His mother had told him more than once or twice, that he was quite too much disposed to domineer over, and reprove his younger brother and sisters.
She dare not reprove the servants who were ruining her by their treatment, and whose manners were forming her own.
He loved his children too well even to reprove them when they deserved it; and if he had occasion to make complaints of them, he used to come to me with them.
When he did not like openly to reprove any person, he would address himself to me; for he knew that I never restrained myself in conversation, and that amused him infinitely.
Add thou not unto His words, lest He reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
Second, when the attempt is made to reprove them out of the Scriptures, they raise the objection that the interpretation of the Scriptures belongs to no one except the pope.
It is very wrong, Martha, and you do well toreprove us," said Doctor Verity.
I never had occasion to reproveher afterwards for any bad conduct while she was in the prison.
If I were to get angry and scold, of what use would it be for me to reprove you?
In vain did his scandalised wife nudge and reprove him; he sobbed on, and she grew alarmed.
The righteous, saith he, shall instruct me in mercy and reprove me; but let not oil of sinners make fat my head.
These things hast thou done and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
Do you intend to reprove words, seeing that the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?
I may with a wrung heart Even reprove you, Mildred; I did more: Will you forgive me?
The despotic nature of the governments of those Oriental nations caused the people often to use the fable or myth as an indirect way to reprove or censure when it would not have been safe to have used a direct form of speech.
But Rodaja was followed by many who kept about him for the purpose of hearing him reply to the questions asked, or reprove the questioner, as the case might be.
The fact was communicated to me, and I took occasion to reprove him, and exhort the brethren never to trifle with the promises of God.
Nephi 21:4 4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
Nephi 30:9 9 And with righteousness shall the Lord God judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth.
True, she forbore to reprove or lament when she understood that the deed was actually accomplished, and saw that he was fatigued and out of spirits; but her 'Indeed!
And our august sovereign herself, not long since, saw fit to reprove the insolence of this same British envoy, who in her very presence spoke of the Netherlands as though they had been a boon to Austria from England's clemency.
The knight was silent, for well he remembered how Undine had entreated him never toreprove her while she was near water.
Were Undine but his wife, no one would venture to reprove her.
Miss Ashton and the other ladies could hardly help smiling at Lily's tone; and the former felt that the child was so far right that she could scarcely reprove her again for her indignant attack upon this too common form of deceit.
This is good for us; for now, if we transgress, who is there toreprove us?
Partly to show her accurate power of guessing, and chiefly that she might reprove Laura's insulting whisper, which outraged and irritated her as much as if "Oh!
Tell him--' Enter Countess Ammiani to reprove her for endangering the hopes of the house by fatiguing herself.
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