Catherine supped with her brother and sister-in-law: Joseph and I joined at an unsociable meal, seasoned with reproofs on one side and sauciness on the other.
The House of Representatives replied to the reproofs of their governor in an address that was remarkable for the firmness with which it maintained its own position and the irony with which it reviewed the governor's pretensions.
When parents, employers, and masters learn to reprove in this spirit, reproofswill be more effective than they now are.
My reproofs at Hunsford could not work such a change as this.
We infer from his writings that his age was degenerate and corrupt, but, as we have already said, his reproofs were gentle.
Will not inferiors despise such reproofs which are by yourselves contradicted in your lives?
If common reproofs to strangers must all be offered in love, much more between the nearest relations.
God hath not tied us just to speak such and such words, or to use this or that correction, but to use reproofs and corrections only in that time, measure, and manner as true reason telleth us is likest to attain their end.
Sometimes the child persistently makes use of an expression, or asks questions, which produce a pleasant stir of shocked surprise and renewed reproofs and expostulations.
Thy just reproofs (Atrides calm replies) Like arrows pierce me, for thy words are wise.
Were not the reproofs of the prophets directed particularly against the people’s seeking of help from Egypt and Assyria, in the case of their own just and necessary defence?
Therefore their reproofs are not tempered with oil that they may not break the head, but mixed with gall and vinegar to set on edge the teeth.
He acknowledged his error, and told me it was one of the best reproofs he ever got.
He was sufficiently humbled to receive silently unusually severe reproofs from his guardian, who had informed him that he had sent for him in order to avoid the risk of paining his excellent mother.
When he reproved her, his reproofs were bitter and unsparing; but he seldom gave himself that trouble.
But having been sincerely affected with the reproofs of instruction, and our hearts being brought into a watchful subjection to the righteous law of JESUS, so as to bring our deeds to the light, (John, iii.
Persuasives and reproofs were alternately employed, but employed in vain.
Warriors came from distant tribes to court the fair daughter of the chieftain but they departed, some with bitter reproofs for their presumption, and none with encouragement or permission to hope.
But their father's God will bless them and become their God, as they are faithful to his reproofs in their hearts, and walk fearfully before Him.
For the 'law is light and the reproofsof instruction the way to life.
From time to time also there appeared upon it written instructions or reproofs according as the colony required the one or the other.
These revelations, it should be observed, contain sharp reproofs for the transgressor.
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