Thus did the poor mother alternately receive letters full of scoldings and of terms of endearment from her son whose genius she never understood.
Seeing his devotion to her, one can understand why he begged her to spare him neither counsels, scoldings nor reproaches, for all were received kindly from her.
She worked and scolded, she had her stray dogs and cats and people, who all asked and seemed to need her care, and she had hearty german fellows who loved her scoldings and ate so much of the good things that she knew so well the way to make.
The doctor really loved her scoldings as she loved his wickednesses and his merry joking ways.
They loved her scoldings and the good things she made for them to eat.
The girls were all so good that her scoldings here were only in the shape of good advice, sweetened with new trimmings for their hats, and ribbons, and sometimes on their birthdays, bits of jewels.
The boy was easier to scold, forscoldings never sank in very deep, and indeed he liked them very well for they brought with them new things to eat, and lively teasing, and good jokes.
In scrambled Sarah, divided between fear of her own and Peggy's relations' scoldings when they got home, and the delight and honour of driving in a carriage!
But the sight that met her eyes puzzled her so, that at the risk of Mother Whelan's scoldings for being so long, she could not resist running back to examine for herself the strange object.
He is too heart-broke about ye a' ready to have any scoldings left, an' he was never hard to ye.
And the scoldings that ensued did not somehow hurt Sarah's feelings much.
I do know it; at all events, since these misunderstandings and scoldings the king has not addressed a word, has not paid the slightest attention, to her royal highness.
Some scoldings and lectures, an admonition now and then, or a threat of more severe punishment, had readily quelled any incipient insubordination.
The child was so terribly independent, so self-willed and unruly, and with it all so sweet and lovable, that the Duchess found all her scoldings of absolutely no avail.
It was not because he was afraid of scoldings and thwackings that he did not do these things more often, but because he had no playmates.
He received his scoldings with a shudder; but he accepted them; he did not want to lose his work.
As to the scoldings that I was constantly receiving, I did not heed them now in the least; for my being was filled by one sole thought, while the shadowy, reproachful face of Theodore Saint Purre grew more faint day by day.
And I felt ready to say things that I could not have uttered, and to hear scoldings that would have killed me five minutes before.
A lonely childhood, whose only bright memories were of its few school days, a toilsome girlhood, robbed of every spark of youthful pleasure; coarse scoldings and brutal beatings.
Ménage lived with Retz, berating him as he berated every one; and Retz cared for him, endured his fits of anger, and listened to his scoldings ten years.
The measures that are calculated to reach and affect the heart can not vie with blows and scoldings in respect to the promptness of their action.
He broke out into a whimper: "I think I have a sad life, onlyscoldings at home and scoldings and arithmetic at school.
Between them they did badly the work that half-a-dozen Europeans would have done respectably, but then the Europeans would not have stood the slaps and scoldings that the natives took as a matter of course.
Then, I suspect," said I, "that your indulgence gets you many scoldings from Mademoiselle Prefere?
Monsieur Sylvestre in those days made very little of either scoldings or whippings.
Her friends fell upon her with scoldings and hugs, and in the midst of the noise and clamor, Ruth and Bettina slipped out to laugh and talk over Ruth's first serious culinary effort.
Why, I remember so well the scoldings she used to give me when I was a boy, and the cookies she would manage to treat me with afterward!
Malmálun kag kasábà bísag gamayng sayup, You get abusivescoldings for the slightest mistakes.
For as to your scoldings so frequent and so severe, and your saying that I am faint-hearted, I would ask you what misery is there so heavy as not to be included in my disfranchisement?
My scoldings have always been very full of affection.
You had whippings andscoldings enough thrown in, I'll be bound," was the visitor's tart rejoinder.
Sometimes there were two scoldings going on at once.
And when he did come down, the scolding the old woman gave him was worse than the other two scoldings rolled into one.
Indeed, sometimes they wanted to go in too often, and, as the mothers did not always like them to go in alone, there were some fine scoldings and grumblings occasionally.
One and all began telling Monica what to do, giving her good advice, and many scoldings for not letting them into the secret.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scoldings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
