"Reproachfully" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... said Mr. Bingle, reproachfully; "don't blame the kiddies. They're cold and—by the way, is there no steam ...
— Mr. Bingle • George Barr McCutcheon
... mind so much. Oh, Bob, it hurts me to see you mind so much! You aren't—being dependable, like Peter, even now," she said, reproachfully.... ...
— The Cords of Vanity • James Branch Cabell et al
... go without an escort, Roland. It was too bad," she said reproachfully as she stood in the open door of a parlour and ...
— A Singer from the Sea • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
... think you'd say that," she exclaimed reproachfully. "I thought you wouldn't want to make more ...
— Anne's House of Dreams • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... floor about him covered with frogs and toads and snakes and creeping things. And picture, finally, his amazement when, the darkness that enveloped him suddenly clearing, he beheld a man sitting in the far corner of the room and eying him, as it seemed, reproachfully, ...
— Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters • H. Addington Bruce
... ye saw not all this in time, Ingona," said the king reproachfully. "Tell me, now—If this conspiracy had ripened to fruition, would you, O Ingona, have taken the field and ...
— The Adventures of Dick Maitland - A Tale of Unknown Africa • Harry Collingwood
... that child was in bed," said the cuckoo to himself, and out he came from his little house and called "cuckoo" seven times so reproachfully that Leneli hastened upstairs with the baby and put her down in ...
— The Swiss Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins
... not seen her or spoken with her," said Marie self-reproachfully, "since she vexed me so sorely about her child. She is a poor creature. But they feed and house her well in ...
— The Lady of Fort St. John • Mary Hartwell Catherwood
... heared you!" said the boy reproachfully; "and then you turns up the gas again, and I lifts the lid a bit, and sees it was two men and ...
— The Bag of Diamonds • George Manville Fenn
... emotion which he could not analyze. Some power, some feeling in which the thought of Nell had no share, was drawing him with irresistible strength. Nell had just begun to surrender to him in the sweetness of her passion; and yet even with that knowledge knocking reproachfully at his heart, he could not help being absorbed in the shimmering water, in the dark reflection of the trees, the gloom ...
— The Spirit of the Border - A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley • Zane Grey
... "Why," he replied, self-reproachfully, in his mildest voice, "I find, do what I can, I have at bottom a combative spirit that will rise upon occasion. I had thought 'twas long since quelled. But I fear no man is always and altogether his own master. I saw even General Washington, at Monmouth—but no matter for that. Especially ...
— Philip Winwood • Robert Neilson Stephens
... him reproachfully. "Please don't say that," she protested. "You always treat your kindness as a ...
— Cap'n Warren's Wards • Joseph C. Lincoln
... started from Sanders's eyes trickled down through a sandy desert on each sun-blistered cheek. He rode back to his temporary chief just as an Indian bullet had whizzed in front of the major's nose and made his eyes almost pop from his head. "Don't you see," he urged, reproachfully, "how very much more they are around us? If Truman or Cranston needed help they would have let ...
— Under Fire • Charles King
... altar railing. What dreadful thing was I contemplating, what fearful temptation was assailing me, here under the light of the sanctuary lamp? I looked reproachfully at St. Stanislaus, as if that seraphic youth had betrayed my confidence. I suspected him of being too anxious to rid himself of the ambiguous trust imposed upon him without so much as a by-your-leave. ...
— Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man • Marie Conway Oemler
... Glastonbury reproachfully, 'I trust that I am free from deceit of any kind. In the present instance I had not even to communicate anything. Your own conduct had excited suspicion; some visitors from Bath to this gentleman and his family had revealed everything; and, in deference ...
— Henrietta Temple - A Love Story • Benjamin Disraeli
... my best rags and tatters now, when should I wear them?" said Miss Bartlett reproachfully. She got into the victoria and placed herself with her back to the horse. The necessary roar ensued, ...
— A Room With A View • E. M. Forster
... not very romantic, I perceive, Mr. Wallingford," Emily answered, and I thought a little reproachfully. "Now, I own that to my taste, I could be happy anywhere—here, as well as in London, surrounded by my ...
— Afloat And Ashore • James Fenimore Cooper
... reproachfully, "that this conviction is earnestly to be desired. If saves you from the agony that at this ...
— Rich Enough - a tale of the times • Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee
... fruit as they predicted I would never get well, that he came back to the house—with two pears in each duster pocket and one in his mouth—and told Jack it was an outrage. The preacher, likewise, who appears in the spring-time, one afternoon knocked reproachfully at the front door and inquired whether I was in a condition to be reasoned with. In his hand he carried a nice little work-basket, which may have been brought along to catch his prayers; but he took it home ...
— A Kentucky Cardinal • James Lane Allen
... you frighten her so?" exclaimed Mr. Tiralla reproachfully; he could not bear to hear his daughter cry. "Come here, my Roeschen, my little lady-bird; leave your mother, she's in a bad humour to-day. Come to me, Roeschen, my sweetheart, come; take hold of my ...
— Absolution • Clara Viebig
... it is very unkind, then," declared the young man, reproachfully; "for Richard promised me I should be groomsman—and now they have gone and got married while I was asleep. It was unkind of Kate, and I don't love her; but I don't believe it was Richard's fault, because he is good, ...
— Archibald Malmaison • Julian Hawthorne
... hand upon his arm. "And upon whom falls the light of day, if not upon you?" asked she, reproachfully. "Look back upon your twenty operas, and see each one bearing its laurel-wreath, and shouting to the world your fame! And now look into the future, and see their unborn sisters, whose lips one day ...
— Joseph II. and His Court • L. Muhlbach
... with the waiter. Madame was overcome with the humor of the affair. Mademoiselle tittered as she leaned across and told her fiance. The unattached mademoiselle looked her sympathy with Julien. Monsieur saw the joke and laughed heartily. They looked reproachfully at Kendricks. To them it ...
— The Mischief Maker • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... horses sidled off from her approach and began to circle slowly to the far side of the corral. Tango lifted his head and looked at her reproachfully, moved his feet as though tempted to retreat, and thought better of it. What was the use? Mary V always did what she wanted to do; if not in one way, then in another. Knowing her so ...
— Skyrider • B. M. Bower
... Margaret, scornfully. "What a proud race we Americans are!" Barker sighed skilfully and looked reproachfully at Margaret. ...
— Doctor Claudius, A True Story • F. Marion Crawford
... fortnight since you wrote and asked me to stay with you," said Jacqueline, coldly and reproachfully. ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... started up and gazed on the seventy-three cents Paul exhibited with eager eyes, then looking reproachfully at him ...
— The Story of Paul Boyton - Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World • Paul Boyton
... oh you delicious aunty!" echoed Molly. "Why don't you say something too, Ralph?" she exclaimed, turning reproachfully to her brother. "You like stories just as much as we do—you ...
— Grandmother Dear - A Book for Boys and Girls • Mrs. Molesworth
... dark and the trees moan; the agonized man who lies waiting the morning thinks of the times when the whistle of the wind was the gladdest of sounds to him; his old ambitions wake from their trance and come to gaze on him reproachfully; he sees that fortune (and mayhap fame) have passed him by, and all through his own fault; he may whine about imaginary wrongs during the day when he is maudlin, but the night fairly throttles him if he attempts to turn away from the stark truth, and he remains pinned face to face with his beautiful, ...
— The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions - Joints In Our Social Armour • James Runciman
... hand," said Spike reproachfully, "she'll swamp the boat by her struggles—get rid of her at once! Cut her fingers off, if she ...
— Jack Tier or The Florida Reef • James Fenimore Cooper
... raised herself on her elbow, drew the dagger from the wound, and a great jet of blood shot up and crimsoned her hands. She did not faint—there seemed to be a deathless energy within her that chained life strongly in its place—she only pressed both hands hard over the wound, and looked mournfully and reproachfully up in his face. Those beautiful, sad, solemn dyes, void of everything savage and fierce, were truly ...
— The Midnight Queen • May Agnes Fleming
... Bertha," cried he, with sudden vehemence; "I love you better than I ever loved any earthly being, and if you knew how firmly this love has clutched at the roots of my heart, you would perhaps—you would at least not look so reproachfully at me." ...
— Tales From Two Hemispheres • Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
... Castle, under your kind charge, until she could so far discern betwixt good and evil, that it should be matter of conscience to teach her the way in which she should go. For it is not unknown to your ladyship, and in no way do I speak it reproachfully, but rather sorrowfully, that a person so excellently gifted as yourself—I mean touching natural qualities—has not yet received that true light, which is a lamp to the paths, but are contented to stumble in darkness, and among the graves of dead men. It has ...
— Peveril of the Peak • Sir Walter Scott
... taunt me," Mr. Ricketty answered, reproachfully. "This is a sad hour to me. What'll you give ...
— Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York • Lemuel Ely Quigg
... mean to go," said Miss Munnion reproachfully. "How could I forsake Diana when she ...
— A Pair of Clogs • Amy Walton
... looked at Mrs Griffith sternly and reproachfully; they felt themselves like God Almighty judging a miserable sinner. Mrs Griffith was extremely angry; she felt that she was being blamed most unjustly, and, moreover, she was ...
— Orientations • William Somerset Maugham
... sister," reproachfully, "us should always bring old Neddy's nose downstairs with us. They never ...
— "Us" - An Old Fashioned Story • Mary Louisa S. Molesworth
... hearing the excuse. After various adventures, common to missing personal effects, the lieutenant's trunks turned up at Port Royal. He looked sympathetically at the colonel's shorn plumes and meagre array, and said, reproachfully, "Colonel, where are your trunks? A good soldier should never separate from his baggage." But, doubtless, to follow it to the bottom of the sea would be an ...
— From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life • Captain A. T. Mahan
... Deighton, speaking reproachfully, yet secretly pleased at Blount's departure, "no man need feel ashamed at meeting his countrymen on account of the poverty of his attire; I am sure that the sight of an English gentleman is a very welcome one to ...
— The Tapu Of Banderah - 1901 • Louis Becke
... and looked at Everychild reproachfully. "It's called running away," he said; "though everybody knows you don't run, and for that matter, there's no away about it. Mostly you turn around and go back. But I call it running away just the same. It takes ...
— Everychild - A Story Which The Old May Interpret to the Young and Which the Young May Interpret to the Old • Louis Dodge
... time before he knew her as his "protoplasmic state," as indeed it was. But there are a good many of us who would be willing to remain protoplasm all our lives to possess a tithe of his genius—you and I among the number, Tabby. You needn't look at me so reproachfully out of your old-gold ...
— The Love Affairs of an Old Maid • Lilian Bell
... Tom Porter asked him if he were ready, and hearing he was, they fought desperately, till of a sudden a sharp cry was heard; Sir Henry's weapon fell upon the ground, and he placed one hand to his side, from which blood flowed freely. Then calling his opponent to him, he looked in his face reproachfully, kissed him lovingly, and bade him seek safety. "For, Tom," said he, struggling hard to speak, "thou hast hurt me; but I will make shift to stand upon my legs till thou mayest withdraw, and the world not take notice of you, for," continued he, with much tenderness, "I ...
— Royalty Restored - or, London under Charles II. • J. Fitzgerald Molloy
... am not at all surprised, although at present I have no recollection of it. One thing is sure,—that my superstition and credulity reached their height at the very period of my life which my critics reproachfully assign as the date of my Fourieristic beliefs. Now I hold quite other views. My mind no longer admits that which is demonstrated by syllogisms, analogies, or metaphors, which are the methods of the phalanstery, but demands a process of generalization ...
— What is Property? - An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government • P. J. Proudhon
... have imagined you could be so cruel," I said reproachfully. "With all these, fatiguing duties you don't even leave me time ...
— Venus in Furs • Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
... royalty-owner, you will see his functions are not very onerous. He signs receipts for his royalties and occasionally negotiates the terms of a lease. But as regards the coal-mining industry, he "toils not, neither does he spin." I do not say that reproachfully, for he (and his number has been estimated at 4000) is doubtless a good husband, a kind father, a busy man, and a good citizen. But as regards this industry he performs no essential function beyond allowing the colliery-owners ...
— Essays in Liberalism - Being the Lectures and Papers Which Were Delivered at the - Liberal Summer School at Oxford, 1922 • Various
... of herself Ida could not help appearing disappointed as she said, a little reproachfully, "Would a friend have waited ...
— A Face Illumined • E. P. Roe
... arms in imitation of a rooster, and crowed, to bolster up his courage, and leaped. He regained consciousness after a short interval, and feebly sat up on the pavement. He regarded Mike reproachfully. ...
— Jokes For All Occasions - Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers • Anonymous
... wall. He saluted Marufa politely, choking back words of bitter recrimination, for if he even offended him, the wizard might cast a spell upon him instantly. Marufa returned the greeting as courteously as ever. When at length MYalu reproachfully reminded him of the seven tusks which he had paid apparently to secure his love's ...
— Witch-Doctors • Charles Beadle
... and came forward simply, cordially acknowledging the introduction. Then she turned to Hinpoha. "I thought you understood my name was just Veronica Lehar," she said reproachfully. ...
— The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit - Or, Over the Top with the Winnebagos • Hildegard G. Frey
... struggled from his bed. His head was splitting, his tongue and lips were dry and feverish, his bloodshot eyes were shrinking from the insufferable light of the day, his mind a confused medley of the past night and the present morning, of cards and wild revelry, and the vision of a reproachfully trim orderly standing at his door with reports and orders which he now held composedly in his hand. For Lieutenant Calvert had been enjoying a symposium variously known as "Stag Feed" and "A Wild Stormy Night" with several of his ...
— The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales • Bret Harte
... about Harris and Ditson being skinners!" came reproachfully from Jones. "My dear young man, there is a place that ...
— Frank Merriwell's Races • Burt L. Standish
... thought yer had had more common sense, Sam Hicks," Jerry said reproachfully, "than to go a-mixing yourself up in a business in which you had no sort of consarn. Ef one of them women had asked you to help her, or if you had thought she was being taken away agin her will, you or any other man would have had a right to take a hand ...
— In The Heart Of The Rockies • G. A. Henty
... said Adele. "'Books in the running brooks, Virtue in vats, and good in everything.' Nobby," she added reproachfully, "why didn't you tell me he was a poet?" The Sealyham put his head on one side, as if desiring her to repeat the question. "Oh, you cute thing!" And, with that, my lady bent and kissed the terrier between the bright ...
— Berry And Co. • Dornford Yates
... said reproachfully. "Not yet—we haven't begun. Ivan Andreievitch, what do you think? ...
— The Secret City • Hugh Walpole
... me," said Mrs. Milton, a little reproachfully, touching his arm. Widgery was hardly in the mood to be mollified all at once. "He need not prevent ME," he said, and stopped. "It's no good talking, you ...
— The Wheels of Chance - A Bicycling Idyll • H. G. Wells
... Cousin Charlotte will have loads of old school-books, and—and well, at any rate, Esther," reproachfully, "you know how to read and write, and you might have been teaching Angela and Poppy to do so, you ...
— The Carroll Girls • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... whole year; it is August now," said Thomas, half reproachfully, and he tightened his clasp of Evelina's ...
— Evelina's Garden • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... leave me so," said Pepita, reproachfully. "I will tell you all. You will understand me better. Listen. ...
— The Dodge Club - or, Italy in 1859 • James De Mille
... Brinker, shaking her head reproachfully at Gretel. "She was a very rude girl, I'm sure." Secretly she was thinking that very few women had such ...
— Hans Brinker - or The Silver Skates • Mary Mapes Dodge
... bed, and feel his eye-sockets smart for lack of tears; for tears came not to him, but his fever made his skin quite dry, and so were his eyes dry. Therefore, when the chiefs of the Achaeans in Council, seeing how their strength was wearing down like a snowbank under the sun, looked reproachfully upon him, and thought of Hector slain, and of dead Achilles who slew him, of Priam, and of Diomede, and of tall Patroclus, he, Menelaus, took no heed at all, but sat in his place, and said, "There is no mercy for robbers of the house. Starve ...
— The Ruinous Face • Maurice Hewlett
... she murmured reproachfully, "I'm wet enough as it is and I've no rubbers;—" the faint blue shadows under her eyes accused them all. Her thin hand tried to pat her rumpled hair, "I do believe you've lost another hairpin for me—I'd ...
— Little Miss By-The-Day • Lucille Van Slyke
... only a child! A mere baby, in fact. Marry Gertie! I never thought of her in that light; and did you think I was that sort of a fellow, Syb?" he asked reproachfully. ...
— My Brilliant Career • Miles Franklin
... that the night would bring about a change in her ideas. But when they met next day at breakfast he began once more to talk of his plans. She dropped the piece of bread she was raising to her lips and said sorrowfully and reproachfully: ...
— Jean-Christophe, Vol. I • Romain Rolland
... neighbouring village with cracking of whip and jingling of bells, heads popped up at the windows to stare, and the only living thing in the silent, sunny street was a melancholy fowl with ruffled feathers, which looked at us reproachfully, as we dashed with so much energy over ...
— Elizabeth and her German Garden • "Elizabeth", AKA Marie Annette Beauchamp
... his eyes reproachfully on Charley, but said nothing. The real culprit (it wasn't Charley Marden, but the boy whose name I withhold) instantly regretted his badness, and after school confessed the whole thing to Mr. Grimshaw, who heaped coals of fire upon the nameless boy's head giving him five cents ...
— The Story of a Bad Boy • Thomas Bailey Aldrich
... not what I mean," she said reproachfully. "I was mad last night. You took me by surprise and I forgot everything. I was awake all night. This morning I can see things clearly. Nothing—of that sort—is possible between you and me. So I want ...
— The Avenger • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... Presbury and his wife were getting on about as comfortably as it is given to average humanity to get on in this world of incessant struggle between uncomfortable man and his uncomfortable environment. But Mildred had become more and more unhappy. Her mother, sometimes angrily, again reproachfully—and that was far harder to bear—blamed her for "my miserable marriage to this low, quarrelsome brute." Presbury let no day pass without telling her openly that she was a beggar living off him, that she would better marry soon or he would take drastic steps to release himself of the burden. ...
— The Price She Paid • David Graham Phillips
... Arthur looked reproachfully at his father, and moved toward the door. At the same moment a great tumult was heard ...
— The Son of Monte Cristo • Jules Lermina
... "Oh, aunt," said Vera reproachfully, "it would break the poor Canon's heart if Cuthbert were to be involved in a scandal of this ...
— Beasts and Super-Beasts • Saki
... the Cathedral both mornings to hear the music; and something about the dim, moonlit look of the interior made me feel good. You will say that's rather a change for me, perhaps, because you tell me reproachfully, sometimes, after I've thought about the people's hats and the backs of their blouses in church, that I have only a bowing acquaintance with religion. I don't know whether I mayn't be doing the most dreadful wrong every minute by pretending to be Ellaline; but ...
— Set in Silver • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
... to poor trembling Haguna! Uncouth birds whizzed in circles round her head, clanging and clamoring with their shrill voices, striving to beat her back with their flapping wings. The faint sweet fragrance of brier-roses clustering at the foot of the mountain wafted reproachfully upon the chill air an entreaty to return. Once, turning at a sudden bend in the road, she spied a merry party of girls and children crowning each other with quickly fading wreaths of clover-blossoms. ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, Issue 49, November, 1861 • Various
... exclaimed Duroc, reproachfully, "all three of us were filled only with grief; we were considering what might be the cause of your ...
— Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia • L. Muhlbach
... to Mabel, and descending the broad staircase, they stood within the parlor in the spot which had been assigned them. Once during the ceremony he raised his eyes, encountering those of 'Lena, fixed upon him so reproachfully that with a scowl he turned away. Mechanically he went through with his part of the service, betraying no emotion whatever, until the solemn words which made them one were uttered. Then, when it was over—when he was bound to her forever—he seemed suddenly to ...
— 'Lena Rivers • Mary J. Holmes
... this a more natural sentiment for an American than that which distrusts so much, merely because it comes from the little island?" asked Sir George, reproachfully. ...
— Home as Found • James Fenimore Cooper
... at him fixedly, reproachfully. "It is all this affair," she said with a heavy sigh. "If it had only been the police, our own police, we should not have minded, Monsieur le Senateur—we are honest people—we have nothing to fear from the police," she lifted her head ...
— The End of Her Honeymoon • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... anything for yourself," said Juliette, reproachfully. "Oh! yes, I see you did," and she pretended to perceive for the first time the little red case containing the ring, which inadvertently he had pulled out of his pocket with the other articles, although in truth she had observed it from the ...
— Love Eternal • H. Rider Haggard
... Jacky. "Say, Mr. Curtis, have you got teeth you can take out?" When Maurice said, rather absently, that he had not, Jacky's dismay was pathetic. "Why, maw can do that," he said, reproachfully. It was the first flaw in his idol. It took several minutes to recover from the shock of disappointment; then he said: "Lookee here!" He paused beside a hydrant, and with his mittened hand broke off a long icicle, held it up and turned it about so that the sun flashed on ...
— The Vehement Flame • Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
... the South Side Park or picturesque Camphill?" I tried to edge in an abashed "No," for a monosyllable is the most one can hope to secure of the conversation in an interview; but the pretty lady interviewer went on reproachfully: "Have you seen that stately hill of the dead, the Necropolis, from Cathedral Square? It is itself a quaint and beautiful medley of architecture past and present. Have you seen beautiful Kelvingrove, through which flows the classic Kelvin? In many world-famous cities ...
— Without Prejudice • Israel Zangwill
... express his chagrin at this cruel and unseemly blunder. The old gentleman accepted it with his usual uncomplaining deference to circumstances; still, it was jarring to nerves overstrained and bruised by the home thrust of Daphne's defection. He fell silent and drew within himself, not reproachfully, but sensitively. Thane rightly surmised that no second invocation would be offered when they should come to the true Pilgrim Station; the old gentleman would keep his ...
— A Touch Of Sun And Other Stories • Mary Hallock Foote
... widows marry, bear children, guide the house, give no occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully. (15)For already, some ...
— The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. • Various
... turned inside to combat reproachfully Sophia's suspicions. "You would not doubt her word, Sophia, if you saw how cold and ...
— What Necessity Knows • Lily Dougall
... to get the courage, but I was afraid you wouldn't understand. I'd have told you the whole thing, if you'd ever given me the chance. You know I've been married; does it make so much difference that I have a son?" When the object of her appeal only stirred, she went on, reproachfully: "Are you going to allow ...
— Flowing Gold • Rex Beach
... not honestly assert that I did. 'You were introduced to me,' I said reproachfully, ...
— The Talking Horse - And Other Tales • F. Anstey
... is the love you bear me, that the first moment of my absence you would desert me,' said the pirate, looking reproachfully at Nina, without taking any notice of me and my companions. 'I believed, I felt sure, that you loved me, but now I know that ...
— The Pirate of the Mediterranean - A Tale of the Sea • W.H.G. Kingston
... from the merry girl, who could not restrain herself, although Nellie looked so reproachfully, and Fred really angrily at her; ...
— Edna's Sacrifice and Other Stories - Edna's Sacrifice; Who Was the Thief?; The Ghost; The Two Brothers; and What He Left • Frances Henshaw Baden
... astonished," said Monsignor Bumci, reproachfully, in French, "that you should ask such a question." [It was answered a few weeks later, when Halim Beg Derala and Zena Beg—who, being outside Albania, were free to utter non-Governmental opinions—said that they had not the slightest ...
— The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 • Henry Baerlein
... She looked at him reproachfully. Nevertheless, his words seemed to have brought back to her mind the thrill of their brief but stimulating conversation. A flash of genuine earnestness transformed her face, just as a gleam of wintry sunshine, which had found its way in through ...
— The Devil's Paw • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... said reproachfully, putting her hand on his arm, "don't thou talk in a tone like that and look so sour; it don't become thee; it's not natural, too, and thou knows it." Then she went on anxiously: "Thou knows what is troubling me; thou art the maister's private servant, and ...
— A Lover in Homespun - And Other Stories • F. Clifford Smith
... nearly so. "You didn't orter gone off like that," said Janie reproachfully. "But I'm glad you're a sailor. You looks beautiful in them clothes. An' there's prospecks in the Navy." Poor little Janie: she had "prospecks" ...
— A Tall Ship - On Other Naval Occasions • Sir Lewis Anselm da Costa Ritchie
... bet, citizen," retorted Victor reproachfully. "No reason to fall on an honest patriot for a bet, just as if he ...
— The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel • Baroness Orczy
... you're the one that's blocking me there." Dick shook his head reproachfully. "Davy, I'm disappointed in you. I call it playing it low down on me. You might at least have told me, so I could know what to meet. It isn't fair. It isn't friendly. And after all I've done for you! I didn't think you could do it." Dick sighed sorrowfully, his faith in ...
— The House of Toys • Henry Russell Miller
... confide in my little wife than in some canting methodistical fellow of a trustee, who would speculate my daughter's money upon some Stock-Exchange hazard, and levant to Australia when it was all swamped. If you can't trust me, Georgy, I'll let you see that I can trust you", added Tom reproachfully. ...
— Birds of Prey • M. E. Braddon
... she would have thought of tilting two books together and emptying the inkpot on the top of them, when asked to describe a watershed? Yet she looked genuinely astonished when the vials of Miss Farrar's wrath descended upon her, and said almost reproachfully that she was only trying ...
— The New Girl at St. Chad's - A Story of School Life • Angela Brazil
... mother's eyes. And now, oh, it is terrible! I am tired and without hope; I spend my days and nights in idleness; I have no control over my feet or brain. My estate is ruined, my woods are falling under the blows of the axe. [He weeps] My neglected land looks up at me as reproachfully as an orphan. I expect nothing, am sorry for nothing; my whole soul trembles at the thought of each new day. And what can I think of my treatment of Sarah? I promised her love and happiness forever; I opened her eyes to the promise ...
— Ivanoff - A Play • Anton Checkov
... an abundance of them. But Mrs. Spencer said DISTINCTLY that you wanted a girl about eleven years old. And the matron said she thought I would do. You don't know how delighted I was. I couldn't sleep all last night for joy. Oh," she added reproachfully, turning to Matthew, "why didn't you tell me at the station that you didn't want me and leave me there? If I hadn't seen the White Way of Delight and the Lake of Shining Waters it ...
— Anne Of Green Gables • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... Pete—that's your record," he remarked, gazing reproachfully out across the salt meadows beyond the causeway. "They won't bring you in nothin'," he added, ...
— Athalie • Robert W. Chambers
... ANN. [reproachfully, stricken to the soul] Oh, how could you remind me, mother? [She hastily leaves the room to conceal ...
— Man And Superman • George Bernard Shaw
... the witnesses whom I shall produce for the proof of what I say, they shall be such as are esteemed by the Greeks themselves to be of the greatest reputation for truth and the most skilful in the knowledge of all antiquity. I will also show that those who have written so reproachfully and falsely about us are to be convicted by what they have themselves written to the contrary, and I shall endeavor to give an account of the reasons why it has happened that a great number of Greeks have not made mention of our nation in ...
— Josephus • Norman Bentwich
... "I confess my sin, but it was so unpremeditated that it does not merit a severe penance. Do not look at me so reproachfully. We all know that young ladies keep commonplace books in which they enter passages that strike them in the works they read; and you have but shown an exquisite taste in selecting this gem. Do tell me where you found it. Is it somewhere ...
— The Parisians, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... said Tuppence reproachfully. "To tell you the truth, that's what started me off suspecting ...
— The Secret Adversary • Agatha Christie
... sides are extremely busy. In the plains of France the pursuit of their nefarious trade was practically limited to front-line work. When they did venture to indulge in what they called "overhead" fire, their friends in the forefront used to summon them after the performance, and reproachfully point out sundry ominous rents and abrasions in the back of the front-line parapet. But here they can withdraw behind a convenient ridge, and strafe Boches a mile and a half away, without causing any complaints. Needless to say, Brother Boche is not backward in returning the compliment. ...
— All In It K(1) Carries On - A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand • John Hay Beith (AKA: Ian Hay)
... your red-haired sirens," she said reproachfully. "And now come along, and I'll pick ...
— Anthony Lyveden • Dornford Yates
... that made you look so happy when you came in here?" Dan asked, reproachfully. "The thought that you could scare two poor little ensigns so badly that they wouldn't be ...
— Dave Darrin at Vera Cruz • H. Irving Hancock
... with my books and two tables, and two chairs, and a coal-skuttle (or SCUTTLE) (?) and a DEBRIS of broken pipes in a corner, and my old school play-box, so full of papers and books that the lid will not shut down, standing reproachfully in the midst. There is something in it that is still a little gaunt and vacant; it needs a little populous disorder over it to give it the feel of homeliness, and perhaps a bit more furniture, just ...
— The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 1 • Robert Louis Stevenson
... it not enough? The lady in the mirror gazed at the lady in the room, reproachfully at first, then—for were they not sisters?—relentingly, then pityingly. Each of the two covered her face ...
— Zuleika Dobson - or, An Oxford Love Story • Max Beerbohm
... "Now, Angy!" said Tom reproachfully. "Well," he added with a grin, "you're forewarned. So you've only to take care of yourself and ...
— He Fell in Love with His Wife • Edward P. Roe
... High, my son!" he said gently, yet reproachfully. "Distraught as thou dost seem with some strange misery, and sick with fears, forbear thine ignorant fury against Him who hath for love's dear sake alone created thee. Control thy soul in patience!—surely thou art ...
— Ardath - The Story of a Dead Self • Marie Corelli
... in your godfather any more?" he asked reproachfully. "Come, sit down and tell me your little troubles as you used to do when you were a child, when you wanted tapers to make wax dolls, You know that I've always loved you, I've never ...
— The Social Cancer - A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal
... interest in the one thing that will bring me back," he said. He spoke reproachfully and yet a little haughtily, as though he had already half suspected she had guessed what ...
— Van Bibber and Others • Richard Harding Davis
... part, rose up and would have run his son through; but by good fortune for them both, either his over-hasty rage, or the wine he had drunk, made his foot slip, so that he fell down on the floor. At which Alexander reproachfully insulted over him: "See there," said he, "the man, who makes preparations to pass out of Europe into Asia, overturned in passing from one seat to another." After this debauch, he and his mother Olympias withdrew from Philip's company, and when ...
— Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough
... Looking reproachfully at his beloved animal failed to heal the aching void of his pockets, and drinking deeply, swearing eloquently and glaring defiantly at all mankind, were equally unproductive ...
— Romance of California Life • John Habberton
... and kept silence," he said at last, while Mrs. Gresley looked reproachfully, but without surprise, ...
— Red Pottage • Mary Cholmondeley |
