"Reprovingly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 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 ...
— The Prairie Chief • R.M. Ballantyne
... yielded the brown, 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 ...
— The Flying U's Last Stand • B. M. Bower
... 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 ...
— Anxious Audrey • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... natural life, just for the sake of gettin' the fees. They don't care for such things as you and I. We hain't no rights; and if we had, why we hain't no power. This carryin' too much head sail, Tom, won't do-'twon't!" Spunyarn shakes his head reprovingly, fusses over Tom, turns him over on his wales, as he has it, and finally gets him on his beam's ends, a besotted wreck unable to carry his canvas. "Lost yeer reckonin', eh, Tom?" he continues as that ...
— Justice in the By-Ways - A Tale of Life • F. Colburn Adams
... reprovingly, 'Daily bread' is all we have anything to do with. Don't you remember that it says 'Thine be the kingdom and the power and the ...
— The Power and the Glory • Grace MacGowan Cooke
... reprovingly from the head of the table, where she sat in state, "I do not like to hear you speak in that way. We are in ...
— The Girl at the Halfway House • Emerson Hough
... Miss 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 ...
— Aunt Judith - The Story of a Loving Life • Grace Beaumont
... 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 ...
— The Life and Adventures of Maj. Roger Sherman Potter • "Pheleg Van Trusedale"
... 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. ...
— Man of Uz, and Other Poems • Lydia Howard Sigourney
... not all of the same type," he reminded me reprovingly. "That is where you people who don't understand the cult of criminology make your foolish mistakes. Our friend opposite is, without a doubt, of gentle though not of aristocratic birth. I know nothing of his bringing up, but ...
— An Amiable Charlatan • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... "Joel," said Mrs. Fisher, reprovingly. The fire in her black eyes was not pleasant to look at, and after one glance, he turned back to the blazing logs ...
— Five Little Peppers Midway • Margaret Sidney
... 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? Things painful, ...
— Past and Present - Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. • Thomas Carlyle
... 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 ...
— Patty Blossom • Carolyn Wells
... 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 was ...
— The Skipper and the Skipped - Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul • Holman Day
... Billie reprovingly, giving the Earl's hand a pat. "Quit knocking your ancestors! You're very lucky to have ancestors. I wish I had. The Dore family seems to go back about as far as the presidency of Willard Filmore, and then it ...
— A Damsel in Distress • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
... your pride would be your bane," says Cecil, reprovingly. "Now, just think how far happier you would be if you were friends with him again, and think of nothing else. What is pride in ...
— Molly Bawn • Margaret Wolfe Hamilton
... when we called to you?" the elder exclaimed reprovingly. "You kept so still we were scared half to death ...
— A Busy Year at the Old Squire's • Charles Asbury Stephens
... majestic old man, white bearded, with aquiline nose, and the fierce eagle eyes of a fanatic set upon me sternly, reprovingly. ...
— The Quest of the Sacred Slipper • Sax Rohmer
... I tood go to the ball!" so naturally, 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
... Francis,' returned the lady, 'and therefore is the antidote to passion. But a man bent on matrimony is like a child that wants a toy. Better give it to him at once—the plaything will the sooner be thrown aside!' 'Nay, Madam,' he said reprovingly, 'the duke shall have his wish, but for no such reason.' 'What reason then?' quoth she, petulantly. 'Because thou hast shown me love is a monarch stronger than any king and that we are but as slaves in its hands!' he exclaimed, passionately. 'I know I shall like the duke,' cried she, ...
— Under the Rose • Frederic Stewart Isham
... to be so unfortunate; and a real Christian and pattern, in spite of outsides, though as true a gentleman as ever walked, and by rights should be amongst the highest. She repeated 'amongst the highest' reprovingly, with the ears of barley in her blue bonnet shaking, and her hands clasped tight in her lap. Old Mr. Bannerbridge (that was the old gentleman's name) came back very late from his visit to my father, so late that he said it would be cruel to let me go out in the ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... 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
... Brereton, reprovingly. "None of your Virginian freeness, for they can hear you." He turned and said: "You must be content with a deal feather-bed on the floor here, Mr. Meredith, but if the ladies will follow me I will see that they are bestowed ...
— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford
... 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. ...
— Sisters • Ada Cambridge
... Sally reprovingly. "Can't you realize that we're practically castaways on a desert island? There's nothing to do till to-morrow but talk about ourselves. I want to hear all about you, and then I'll tell you all about ...
— The Adventures of Sally • P. G. Wodehouse
... said Mr. Tulliver, reprovingly, "you mustn't say so. You must learn what your master tells you. He knows what it's right for you ...
— The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book • Various
... sat on his big green lily-pad in the Smiling Pool and shook his head reprovingly at Peter Rabbit. Peter is such a happy-go-lucky little fellow that he never thinks of anything but the good time he can have in the present. He never looks ahead to the future. So of course Peter seldom worries. If the sun shines to-day, Peter takes it for granted that it will shine ...
— Mother West Wind "How" Stories • Thornton W. Burgess
... was irresistible, and she returned it half reprovingly. "Will you never be serious?" she said. "I wonder that ...
— A Philanthropist • Josephine Daskam
... in 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 Reverend Flip.' It ...
— Kildares of Storm • Eleanor Mercein Kelly
... looking for——Say, 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 ...
— The Trail of the Hawk - A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life • Sinclair Lewis
... jig-saws 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 ...
— The Happy Adventurers • Lydia Miller Middleton
... right to talk of killing and bloodshed in that way," said the Merchant reprovingly; "one must remember that all ...
— The Toys of Peace • Saki
... head and stared 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 Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters • Edward S. Ellis
... another, and throwing around their eyes on themselves and on their friends, a shout and violent onset adding to the already confused state of their minds. The enemy at first gave way; then, when they had rallied their spirits, and their generals on every side reprovingly asked them, whether they were about to yield to their vanquished foes, ...
— The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 • Titus Livius
... 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 ...
— Tempest and Sunshine • Mary J. Holmes
... use that name," her mother said reprovingly. But Don Roberto laughed. "You are the second to declare allegiance to the Stars and Stripes." He took Benito's hand. "My son's discovered he's ...
— Port O' Gold • Louis John Stellman
... do so," 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 ...
— The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations • Charlotte Yonge
... "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
... 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 will be ...
— Rose in Bloom - A Sequel to "Eight Cousins" • Louisa May Alcott
... 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
... in this business," he replied reprovingly. "We know." And he handed me the next photograph, taken a few seconds later. There was no doubt about it; the pin-point of a man at the right had left his two companions and was turning in at the first of the row of cottages. Another photograph was produced. It showed the second ...
— Italy at War and the Allies in the West • E. Alexander Powell
... he, reprovingly, "how could any one sleep when mamma sings?" [Footnote: The dauphin's own words.—See ...
— Marie Antoinette And Her Son • Louise Muhlbach
... minister's pew and that belonging to the Castle, which had been newly lined and cushioned, and in a corner of which, safely deposited by Malcolm, the little earl now sat—sat always, even during the prayer, at which some of the congregation looked reprovingly round, but only saw the little figure wrapped in a plaid, and the sweet, wan, childish, and yet unchild-like face, with the curly dark hair, and large ...
— A Noble Life • Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
... of them spoke; they wanted to, but none knew how to do it. It was not usually difficult for any of them to address such specimens of the gentler sex as found their way to Fat Pocket Gulch, but they all understood at once that this was a different sort of woman. They looked reprovingly and beseechingly at each other, but the woman, at last, broke ...
— Romance of California Life • John Habberton
... 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 wicks ...
— Eventide - A Series of Tales and Poems • Effie Afton
... told you how Marcia feels about it," said his wife, reprovingly. "You know how intense she is—it gives her positive satisfaction to show her gratitude by working her fingers off and spending all the money she's got. She wants to make ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) • Various
... Sam reprovingly, and seizing him in his stout arms passed him below to the cook, feet first, as the cook discovered ...
— The Skipper's Wooing, and The Brown Man's Servant • W. W. Jacobs
... 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
... easily and then fastened his eyes on Abram Saunders, the father of Absalom, and said reprovingly: "Give not sleep to thine eyes nor slumber to ...
— Laddie • Gene Stratton Porter
... 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
... said Grace Noir reprovingly. Her voice was that of one familiar with the designs of Providence. As usual, she and Hamilton Gregory were about ...
— Fran • John Breckenridge Ellis
... strong hand drew her back to safety, and he said, reprovingly, "Don't do that again, Lucy. Accidents ...
— Lucile Triumphant • Elizabeth M. Duffield
... joined. The song was about home, and once in a while the girl unclasped her arms and passed her hands over her eyes. Mae and Norman Mann looked at her silently. "I suppose we don't know when we make pictures," said Mae. "Don't we?" asked Norman pointedly. Mae looked very reprovingly out from her white wraps at him, but he smiled back composedly and admiringly, and drew her hand a trifle closer in his arm. And saucy Mae began to feel in that sort of purring mood women come to when they drop ...
— Mae Madden • Mary Murdoch Mason
... I looked at momma reprovingly, but, seeing that she had no suspicion of being humorous, I said nothing. The Senator pushed out his under ...
— A Voyage of Consolation - (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An - American girl in London') • Sara Jeannette Duncan
... lost a large sum of money; which was, as it were, levied on and extorted from them. If the poor were the better for what remained of so plentiful and splendid a feast I am very glad but yet think it is a pity the charity were not better timed." He reprovingly enumerates, "There were six tables that held one with another eighteen persons each, upon each table a good rich plumb pudding, a dish of boil'd pork and fowls, and a corn'd leg of pork with sauce proper for ...
— Sabbath in Puritan New England • Alice Morse Earle
... most of the ladies at once, and those not quick enough to utter it concertedly looked it almost reprovingly at the speaker. ...
— The Boss of Little Arcady • Harry Leon Wilson
... in 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, ...
— The Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks • Charles Felton Pidgin
... not say that, for I heard him!" she exclaimed reprovingly. "Dr. Balsam was very complimentary to you, Mr. Keith," she explained seriously. "He said your people were among the best families about here." She meant to be gracious; but Gordon's face flushed in spite of himself. The ...
— Gordon Keith • Thomas Nelson Page
... 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 as told ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... about 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
... his hand reprovingly on her shoulder. "Is this the right spirit for one who professes better things? ...
— Family Pride - Or, Purified by Suffering • Mary J. Holmes
... 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 ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various
... "'Sh!" said I reprovingly. "You oughtn't to jest about such things. You might catch it yourself. Easily." Here we passed the horse-pond. "You know you'll never be able to look fierce so long as you have that dimple. You'll have to fill it up or something. I suppose ...
— Berry And Co. • Dornford Yates
... 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
... my dears!" sighed Pen, reprovingly, "Isn't it time you learned that you can keep few—very few secrets from me, who understand you all so well because I love you all so well? I have been your playfellow and companion so long that, methinks, I know you much better than you know yourselves; I, who ...
— The Honourable Mr. Tawnish • Jeffery Farnol
... bravely and cheerily, the boys accompanying him to the gate, and shouting and waving their hats to him as he crossed the Links, until their grandmother reprovingly suggested that ...
— The Laurel Bush • Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
... reprovingly, "dinna scorn sickness; that bit stroke might have cost Lady Staneholme her son and my bairn his father;" and she bent towards him in her turn, and passed her fingers curiously and pityingly over the healed wound, ignorant how it burned and ...
— Girlhood and Womanhood - The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes • Sarah Tytler
... absurdity of such a question annoyed him excessively. "Is this a time," he said reprovingly, "to talk of rabbits? ...
— Vice Versa - or A Lesson to Fathers • F. Anstey
... Mr. Forbes, reprovingly. "It's in the girls' favour that they don't remember clearly. If they tossed the thing aside ...
— Two Little Women on a Holiday • Carolyn Wells
... her mother, reprovingly, "think of yourself and what you are about; if you worn't a light-hearted, and, I'm afeard, a light-headed, girl, too, you wouldn't go on as you do, especially when you know what you know, and what ...
— The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton
... not 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 ...
— A Little Maid of Old Philadelphia • Alice Turner Curtis
... you've got," said Bubbles reprovingly. "I mean, of course, in quite a proper way; that is, without the poor girl knowing anything about it. But I thing ...
— From Out the Vasty Deep • Mrs. Belloc Lowndes
... been more becoming if you had done it at the first," said Father Anselm, reprovingly. Then he turned to Miss Elaine, who all this while had been looking out of the ...
— The Dragon of Wantley - His Tale • Owen Wister
... are," Fay whispered reprovingly. "They're all wearing their ticklers. But you don't need ...
— The Creature from Cleveland Depths • Fritz Reuter Leiber
... 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.
... said the Moor reprovingly. "Sufficient for you to know that fresh water cannot spring from a salt fountain. We must not waste time. The boat is in the water by this time. Farewell. Kiss me, my child. We may not meet again on earth, but—we shall ...
— The Middy and the Moors - An Algerine Story • R.M. Ballantyne
... 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 ...
— The Laughing Prince - Jugoslav Folk and Fairy Tales • Parker Fillmore
... that girl half an hour over time," she said reprovingly, as she handed Lady Tonbridge her cup of tea—"I can't think why you do it." She referred to the solicitor's daughter whom Lady Tonbridge had been that afternoon instructing in the uses of ...
— Delia Blanchflower • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... friend reprovingly, "it's not come to that yet. You forget the best of all Friends, the Lord Jesus Christ. He ever liveth; and hasn't he said, 'I will never leave ...
— Frank Oldfield - Lost and Found • T.P. Wilson
... clasped a little nervously, but she was calm. Her voice was even; it had, indeed, a little thrilling ring of energy. "You are wonderfully daring," she replied, "to say that to me. To a school-girl it might mean so much: to me—!" She shook her head at him reprovingly. ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... Kenneth's brother—poor fellow," said Helen reprovingly. "He did not live long to ...
— The Mask - A Story of Love and Adventure • Arthur Hornblow
... yours will bring you into trouble, youngster," said he, reprovingly: "mind that you say not such ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. • Various
... 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
... Mrs. Knight spoke reprovingly. "Don't be silly, dear. You know we did it all for you. Peter didn't want to leave home, and Jim had a good job, but we gave up everything to let you have a chance. Yes, and we've all worked for you every minute since. Do you think I like this stuffy flat, ...
— The Auction Block • Rex Beach
... exclaimed her sister reprovingly, while she glanced in much distress at Miss O'Donoghue, "you are not yourself; you do not ...
— The Light of Scarthey • Egerton Castle
... to laugh at you or to be very angry," she said, shaking her head reprovingly. "Of course ...
— The Angel of Terror • Edgar Wallace
... 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
... you surely don't believe in such things," said Mary Warren reprovingly. "And of course we oughtn't to have done anything foolish as ...
— The Sagebrusher - A Story of the West • Emerson Hough
... day Titee 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 think, Titee ...
— Violets and Other Tales • Alice Ruth Moore
... explained reprovingly, "there is one sign that uses more bulbs than there are in the ...
— Somewhere in France • Richard Harding Davis
... 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 she ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 21, July, 1859 • Various
... truth, Tommy," growled Wriggs, reprovingly. "No feather as ever growed wouldn't knock ...
— Fire Island - Being the Adventures of Uncertain Naturalists in an Unknown Track • G. Manville Fenn
... 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
... 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 ...
— Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury
... that meal away. Dinky-Dunk, coming in from the corral, viewed the pile with round-eyed amazement. "It's got worms in it!" I cried out to him. He took up a handful of it, and stared at it with tragic sorrow. "Why, I ate weavels all last winter," he reprovingly remarked. Dinky-Dunk, with his Scotch strain, loves his porridge. So we'll have to get a hundred-weight, guaranteed strictly uninhabited, when we ...
— The Prairie Wife • Arthur Stringer
... nothing, but Frere frowned heavily, and Mrs. Vickers said reprovingly, "Sylvia!" just as if they had been in the old house on ...
— For the Term of His Natural Life • Marcus Clarke
... 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 curls that made her look like a ...
— Judy • Temple Bailey
... 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
... a little reprovingly, "if we live by the water, Ford will go out on it, and he had better do so in good ...
— Dab Kinzer - A Story of a Growing Boy • William O. Stoddard
... fists and 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
... reprovingly, "Mr. Verslun will think you are very inquisitive. You must not pry into his ...
— The White Waterfall • James Francis Dwyer
... said reprovingly, "that was letting the cat out of the bag, wasn't it? I hadn't intended to discuss that part of the matter ...
— Ham Sandwich • James H. Schmitz
... joking," said she, smiling as innocently as she could. "Joke away, Mr. George; there's nobody to defend ME." And George Osborne, as she walked away—and Amelia looked reprovingly at him—felt some little manly compunction for having inflicted any unnecessary unkindness upon this helpless creature. "My dearest Amelia," said he, "you are too good—too kind. You don't know the world. I ...
— Vanity Fair • William Makepeace Thackeray
... must have better manners," responded the lady, looking down at her child reprovingly ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... 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, ...
— Broken to the Plow • Charles Caldwell Dobie
... an 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 boots! Listen, ...
— The Desire of the Moth; and The Come On • Eugene Manlove Rhodes
... sweet soul may look up reprovingly and say: "He talks of rest. Does he forget, and would he have the working man forget, that all these outward palliatives will never touch the seat of the disease, the unrest of the soul within? Does he forget, and would he have the working man forget, who it was who said—who only has the ...
— Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays • Charles Kingsley
... 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. His very ...
— The Italians • Frances Elliot
... and important Person at the back, impatient of the delay, here attempted to battle her way through the crowd congested by the too narrow doors. Sir Francis turned and looked at her reprovingly. ...
— Mrs. Day's Daughters • Mary E. Mann
... a boy 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 thank his ...
— Sea and Shore - A Sequel to "Miriam's Memoirs" • Mrs. Catharine A. Warfield
... said 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 head ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo |
