"Reprovingly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... eyes 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. ...
— The Italians • Frances Elliot
... 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
... Kid came also, alert as a fox, eager for any scrap of information which might be converted into coin. He shook his head reprovingly at ...
— Old Man Curry - Race Track Stories • Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan
... said Victoria, reprovingly, but there were little creases about her eyes, "don't ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... said Father Golden, reprovingly. "Your mother's smarter than any of you to-day. Go and help ...
— The Green Satin Gown • Laura E. Richards
... 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
... "Bella!" exclaimed her mother reprovingly. "You ought not to speak that way of the man who is almost your husband. And Warren is ...
— The Fate of Felix Brand • Florence Finch Kelly
... Thoreau cocked one brindled ear cannily and rapped sharply with his tail on the piazza floor, but there was no other answer to the call. "Caroline!" The insistent voice rang louder; it was a very determined voice. A sleepy Angora cat scowled reprovingly at its violence; a gray and pink parrot mimicked its hortatory note, but after that the midsummer silence settled down again. Only the bees droned heavily ...
— While Caroline Was Growing • Josephine Daskam Bacon
... all for yours," announced Violet reprovingly. "You hadn't oughta carry on like that—at your age, too! Not that I mind—I rather like it; but what'd your family say if they knew you was ...
— The Day of Days - An Extravaganza • Louis Joseph Vance
... to. Unc' Billy caught hold of the piece of bark hanging from Prickly Porky's mouth. Then he braced himself and pulled with all his might. For a minute the piece of bark held. Then it gave way so suddenly that Unc' Billy fell over flat on his back. Unc' Billy scrambled to his feet and looked reprovingly at Prickly Porky, who lay panting for breath, and with big tears rolling ...
— The Adventures of Prickly Porky • Thornton W. Burgess
... at her reprovingly. "Dead? Now what would I do that for, after he's been so helpful ...
— Pagan Passions • Gordon Randall Garrett
... black eyes rested reprovingly upon Rose, who nodded towards Mary, and forthwith Miss Downs departed with the information, which was not long in ...
— The English Orphans • Mary Jane Holmes
... sure, Robbins, he will cook the dinner all right. And then you know," I added reprovingly, "this is Christmas Day, and there should be no ...
— A Lover in Homespun - And Other Stories • F. Clifford Smith
... at it in the same light way that you do, mum,' returned Amenda, somewhat reprovingly; 'a girl that can't see a bit of red marching down the street without wanting to rush out and follow it ain't fit to be anybody's wife. Why, I should be leaving the shop with nobody in it about twice a week, and he'd have to go the round of all the barracks in London, looking for me. ...
— Novel Notes • Jerome K. Jerome
... said Rachel reprovingly. "It is ever the way when two do an errand. And Madam Wetherill will take dinner with us, it is so near noon. The horses must be put out, and Penn and Jonas are down in the wood lot. Go to the kitchen and ...
— A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia • Amanda Minnie Douglas
... fountain of thought, by drawing away its living water into ditches and stagnant pools. This was, I say, the case in part with my Wynnie, although I did not understand it at that moment. She did not look quite happy, did not always meet a smile with a smile, looked almost reprovingly upon the frolics of the little brother-imps, and though kindness itself when any real hurt or grief befell them, had reverted to her old, somewhat dictatorial manner, of which I have already spoken as interrupted by Connie's accident. To her mother ...
— The Seaboard Parish Volume 1 • George MacDonald
... Mr. 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
... reprovingly. "You must not take his view of the captain at all. Remember what the colonel ...
— From the Ranks • Charles King
... "Annie," said her father, reprovingly, "if we live by the water, Ford will go out on it, and he'd better do so in good ...
— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. V, August, 1878, No 10. - Scribner's Illustrated • Various
... of soup which issued from it in appetizing gusts. Pierre and Pierrette sniffed too, and even Mother Meraut could not help saying appreciatively, "That cook knows how to make soup." Pierre laid his hand upon his stomach and smacked his lips. "Pierre," said his mother, reprovingly, ...
— The French Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins
... such words to me, Sir Max," said Yolanda, reprovingly. "I, too, must live and be happy ...
— Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy • Charles Major
... the old gentleman said, almost reprovingly. "You did not know him, it is true; but you must remember hearing that your poor father ...
— Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances • Juliana Horatia Ewing
... The judge stared at her reprovingly. "Young woman, you don't demand anything. This is Mars. If Space Lobby can stand me, I guess our friends over at Medical will have to. Or should I hold trial right now and find Feldman innocent for lack ...
— Badge of Infamy • Lester del Rey
... the 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 now laid ...
— The Golden House • Mrs. Woods Baker
... came down the corridor like a rolling, ominous cloud. She was looking about her on all sides, in a fidget of annoyance, searching for him, and to his dismay she saw him. She immediately made a horrible face at his companion, beckoned to him imperiously with a dumpy arm, and shook her head reprovingly. The unfortunate young man tried to repulse her with an icy stare, but this effort having obtained little to encourage his feeble hope of driving her away, he shifted his chair so that his back was toward her discomfiting pantomime. ...
— Alice Adams • Booth Tarkington
... "Eleanor," he said reprovingly, "that was letting the cat out of the bag, wasn't it? I hadn't intended to discuss that part of ...
— Ham Sandwich • James H. Schmitz
... 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 ...
— The Rosary • Florence L. Barclay
... dislike, that prompted this dogged conduct; for, after remaining an instant undecided, she stooped and impressed on his cheek a gentle kiss. The little rogue thought I had not seen her, and, drawing back, she took her former station by the window, quite demurely. I shook my head reprovingly, and then she blushed and whispered—'Well! what should I have done, Ellen? He wouldn't shake hands, and he wouldn't look: I must show him some way that I like him—that I ...
— Wuthering Heights • Emily Bronte
... are talking Scripture!" remonstrated the perturbed housewife, looking up reprovingly as she sadly skimmed the cream from the very last pan of milk poor Brindle would ever ...
— Stories Worth Rereading • Various
... the father, turning reprovingly to Madame Dessalines. "His conflict is over, my daughter," he continued, advancing to Genifrede. "His last moments were composed; and as for his state of mind ...
— The Hour and the Man - An Historical Romance • Harriet Martineau
... panic among the audience from two alarms of the building falling. Every face turned pale; but the preacher, full of faith, sat calmly down in the pulpit till the panic subsided, then, resuming his sermon, said reprovingly, "We are in the service of God, to prepare ourselves that we may be fearless at the great noise of the dissolving world when the heavens shall pass away and the elements melt with ...
— Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury
... I 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 ...
— The Minister of Evil - The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia • William Le Queux
... reprovingly of Pinkerton's wholesale fabrication of ENTIRE BALLADS (1783), a crime acknowledged later by the culprit (1786). Scott applauds Ritson's accuracy, but regrets his preference of the worst to the better readings, as if their ...
— Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy • Andrew Lang
... seats, and if you beg two of them to move closer together and let you have the remaining space, the two men may rise, one nearly always does and takes off his hat and begs you to have his place. Then all the eyes in the car are fixed on you—not reprovingly, or smilingly, or in derision or reproach, but earnestly, as if you form a social study which it might be worth their while to investigate. Never once during a year's observance of surface-car phenomena have I seen ...
— At Home with the Jardines • Lilian Bell
... and their owner threw the iron bar upon the cooling forge and began to turn down his sleeves. "Why don't you make him wear a hat?" he asked reprovingly. "A little more and he won't pay any attention to anything you tell him. I'd carry out that sunbonnet bluff, anyway, if I ...
— The Flying U's Last Stand • B. M. Bower
... his chair and Maude assumed a similar position. Quincy looked at her reprovingly, but she did not change her attitude. To her brother's astonishment, she ...
— The Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks • Charles Felton Pidgin
... too, you young wanderer. No doubt of that," said Dalton reprovingly. "This is what you get for roaming away from my care. Lucky you were that an angel like Miss Carden saved you from dying of exposure. If I didn't know you so well, Harry, I should say that you had been in some ...
— The Shades of the Wilderness • Joseph A. Altsheler
... from blushing violently, as she whispered reprovingly that he must not be rude. Lucy did not mend the matter by saying with an impertinent nod, "Rose does not ...
— The Pigeon Pie • Charlotte M. Yonge
... you beat it. Gwan. Chase yourself. Gwan now; don't stand there. You ain't no decent 'bo. You're another of those Unfortunate Workmen that's spoiling the profesh." The veteran stared at Carl reprovingly, yet with a little sadness, too, at the thought of how bitterly he had been deceived in this young comrade, and his uncombed head slowly vanished amid ...
— The Trail of the Hawk - A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life • Sinclair Lewis
... "Katherine! Katherine!" said Marchurst, reprovingly, as Vandeloup opened the box, "how you do exaggerate—ah!" he broke off his exhortation suddenly, for the box was open, and the great mass of gold was glittering ...
— Madame Midas • Fergus Hume
... 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
... such a question annoyed him excessively. "Is this a time," he said reprovingly, "to talk of rabbits? Mind your ...
— Vice Versa - or A Lesson to Fathers • F. Anstey
... ordinary type, though in a language of which she could make nothing. The note-book was a resource. It was at least readable, and Winsome Charteris began expectantly to turn it over. But something stirred reprovingly in her heart. It seemed as if she were listening to a conversation not meant for her. So she kept her finger on the leaf, but did not ...
— The Lilac Sunbonnet • S.R. Crockett
... he received a note from Brown asking him to call. He did so. The editor handed him back his story, more in sorrow than in anger, and spoke reprovingly about deserting one's principles. Brown was conscientious. He believed that the past counted nothing in face of the present. Severne pressed for an explanation. ...
— Blazed Trail Stories - and Stories of the Wild Life • Stewart Edward White
... slept often—imagined me to be a piece of stuffing out of place. Then, grunting and wriggling, he would endeavour to rub me out, until the continued irritation of my head between the window and his back would cause him to awake, when he would look down upon me reprovingly but not unkindly, observing to the carriage generally: "It's a funny thing, ain't it, nobody's ever made a boy yet that could keep still for ten seconds." After which he would pat me heartily on the head, to show he was not vexed ...
— Paul Kelver • Jerome Klapka, AKA Jerome K. Jerome
... 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 ...
— Walking-Stick Papers • Robert Cortes Holliday
... Norridgewock, is affecting his Indian converts against the Puritans, who settled to the southward of him fifty years before. To him comes a woman with torn garments and frightened face. Her dead mother stood before her last night, she says, and looked at her reprovingly, for she had killed Mogg Megone. The priest starts back in wrath, for Mogg was a hopeful agent of the faith, and bids her go, for she can ask no pardon. Brooding within his chapel, then, he is startled by the sound of shot and hum of arrows. Harmon and Moulton are advancing ...
— Myths And Legends Of Our Own Land, Complete • Charles M. Skinner
... she knew, would speak reprovingly, and then laugh at her. Her mother, always weak-willed, would say: "Vera, dear, I wonder if you were really naughty, or if it was that they didn't ...
— Dorothy Dainty at Glenmore • Amy Brooks
... give way to gluttonous desires, my child," said the woman in weeds reprovingly. "This is the proper place. Very well: we'll meet in half an hour, unless you come with me to find out where the site ...
— Jude the Obscure • Thomas Hardy
... be glad to have him think so," returned Margaret reprovingly, "if you are not clever. I suppose you are, though. Tell ...
— The Stillwater Tragedy • Thomas Bailey Aldrich
... That isn't a 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 boy solid with his employers. ...
— Under the Great Bear • Kirk Munroe
... and preaches such good sermons. I do wish, you could hear him once, sir." Here Bessie paused to take breath. I assured her that he must be a fortunate man who had such lips to speak his praises. At which she gave me a rogueish look, blushed, and tossed her head reprovingly. Nothing, I replied, would give me so much pleasure, especially did she bear me company, as to attend the elder's church; but, however strong my inclinations, they could not now be gratified, for the imperative nature of my mission left me but one ...
— The Life and Adventures of Maj. Roger Sherman Potter • "Pheleg Van Trusedale"
... brought them 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
... like 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
... Mrs. Scudder looked reprovingly at Miss Prissy, and for a few moments there was great shaking of heads and a whispered conference between the two ladies, ending in Miss Prissy's going off, saying, as ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 21, July, 1859 • Various
... 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
... "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 ...
— Patty Blossom • Carolyn Wells
... yesterday that thee declared Hero was stolen, only to find that he had followed Winifred Merrill home? And on Sunday, thee was sure he had been killed, because he did not appear the first time thee called," responded Aunt Deborah reprovingly. Aunt Deborah was not very large, and her smooth round face under the neat cap, such as Quaker women wear, was usually smiling and friendly; but it always seemed to Ruth that no least bit of dirt or untidiness ever escaped those ...
— A Little Maid of Old Philadelphia • Alice Turner Curtis
... question, Professor," said Peggie, reprovingly, "is—can I do it? Can I draw a cheque ...
— The Herapath Property • J. S. Fletcher
... smoke, sir," said Samuel reprovingly, "Well, you miss a lot of comfort in life. I've seen a good many ...
— The Awakening of Helena Richie • Margaret Deland
... There is time enough yet to think of such a thing," said Lady Bannerdale, reprovingly; but while she sat it, mother-like, she thought that her son, Edwin, would be home from a long tour in the East in a week or two; that he was particularly good-looking, and in the opinion of more persons than his mother, a ...
— At Love's Cost • Charles Garvice
... the privileged child, reprovingly, "I thought you were too good a Christian to break the commandments in that way. You shouldn't take the Lord's ...
— At Last • Marion Harland
... Henderson, how you do talk!" Betty reproached him reprovingly. "Do you mean to say they ...
— Betty Gordon in the Land of Oil - The Farm That Was Worth a Fortune • Alice B. Emerson
... to see Miss Simms—Miss Anne, or Nancy Simms. My information is that she lives in this house. I should have stated my errand at once, had I been allowed to do so." He looked at the girl reprovingly. ...
— The Purple Heights • Marie Conway Oemler
... Fenn," said Mr. Forbes, reprovingly. "It's in the girls' favour that they don't remember clearly. If they tossed the thing aside carelessly, ...
— Two Little Women on a Holiday • Carolyn Wells
... thrill of horror as it ran over the poor old toy. At the same moment the child screamed, and she saw it point tearfully at the Flanton tragedy. The mother, who had seen nothing of all this, stooped and spoke to him reprovingly. ...
— The Christmas Angel • Abbie Farwell Brown
... 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
... reprovingly. "Nearly all the mining colony had packed itself into the ship that came into Weald with everybody dead. But not all. And there's been no check of what men were in the ship and what men weren't. You ...
— This World Is Taboo • Murray Leinster
... 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 ...
— The Mayor of Casterbridge • Thomas Hardy
... 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 ...
— Anxious Audrey • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... other 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 ...
— Tempest and Sunshine • Mary J. Holmes
... said Mrs. Merryweather, reprovingly. "Don't say such things as that, my dears. I know Kitty and Willy perfectly well; they are brother and sister, two cheerful, affectionate children, who love each other. I don't know anything about you two; run away, please, ...
— The Merryweathers • Laura E. Richards
... hostess, she set out alone, and on foot, upon the errand of her heart's lovely superstition. And erring though it was, her faith redeemed its weakness, her affection made it even sacred; and well may we believe that the Eye which reads all secrets scarce looked reprovingly on that fanaticism whose only infirmity ...
— The Pilgrims Of The Rhine • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... he, reprovingly, "how could any one sleep when mamma sings?" [Footnote: The dauphin's own words.—See Beauchesne, vol. i., ...
— Marie Antoinette And Her Son • Louise Muhlbach
... 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 be ...
— The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch • Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter
... 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 ...
— The Desire of the Moth; and The Come On • Eugene Manlove Rhodes
... showing just the slightest feeling at Diotti's behavior, said reprovingly: "If you will listen a moment, and not be so rude to an utter stranger, we may reach ...
— The Fifth String, The Conspirators • John Philip Sousa
... at heart," she said later, "this same Victor Favraud of ours," gazing reprovingly around. "Indeed, he is the only American I have ever seen who possessed real gaiete de coeur, and for that, I imagine, he must ...
— Sea and Shore - A Sequel to "Miriam's Memoirs" • Mrs. Catharine A. Warfield
... really unkind of you!" she said reprovingly. "Walter and I thoroughly understand each other. He's not surprised ...
— The House of Whispers • William Le Queux
... Tulliver, reprovingly, "you mustn't say so. You must learn what your master tells you. He knows what it's ...
— The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book • Various
... remarked Dorothy, 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.
... exclaimed, half mockingly, half reprovingly. "Don't you think your morning negligee is just a little scanty even for this Godforsaken ...
— The Metal Monster • A. Merritt
... here, after our honeymoon!—a month in those days! I would have punched any other young blood's head, who had even looked at her! And you philander off with that fluffy, little empty-pate, Laura, and Arthur Elterton makes love to your bride! A pretty state of things, 'pon my soul!" And he laughed reprovingly. ...
— The Reason Why • Elinor Glyn
... up to vampiring, nohow, Mrs. Harrington, nor you shouldn't want to, not with that goldy hair of yours," said Viola reprovingly. ...
— The Wishing-Ring Man • Margaret Widdemer
... fresh," said Steve reprovingly. Perry mumbled and relapsed into silence. Presently, sighing as he ...
— The Adventure Club Afloat • Ralph Henry Barbour
... far too young to think of men at all," answered Annis, reprovingly, and with all the conscious superiority of age. "Nor do you know enough as yet ...
— In the Yule-Log Glow, Book I - Christmas Tales from 'Round the World • Various
... Working Aristocracy, 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? ...
— Past and Present - Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. • Thomas Carlyle
... the use of our being scouts if we didn't know how to trap animals and birds," Ned told him, reprovingly. "In fact, while, of course, I wouldn't say I'd like to have the experience, there's no doubt in my mind but that it would be a great education to the lot of us. And if we pulled through we'd feel as if we were fitted to go ...
— Boy Scouts on Hudson Bay - The Disappearing Fleet • G. Harvey Ralphson
... are," Fay whispered reprovingly. "They're all wearing their ticklers. But you don't need ...
— The Creature from Cleveland Depths • Fritz Reuter Leiber
... from the milking, and finding them still sitting in the sunshine in earnest conversation, held her finger up reprovingly, and begged them to come ...
— Garthowen - A Story of a Welsh Homestead • Allen Raine
... bet.' Mother has often told you that it was very rude," reprovingly said little Minnehaha. "You never learned it from father or mother. You must have picked that ...
— Algonquin Indian Tales • Egerton R. Young
... 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
... everywhere," the miner said reprovingly, "for folks to stand drink to a stranger; and ...
— In The Heart Of The Rockies • G. A. Henty
... count John and Jane," interrupted the bard reprovingly; "they're dead, you know, so ...
— Literary Lapses • Stephen Leacock
... Angelina reprovingly. One could see that the Americans had never suffered for fuel. ...
— The Innocent Adventuress • Mary Hastings Bradley
... I looked at momma reprovingly, but, seeing that she had no suspicion of being humorous, I said nothing. The Senator pushed out his under lip and ...
— A Voyage of Consolation - (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An - American girl in London') • Sara Jeannette Duncan
... over the fire, stirring the beaten egg into a saucepan. "Oh, you lazy old Bear!" she said reprovingly. "What good will that ...
— The Odds - And Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell
... I said, not angrily, not reprovingly—with nothing but sorrow in my voice, and nothing but ...
— The Woman in White • Wilkie Collins
... 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 her mother's ...
— The Heir of Redclyffe • Charlotte M. Yonge
... her mother, reprovingly, "it's bad enough for you to tease me for stories without ...
— Kristy's Rainy Day Picnic • Olive Thorne Miller
... said the judge, reprovingly. "Bragging does not become a young man. You have now got so accustomed to this sort of life that you'll find it a little difficult to fall into the ranks again, drink wine that you've paid for, and be punished for your offences if to-day or to-morrow you ...
— A Hungarian Nabob • Maurus Jokai
... "Nonsense!" I 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 impossible ...
— On Something • H. Belloc
... said his father, looking up quietly, but reprovingly, as Jack winced and blushed, and a dark shade of ...
— Two Years Ago, Volume I • Charles Kingsley
... to be a man," said the major reprovingly, "you won't talk in such a light-hearted way of a battle." And the boy's face flushed at the laugh ...
— At the Point of the Sword • Herbert Hayens
... at the speaker. He yearned to crush him with a suitable reply, but all his wit had been knocked out of him by the cruel blow of fate. However, it could not long remain so. He picked up the fragments of the potato, fumbled them reprovingly and gravely laid them on the tablecloth beside his plate. Then the old grin bisected his homely face, and addressing the ...
— The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters • Edward S. Ellis
... the women cried shrilly; then, with equal unanimity, burst out laughing. Randalin drew a little nearer the Etheling's sheltering side. He said half reprovingly, half freakishly, "It would not be well for you to anger him. He is the page of Canute himself, a real Wandering Wolf, and recks not whom he attacks. He came near to spitting Oslac at the battle, ...
— The Ward of King Canute • Ottilie A. Liljencrantz
... said I, reassuringly and somewhat reprovingly, 'Georgie's not frightened at such a little thing!' Five minutes after, we were sitting on the doorsteps, and, wearing a low-necked dress, I felt on my shoulder some stirring creature; it was a caterpillar, and, with the inevitable privileged feminine screech on such occasions, ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various
... missed one," she said. She shook a lean forefinger at him reprovingly: "So 'twas you run off with it! I'm obliged to you for bringing it again, sir. I couldn't rightly remember whether 'twas a young lady or gentleman who'd had it. There's so many ...
— The Moon out of Reach • Margaret Pedler
... 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 Reverend Flip.' It ...
— Kildares of Storm • Eleanor Mercein Kelly
... become too haughty because he remembers you," said Warner reprovingly. "Bear in mind that trifles sometimes stick longer in our minds ...
— The Tree of Appomattox • Joseph A. Altsheler
... over the congregation easily and then fastened his eyes on Abram Saunders, the father of Absalom, and said reprovingly: "Give not sleep to thine eyes nor ...
— Laddie • Gene Stratton Porter |
