One hand of His was over her, as if in protection and benediction, while the other waved in a reproving gesture.
Elise put in hurriedly, throwing a reproving look at Jane.
For some reason, Paul suddenly chose to think that Jane was reproving him.
Laetitia did not immediately answer, and Willoughby remarked: "Miss Dale has been reproving Horace for idleness and I recommend you to enlist him to do duty, while I relieve him here.
Laetitia entered the kitchen with a reproving forefinger.
I took the first opportunity ofreproving Charlotte's tame endurance of all this.
At length she opened her eyes; and so heavy a weight was lifted from my heart, that I could not refrain from bursting into tears; but unwilling to exhibit these marks of a reproving conscience, I turned proudly away.
Reproving the intrusion of the rest with an authority from which they all seemed to shrink, he politely offered to attend me; and I accepted of the escort with a feeling of perfect security.
On the other side of the table Millie lifted a reproving face.
It was all the more humiliating because when the catechization was over, her father started to the house without reproving her for her dullness.
Herodias, who hated him forreproving her, would gladly have had him put to death; but she could not yet prevail on Herod to consent to so wicked an act.
At first, the disciples did not understand their Lord's meaning, and thought that He was reproving them for having forgotten to bring any bread with them.
His anger was principally directed against the assailant, on whom the tones of his reproving voice produced a change the intimidation of his powerful opponent could never have effected.
Defn: The act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by one's own judgment.
Defn: Reproving one's self; reproving by consciousness of guilt.
Therefore you cannot call me to account for reproving you.
Do not speak harshly or imperatively to servants, or tell them of their faults in the presence of strangers or visitors; but take the earliest opportunity of reproving them after your company have left.
Being to advise or reprehend any one, consider whether it ought to be in public or in private; presently or at some other time; in what terms to do it; and in reproving show no signs of choler, but do it with sweetness and mildness.
It seemed to me that I saw gazing down directly at me one cold, bright, reproving star, staring straight into my soul, and accusing me of being nothing more than a savage, nothing better than a man.
I looked up again into the eye of my cold, reproving star.
I returned thence in anger, and hurt at heart: and {yet there was} not sufficient ground for reproving him.
The doctor had joined in the conversation hitherto only by throwing in a sarcastic word here and there very drily, which amused Elizabeth greatly, inasmuch as he was always met by a reproving glance from the baroness.
The guard commanded silence, for Joshua had raised his reproving voice louder, and this order seemed welcome to the defiant youth.
Christ was not reproving anybody for trifling conversation at the time; but for a very serious slander.
For this reason the Church celebrates the martyrdom of Blessed John the Baptist, who suffered death, not for refusing to deny the faith, but for reproving adultery.
Therefore if, on account of a sin, a man is hindered from reproving his brother, there will be none to reprove the wrongdoer.
The elegant gentleman came forward and held up a reproving hand.
Lord Avon, leaning back in his chair at one of the tables, shook a reprovingfinger at him.
As Maud obeyed her mother, with a reproving look at her erring brother and sister, a pause followed, for which every one seemed grateful.
People do many things in the country that are not proper here," began Mrs. Shaw, in her reproving tone.
Sylvia cast a reproving glance in her direction, whereupon she rose and committed perjury.
Debby flared up, but became meek when Sylvia lifted a reproving finger.
Yet his instantaneous severity in reproving inaccuracies or refuting fallacies was so alarming that he sometimes reduced a whole company to the silence of fear.
When he was not engaged in these alarums and excursions or in reproving Boswell for giving the coachman a shilling instead of the customary sixpence, he was occupied in reading Pomponius Mela De Situ Orbis.
He sheweth all his treasures to the ambassadors of the king of Babylon: Isaias reproving him for it, foretelleth the Babylonish captivity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reproving" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
