The censorious spirit of the nobility and of the writers of the day would not have sufficed to move the heavy load of tradition, but that its action was added to that of other powerful influences.
More discontented and censorious every day, the middle classes added claim to claim.
Men's tongues, my friend, are very censorious in this country; but one could confide in your discretion, and I should be grateful if you could show me how to negotiate a small loan until the Administration remembers that our pay is due.
Even this contributed to tranquillize him, by taking away all color of presumption from his own addresses to Miss Walladmor, and all color of degradation from her with which hereafter the censorious might else have reproached her.
So much the less can it be necessary that in such a cause you should put any thing to the hazard of a false interpretation amongst censorious people, who are less capable of appreciating your motives than myself.
Her's, and not Mrs. Taylor's, or any of that censorious and restricting set.
He avoided censorious or satirical allusions to the people to whom he called Selma's attention.
Kitty's voice at once returned to the censorious tone.
Mrs. Gregory's face, as she replied to her companion, took on a censorious and superior expression.
When I inform you that a domestick difficulty not entirely unconnected with mycensorious office called for hasty adjustment, you will, I am sure, pardon me for not divulging the details of a very unfortunate affair.
No doubt his action was irregular; perhaps, also, in his impetuous zeal, he sometimes indulged in censorious remarks respecting the clergy of the Established Church.
Speak of the faults of others only in prayer; manifesting more sorrow for the sin of the censorious and unkind, than for the evil inflicted on yourselves.
The ironical taunt of proud and censorious Pharisees formed the glory of Him who came, "not to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.
Individual Christians, why these bitter estrangements, these censorious words, these harsh judgments, this want of kind consideration of the feelings and failings of those who may differ from you?
Where are the censoriouszealots who can show like deeds?
The ardour and intelligence with which the Queen applied herself to master the details of ceremony and business incident to her position at the head of a great Empire, did not protect her from censorious and even malicious criticism.
I thought Sarah a girl of better regulated mind," said Victoria, in a tone of censorious pity.
The most commonplace phrase came smoothly and roundly from her tongue, and he was censorious indeed who was willing to lose the pleasure afforded by its musical utterance in weighing its meaning.
He himself saw little of the young mothers; shy of them, secretly afraid, perhaps, of not being censorious enough.
Lady Pelham--'I'll take care to keep you from that prying, censoriousold hag.
I will hide her and myself from a censorious world; she loves solitude; and, with her, solitude will be delightful.
These people, being wise in their own conceits, gloried in their errors, mistaking spiritual pride for piety, and censorious curiosity for concern for their neighbours' souls.
IT has been objected, and I fear with some reason, that female conversation is too frequently tinctured with a censorious spirit, and that ladies are seldom apt to discover much tenderness for the errors of a fallen sister.
How cruel and how censorious would this inexperienced girl think her mother was, who should venture to hint, that the agreeable unknown had defects in her temper, or exceptions in her character.
He had made quite a number of things disappear, and a censorious world is ever prone to judge by disappearances.
The sculptor liked to be seen modeling it, and I can see him yet, stepping back a little from his work, and then advancing upon it with a sensitive twitching of his mustache and a black censorious frown.
Very likely she found her mother there when she came with you, unmindful, the one and the other, that there was such a thing as chaperonage in a more fastidious or censorious world.
To arrogate judicial authority over; to sit in judgment upon; to be censorious toward.
