You could not endure, not only an actual correction indeed, but even a harsh word of reproof made you lift up rebellious heads.
She speaks, as usual, without reserve, but it is noteworthy that the letter contains no word of personal reproof beyond the quiet statement: "You might bring great shame and reproach upon me.
If a faithful reproofyou should happen to meet, You can soon turn your faces away, And pass by the blind and the lame in the street, And carry your cash to the Play!
We need not therefore be surprised that the Lord made use of the mouth of the ass to rebuke the madness of His prophet, and to shame him by the reproof and example of a brute.
This greatly offended Herod and Herodias, and they cast John into prison, Herodias waited her opportunity to wreak her malice on him, counting John's reproof an insult to her character as well as an interference with her ambition.
Get in," she let a flavor of reproof creep into her tone.
Dick jested with Bessie, who reminded him that he was "a drunken beast"; but the reproof did not move him.
But Menon was unafraid, and the sting of his calm reproof was as a spur in the flanks of the Arab's rage.
In the intimation that it was while men slept that the mischief was done, I cannot find any covertreproof of an indolent ministry in the Church.
It pleased him at this time not to fling a sharp reproof in their faces, but rather to drop a living seed gently into their ears, that it might find its way in secret to some broken place in their hearts.
Without any apprehension of a reproof from the Lord or his disciples, the poor man betrays all: in the public assembly he unwittingly turns his own heart inside out.
It is a reproof to us, but a glory to the Lord, that he is often found of those who sought not after him.
The application of the first for the reproof of covetousness, touched a besetting sin of the Pharisees, and stung them to the quick.
Then, how thy grateful child has blest Each wise reproof thy accents bore!
Tis by thisreproof severe, And by this reproof alone, His defects at last appear, Man is to himself made known.
They may be reprimanded for a fault which another committed; bear the reproofpatiently for the love of Jesus; a companion may be harsh and unjust towards you, be glad that you have something to suffer for love of Jesus.
The laugh that followed was joined in by the mother, who seemed quite unconscious of the reproof contained in the innocent speech of her little child.
Mrs. Allen said not a word of reproof to the child, but taking his hand, led him quietly upstairs to the Oratory, and left him.
Men's anger at well-merited reproof has often blighted their lives once for all with ineradicable moral leprosy.
Uzziah's wrath was perfectly natural; few men have been so uniformly patient of reproof as not sometimes to have turned in anger upon those who warned them against sin.
His attempt to burn incense might have been sufficiently punished by the public and humiliating reproof of the high-priest.
It was very little trouble to her to learn when she gave her attention to her lessons, and at length she got over them very creditably and without another word of reproof from mother.
After some reproof he acknowledged his fault, and wrote another copy in his very best manner.
I pity thee in all my misery far more than myself, since I shall probably so long as I live continue a living reproof to thee.
Had he been as haughty and ill-natured as some savages the result might have been disastrous, but he took the reproofmeekly and mended his manners instead of retaliating.
But the doomed man's friends saw the purpose was revenge and a sharp reproof was administered.
I have known Elsie a great deal longer than you have, and I feel very certain that a gentle reproof would do her quite as much good, and not wound her half so much.
A Reproof Cleverly Diverted= The punctuality which reigned over the domestic regulations of Dr.
The unstudied Graces of her Behaviour, and the pleasing Accents of her Tongue, insensibly draw you on to wish for a nearer Enjoyment of them; but even her Smiles carry in them a silent Reproof to the Impulses of licentious Love.
She did not speak, but her expressive glance drew forth a reproof from the examiner.
She had a sensitive disposition, and Miss Beasley's reproof rankled.
Such a tacit reproof appears most consistent with the dignity of the Roman people.
They were mildly received by the consul, with only a verbalreproof for their past error.
She cast a look of reproof at the young man, lifted the book from the table, then, as if something occurred to her, laid it down again.
