"Reprovingly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... knew I'd missed one," she said. She shook a lean forefinger at him reprovingly: "So 'twas you run off with it! I'm obliged to you for bringing it again, sir. I couldn't rightly remember whether 'twas a young lady or gentleman who'd had it. There's so many comes for a ...
— The Moon out of Reach • Margaret Pedler
... his big green lily-pad in the Smiling Pool and shook his head reprovingly at Peter Rabbit. Peter is such a happy-go-lucky little fellow that he never thinks of anything but the good time he can have in the present. He never looks ahead to the future. So of course Peter seldom ...
— Mother West Wind "How" Stories • Thornton W. Burgess
... round of repairs, Wilma found herself viewing the entire premises from the standpoint of the sharp gray eyes that had looked so reprovingly at the ...
— Cicely and Other Stories • Annie Fellows Johnston
... I've told you 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
... made in the play, notably in the scene where the duke, with ready hospitality, offers wine to the rustic Lopez. In Barnes' expurgated, "Washingtonian" version (be not shocked, O spirit of good Master Tobin!) the countryman responded reprovingly: "Fie, my noble Duke! Have you no water from the well?" An answer diametrically opposed to the tendencies of the sack-guzzling, roistering, madcap playwrights of ...
— The Strollers • Frederic S. Isham
... dears, my dears!" sighed Pen, reprovingly, "Isn't it time you learned that you can keep few—very few secrets from me, who understand you all so well because I love you all so well? I have been your playfellow and companion so long that, methinks, I know you much better than you know yourselves; ...
— The Honourable Mr. Tawnish • Jeffery Farnol
... they are," Fay whispered reprovingly. "They're all wearing their ticklers. But you don't need to be insulting ...
— The Creature from Cleveland Depths • Fritz Reuter Leiber
... 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 ...
— The Lion and the Unicorn and Other Stories • Richard Harding Davis
... 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 be as hard ...
— Walking-Stick Papers • Robert Cortes Holliday
... 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
... reprovingly, "when you are calmer you will be sorry for having spoken so unkindly to your ...
— Vixen, Volume II. • M. E. Braddon
... checked, while the grave, disapproving surprise which Miss Bonkowski's ignorance seemed to call forth, once more overspread the small face, "Didn't a know her are three?" she returned reprovingly, reaching for ...
— The Angel of the Tenement • George Madden Martin
... "Though," she added, reprovingly, glad to find a joint in his armour, "I am surprised that you should discuss me in any way whatever with ...
— Affairs of State • Burton E. Stevenson
... reprovingly, "that it isn't Jane Strong that you are here to see, after all those nice things you said to me that day we had tea ...
— The Apartment Next Door • William Andrew Johnston
... 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 cold in ...
— The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby • Charles Dickens
... sir," said Samuel reprovingly, "Well, you miss a lot of comfort in life. I've seen a good many ...
— The Awakening of Helena Richie • Margaret Deland
... 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 ...
— The Mayor of Casterbridge • Thomas Hardy
... dunno where he is," said her mother reprovingly. "He come here after you, all dressed up, an' I told him you was gone down to Ellen's to carry the cake. So he said he'd go along down an' fetch you up, an' I told him he better stop to Ardelia's an' see if you wasn't there. An' then he come back, ridin' like the wind, an' he said I ...
— Country Neighbors • Alice Brown
... Tom," remarked I reprovingly. "You are far too much excited. Take it coolly, man; take it coolly. That galley must be effectually disabled, or she will give us the slip to windward and bring two or three more like herself after us, which I have no desire at all to see. And I have no desire to take her, for she would ...
— The Log of a Privateersman • Harry Collingwood
... know," the disturbed old lady would say, as Maggie's flowing skirt and waving plumes disappeared in the shadow of the trees. "She'll break her neck some day;" and thinking someone must be in fault, her eyes would turn reprovingly upon Mrs. Jeffrey for having failed in subduing Maggie, whom the old governess pronounced the "veriest madcap" in the world. "There is nothing like her in all England," she said; "and her low-bred ways must be the result of her having ...
— Maggie Miller • Mary J. Holmes
... have some scares on these mountain rivers, Moise," said Alex, reprovingly. "This water is icy cold, and if even a man got out into the rapids he couldn't swim at all, it would tumble him over so. We'll line down on the Parle Pas, yes, depend on that. But that's down-stream a couple of ...
— The Young Alaskans on the Trail • Emerson Hough
... 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 ...
— Delia Blanchflower • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... 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
... moment for a girl whose whole soul was quivering with fondness! What a proud, beautiful moment! He loved her, he loved her! Yet she drew her hand away and forced herself to say, as if reprovingly: ...
— Through the Wall • Cleveland Moffett
... 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. ...
— The Italians • Frances Elliot
... his chair and Maude assumed a similar position. Quincy looked at her reprovingly, but she did not change her attitude. To her brother's ...
— The Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks • Charles Felton Pidgin
... 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 ...
— The Prairie Chief • R.M. Ballantyne
... awful crack, Sandy," said Casey reprovingly. He flashed the lantern at the face, and slipped his fingers to the wrist. To his relief, ...
— Desert Conquest - or, Precious Waters • A. M. Chisholm
... 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 ...
— Broken to the Plow • Charles Caldwell Dobie
... Penelope, should have seen," said the Professor reprovingly, and having done his duty as a father and a man of education he drove his fist into the air to show with what quickness and force he could use it. "Yes, that's the way I did it, David. He applied an oath to me and laid a hand on my shoulder. What else could I do? I appeal to you—what ...
— David Malcolm • Nelson Lloyd
... Jeremiah uttered after the reformation. And even where he was successful in his efforts; even where an emotion was manifested, a wish to return to the living fountain which they had forsaken, even there, the corruption soon broke forth again, only in a different form. With deep grief, Jeremiah reprovingly reminds the people of this, whose righteousness was like the morning dew, in chap. iii. 4, 5: "Hast thou not but lately called me: My Father, friend of my youth, thou? Will He reserve His anger for ever, will He keep ...
— Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 • Ernst Hengstenberg
... fifteen," 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 ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo
... talk," said the defender, reprovingly, "your daddies and mine was grangers before us, and our kids'll have to be grangers or nothin' after a while—if any of us ever has any. I was in for havin' a little fun with this feller; I was in on it with the rest of you to see the Dutchman hammer ...
— Trail's End • George W. Ogden
... "Harold!" exclaimed 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 ordinary ...
— What Dreams May Come • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
... reprovingly, 'you do make such a mess.' She brushed tobacco ashes from his coat. Mother, without looking up, went on talking to him about the bills-washing, school-books, boots, blouses, oil, and peat. And as she did so a puzzled expression was visible in his eyes akin to the expression in Jane ...
— A Prisoner in Fairyland • Algernon Blackwood
... away, 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 suggested that it ...
— The Laurel Bush • Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
... glad to have him think so," returned Margaret reprovingly, "if you are not clever. I suppose you are, though. Tell the ...
— The Stillwater Tragedy • Thomas Bailey Aldrich
... 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, you would ...
— A Laodicean • Thomas Hardy
... of great plans," rejoined Beauty reprovingly. "There's an immense deal in what I'm saying. Think what we might do for society—think how we might extinguish snobbery, if we just dedicated our smash to Mankind. We might open a College, where the traders might go through a course of polite training before they blossomed ...
— Under Two Flags • Ouida [Louise de la Ramee]
... reprovingly. "I can't imagine what Ogilvy and Watling and Josiah Blackwood were thinking of! They are out of their heads. I as ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... mother reprovingly. "You ought not to speak that way of the man who is almost your husband. And Warren is such a good ...
— The Fate of Felix Brand • Florence Finch Kelly
... 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
... wrath in her sister's voice, put aside the shoes, and looked up. "Debby," she said reprovingly, "you shouldn't. You know Audrey wants the bed to put her things on. Why couldn't you sit on the floor ...
— Anxious Audrey • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... 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
... Fenn," said Mr. Forbes, reprovingly. "It's in the girls' favour that they don't remember clearly. If they tossed the thing aside carelessly, they naturally ...
— Two Little Women on a Holiday • Carolyn Wells
... them down against his sides and turned away. The allusion and a consciousness of Vancouver brought a smile into Viviette's eyes. She had a woman's sense of humour, which is not always urbane. When he turned to meet her she shook her head reprovingly. ...
— Viviette • William J. Locke
... approach the spot, and pull Konev away. He is in no way abashed, but merely cooled in his ardour as, seated on the floor at my feet, and panting and expectorating, he says reprovingly to the woman: ...
— Through Russia • Maxim Gorky
... 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, "It was ...
— Memoirs • Charles Godfrey Leland
... old gentleman said, almost reprovingly. "You did not know him, it is true; but you must remember hearing that your poor father had been drowned ...
— Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances • Juliana Horatia Ewing
... it there was a clanging of pots and pans. Dick, pouring out a mug of whiskey, paused long enough to pass the wink across her body. Tommy winked back. His lips pursed the monosyllable, "clothes," but Dick shook his head reprovingly. "Here, little woman," he said, after she had drunk the whiskey and straightened ...
— The God of His Fathers • Jack London
... bending over the fire, stirring the beaten egg into a saucepan. "Oh, you lazy old Bear!" she said reprovingly. "What ...
— The Odds - And Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell
... all for yours," announced Violet reprovingly. "You hadn't oughta carry on like that—at your age, too! Not that I mind—I rather like it; but what'd your family say if they knew you ...
— The Day of Days - An Extravaganza • Louis Joseph Vance
... no answer, but caught the strings of the 'cello lightly, and shook her head reprovingly, with a smile meant to be playful. For a moment she played, humming to herself, and then the Duchess touched the hand that was drawing the bow softly across the strings. She had behind her garishness a gift for sympathy and a keen ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... 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 ...
— Tempest and Sunshine • Mary J. Holmes
... 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. ...
— Patty and Azalea • Carolyn Wells
... said your pride would be your bane," says Cecil, reprovingly. "Now, just think how far happier you would be if you were friends with him again, and think of nothing else. What is pride in ...
— Molly Bawn • Margaret Wolfe Hamilton
... now!" said Father Golden, reprovingly. "Your mother's smarter than any of you to-day. Go and help ...
— The Green Satin Gown • Laura E. Richards
... conscripting 'em,' said Duffy's officer reprovingly. 'One volunteer, y'know—worth ...
— Between the Lines • Boyd Cable
... me sad when you say that!" Babe protested sleepily, lifting her head from his shoulder and spatting him reprovingly on the cheek. "You're my bes' friend and you've got a lots ...
— Casey Ryan • B. M. Bower
... "Patty," said 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
... 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 ...
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 • Kisari Mohan Ganguli
... supper. I think, Anna, that it is your duty to attend this gathering. 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 that you ...
— Good Old Anna • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... then she sighed a funny little 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, ...
— Little Men - Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys • Louisa May Alcott
... yielded the brown, and their owner threw the iron bar upon the cooling forge and began to turn down his sleeves. "Why don't you make him wear a hat?" he asked reprovingly. "A little more and he won't pay any attention to anything you tell him. I'd carry out that sunbonnet bluff, ...
— The Flying U's Last Stand • B. M. Bower
... Working Aristocracy, steeped too deep in mere ignoble Mammonism, and as yet all unconscious of its noble destinies, as yet but an irrational or semi-rational giant, struggling to awake some soul in itself,—the world will have much to say, reproachfully, reprovingly, admonishingly. But to the Idle Aristocracy, what will the world have to say? Things painful, ...
— Past and Present - Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. • Thomas Carlyle
... 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 like to ...
— For Gold or Soul? - The Story of a Great Department Store • Lurana W. Sheldon
... 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 impossible ...
— On Something • H. Belloc
... reprovingly, "you are making yourself disliked. There are certain things proper for a kitten to eat; but I never heard of a kitten eating ...
— Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz • L. Frank Baum.
... soon left us to attend to matters in connection with the trip, but the three of us were having a very merry time—for Captain Percival was a most charming man—when in the room came Captain Chater, his face as black as the proverbial thundercloud, and after speaking to me, looked straight and reprovingly at Captain Percival and said, "You are keeping his excellency waiting!" That was like a bomb to all, and in two seconds the English captains had shaken hands and ...
— Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 • Frances M.A. Roe
... owner, reprovingly, as he eased himself out of the wagon. "Mis' Gammon, my first wife, is buried there. 'Twas by her request. She made her own layin'-out clothes, picked her bearers and music, and selected the casket. She was a ...
— The Skipper and the Skipped - Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul • Holman Day
... drooping, Mike turned his 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 ...
— The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters • Edward S. Ellis
... applause, and flowers were falling around him like rain, she, too, stood up and cheered so loudly that a Boston lady, who sat in front of her, and who thought any outward show of feeling vulgar and ill-bred, turned and looked at her wonderingly and reprovingly. But in her excitement Jerry did not see the disapprobation in the cold, proud eyes. She saw only what she mistook for enquiry, ...
— Tracy Park • Mary Jane Holmes
... such ill-natured things of her own child," said Gay reprovingly. "She's hardly a ...
— Madame Flirt - A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' • Charles E. Pearce
... Miss Car'line," said Katy reprovingly. "You'd better go on with your lessons," and she threw up ...
— While Caroline Was Growing • Josephine Daskam Bacon
... said reprovingly, and with swift instinct attacked the side-issue. "How selfish you are! Just think what I should have felt if that horrid thing had killed you! I'm quite ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling
... it's lovely when you're inside," exclaimed the child, almost reprovingly. "There's the meal-bags to sleep on. And look, you can see the stove, in through the window, red with the fire. It keeps things dry in the mill. I've slept there twice, when gran' was ...
— The Rival Campers Ashore - The Mystery of the Mill • Ruel Perley Smith
... 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
... the warnin' I gin ye 'bout playin' Dan Hodges fer a fool. Ye're lookin' mighty sorry ye ever tried hit." He chuckled again, as he meditated a humorous effort: "Ye know thet pore feller what ye winged yistiddy?" He shook his head reprovingly. "You-all shore hadn't orter never 'ave done no sech thing. Garry wa'n't a-bitin' on ye none. He's hurt bad, Garry is, an' he needs a nuss the worst way, Garry does. An' so I come an' got ye." He guffawed over his wit. "If ye'll behave I'll ...
— Heart of the Blue Ridge • Waldron Baily
... custom everywhere," the miner said reprovingly, "for folks to stand drink to a stranger; and good Bourbon hurts ...
— In The Heart Of The Rockies • G. A. Henty
... 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 ...
— A Chair on The Boulevard • Leonard Merrick
... can't look at it in the same light way that you do, mum,' returned Amenda, somewhat reprovingly; 'a girl that can't see a bit of red marching down the street without wanting to rush out and follow it ain't fit to be anybody's wife. Why I should be leaving the shop with nobody in it about twice a week, and he'd have to go the round of all the barracks in London, looking for ...
— The Idler, Volume III., Issue XIII., February 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly. Edited By Jerome K. Jerome & Robert Barr • Various
... said Victoria, reprovingly, but there were little creases about her eyes, "don't be ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... a boy, O Brian, and like a boy thou dost talk," said the king, reprovingly. "Thy pride doth make thee imprudent. For what hast thou gained, since, spite of ...
— Historic Boys - Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times • Elbridge Streeter Brooks
... become too haughty because he remembers you," said Warner reprovingly. "Bear in mind that trifles sometimes stick longer in our ...
— The Tree of Appomattox • Joseph A. Altsheler
... Mrs. Knight spoke reprovingly. "Don't be silly, dear. You know we did it all for you. Peter didn't want to leave home, and Jim had a good job, but we gave up everything to let you have a chance. Yes, and we've all worked for you every minute since. Do you think I like this stuffy flat, ...
— The Auction Block • Rex Beach
... exclaimed Diagoras, holding up his hand reprovingly, and directing a terrified look at the Spartan. To his great relief, ...
— Pausanias, the Spartan - The Haunted and the Haunters, An Unfinished Historical Romance • Lord Lytton
... been running, Jo. How could you? When will you stop such romping ways?" said Meg reprovingly, as she settled her cuffs and smoothed her hair, with which the wind had ...
— Little Women • Louisa May Alcott
... the very fountain of thought, by drawing away its living water into ditches and stagnant pools. This was, I say, the case in part with my Wynnie, although I did not understand it at that moment. She did not look quite happy, did not always meet a smile with a smile, looked almost reprovingly upon the frolics of the little brother-imps, and though kindness itself when any real hurt or grief befell them, had reverted to her old, somewhat dictatorial manner, of which I have already spoken as interrupted ...
— The Seaboard Parish Volume 1 • George MacDonald
... said Mrs. Merryweather, reprovingly. "Don't say such things as that, my dears. I know Kitty and Willy perfectly well; they are brother and sister, two cheerful, affectionate children, who love each other. I don't know anything about you two; run away, please, ...
— The Merryweathers • Laura E. Richards
... Bronson!" Mary Rose's eyes were as large as the largest kind of saucers. "What for? Was Solomon arrested, too?" She looked reprovingly at ...
— Mary Rose of Mifflin • Frances R. Sterrett
... whether to laugh at you or to be very angry," she said, shaking her head reprovingly. "Of ...
— The Angel of Terror • Edgar Wallace
... do that," Mademoiselle Loire returned reprovingly; "it was posted in Paris far too late for that. However, perhaps you will now come into the salon," and Barbara followed meekly into a room looking out upon the garden, and very full of all kinds of things. She had hardly got in ...
— Barbara in Brittany • E. A. Gillie
... Nan!" cried Laura reprovingly, "don't even suggest anything unpleasant in connection with that celestial spot. There's nothing to be found ...
— Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach - Or Strange Adventures Among The Orange Groves • Annie Roe Carr
... wild geese heard him laugh, they called out—kind o' reprovingly: "Fertile and good ...
— The Wonderful Adventures of Nils • Selma Lagerlof
... 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, ...
— Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine
... William, I can tell you frankly, Father, is displeased," von Wedel said to Rasputin reprovingly. "Only by an ace has the whole of our arrangements with your Empress, and with yourself as our agent, been suppressed from Downing Street. And that by steps taken by our friend here, Monsieur Azef. But we are not yet safe. I tell you quite frankly that though you are a good servant of ours, ...
— The Minister of Evil - The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia • William Le Queux
... 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
... "Barbara," remarked Senator Hanway reprovingly, returning to the original bone of dispute, "why should you insist on this young man owning millions before he can think of Dorothy? You had nothing, John had nothing, when you married. You ...
— The President - A novel • Alfred Henry Lewis
... count John and Jane," interrupted the bard reprovingly; "they're dead, you know, ...
— Literary Lapses • Stephen Leacock
... Johanna, reprovingly; for Hilary's cheeks were red, and her voice angry. She was taking the hot, youthful part which in its hatred of forms and shams, sometimes leads—and not seldom led poor Hilary—a little too far on the other side. "I think," Miss Leaf added, "that our business is with ourselves, and not with our ...
— Mistress and Maid • Dinah Craik (aka: Miss Mulock)
... 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, ...
— Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation - 1838-1839 • Frances Anne Kemble
... the judge, reprovingly. "Bragging does not become a young man. You have now got so accustomed to this sort of life that you'll find it a little difficult to fall into the ranks again, drink wine that you've paid for, and be punished for your offences if to-day or to-morrow you are deposed ...
— A Hungarian Nabob • Maurus Jokai
... matter with 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
... from his chair with his napkin in his hand. He still clutched it. Now he crumpled it into a wad and hurled it to the centre of the table, where it struck a sugar bowl, dropped back, and uncrumpled slowly, reprovingly. "You—you—" Then bewilderment closed down again like a fog over his countenance. "But ...
— Cheerful—By Request • Edna Ferber
... illness called curiosity. I had just been telling Mr. McLean that curiosity is essentially a woman's ailment, and up you come ahint to prove it." He shook a finger at her reprovingly, and was probably still reflecting on woman's ways when Grizel walked home at midnight breathing through her nose, and Tommy fell asleep with his mouth open. For Tommy could never have stood the doctor's test of a man. In the painting of him, ...
— Sentimental Tommy - The Story of His Boyhood • J. M. Barrie
... can you be thinking of," said her grandfather reprovingly. "You can't be running backwards and forwards like that ...
— Heidi • Johanna Spyri
... it; nor do I seek counsel from the children I have tossed on my foot to the tune of a nursery rhyme." He shook his white-crowned head reprovingly. "He was always screaming at his duenna, one child that I ...
— The Gringos • B. M. Bower
... 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 when they drop the bristling, ready-for-fight air with which they start on an acquaintance. ...
— Mae Madden • Mary Murdoch Mason
... he found things much easier. He could spend a little of his money; he could find a quiet corner in a restaurant and get himself a beefsteak, and eat all he wanted of it, without feeling the eyes of any "comrades" resting upon him reprovingly. Peter had lived in a jail, and in an orphan asylum, and in the home of Shoemaker Smithers, but nowhere had he fared so meagerly as in the home of the Todd sisters, who were contributing nearly everything they owned to the Goober defense, and to the "Clarion," ...
— 100%: The Story of a Patriot • Upton Sinclair
... say that, Tutti," said Tuttu, reprovingly. "Oxen won't hurt you, and you shouldn't be ...
— Soap-Bubble Stories - For Children • Fanny Barry
... bit too far, dear old thing, I did really," said Bones, shaking his head reprovingly. "I watched ...
— Bones in London • Edgar Wallace
... that meal away. Dinky-Dunk, coming in from the corral, viewed the pile with round-eyed amazement. "It's got worms in it!" I cried out to him. He took up a handful of it, and stared at it with tragic sorrow. "Why, I ate weavels all last winter," he reprovingly remarked. Dinky-Dunk, with his Scotch strain, loves his porridge. So we'll have to get a hundred-weight, guaranteed strictly uninhabited, when we ...
— The Prairie Wife • Arthur Stringer
... us, creature!" said an old man reprovingly, "but can ye no speak, and tell us what ye want, and ...
— Tales From Scottish Ballads • Elizabeth W. Grierson
... "Slight, sir," he said reprovingly—"slight. I should hardly call you thin. You'd look a little thin in evening-dress, but in uniform only slight. You see, we are obliged to pad a little in the chest, and to square the shoulders a little, and, one way and another, sir, when ...
— Gil the Gunner - The Youngest Officer in the East • George Manville Fenn
... Marian," said Patty reprovingly. "She's been as patient as an angel under a perfect storm of chaff, and I'm not going to allow ...
— Patty at Home • Carolyn Wells
... 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 ...
— The Hour and the Man - An Historical Romance • Harriet Martineau
... little, but the stranger boy put up his thin hand reprovingly, as if he could not bear to have Franz rebuked, and then they all laughed, for they ...
— Prince Lazybones and Other Stories • Mrs. W. J. Hays
... 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 ...
— Italy at War and the Allies in the West • E. Alexander Powell
... hand drew her back to safety, and he said, reprovingly, "Don't do that again, Lucy. Accidents will ...
— Lucile Triumphant • Elizabeth M. Duffield
... head, and said Anne must not think too well of what, after all, was Miss Rose Freeman's book as much as it was Anne's. "You must not overpraise our little maid," she warned Captain Enos reprovingly. But the book was ever one of Mistress Stoddard's most valued treasures, and was kept with "Pilgrim's Progress" in the ...
— A Little Maid of Massachusetts Colony • Alice Turner Curtis
... he, reprovingly, "how could any one sleep when mamma sings?" [Footnote: The dauphin's own words.—See Beauchesne, vol. i., ...
— Marie Antoinette And Her Son • Louise Muhlbach
... Sometimes she smiled, saying nothing; sometimes 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 know ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... The judge stared at her reprovingly. "Young woman, you don't demand anything. This is Mars. If Space Lobby can stand me, I guess our friends over at Medical will have to. Or should I hold trial right now and find Feldman innocent for lack ...
— Badge of Infamy • Lester del Rey
... head as a farmer's wife looked round at her reprovingly. Cardo attempted another remark, but she only smiled with her ...
— By Berwen Banks • Allen Raine
... reprovingly, but, seeing that she had no suspicion of being humorous, I said nothing. The Senator pushed out his under lip ...
— A Voyage of Consolation - (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An - American girl in London') • Sara Jeannette Duncan
... "Aunt Julia," she began reprovingly in so perfect an imitation of Miss Jane Chick's severest manner that Mrs. Kennedy's lips twitched; "didn't you hear the rising-bell, my dear? How often must I ask you not to be late ...
— The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch • Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter
... say that, Nancy," said Pennie reprovingly. "You know mother doesn't like you to say you ...
— Penelope and the Others - Story of Five Country Children • Amy Walton
... asked her which flower she loved best. It was "daffodil time," and every gold cup held nepenthe for the nightmare dream of winter. She glanced reprovingly ...
— Aunt Jane of Kentucky • Eliza Calvert Hall
... she said 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
... at me reprovingly, to be sure, but he felt the need, just as I did, of an outlet to his feelings, and so he turned to this kind of comic relief with the most delightful reluctance. He quickly lost his reserve, and in the imaginative spree which followed we went far beyond the last outposts of absurdity. ...
— High Adventure - A Narrative of Air Fighting in France • James Norman Hall
... 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.' It ...
— Kildares of Storm • Eleanor Mercein Kelly
... 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 a ...
— Peter and Wendy • James Matthew Barrie
... at Toddie reprovingly is to express my feelings in the most inadequate language, but of language in which to express my feelings to Toddie. I could find absolutely none. Within two or three short moments I had discovered how very anxious I really was to merit Miss Mayton's regard, and how very different was the ...
— Helen's Babies • John Habberton
... mother, reprovingly, "think of yourself and what you are about; if you worn't a light-hearted, and, I'm afeard, a light-headed, girl, too, you wouldn't go on as you do, especially when you know what you know, and what Barney ...
— The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton
... 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 ...
— Rose in Bloom - A Sequel to "Eight Cousins" • Louisa May Alcott
... magnanimous,' said Charles; at which Amabel laughed so uncontrollably, that she was forced to hide her head on her little sister's shoulder. Charlotte laughed too, an imprudent proceeding, as it attracted attention. Her father smiled, saying, half-reprovingly—'So you are there, inquisitive pussy-cat?' And at her mother's question,—'Charlotte, what business have you here?' She stole back to her lessons, looking very small, without the satisfaction of hearing ...
— The Heir of Redclyffe • Charlotte M. Yonge
... as well as he can," replied the lady, rather reprovingly: "he is by no means so wild as ...
— Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee • William Carleton
... a sharp pain manifested itself in the fleshy part of his leg. Elizabeth was looking at him reprovingly, her weapon poised for ...
— Uneasy Money • P.G. Wodehouse
... to say it reprovingly and indulgently, but there was a quaver in his voice. "You have gone ...
— Counsel for the Defense • Leroy Scott
... such a hurry,' said Ada, reprovingly. 'We want to get the money. Well, you know the dear little pincushions we made for Aunt Ellen's bazaar, and how she said ...
— Chatterbox, 1906 • Various
... loved jig-saws almost as much as Mollie did, had drawn up a substantial table to the sofa and seated herself beside it. "Dull!" she said reprovingly, "I hope not indeed. Maps are the most interesting puzzles one can have. What is ...
— The Happy Adventurers • Lydia Miller Middleton
... cried reprovingly, laughing at the same time delightfully, "I was a great talker at school. I did nothing at Trinity but talk, my reading was done at odd hours. I was the best talker ...
— Oscar Wilde, Volume 1 (of 2) - His Life and Confessions • Frank Harris |
