister Carmen • M. Corvus
... little Princess between her geography lesson and her arithmetic lesson would peep for a moment into a mirror, the first lady-in-waiting would tap her arm reprovingly and say: ...
— The Laughing Prince - Jugoslav Folk and Fairy Tales • Parker Fillmore
... supper, and her mother said reprovingly, "O Pearlie! now, sure Miss Morrison is teaching her, and they do be sayin' she's won three ...
— The Second Chance • Nellie L. McClung
... Charlotte looked reprovingly at Monsieur du Halga, whom she now began to think ill-mannered, depraved, immoral, without religion, and very ridiculous about his dog,—opinions which her aunt, defending the old ...
— Beatrix • Honore de Balzac
... to have him think so," returned Margaret reprovingly, "if you are not clever. I suppose you are, though. ...
— The Stillwater Tragedy • Thomas Bailey Aldrich
... almost as much as Mollie did, had drawn up a substantial table to the sofa and seated herself beside it. "Dull!" she said reprovingly, "I hope not indeed. Maps are the most interesting puzzles one can have. What is it ...
— The Happy Adventurers • Lydia Miller Middleton
... said Little Tim to his son reprovingly, in an undertone. "It ill becomes a man with white blood in his veins, an' who calls hisself a Christian, to go boastin' like an or'nary savage. I thowt I had thrashed that out of 'ee when ye was a ...
— The Prairie Chief • R.M. Ballantyne
... dreams. Sometimes she smiled, saying nothing; sometimes she smiled when she uttered a name—such as Shekels, or BB, or Potter. Sometimes she was at her fort, issuing commands; sometimes she was careering over the plain at the head of her men; sometimes she was training her horse; once she said, reprovingly, "You are giving me the wrong foot; give me the left—don't you ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... madame, it is intended for Madame de Fleury," answered Victorine, reprovingly, and not immediately comprehending the intentional ...
— Fairy Fingers - A Novel • Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
... second-hand," replied the owner, reprovingly, as he eased himself out of the wagon. "Mis' Gammon, my first wife, is buried there. 'Twas by her request. She made her own layin'-out clothes, picked her bearers and music, and selected the casket. She ...
— The Skipper and the Skipped - Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul • Holman Day
... that her father clapped frantically, and her mother called out, "Little darling!" These highly improper expressions of feeling caused Cinderella to forget herself, and shake her head at them, saying, reprovingly, "You ...
— Little Men - Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys • Louisa May Alcott
... an awful crack, Sandy," said Casey reprovingly. He flashed the lantern at the face, and slipped his fingers to the wrist. To his relief, the ...
— Desert Conquest - or, Precious Waters • A. M. Chisholm
... woman's voice was heard to cry: "Saint Trusia; angel!" Ten thousand voices took up the acclaim. She shook her head reprovingly as she, too, joined the group about His Majesty. After Carter and the others stepped upon the platform, the former looked about him for his whilom chauffeur. Carrick, with some difficulty, pushed his way through the crowd and was soon at his ...
— Trusia - A Princess of Krovitch • Davis Brinton
... said, "When I saw that horse go over backwards, I closed my eyes and held my breath, for I expected the next second to see you killed." But Robert Hunt exclaimed, "Good as an Injun, by God!" And when I some time after made fun of it, he shook his head gravely and reprovingly, as George Ward did over the gunpowder, and said, ...
— Memoirs • Charles Godfrey Leland
... steeped too deep in mere ignoble Mammonism, and as yet all unconscious of its noble destinies, as yet but an irrational or semi-rational giant, struggling to awake some soul in itself,—the world will have much to say, reproachfully, reprovingly, admonishingly. But to the Idle Aristocracy, what will the world have to say? Things ...
— Past and Present - Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. • Thomas Carlyle
... Nature shook her head reprovingly. "Unc' Billy," said she, "you are a bad old rascal to steal eggs. What's more, it doesn't matter to you much whether you find eggs or young birds in a nest. It is a wonder that between you and Chatterer the Red Squirrel any of the birds succeed in raising families around here. Have you ...
— The Burgess Animal Book for Children • Thornton W. Burgess
... still deeper, but responded a little reprovingly, "It's very polite of you to say ...
— The Lunatic at Large • J. Storer Clouston
... with bodies—incredible nudities. Bed springs creaking. The hour of asterisks. Window blinds down. Doors locked. Lights out. The city lingers in the snow like a feeble burlesque. Houses and shops and street car tracks gesture reprovingly. Civilization bows its head in the night like an abandoned bride. Man, like an ape hunting fleas, preoccupies himself again ...
— Fantazius Mallare - A Mysterious Oath • Ben Hecht
... white stood at the door leading to the rear room, and the startled auditors turning their heads, saw Nellie Dawson, with her chubby finger pointed reprovingly ...
— A Waif of the Mountains • Edward S. Ellis
... Penrod opened it. "I suppose you want the whole family to get a sunstroke," he said reprovingly. "Keepin' every breath of air out o' the house on a ...
— Penrod • Booth Tarkington
... he exclaimed reprovingly. "You would leave us so abruptly? Before your sister, too! What will Mr. Hamel think of our country ways? Pray ...
— The Vanished Messenger • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... Presbyterian, Miss Car'line," said Katy reprovingly. "You'd better go on with your lessons," and she threw up ...
— While Caroline Was Growing • Josephine Daskam Bacon
... Lucy, reprovingly, and holding up her taper finger with an arch smile, mingling with a blush, in which the woman's vanity spoke, ...
— Paul Clifford, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... Latimer's voice reprovingly; but the warning came too late. A violent fit of hysterics ensued, and Miss Margaret was borne to her room by the much-enduring sisters, whose services were both required to quell the outburst and settle her comfortably for ...
— Aunt Judith - The Story of a Loving Life • Grace Beaumont
... old fuss-budget, George," said Pringle reprovingly. "Because I forgot to tell you—I've got my gun now—and yours. You won't need to arrest me, though, for I'm hitting the trail in fifteen minutes. But if I wasn't going—and if you had your gun—you couldn't arrest one side of me. You couldn't arrest one of my old ...
— The Desire of the Moth; and The Come On • Eugene Manlove Rhodes
... reprovingly, "you are making yourself disliked. There are certain things proper for a kitten to eat; but I never heard of a kitten eating a pig, under ...
— Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz • L. Frank Baum.
... the neighbour reprovingly demanded. "Because yu're a-dyin', Mis' Green, and yu don't give yer mind tu it. I ha' been by other deathbeds—the Lord reward me for it, as 'tis ter be expected He will—and I ha'n't never seed a Christian woman so sot agin goin' ...
— A Sheaf of Corn • Mary E. Mann
... midst of her merriment at the image of Mac and the old rocking chair, Rose said reprovingly, "Though a heathen Chinee, Fun puts you to shame, for he did not ask foolish questions but went a-wooing like a sensible little man, and I've no doubt Annabel ...
— Rose in Bloom - A Sequel to "Eight Cousins" • Louisa May Alcott
... exclaimed the girl reprovingly, "you sit right down by my side and do this thing right." She explained to the young man, "Bill Atkins has been higher up than Brick, and he knows forms and ceremonies, but he despises to act up to what he knows. Sit right down, Bill, and make the move." There was something ...
— Lahoma • John Breckenridge Ellis
... the court questions you!" said the judge reprovingly; then he whispered a short time with his companions in office, and finally announced that the last ...
— How Women Love - (Soul Analysis) • Max Simon Nordau
... letting your spirits run away with you, my dear," she said, reprovingly. "Even on a wedding-day there should not be too much laughter. Tears before night, when there has been laughter before breakfast, remember the ...
— Brooke's Daughter - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... long time with the paraschites' people," said Bent-Anat reprovingly. "I should have thought that what has happened to me might have served ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... was late for school. It was something unusual, for he was always the first on hand to fix some plan of mechanism to make the teacher miserable. She looked reprovingly at him this morning, when he came in during the arithmetic class, his hair all wind-blown, cheeks rosy from a hard fight with the sharp blasts. But he made up for his tardiness by his extreme goodness all day; just ...
— Violets and Other Tales • Alice Ruth Moore
... that!" she exclaimed, reprovingly. "Poor old fellow!" Her eyes grew big and bright as she reflected on the days she had visited the fiddler's home and on the happiness her gifts had brought his children. For her, giving was better than receiving. ...
— Mistress Nell - A Merry Tale of a Merry Time • George C. Hazelton, Jr.
... cried reprovingly, "Mr. Verslun will think you are very inquisitive. You must not pry ...
— The White Waterfall • James Francis Dwyer
... where no good speech, but only inarticulate rage was possible: this might have bellowed forth Ushers de Breze and the like; and made itself visible to all men, in managing of kingdoms, in ruling of great ever-memorable epochs! But they said to him reprovingly, his Official Superiors said, and wrote: 'You are to work, not think.' Of your thinking-faculty, the greatest in this land, we have no need; you are to gauge beer there; for that only are you wanted. Very notable;—and worth mentioning, though we know what is to be said and answered! As if Thought, ...
— Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History • Thomas Carlyle
... word is appropriated constantly surprises us. As for example: one morning two babies wandered round the Prayer-room, and, discovering passion-flowers within reach, eagerly begged for them in Tamil. One of the two pushed the other aside and wanted all the flowers. "Greedy! greedy!" I said reprovingly, in English. "Greedy mine!" was the immediate rejoinder, and the little hand was held out with more certainty than ever now that the name of the flower was known. "Greedy ...
— Lotus Buds • Amy Carmichael
... girls had spent so much time in laughing over it, and preparing an answer, that she had scarcely thought of her lesson. She got through with it, however, as well as she could, and was returning to her seat when Mr. Miller called her to him and said reprovingly, "Fanny, why did you not have ...
— Tempest and Sunshine • Mary J. Holmes
... Nurse Rosemary, reprovingly, as she leaned forward and touched his right hand with the rim of his saucer, "this May-Day morning has gone to your head. I shall send for Margery. She may have known the symptoms, ...
— The Rosary • Florence L. Barclay
... "Cranford" is near by. "Oh, when I read it I didn't think it much good." "Poetry?" "No, I don't think she is much interested in poetry." "Do you suppose an art book?"———"No, she is not interested in art." "Memoirs, then?" "No, she would not care for that." "Why, I had no idea," said one somewhat reprovingly to us, "that it would be as hard ...
— Walking-Stick Papers • Robert Cortes Holliday
... two men quarreling about?" she demanded reprovingly, "we could hear you clear over ...
— Silver and Gold - A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp • Dane Coolidge
... didn't you tell me?" Nola's face seemed to clear of something, a shadow of perplexity, it seemed, that Frances had seen in it from time to time since her coming there. She looked frankly and reprovingly at Frances. ...
— The Rustler of Wind River • G. W. Ogden
... of course, said nothing, but Frere frowned heavily, and Mrs. Vickers said reprovingly, "Sylvia!" just as if they had been in the old ...
— For the Term of His Natural Life • Marcus Clarke
... not more than five-and-forty years of age, but she seemed to be already an old woman. Her hair was grey, she had lost many teeth, and she dressed, as Veronica wickedly said to Bianca, like the devil's grandmother. She spoke affectionately, as well as reprovingly, however, having known both Veronica's parents, and as having been a third cousin of her mother; and she begged the young girl to come and stay as long as she pleased at the Della Spina palace, as ...
— Taquisara • F. Marion Crawford
... the expectant drawing-in of many breaths passed around the circle. Alwin braced himself to withstand Rolf's fist; but the Wrestler only drew back and looked at him reprovingly. ...
— The Thrall of Leif the Lucky • Ottilie A. Liljencrantz
... of talk," said the defender, reprovingly, "your daddies and mine was grangers before us, and our kids'll have to be grangers or nothin' after a while—if any of us ever has any. I was in for havin' a little fun with this feller; I was in on it with the rest of you to see the Dutchman hammer him flat, but the Dutchman wasn't a big enough ...
— Trail's End • George W. Ogden
... said Solomon Longways, smiling grimly. "That's only his random way o' speaking. 'A was always such a man of underthoughts." (And reprovingly towards Christopher): "Don't ye be so over-familiar with a gentleman that ye know nothing of—and that's travelled a'most from the ...
— The Mayor of Casterbridge • Thomas Hardy
... the younger boy, reprovingly, "why don't you use that thick head of yours a little? When you get up in the morning, isn't your shadow longer than it is in the middle of ...
— The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men • Francis William Rolt-Wheeler
... pleased to drive to the cathedral alone, and Darya Pavlovna was pleased to remain in her room upstairs, being indisposed," Alexey Yegorytch announced formally and reprovingly. ...
— The Possessed - or, The Devils • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... Starratt," Watson broke in, reprovingly. "That isn't any way to talk. You've got to keep your spirits up. Things might be worse. It's lucky you've got a friend like Hilmer. He's a man that can do things for you, if ...
— Broken to the Plow • Charles Caldwell Dobie
... gone a bit too far, dear old thing, I did really," said Bones, shaking his head reprovingly. "I watched you ...
— Bones in London • Edgar Wallace
... you we lived by the sea—did you forget?" she answered, a shade reprovingly. "There is no town at all. And there are no people. We ...
— Margarita's Soul - The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty • Ingraham Lovell
... words to me, Sir Max," said Yolanda, reprovingly. "I, too, must live and be happy ...
— Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy • Charles Major
... what you give, it's the spirit you offer it in," said the little grandmother, reprovingly. "It won't be the first time that Judge Jameson has eaten bread and milk at my table, Anne, and it won't be the last," and with that the little grandmother untied the white cloth, displaying a double row of soft gray ...
— Judy • Temple Bailey
... old man said reprovingly, "there is some pleasure. But it is still bad. Every ship we destroyed must be replaced. Like every other subject planet, Tralee will be required to build—how many ships? Ten? Twenty? We have increased the burden Mekin lays on Tralee. ...
— Talents, Incorporated • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... was already there, sitting in the best place. In this world of trouble there always, always was. The fact was disappointing enough, to say the least of it, but what made matters worse was that it was impossible merely to exclaim reprovingly, as one usually does, "Oh, there's somebody here!" and step back at once. Carlisle saw in the first glance that the girl in the best place was no other than her special friend Mattie Allen, already looking ...
— V. V.'s Eyes • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... cried he, reprovingly, "how could any one sleep when mamma sings?" [Footnote: The dauphin's own words.—See ...
— Marie Antoinette And Her Son • Louise Muhlbach
... laughed an odd, short laugh that jarred on Lillian's ear and made her say reprovingly, "You are proud, I know, but you'll let us help you because we like to do it, and I have no brother to share ...
— The Mysterious Key And What It Opened • Louisa May Alcott
... Adelaide, speaks as well as he can," replied the lady, rather reprovingly: "he is by no means so wild as ...
— Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee • William Carleton
... his presence, she made no particular answer. Glancing toward the empty plate which stood upon the table, he continued, "Hannah tells me, my dear, that you have eaten three boiled eggs. I wonder at your want of discretion, when you know how indigestible they are," and his eye rested reprovingly on Janet, who now found her tongue, and starting up, exclaimed, "One biled egg won't hurt anybody's digester, if it's ever so much out of kilter—but the jade lied. Two of them eggs I cooked for myself, and I'll warrant she's guzzled 'em down before this. Anyway, I'll go and see," and she ...
— Cousin Maude • Mary J. Holmes
... Kongstrup reprovingly, "and passion rages in his heart." He said this with such comical gravity that they all burst into laughter, except Gustav, who sat blinking his eyes and nodding his ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo
... are," Fay whispered reprovingly. "They're all wearing their ticklers. But you don't need to be insulting ...
— The Creature from Cleveland Depths • Fritz Reuter Leiber
... can tell you frankly, Father, is displeased," von Wedel said to Rasputin reprovingly. "Only by an ace has the whole of our arrangements with your Empress, and with yourself as our agent, been suppressed from Downing Street. And that by steps taken by our friend here, Monsieur Azef. But we are not yet safe. I tell you quite frankly that though you are a good servant ...
— The Minister of Evil - The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia • William Le Queux
... her back to safety, and he said, reprovingly, "Don't do that again, Lucy. Accidents will happen, ...
— Lucile Triumphant • Elizabeth M. Duffield
... the doorway, Will Phelps ran swiftly down the stairs and sped across the campus to his own room. He found his room-mate seated at his desk, evidently hard at work. Foster glanced up reprovingly as Will burst into the room and said, ...
— Winning His "W" - A Story of Freshman Year at College • Everett Titsworth Tomlinson
... thinking of propositions and such-like worldly things, and this the Sabbath-day," said Katie, reprovingly. ...
— David Fleming's Forgiveness • Margaret Murray Robertson
... an illness called curiosity. I had just been telling Mr. McLean that curiosity is essentially a woman's ailment, and up you come ahint to prove it." He shook a finger at her reprovingly, and was probably still reflecting on woman's ways when Grizel walked home at midnight breathing through her nose, and Tommy fell asleep with his mouth open. For Tommy could never have stood the doctor's test of a man. In the painting of ...
— Sentimental Tommy - The Story of His Boyhood • J. M. Barrie
... laugh at you or to be very angry," she said, shaking her head reprovingly. "Of course it ...
— The Angel of Terror • Edgar Wallace
... "Patty," said Chick, reprovingly, "how can you introduce commonplace subjects just now? I'm learning to remove rust stains from my dingy old soul. By the way, how would it do to scour one's soul with the ...
— Patty Blossom • Carolyn Wells
... spite of herself. The description of her eldest daughter was apt. But she said reprovingly, "Yon sound as if you were making fun of your sister, dear. And don't call Philip 'the ...
— Kildares of Storm • Eleanor Mercein Kelly
... well to have some scares on these mountain rivers, Moise," said Alex, reprovingly. "This water is icy cold, and if even a man got out into the rapids he couldn't swim at all, it would tumble him over so. We'll line down on the Parle Pas, yes, depend on that. But that's down-stream a couple of ...
— The Young Alaskans on the Trail • Emerson Hough
... murmured reprovingly, "that is not a sight for me and thee. I have seen the smoke ...
— Christmas Light • Ethel Calvert Phillips
... reprovingly; "you ought not to. Never mind, pet," as she caught sight of two big tears trying to make a path in the little molasses-streaked face, "Polly'll wipe ...
— Five Little Peppers And How They Grew • Margaret Sidney
... Hideous and loathsome, all the beauty marred That she had worshipped from her ardent youth Deeming it half divine, she could not bear, Her woman's strength gave way, and impious words In her despair she uttered. But her lord To deeper anguish stung by her defect And rash advice, reprovingly replied Pointing to Him who meeteth out below Both good and evil in mysterious love, And she was silenced. What a sacred power Hath hallow'd Friendship o'er the nameless ills That throng our pilgrimage. Its ...
— Man of Uz, and Other Poems • Lydia Howard Sigourney
... pocket!—Do you remember when we were eating by the creek, and I got jam on my fingers? He offered me his handkerchief to wipe it off? Do you remember how I shoved him away, and shuddered? I saw you look reprovingly at me! That's why! Do you suppose I could wipe my fingers with a handkerchief that had been in one ...
— Prudence of the Parsonage • Ethel Hueston
... by the wrath in her sister's voice, put aside the shoes, and looked up. "Debby," she said reprovingly, "you shouldn't. You know Audrey wants the bed to put her things on. Why couldn't you sit on the ...
— Anxious Audrey • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... where the Willis Woodfords, the Dillons, the Champ Perrys, Oleson the butcher, Brad Bemis the tinsmith, and Deacon Pierson found release from loneliness. But all of the smart set went to the lawn-festivals of the Episcopal Church, and were reprovingly polite to outsiders. ...
— Main Street • Sinclair Lewis
... their discipline. Johnny's mother tells him to stop making that noise, and her visitor adds severely, "Now, Johnny, do not make that noise any more!" Susie is saucy to her mamma, and her mamma's friend reprovingly remarks to the little girl that she is pained and surprised to hear her speak so naughtily to her dear mamma. Children resent this, and are far more keen and observant of these matters than their ...
— The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) • Marion Harland
... her father, reprovingly, "if we live by the water, Ford will go out on it, and he'd better do so in ...
— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. V, August, 1878, No 10. - Scribner's Illustrated • Various
... bad mistake, young man, in keeping back what you ought to have told at the inquest on Phillips!" he said, reprovingly. "Indeed, you ought to have told it before that—you should have ...
— Dead Men's Money • J. S. Fletcher
... had "come under conviction" during the meetings, and had stood up for prayer and testimony several times. The evangelist thought her very spiritual. She heard Mollie's concluding sentence and spoke reprovingly. ...
— Further Chronicles of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... Hester!" she said reprovingly; but she looked up at the girl with such a tender light in her eyes, that Hester ...
— Hester's Counterpart - A Story of Boarding School Life • Jean K. Baird
... talking too much," said Paul reprovingly. "I suppose they haven't changed their plans, ...
— Slow and Sure - The Story of Paul Hoffman the Young Street-Merchant • Horatio Alger
... Mrs Dalzell reprovingly. "She would not care to go on living in a house that she had ceased to have the right to live in. I should ...
— Sisters • Ada Cambridge
... said reprovingly, "the only people who make things up are little children, for they always tell lies. Grown-up people never tell lies. Let me tell you that one always knows when one has been in Fairyland by the feeling afterwards, and because it is ...
— On Something • H. Belloc
... no business to change places with you, and go to the village without leave," said Miss Beasley, eyeing her pupil reprovingly. "But I think she has been punished enough. She may take you downstairs now, and ask Cook to give you some cake and a glass of milk before you ...
— The Madcap of the School • Angela Brazil
... a hurry,' said Ada, reprovingly. 'We want to get the money. Well, you know the dear little pincushions we made for Aunt Ellen's bazaar, and how she said they were ...
— Chatterbox, 1906 • Various
... Charles's consort, Catherine, was first exhibited to the English public at the Cockpit Theatre in Drury Lane, when Shirley's "Cardinal" was represented. Then there are accounts of scandals and indecorums in the theatre. Evelyn reprovingly speaks of the public theatres being abused to an "atheistical liberty." Nell Gwynne is in front of the curtain prattling with the fops, lounging across and leaning over them, and conducting herself saucily and impudently enough. Moll Davis is in one box, and ...
— A Book of the Play - Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character • Dutton Cook
... Mr. Tulliver, reprovingly; "you mustn't say so. You must learn what your master tells you. He knows what it's right ...
— The Mill on the Floss • George Eliot
... she began reprovingly in so perfect an imitation of Miss Jane Chick's severest manner that Mrs. Kennedy's lips twitched; "didn't you hear the rising-bell, my dear? How often must I ask you not to ...
— The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch • Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter
... reprovingly, "a man of your intelligence ought to be ashamed of even pretending to believe such a thing. Why this is worse than what you told me about the grass not growing at the spot where Ncapayi and his men were killed ...
— Kafir Stories - Seven Short Stories • William Charles Scully
... Stoddard shook her head, and said Anne must not think too well of what, after all, was Miss Rose Freeman's book as much as it was Anne's. "You must not overpraise our little maid," she warned Captain Enos reprovingly. But the book was ever one of Mistress Stoddard's most valued treasures, and was kept with "Pilgrim's Progress" in the ...
— A Little Maid of Massachusetts Colony • Alice Turner Curtis
... really unkind of you!" she said reprovingly. "Walter and I thoroughly understand each other. He's not surprised at ...
— The House of Whispers • William Le Queux
... a boy, O Brian, and like a boy thou dost talk," said the king, reprovingly. "Thy pride doth make thee imprudent. For what hast thou gained, since, spite of all, ...
— Historic Boys - Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times • Elbridge Streeter Brooks
... now!" said Father Golden, reprovingly. "Your mother's smarter than any of you to-day. Go and help her, ...
— The Green Satin Gown • Laura E. Richards
... your uncle that way, Fred," said his mother reprovingly. "He's had a great deal to try his temper, and Teddy is very much to blame. He must be punished. Yes, he ...
— The Rushton Boys at Rally Hall - Or, Great Days in School and Out • Spencer Davenport
... signified by his nom de plume and the call of "Mark Twain, Mark Twain" floated up to him like a summons from the past. All at once a little figure came running down the deck, and Clara confronted him, reprovingly: ...
— Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine
... is," said her mother reprovingly. "He come here after you, all dressed up, an' I told him you was gone down to Ellen's to carry the cake. So he said he'd go along down an' fetch you up, an' I told him he better stop to Ardelia's an' see if you wasn't there. An' then he come back, ridin' like the wind, ...
— Country Neighbors • Alice Brown
... nice way to speak of an old friend and classmate," remarked Mr. Gregg, reprovingly. "Now, I always feel sorry when I see a decent young chap like that throwing away a good chance, and want to help him if I can. So in the present case, I think we really ought to send in a report that will satisfy old Hepburn, and keep the ...
— Under the Great Bear • Kirk Munroe
... he answered, smiling. Miss Winter looked at Etheldred reprovingly, and she shrank into herself, drew apart, and indulged in a reverie. She had heard in books of girls writing poetry, romance, history—gaining fifties and hundreds. Could not some of the myriads of fancies floating in her mind thus be made available? She would compose, publish, earn money—some ...
— The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations • Charlotte Yonge
... miserable oaths!" Eva interrupted reprovingly. "Do you know also that the tall, stately gentleman with the ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... turned reprovingly upon Count Nobili. Dare the headstrong boy affect to misunderstand that he had driven Enrica to renounce him? Guglielmi remained standing near the door—self-possessed, indeed, as usual, but utterly crestfallen. His very soul sank within him ...
— The Italians • Frances Elliot
... I'm afraid you're a sad fellow!" Lucy said, shaking her head reprovingly; but he could see the smile shining in her fond, admiring eyes, and lurking about the corners ...
— Elsie's children • Martha Finley
... "Consider it!" he echoed reprovingly. "I can't imagine what Ogilvy and Watling and Josiah Blackwood were thinking of! They are out of their heads. I as much ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... father said, half reprovingly. "There your maternal ancestors are buried, and there their escutcheons stand till this day. I need not tell you who is ...
— The Golden House • Mrs. Woods Baker
... Charles; at which Amabel laughed so uncontrollably, that she was forced to hide her head on her little sister's shoulder. Charlotte laughed too, an imprudent proceeding, as it attracted attention. Her father smiled, saying, half-reprovingly—'So you are there, inquisitive pussy-cat?' And at her mother's question,—'Charlotte, what business have you here?' She stole back to her lessons, looking very small, without the satisfaction of hearing ...
— The Heir of Redclyffe • Charlotte M. Yonge |
