"Reprovingly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... preferest servitude. Becoming the mistress of this kingdom which I shall confer on thee, O thou of fair face, accept me, and enjoy, O beauteous one, all excellent objects of desire.' Addressed in these accursed words by Kichaka, that chaste daughter of Drupada answered him thus reprovingly, 'Do not, O son of a Suta, act so foolishly and do not throw away thy life. Know that I am protected by my five husbands. Thou canst not have me. I have Gandharvas for my husbands. Enraged they will slay thee. Therefore, do thou not bring destruction ...
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 • Kisari Mohan Ganguli
... reprovingly, "Mr. Verslun will think you are very inquisitive. You must not pry into his ...
— The White Waterfall • James Francis Dwyer
... in this business," he replied reprovingly. "We know." And he handed me the next photograph, taken a few seconds later. There was no doubt about it; the pin-point of a man at the right had left his two companions and was turning in at the first of the row of cottages. Another ...
— Italy at War and the Allies in the West • E. Alexander Powell
... for a moment, her gray eyes serious and scrutinizing, as she passed me my cup; then laughter welled up in her eyes, and she shook her head reprovingly. ...
— The Mutiny of the Elsinore • Jack London
... nice way to speak of an old friend and classmate," remarked Mr. Gregg, reprovingly. "Now, I always feel sorry when I see a decent young chap like that throwing away a good chance, and want to help him if I can. So in the present case, I think we really ought to send in a report that will satisfy old Hepburn, and keep the boy solid with ...
— Under the Great Bear • Kirk Munroe
... could be reserved or reprovingly distant, or any of those unfriendly things with a person like that; certainly not Jervis Langdon, who delighted in the humor and the tricks and turns and oddities of this eccentric visitor. Giving his daughter to him was another matter, but ...
— Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine
... us, creature!" said an old man reprovingly, "but can ye no speak, and tell us what ye want, and where ...
— Tales From Scottish Ballads • Elizabeth W. Grierson
... scarcely right to talk of killing and bloodshed in that way," said the Merchant reprovingly; "one must remember that all men ...
— The Toys of Peace • Saki
... an old fuss-budget, George," said Pringle reprovingly. "Because I forgot to tell you—I've got my gun now—and yours. You won't need to arrest me, though, for I'm hitting the trail in fifteen minutes. But if I wasn't going—and if you had your gun—you couldn't arrest one side of me. You couldn't arrest one of my old ...
— The Desire of the Moth; and The Come On • Eugene Manlove Rhodes
... it, captain,' replied Dare reprovingly. 'I am what events have made me, and having fixed my mind upon getting you settled in life by this marriage, I have put things in train for it at an immense trouble to myself. If you had thought over it o' nights as much as I have, ...
— A Laodicean • Thomas Hardy
... smoke, sir," said Samuel reprovingly, "Well, you miss a lot of comfort in life. I've seen a good many troubles go up ...
— The Awakening of Helena Richie • Margaret Deland
... with her grandmother, and I just couldn't stand that. I could not be separated from my child; and Peggy and Alice must always be together. Perhaps you can't understand this, Mr. Farrell, never having been a mother yourself. It is no laughing matter," she said, looking at old Michael reprovingly. ...
— Peggy in Her Blue Frock • Eliza Orne White
... sigh, and said, "Oh I wish I tood go to the ball!" so naturally, that her father clapped frantically, and her mother called out, "Little darling!" These highly improper expressions of feeling caused Cinderella to forget herself, and shake her head at them, saying, reprovingly, "You mustn't ...
— Little Men - Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys • Louisa May Alcott
... her hand up out of the grass where its fingers had wandered to hide themselves, and kissed it. She looked at him reprovingly when it was too late, and ...
— The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary • Anne Warner
... She was looking about her on all sides, in a fidget of annoyance, searching for him, and to his dismay she saw him. She immediately made a horrible face at his companion, beckoned to him imperiously with a dumpy arm, and shook her head reprovingly. The unfortunate young man tried to repulse her with an icy stare, but this effort having obtained little to encourage his feeble hope of driving her away, he shifted his chair so that his back was toward her discomfiting pantomime. He should have known ...
— Alice Adams • Booth Tarkington
... levelly: "Well, I shall be glad of Roger's company while you're occupied with Ellen." She added reprovingly, as if she were speaking to a child: "You mustn't be jealous of the poor thing. I saw last night that you ...
— The Judge • Rebecca West
... Tinker, shaking his head reprovingly, "you're off the mark there—knowledge is power; why, Lord love my eyes and limbs! what's finer than to be able to read ...
— The Broad Highway • Jeffery Farnol
... waiter, Hesden," said his mother, reprovingly, "and raise her head. Don't you see that Miss Ainslie cannot drink lying there. I never saw you so stupid, my son. I shall have to grow worse again soon to keep you from getting ...
— Bricks Without Straw • Albion W. Tourgee
... mothers who have been made irate by such untimely aids to their discipline. Johnny's mother tells him to stop making that noise, and her visitor adds severely, "Now, Johnny, do not make that noise any more!" Susie is saucy to her mamma, and her mamma's friend reprovingly remarks to the little girl that she is pained and surprised to hear her speak so naughtily to her dear mamma. Children resent this, and are far more keen and observant of these ...
— The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) • Marion Harland
... no arm of flesh," said Lady Muriel, reprovingly—and Eustace hung his head abashed. "I spake of the Guardian who will never ...
— The Lances of Lynwood • Charlotte M. Yonge
... silly," said Sally reprovingly. "Can't you realize that we're practically castaways on a desert island? There's nothing to do till to-morrow but talk about ourselves. I want to hear all about you, and then I'll tell you all about myself. If you feel diffident about starting the revelations, I'll begin. ...
— The Adventures of Sally • P. G. Wodehouse
... fash Miss Mohun with your tricks. She has stood like a lamb,' said Mrs. Halfpenny reprovingly. 'There, we'll not keep her ...
— The Two Sides of the Shield • Charlotte M. Yonge
... said reprovingly, "the only people who make things up are little children, for they always tell lies. Grown-up people never tell lies. Let me tell you that one always knows when one has been in Fairyland by the feeling afterwards, and because it is ...
— On Something • H. Belloc
... reprovingly, "if we live by the water, Ford will go out on it, and he'd better do so in good ...
— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. V, August, 1878, No 10. - Scribner's Illustrated • Various
... to say that, Nancy," said Pennie reprovingly. "You know mother doesn't like you to ...
— Penelope and the Others - Story of Five Country Children • Amy Walton
... uncle that way, Fred," said his mother reprovingly. "He's had a great deal to try his temper, and Teddy is very much to blame. He must be punished. Yes, ...
— The Rushton Boys at Rally Hall - Or, Great Days in School and Out • Spencer Davenport
... yourself of it," she said reprovingly; "remember that 'Friendship is a beautiful flower, of which esteem is the stem.'" And, having thrown the adage to him, coupled with a glance that drove him to distraction, the little flirt jumped off the counter and ...
— A Chair on The Boulevard • Leonard Merrick
... The Dean not only approves of it, but, from what I could make out, he actually suggested that it should take place. Of course I know it makes no real difference to you; but still, Anna," she spoke reprovingly, "you should not forget at such a time as this ...
— Good Old Anna • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... what you give, it's the spirit you offer it in," said the little grandmother, reprovingly. "It won't be the first time that Judge Jameson has eaten bread and milk at my table, Anne, and it won't be the last," and with that the little grandmother untied the white cloth, displaying a double row of soft ...
— Judy • Temple Bailey
... Judge," said the General reprovingly. "You're too big and honest to achieve graceful deceit. But before I go—I've seats for the Opera Monday night in Mother's box. Miss Winship must come, and—" her ...
— The Bacillus of Beauty - A Romance of To-day • Harriet Stark
... at her daughter reprovingly, but Miss Warren's eyes were dancing, and I saw she was enjoying my rather blank ...
— A Day Of Fate • E. P. Roe
... never sarved my Lawd wid laziness," put in Aunt Verbeny reprovingly. "When He come arter me I ain' never let de ease er my limbs stan' in de way. Ef you can't do a little shoutin' on de ea'th, you're gwineter have er po' sho' ter keep de Lawd f'om ...
— The Voice of the People • Ellen Glasgow
... the fire, stirring the beaten egg into a saucepan. "Oh, you lazy old Bear!" she said reprovingly. "What good ...
— The Odds - And Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell
... interposed Coleman. "Hold your tongue, Freddy: little boys should be seen and not heard, as Tacitus tells us," said Lawless, reprovingly. ...
— Frank Fairlegh - Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil • Frank E. Smedley
... horse go over backwards, I closed my eyes and held my breath, for I expected the next second to see you killed." But Robert Hunt exclaimed, "Good as an Injun, by God!" And when I some time after made fun of it, he shook his head gravely and reprovingly, as George Ward did over the gunpowder, and said, ...
— Memoirs • Charles Godfrey Leland
... haughty because he remembers you," said Warner reprovingly. "Bear in mind that trifles sometimes stick longer in our minds than ...
— The Tree of Appomattox • Joseph A. Altsheler
... bed all night?" she said, shocked, and shook her head reprovingly. "That is one of your habits of life which will have to ...
— The Man Who Knew • Edgar Wallace
... money; which was, as it were, levied on and extorted from them. If the poor were the better for what remained of so plentiful and splendid a feast I am very glad but yet think it is a pity the charity were not better timed." He reprovingly enumerates, "There were six tables that held one with another eighteen persons each, upon each table a good rich plumb pudding, a dish of boil'd pork and fowls, and a corn'd leg of pork with sauce proper for ...
— Sabbath in Puritan New England • Alice Morse Earle
... Numjala," I said reprovingly, "a man of your intelligence ought to be ashamed of even pretending to believe such a thing. Why this is worse than what you told me about the grass not growing at the spot where Ncapayi and his men were killed ...
— Kafir Stories - Seven Short Stories • William Charles Scully
... reprovingly, 'Daily bread' is all we have anything to do with. Don't you remember that it says 'Thine be the kingdom and the power and ...
— The Power and the Glory • Grace MacGowan Cooke
... the sun, now?" Big Medicine boomed reprovingly. "Comin' in, you said you had your blizzard stuff, and now if the sun'd jest come out, by cripes, you'd be singin' songs uh thanksgivin'—er words to that effect. Honest to gran'ma, there's folks that'd ...
— The Phantom Herd • B. M. Bower
... surprises us. As for example: one morning two babies wandered round the Prayer-room, and, discovering passion-flowers within reach, eagerly begged for them in Tamil. One of the two pushed the other aside and wanted all the flowers. "Greedy! greedy!" I said reprovingly, in English. "Greedy mine!" was the immediate rejoinder, and the little hand was held out with more certainty than ever now that the name of the flower was known. ...
— Lotus Buds • Amy Carmichael
... easily and then fastened his eyes on Abram Saunders, the father of Absalom, and said reprovingly: "Give not sleep to thine eyes ...
— Laddie • Gene Stratton Porter
... in a while the girl unclasped her arms and passed her hands over her eyes. Mae and Norman Mann looked at her silently. "I suppose we don't know when we make pictures," said Mae. "Don't we?" asked Norman pointedly. Mae looked very reprovingly out from her white wraps at him, but he smiled back composedly and admiringly, and drew her hand a trifle closer in his arm. And saucy Mae began to feel in that sort of purring mood women come to ...
— Mae Madden • Mary Murdoch Mason
... Gerald!" he exclaimed reprovingly. "You would leave us so abruptly? Before your sister, too! What will Mr. Hamel think of our country ways? ...
— The Vanished Messenger • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... reprovingly to the young fellow, "it's noways good-natured of you to make us more scared of the dirty things than we are naturally. But, Lavina, I'll go bail that he never yet has seen a dead body of their killing since he came in the country. Lord knows, they don't look as if they would kill a sheep, though ...
— That Girl Montana • Marah Ellis Ryan
... after a second's pause, reprovingly.] You vas gatting learn to svear. Dat ain't nice for young ...
— Anna Christie • Eugene O'Neill
... he was, there is no doubt that he had behaved rather foolishly over the medicine. If he had a weakness, it was for thinking that all his life he had taken medicine boldly; and so now, when Michael dodged the spoon in Nana's mouth, he had said reprovingly, 'Be ...
— Peter and Wendy • James Matthew Barrie
... yesterday that thee declared Hero was stolen, only to find that he had followed Winifred Merrill home? And on Sunday, thee was sure he had been killed, because he did not appear the first time thee called," responded Aunt Deborah reprovingly. Aunt Deborah was not very large, and her smooth round face under the neat cap, such as Quaker women wear, was usually smiling and friendly; but it always seemed to Ruth that no least bit of dirt or untidiness ...
— A Little Maid of Old Philadelphia • Alice Turner Curtis
... safely do so," he answered, smiling. Miss Winter looked at Etheldred reprovingly, and she shrank into herself, drew apart, and indulged in a reverie. She had heard in books of girls writing poetry, romance, history—gaining fifties and hundreds. Could not some of the myriads of fancies floating in her mind thus be made available? ...
— The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations • Charlotte Yonge
... loudly. 'Ha ha! Champagne for Mrs Ottley. What are you about?' He looked up reprovingly at the servant. Mr Mitchell was the sort of man who never knows, after twenty years' intimate friendship, whether a person takes ...
— Love at Second Sight • Ada Leverson
... be glad to have him think so," returned Margaret reprovingly, "if you are not clever. I suppose you are, though. ...
— The Stillwater Tragedy • Thomas Bailey Aldrich
... court questions you!" said the judge reprovingly; then he whispered a short time with his companions in office, and finally announced that the last witness would not ...
— How Women Love - (Soul Analysis) • Max Simon Nordau
... hand drew her back to safety, and he said, reprovingly, "Don't do that again, Lucy. ...
— Lucile Triumphant • Elizabeth M. Duffield
... really unkind of you!" she said reprovingly. "Walter and I thoroughly understand each other. He's not ...
— The House of Whispers • William Le Queux
... you gave that girl half an hour over time," she said reprovingly, as she handed Lady Tonbridge her cup of tea—"I can't think why you do it." She referred to the solicitor's daughter whom Lady Tonbridge had been that afternoon instructing in the uses of the ...
— Delia Blanchflower • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... priest's deep-set eyes turned reprovingly upon Count Nobili. Dare the headstrong boy affect to misunderstand that he had driven Enrica to renounce him? Guglielmi remained standing near the door—self-possessed, indeed, as usual, but utterly crestfallen. His very soul sank within ...
— The Italians • Frances Elliot
... her language was not very coherent. She was not more than five-and-forty years of age, but she seemed to be already an old woman. Her hair was grey, she had lost many teeth, and she dressed, as Veronica wickedly said to Bianca, like the devil's grandmother. She spoke affectionately, as well as reprovingly, however, having known both Veronica's parents, and as having been a third cousin of her mother; and she begged the young girl to come and stay as long as she pleased at the Della Spina ...
— Taquisara • F. Marion Crawford
... minute Penrod opened it. "I suppose you want the whole family to get a sunstroke," he said reprovingly. "Keepin' every breath of air out o' the house on a ...
— Penrod • Booth Tarkington
... piece of stuffing out of place. Then, grunting and wriggling, he would endeavour to rub me out, until the continued irritation of my head between the window and his back would cause him to awake, when he would look down upon me reprovingly but not unkindly, observing to the carriage generally: "It's a funny thing, ain't it, nobody's ever made a boy yet that could keep still for ten seconds." After which he would pat me heartily on the head, to show he was not vexed with ...
— Paul Kelver • Jerome Klapka, AKA Jerome K. Jerome
... you know about it, Rex," he said reprovingly. "Why, lots of splendid fellows never play billiards and they aren't mollycoddles by any means. I do think though that they are depriving themselves of ...
— Pearl and Periwinkle • Anna Graetz
... back, "of a sort?" came to her; but she conquered it as she passed demurely into the sitting-room, where Miss Polly was reading the afternoon paper before an open fire. "I mustn't get too friendly," she told herself, reprovingly. "It is better to keep up a certain formality." And she determined that at the next meeting she would be ...
— Life and Gabriella - The Story of a Woman's Courage • Ellen Glasgow
... entered the room. She was, of course, greatly embarrassed at Mr. Lincoln's offhand manner of entertaining his caller, and, stepping up behind her husband, she grasped him by the hair and twitched his head about, at the same time looking at him reprovingly. ...
— The Lincoln Story Book • Henry L. Williams
... tell me?" Nola's face seemed to clear of something, a shadow of perplexity, it seemed, that Frances had seen in it from time to time since her coming there. She looked frankly and reprovingly at Frances. ...
— The Rustler of Wind River • G. W. Ogden
... are," Fay whispered reprovingly. "They're all wearing their ticklers. But you don't need to be ...
— The Creature from Cleveland Depths • Fritz Reuter Leiber
... you talk, Hester!" she said reprovingly; but she looked up at the girl with such a tender light in her ...
— Hester's Counterpart - A Story of Boarding School Life • Jean K. Baird
... Dorothy, reprovingly, "you are making yourself disliked. There are certain things proper for a kitten to eat; but I never heard of a kitten eating a pig, under ...
— Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz • L. Frank Baum.
... that name," her mother said reprovingly. But Don Roberto laughed. "You are the second to declare allegiance to the Stars and Stripes." He took Benito's hand. "My son's discovered ...
— Port O' Gold • Louis John Stellman
... ago you did not question my motives," she said, reprovingly; then in a lower tone, "Your commander has never questioned, why should you? Your President has sent me messages of commendation for my independent work. One, received before I left Mobile, I should like ...
— The Bondwoman • Marah Ellis Ryan
... nudities. Bed springs creaking. The hour of asterisks. Window blinds down. Doors locked. Lights out. The city lingers in the snow like a feeble burlesque. Houses and shops and street car tracks gesture reprovingly. Civilization bows its head in the night like an abandoned bride. Man, like an ape hunting fleas, preoccupies himself again with his ...
— Fantazius Mallare - A Mysterious Oath • Ben Hecht
... bravely and cheerily, the boys accompanying him to the gate, and shouting and waving their hats to him as he crossed the Links, until their grandmother reprovingly ...
— The Laurel Bush • Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
... said Solomon Longways, smiling grimly. "That's only his random way o' speaking. 'A was always such a man of underthoughts." (And reprovingly towards Christopher): "Don't ye be so over-familiar with a gentleman that ye know nothing of—and that's travelled a'most from the ...
— The Mayor of Casterbridge • Thomas Hardy
... fallen and teach them to stand alone, to steady the weak and make them strong? How hard it was to give help, and at the same time to teach the poor to be self-helpful! Miss Margery sighed, but she knew it was useless to argue the matter, so she only answered reprovingly, "I fear you have wasted money, Mrs. Callahan. A neighbor told me you had been off with the children ...
— Honey-Sweet • Edna Turpin
... afraid we must not tamper with the Prayer Book,' she said reprovingly; and Mrs. Wrottesley, who for twenty years had been silent under reproof, relapsed ...
— Peter and Jane - or The Missing Heir • S. (Sarah) Macnaughtan
... she said, reprovingly. "Now, people all, what shall we do with this lovely evening? It's moonlight, so any who are romantically inclined can ramble about the place, and flirt in the arbours,—while those who prefer can play bridge or—the piano. Or just ...
— Patty and Azalea • Carolyn Wells
... she smiled when she uttered a name—such as Shekels, or BB, or Potter. Sometimes she was at her fort, issuing commands; sometimes she was careering over the plain at the head of her men; sometimes she was training her horse; once she said, reprovingly, "You are giving me the wrong foot; give me the left—don't you ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... to you as important, and yet you will be wrong to undervalue it. In the first place, I might tell you that it was almost like cherishing the love of one's fellow-creatures—at which no doubt you shake your head reprovingly; but, leaving aside the enormous provision for the exercise of this natural faculty which we offer to each other, why should crabs scuttle from under my horse's feet in such a way as to make me laugh again every time I think of it, if there is not an inherent propriety in laughter, ...
— Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation - 1838-1839 • Frances Anne Kemble
... be the proper person to tell you that. How should I know?" said Sarah, reprovingly. "Have you ...
— Peter's Mother • Mrs. Henry De La Pasture
... reprovingly at Miss Prissy, and for a few moments there was great shaking of heads and a whispered conference between the two ladies, ending in Miss Prissy's going off, saying, as ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 21, July, 1859 • Various
... gone a bit too far, dear old thing, I did really," said Bones, shaking his head reprovingly. "I watched ...
— Bones in London • Edgar Wallace
... from nervousness, Edgar," said Sir James reprovingly; "but we were not discussing that question. Dr Grayson has accepted the invitation for his adopted son. It is his whim for the moment, and it is only becoming on my part to show that we are grateful for the way in which the boy behaved. By the time a month has gone by, ...
— Quicksilver - The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel • George Manville Fenn
... she exclaimed, reprovingly. "Poor old fellow!" Her eyes grew big and bright as she reflected on the days she had visited the fiddler's home and on the happiness her gifts had brought his children. For her, giving was better than receiving. The feeling sprang from the fulness ...
— Mistress Nell - A Merry Tale of a Merry Time • George C. Hazelton, Jr.
... how Marcia feels about it," said his wife, reprovingly. "You know how intense she is—it gives her positive satisfaction to show her gratitude by working her fingers off and spending all the money she's got. She wants to make it ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) • Various
... to know what all that hullaballoo's about,' he said, reprovingly: 'and I don't want to be bothered until I've made a change. Now I'll tell you what it is, my lads. The Queen wants men, and there isn't one of you that isn't fit to go a-soldiering. I just tell you this—if any one of you, or the whole lot of you, see fit to take the Queen's shilling ...
— VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea • David Christie Murray
... reprovingly, glad to find a joint in his armour, "I am surprised that you should discuss me in any ...
— Affairs of State • Burton E. Stevenson
... poor little Princess between her geography lesson and her arithmetic lesson would peep for a moment into a mirror, the first lady-in-waiting would tap her arm reprovingly and say: ...
— The Laughing Prince - Jugoslav Folk and Fairy Tales • Parker Fillmore
... it is intended for Madame de Fleury," answered Victorine, reprovingly, and not immediately comprehending the intentional ...
— Fairy Fingers - A Novel • Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
... reprovingly; "you mustn't say so. You must learn what your master tells you. He knows what it's right ...
— The Mill on the Floss • George Eliot
... awa'! All they pictures pented by yer ain niece's son! An' twa' acceptit by the Salon! Child, child! I'd no think it o' ye." Ellen leaned forward in her chair reprovingly, with the letter crushed ...
— The Eye of Dread • Payne Erskine
... back another step and shook her head reprovingly, and in the gravity of her eyes was the dawning of indignation, disappointment, ...
— The Roof Tree • Charles Neville Buck
... of sons who would have become great through her—and greater through the memory of her after she was gone." When she came again, seeing him out of danger and seeing him comfortable, she seated herself beside his table and opened her work."It isn't good for you to talk much," she soon said reprovingly, "and I have to ...
— The Choir Invisible • James Lane Allen
... not!" returned Virginia, and shook her reprovingly. "I declare, I wonder what poor father would think if he heard how we'd treated a guest. Now you go back to the house and don't you come out again until ...
— Shadow Mountain • Dane Coolidge
... father, reprovingly; at the same time hobbling into the verandah, and calling for ...
— The Boy Hunters • Captain Mayne Reid
... Miss Simms—Miss Anne, or Nancy Simms. My information is that she lives in this house. I should have stated my errand at once, had I been allowed to do so." He looked at the girl reprovingly. ...
— The Purple Heights • Marie Conway Oemler
... said Nurse Rosemary, reprovingly, as she leaned forward and touched his right hand with the rim of his saucer, "this May-Day morning has gone to your head. I shall send for Margery. She may have ...
— The Rosary • Florence L. Barclay
... you are honored, senor!" Dupin exclaimed reprovingly. It angered him when a victim quailed. The present one ought to appreciate, too, that he was answering for two besides himself, for Murguia and Rodrigo, whose escape had wrenched the old ...
— The Missourian • Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
... head and stared at the speaker. He yearned to crush him with a suitable reply, but all his wit had been knocked out of him by the cruel blow of fate. However, it could not long remain so. He picked up the fragments of the potato, fumbled them reprovingly and gravely laid them on the tablecloth beside his plate. Then the old grin bisected his homely face, and addressing ...
— The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters • Edward S. Ellis
... Mrs. Fisher, reprovingly. The fire in her black eyes was not pleasant to look at, and after one glance, he turned back to the blazing logs ...
— Five Little Peppers Midway • Margaret Sidney
... Marchurst, reprovingly, as Vandeloup opened the box, "how you do exaggerate—ah!" he broke off his exhortation suddenly, for the box was open, and the great mass of gold was glittering in its ...
— Madame Midas • Fergus Hume
... a serious face, and dark, thoughtful eyes, totally unlike Mollie. She had "come under conviction" during the meetings, and had stood up for prayer and testimony several times. The evangelist thought her very spiritual. She heard Mollie's concluding sentence and spoke reprovingly. ...
— Further Chronicles of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... Sister Agatha," he interrupted reprovingly. "No sinful creature deserves such praise; least of all I. None of us are more than humble instruments for good, and have no ...
— Sister Carmen • M. Corvus
... by the sea—did you forget?" she answered, a shade reprovingly. "There is no town at all. And there are no ...
— Margarita's Soul - The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty • Ingraham Lovell
... soul may look up reprovingly and say: "He talks of rest. Does he forget, and would he have the working man forget, that all these outward palliatives will never touch the seat of the disease, the unrest of the soul within? Does he forget, and would he have ...
— Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays • Charles Kingsley
... I know anything about men—which Nicholas sometimes makes me think I don't. But Nicholas isn't an ordinary man, he's what you call 'an exception.'" Then shaking her head at Ethel, she continued reprovingly: "You were neither of you in church Sunday. I know some young women who went to the parish church—Methodists they are—specially to see your new hats. There's some talk about them, I can tell you, and the village milliner is pestered to copy them. She keeps her eyes open for you. You disappointed ...
— The Man Between • Amelia E. Barr
... said the Doctor reprovingly, 'you are excited. I gave you some clothes. What have you ...
— The Merry Men - and Other Tales and Fables • Robert Louis Stevenson
... much good." "Poetry?" "No, I don't think she is much interested in poetry." "Do you suppose an art book?"———"No, she is not interested in art." "Memoirs, then?" "No, she would not care for that." "Why, I had no idea," said one somewhat reprovingly to us, "that it would ...
— Walking-Stick Papers • Robert Cortes Holliday
... on that body of men, father?" said Miss Haviland, lifting her expressive eye reprovingly to the face of the speaker. "I have recently read over a list of the members of the Congress; when I noticed among them the names of men, who, but a short time since, stood very high, both for learning and worth, as I have often heard you say yourself. Now, ...
— The Rangers - [Subtitle: The Tory's Daughter] • D. P. Thompson
... said Kongstrup reprovingly, "and passion rages in his heart." He said this with such comical gravity that they all burst into laughter, except Gustav, who sat blinking his eyes and nodding his head like ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo
... give way to gluttonous desires, my child," said the woman in weeds reprovingly. "This is the proper place. Very well: we'll meet in half an hour, unless you come with me to find out where the site of the ...
— Jude the Obscure • Thomas Hardy
... Brereton, reprovingly. "None of your Virginian freeness, for they can hear you." He turned and said: "You must be content with a deal feather-bed on the floor here, Mr. Meredith, but if the ladies will follow me I will see that they are bestowed in more comfortable quarters;" ...
— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford
... said, not angrily, not reprovingly—with nothing but sorrow in my voice, and nothing but ...
— The Woman in White • Wilkie Collins
... what can you be thinking of," said her grandfather reprovingly. "You can't be running backwards and forwards like that when you ...
— Heidi • Johanna Spyri
... reprovingly; but his father, who looked upon it as a good joke, remarked, good-humoredly, ...
— Timothy Crump's Ward - A Story of American Life • Horatio Alger
... two men quarreling about?" she demanded reprovingly, "we could hear you clear over ...
— Silver and Gold - A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp • Dane Coolidge
... popping of soda-bottles, and little heaps of gold and silver were moved this way and that across the cloth. The smoke drifted out of the open windows, and the laughter of the Captain's guests rang out loudly in the empty street, so that the policeman halted and raised his eyes reprovingly to the lighted windows, and cabmen drew up beneath them and lay in wait, dozing on their folded arms, for the Captain's guests to depart. The Lion and the Unicorn were rather ashamed of the scandal of it, and they were glad when, one day, the Captain went away with his ...
— The Lion and the Unicorn and Other Stories • Richard Harding Davis
... midst of her merriment at the image of Mac and the old rocking chair, Rose said reprovingly, "Though a heathen Chinee, Fun puts you to shame, for he did not ask foolish questions but went a-wooing like a sensible little man, and I've no doubt Annabel will ...
— Rose in Bloom - A Sequel to "Eight Cousins" • Louisa May Alcott
... closed behind them, however, the other tall, gray man, who had been a silent spectator of the scene, spoke reprovingly, "I think she has told you the truth, Smart. She is one of the youngsters I was just telling you about. I was afraid she would recognize me, but evidently she did not. I certainly shall investigate, for ...
— At the Little Brown House • Ruth Alberta Brown
... time enough yet to think of such a thing," said Lady Bannerdale, reprovingly; but while she sat it, mother-like, she thought that her son, Edwin, would be home from a long tour in the East in a week or two; that he was particularly good-looking, and in the opinion of more persons than his mother, a ...
— At Love's Cost • Charles Garvice
... course!" said most of the ladies at once, and those not quick enough to utter it concertedly looked it almost reprovingly at the speaker. ...
— The Boss of Little Arcady • Harry Leon Wilson
... the crowd a woman's voice was heard to cry: "Saint Trusia; angel!" Ten thousand voices took up the acclaim. She shook her head reprovingly as she, too, joined the group about His Majesty. After Carter and the others stepped upon the platform, the former looked about him for his whilom chauffeur. Carrick, with some difficulty, pushed his way through the crowd and was soon at ...
— Trusia - A Princess of Krovitch • Davis Brinton
... the patient." Bolden waggled his finger reprovingly. He was proud of the finger. He couldn't feel what he was doing, but he had control over it. "You, Kessler, should face the fact that a doctor can learn from a patient what the patient learned ...
— Bolden's Pets • F. L. Wallace
... at momma reprovingly, but, seeing that she had no suspicion of being humorous, I said nothing. The Senator pushed out his under lip and pulled ...
— A Voyage of Consolation - (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An - American girl in London') • Sara Jeannette Duncan
... Woodfords, the Dillons, the Champ Perrys, Oleson the butcher, Brad Bemis the tinsmith, and Deacon Pierson found release from loneliness. But all of the smart set went to the lawn-festivals of the Episcopal Church, and were reprovingly polite to outsiders. ...
— Main Street • Sinclair Lewis
... live to be a man," said the major reprovingly, "you won't talk in such a light-hearted way of a battle." And the boy's face flushed at the laugh which greeted ...
— At the Point of the Sword • Herbert Hayens
... presently as she went along, shook it reprovingly at herself, and the little shoulders squared resolutely back. There must be, and there would be, a way out of it all, and meanwhile her position, bad as it was, was not without, at least, a certain compensation. There had been the Sparrow the other ...
— The White Moll • Frank L. Packard
... dinner he affected to be smart, he inquired in a certain superior way about the affairs of the little town, and wondered, jestingly, whether Bertha was not thinking of marrying again. Agatha also took part in this bantering, although, at the same time, she occasionally glanced reprovingly at her husband, who was trying to give the conversation a ...
— Bertha Garlan • Arthur Schnitzler
... smiled in spite of herself. The description of her eldest daughter was apt. But she said reprovingly, "Yon sound as if you were making fun of your sister, dear. And don't call Philip 'the Reverend Flip.' ...
— Kildares of Storm • Eleanor Mercein Kelly
... your spirits run away with you, my dear," she said, reprovingly. "Even on a wedding-day there should not be too much laughter. Tears before night, when there has been laughter before breakfast, remember ...
— Brooke's Daughter - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... the way you curse, Old Timer," said Pinkey, reprovingly, as Wallie came up from the corral carrying an empty milk bucket in one hand and testing the other for broken bones. "I could hear you talkin' to Rastus from whur ...
— The Dude Wrangler • Caroline Lockhart
... Weir, reprovingly, "I wish you would not talk as if you were a butler; you look much more dignified than you ever talk. You look like an English nobleman, and you talk like any ...
— What Dreams May Come • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
... habit," said Faith, reprovingly, "but to return to the subject of poor Mary's funeral. Do you think if we asked for a day we would get it? You know, the store is closed to-day; they might not ...
— For Gold or Soul? - The Story of a Great Department Store • Lurana W. Sheldon
... man of six-and-twenty would be glad to own such hands, I can tell you. [Patting his hand reprovingly.] Keep still! [It is now his turn to hum a song, which he does, under his breath, to disguise his embarrassment. She looks up at him.] But then, you're an awfully young man for your age, in ...
— The Gay Lord Quex - A Comedy in Four Acts • Arthur W. Pinero
... and you're talking slang, which is very undig'n'fied," said Dorothy, reprovingly. "Come here, Billina, and I'll let you out; for Ozma of Oz is here, and has ...
— Ozma of Oz • L. Frank Baum
... now, Mr. Starratt," Watson broke in, reprovingly. "That isn't any way to talk. You've got to keep your spirits up. Things might be worse. It's lucky you've got a friend like Hilmer. He's a man that can do things for ...
— Broken to the Plow • Charles Caldwell Dobie
... the whole, having received the letter and the enclosure, which I must say very much surprises me—very much indeed.' And Larkin looked reprovingly on an imaginary Mark Wylder, and shook his ...
— Wylder's Hand • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
... dog lying in the snow. Then an automobile honked past, and she felt again the thrill of horror as it ran over the poor old toy. At the same moment the child screamed, and she saw it point tearfully at the Flanton tragedy. The mother, who had seen nothing of all this, stooped and spoke to him reprovingly. ...
— The Christmas Angel • Abbie Farwell Brown
... a pause, in which every muscle of the man's body, and especially the facial muscles, and every secret fibre of his soul, perceptibly stiffened. And then Omicron answered, curtly, rebuttingly, reprovingly, snappishly, finishingly: ...
— The Plain Man and His Wife • Arnold Bennett
... you surely don't believe in such things," said Mary Warren reprovingly. "And of course we oughtn't to have done anything foolish as this. ...
— The Sagebrusher - A Story of the West • Emerson Hough
... would say, reprovingly, 'don't talk so loud' (the worthy lady herself talking in a whisper that would have made the blood of the stoutest man run ...
— The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby • Charles Dickens
... exclaimed, laying his hand reprovingly on her shoulder. "Is this the right spirit for one who professes better things? Stop a moment ...
— Family Pride - Or, Purified by Suffering • Mary J. Holmes
... Chick, reprovingly, "how can you introduce commonplace subjects just now? I'm learning to remove rust stains from my dingy old soul. By the way, how would it do to scour one's soul with the sands ...
— Patty Blossom • Carolyn Wells
... doorway, Will Phelps ran swiftly down the stairs and sped across the campus to his own room. He found his room-mate seated at his desk, evidently hard at work. Foster glanced up reprovingly as Will burst into the room and said, "I thought, Will, ...
— Winning His "W" - A Story of Freshman Year at College • Everett Titsworth Tomlinson
... her comfort," said the father, turning reprovingly to Madame Dessalines. "His conflict is over, my daughter," he continued, advancing to Genifrede. "His last moments were composed; and as for his state of mind ...
— The Hour and the Man - An Historical Romance • Harriet Martineau
... Jeffrey, and she and some of the other girls had spent so much time in laughing over it, and preparing an answer, that she had scarcely thought of her lesson. She got through with it, however, as well as she could, and was returning to her seat when Mr. Miller called her to him and said reprovingly, "Fanny, why did you not have ...
— Tempest and Sunshine • Mary J. Holmes
... he did do, mate," said the master, reprovingly; "and yew got 'em to work easy at ...
— To The West • George Manville Fenn
... said Little Tim to his son reprovingly, in an undertone. "It ill becomes a man with white blood in his veins, an' who calls hisself a Christian, to go boastin' like an or'nary savage. I thowt I had thrashed that out of 'ee when ye was ...
— The Prairie Chief • R.M. Ballantyne
... aunt," cried he, reprovingly, "how could any one sleep when mamma sings?" [Footnote: The dauphin's own words.—See Beauchesne, ...
— Marie Antoinette And Her Son • Louise Muhlbach
... I was the kid's father to see what an interest I take in him," the young man told himself reprovingly. "It's all tommyrot, too. A boy had ought to have more grit. I expect he needed that licking all right I saved ...
— Bucky O'Connor • William MacLeod Raine |
