Sentence example with the word 'chiding'

chiding

Definition n. rebuking a person harshly

Last update: August 6, 2015


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One would approach at first warily through the shrub oaks, running over the snow-crust by fits and starts like a leaf blown by the wind, now a few paces this way, with wonderful speed and waste of energy, making inconceivable haste with his "trotters," as if it were for a wager, and now as many paces that way, but never getting on more than half a rod at a time; and then suddenly pausing with a ludicrous expression and a gratuitous somerset, as if all the eyes in the universe were eyed on him--for all the motions of a squirrel, even in the most solitary recesses of the forest, imply spectators as much as those of a dancing girl--wasting more time in delay and circumspection than would have sufficed to walk the whole distance--I never saw one walk--and then suddenly, before you could say Jack Robinson, he would be in the top of a young pitch pine, winding up his clock and chiding all imaginary spectators, soliloquizing and talking to all the universe at the same time--for no reason that I could ever detect, or he himself was aware of, I suspect.   [Please select]

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Nine twelve bloodflows chiding her childless.   [Please select]

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You may know them by their saucy, chiding, devil-may-care hum.   [Please select]

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(6) In chiding, remember Richter's rule and rebuke the sin and not the sinner.   [Please select]

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Alas for a man who, being with her, must spend his time in chiding.   [Please select]

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"I hear the chiding of a river," returned Dick.   [Please select]

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Roosevelt, instead of feeling contrite at this chiding, redoubled his energy.   [Please select]

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As he came up to them he said to Domini: "Do you remember chiding me."   [Please select]

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"Say, now," he said, in a tone of kindly chiding, "you’ve been scaring yourself, Mrs."   [Please select]

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Natasha, flushed and eager, seeing her mother in prayer, suddenly checked her rush, half sat down, and unconsciously put out her tongue as if chiding herself.   [Please select]

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There was the first of them, awaiting her upon the very portal; a robust old white-haired man, chiding her for returning home so late.   [Please select]

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