"Reprovingly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... father, looking up quietly, but reprovingly, as Jack winced and blushed, and a dark shade of impatience ...
— Two Years Ago, Volume I • Charles Kingsley
... the neighbour reprovingly demanded. "Because yu're a-dyin', Mis' Green, and yu don't give yer mind tu it. I ha' been by other deathbeds—the Lord reward me for it, as 'tis ter be expected He will—and I ha'n't never seed a Christian woman so sot agin goin' ...
— A Sheaf of Corn • Mary E. Mann
... and important Person at the back, impatient of the delay, here attempted to battle her way through the crowd congested by the too narrow doors. Sir Francis turned and looked at her reprovingly. ...
— Mrs. Day's Daughters • Mary E. Mann
... father said, half reprovingly. "There your maternal ancestors are buried, and there their escutcheons stand till this day. I need not tell you who is now laid ...
— The Golden House • Mrs. Woods Baker
... and 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 ...
— The Lion and the Unicorn and Other Stories • Richard Harding Davis
... said he; and looking angrily at the unconscious little princess, he shook his head reprovingly ...
— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy
... reprovingly; "you mustn't say so. You must learn what your master tells you. He knows what it's right for you ...
— The Mill on the Floss • George Eliot
... Blessington reprovingly, but mildly, "this immoderate grief is wrong—it is unmanly, and should be repressed. I can feel and understand the nature of your sorrow; but others may not judge so favourably. We shall soon be summoned to fall in; and I would not that Mr. Delme, in particular, ...
— Wacousta: A Tale of the Pontiac Conspiracy (Complete) • John Richardson
... her head reprovingly. "Unc' Billy," said she, "you are a bad old rascal to steal eggs. What's more, it doesn't matter to you much whether you find eggs or young birds in a nest. It is a wonder that between you and Chatterer the Red Squirrel any of the birds ...
— The Burgess Animal Book for Children • Thornton W. Burgess
... as much, 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 ...
— The Log of a Privateersman • Harry Collingwood
... you 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
... of a majestic old man, white bearded, with aquiline nose, and the fierce eagle eyes of a fanatic set upon me sternly, reprovingly. ...
— The Quest of the Sacred Slipper • Sax Rohmer
... Miss Car'line," said Katy reprovingly. "You'd better go on with your lessons," and she threw up the window from ...
— While Caroline Was Growing • Josephine Daskam Bacon
... replied the 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 ...
— The Skipper and the Skipped - Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul • Holman Day
... us all so rude," she added reprovingly. Miss Hilbery smiled and shook her head, and was conscious that a great many eyes rested upon her, for a moment, as if they would find pleasure in discussing her when she was gone. Owing, perhaps, to this critical glance, Katharine ...
— Night and Day • Virginia Woolf
... 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 merit at ...
— Sister Carmen • M. Corvus
... "Major!" said Mrs. Buford reprovingly from the head of the table, where she sat in state, "I do not like to hear you speak in that way. We are in the hands of ...
— The Girl at the Halfway House • Emerson Hough
... about 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
... 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
... Now, those idyllic days are gone. So is the waiter. So is the efficacy of the bell. You may ring, but all that will materialise is a self-righteous little girl, in brass buttons, who will shake her head reprovingly and refer you to certain passages in the Defence of ...
— All In It K(1) Carries On - A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand • John Hay Beith (AKA: Ian Hay)
... like you know of looks?" said Betty reprovingly, "and what would Aunt Euphemia say to such ...
— An Unwilling Maid • Jeanie Gould Lincoln
... said Mr. Tulliver, reprovingly, "you mustn't say so. You must learn what your master tells you. He knows what it's ...
— The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book • Various
... silence over so much, where no good speech, but only inarticulate rage was possible: this might have bellowed forth Ushers de Breze and the like; and made itself visible to all men, in managing of kingdoms, in ruling of great ever-memorable epochs! But they said to him reprovingly, his Official Superiors said, and wrote: 'You are to work, not think.' Of your thinking-faculty, the greatest in this land, we have no need; you are to gauge beer there; for that only are you wanted. Very notable;—and worth mentioning, though we know what is to be said and answered! ...
— Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History • Thomas Carlyle
... 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
... 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 shook ...
— The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary • Anne Warner
... 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 beat it. Gwan. Chase yourself. Gwan now; don't stand there. You ain't no decent 'bo. You're another of those Unfortunate Workmen that's spoiling the profesh." The veteran stared at Carl reprovingly, yet with a little sadness, too, at the thought of how bitterly he had been deceived in this young comrade, and his uncombed head ...
— The Trail of the Hawk - A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life • Sinclair Lewis
... promptly threw all 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 ...
— The Prairie Wife • Arthur Stringer
... Brown 'bout the painter and Uncle 'Siah's Harnah," suggested Mehitable in a low voice; and as Seth only stirred in his chair, and looked rather reprovingly at ...
— Outpost • J.G. Austin
... 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 ...
— Under the Great Bear • Kirk Munroe
... Street. Here she dispensed soda-water, candy, and cakes to the students of school and college. She was a little old woman, with a face like a dry but still sound winter apple, and she shook her head reprovingly as the ...
— Peggy • Laura E. Richards
... 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
... on 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 head ...
— Wylder's Hand • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
... us, creature!" said an old man reprovingly, "but can ye no speak, and tell us what ye want, and where ye ...
— Tales From Scottish Ballads • Elizabeth W. Grierson
... 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
... Mr. Sarratt went away, Miss. Well of course it's not my place to speak, Miss—but she don't do Mrs. Sarratt no good!' Miss Martin couldn't help a smile—but she shook her head reprovingly all the same, as she hastened away. Milly had been in her Sunday-school class, ...
— Missing • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... 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, and ...
— Past and Present - Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. • Thomas Carlyle
... 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
... 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 ...
— Through Russia • Maxim Gorky
... 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 ...
— The Auction Block • Rex Beach
... himself, and after that 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
... Mohun with your tricks. She has stood like a lamb,' said Mrs. Halfpenny reprovingly. 'There, we'll not keep her to ...
— The Two Sides of the Shield • Charlotte M. Yonge
... 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 ever ...
— A Little Maid of Old Philadelphia • Alice Turner Curtis
... old gentleman said, almost reprovingly. "You did not know him, it is true; but you must remember hearing that your poor father had ...
— Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances • Juliana Horatia Ewing
... herself from blushing violently, as she whispered reprovingly that he must not be rude. Lucy did not mend the matter by saying with an impertinent nod, "Rose does not like ...
— The Pigeon Pie • Charlotte M. Yonge
... is a boy at heart," she said later, "this same Victor Favraud of ours," gazing reprovingly around. "Indeed, he is the only American I have ever seen who possessed real gaiete de coeur, and for that, I imagine, he must ...
— Sea and Shore - A Sequel to "Miriam's Memoirs" • Mrs. Catharine A. Warfield
... as good as any other," Hugh told him, reprovingly; "and if we reach it I hope you'll not lie down on that account. Julius, you're ...
— The Chums of Scranton High Out for the Pennant • Donald Ferguson
... 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 ...
— Chatterbox, 1906 • Various
... 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 ...
— Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 • Frances M.A. Roe
... you to 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 ...
— Good Old Anna • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... to have him think so," returned Margaret reprovingly, "if you are not clever. I suppose you are, though. Tell ...
— The Stillwater Tragedy • Thomas Bailey Aldrich
... said his friend reprovingly, "it's not come to that yet. You forget the best of all Friends, the Lord Jesus Christ. He ever liveth; and hasn't he said, 'I will never leave ...
— Frank Oldfield - Lost and Found • T.P. Wilson
... 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 be ...
— Walking-Stick Papers • Robert Cortes Holliday
... see that," her aunt said reprovingly, "you are dripping wet; you shouldn't walk so fast in ...
— The Music Master - Novelized from the Play • Charles Klein
... eying him reprovingly, "do you doubt Kerry's ability for three short days? Some people have lived on nothing for years at a time. ...
— This Side of Paradise • F. Scott Fitzgerald
... it in his pocket!—Do you remember when we were eating by the creek, and I got jam on my fingers? He offered me his handkerchief to wipe it off? Do you remember how I shoved him away, and shuddered? I saw you look reprovingly at me! That's why! Do you suppose I could wipe my fingers with a handkerchief that had been in one ...
— Prudence of the Parsonage • Ethel Hueston
... 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 her mother's ...
— The Heir of Redclyffe • Charlotte M. Yonge
... Mr. Forbes, reprovingly. "It's in the girls' favour that they don't remember clearly. If they tossed the thing aside carelessly, they ...
— Two Little Women on a Holiday • Carolyn Wells
... don't want to hop in, goose!" said his wife, reprovingly. "Edward R. Hunter, I wonder at you! ...
— Jane Journeys On • Ruth Comfort Mitchell
... you two men quarreling about?" she demanded reprovingly, "we could hear you clear over to ...
— Silver and Gold - A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp • Dane Coolidge
... easily and then fastened his eyes on Abram Saunders, the father of Absalom, and said reprovingly: "Give not sleep to thine eyes nor slumber ...
— Laddie • Gene Stratton Porter
... can you be thinking of," said her grandfather reprovingly. "You can't be running backwards and forwards like that ...
— Heidi • Johanna Spyri
... said 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 Anne's. ...
— A Prisoner in Fairyland • Algernon Blackwood
... a sad fellow!" Lucy said, shaking her head reprovingly; but he could see the smile shining in her fond, admiring eyes, and lurking about the corners of ...
— Elsie's children • Martha Finley
... his chair and Maude assumed a similar position. Quincy looked at her reprovingly, but she did not change her attitude. To her brother's astonishment, she addressed ...
— The Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks • Charles Felton Pidgin
... 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
... said Laura, reprovingly. "Do you think it is right, Kitty, to smuggle things into the house that way? Is it ...
— The Cheerful Smugglers • Ellis Parker Butler
... that's what he did do, mate," said the master, reprovingly; "and yew got 'em to work easy at ...
— To The West • George Manville Fenn
... 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
... looked them over carefully," Ned lied again, "but presume they are in good shape. As a matter of fact," he continued, hardly able to suppress a smile as Jimmie looked reprovingly at him, "as a matter of fact, we know little about the machines. This is ...
— Boy Scouts on Motorcycles - With the Flying Squadron • G. Harvey Ralphson
... sleep—and he slept often—imagined me to be a 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 ...
— Paul Kelver • Jerome Klapka, AKA Jerome K. Jerome
... and Tralee," the old man said reprovingly, "there is some pleasure. But it is still bad. Every ship we destroyed must be replaced. Like every other subject planet, Tralee will be required to build—how many ships? Ten? Twenty? We have increased the burden Mekin lays ...
— Talents, Incorporated • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... 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 it to the end? Behold, thus thou spakest, and soon thou didst ...
— Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 • Ernst Hengstenberg
... "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 ...
— Patty Blossom • Carolyn Wells
... said the doctor reprovingly, and Jack fell back a few feet; and we travelled on, till suddenly, instead of treading upon the soft decayed-leaf soil of the forest, I found that we were rustling among bushes down a steep slope. Then we were amongst loose stones, and as the darkness was not quite so dense I made ...
— Bunyip Land - A Story of Adventure in New Guinea • George Manville Fenn
... them all laugh, but Farnsworth said, reprovingly, "Come away from that, Daisy. We have to enter this house to shelter ourselves, but we ...
— Patty's Butterfly Days • Carolyn Wells
... 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
... 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, ...
— Peter and Wendy • James Matthew Barrie
... Baptist and Methodist church suppers, where the Willis 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
... Hermione, viewing it with feminine, knowledgeful eyes, "and then all this ham and tongue and—Mr. Geoffrey, how extravagant of you!" And she shook her shapely head at him reprovingly but with a smile curving her red lips; and lo! there was the shining curl above her eyebrow again, more wantonly alluring than usual. "Whatever ...
— The Definite Object - A Romance of New York • Jeffery Farnol
... words to me, Sir Max," said Yolanda, reprovingly. "I, too, must live and be happy ...
— Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy • Charles Major
... wicked 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
... 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 after me with ...
— The Rival Campers Ashore - The Mystery of the Mill • Ruel Perley Smith
... 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 all, thy followers ...
— Historic Boys - Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times • Elbridge Streeter Brooks
... "Nonsense!" I 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 impossible ...
— On Something • H. Belloc
... Kid came also, alert as a fox, eager for any scrap of information which might be converted into coin. He shook his head reprovingly ...
— Old Man Curry - Race Track Stories • Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan
... day Titee was late for school. It was something unusual, for he was always the first on hand to fix some plan of mechanism to make the teacher miserable. She looked reprovingly at him this morning, when he came in during the arithmetic class, his hair all wind-blown, cheeks rosy from a hard fight with the sharp blasts. But he made up for his tardiness by his extreme goodness all day; just think, Titee didn't even eat in school. A something unparalleled ...
— Violets and Other Tales • Alice Ruth Moore
... you surely don't believe in such things," said Mary Warren reprovingly. "And of course we oughtn't to have done anything foolish as ...
— The Sagebrusher - A Story of the West • Emerson Hough
... truth, Master Fred," said the gardener, reprovingly; "and Master Penrose say as a truth ...
— Crown and Sceptre - A West Country Story • George Manville Fenn
... constantly 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 ...
— Lotus Buds • Amy Carmichael
... worshipped from her ardent youth Deeming it half divine, she could not bear, Her woman's strength gave way, and impious words In her despair she uttered. But her lord To deeper anguish stung by her defect And rash advice, reprovingly replied Pointing to Him who meeteth out below Both good and evil in mysterious love, And she was silenced. What a sacred power Hath hallow'd Friendship o'er the nameless ills That throng our pilgrimage. Its sympathy, Doth undergird the drooping, and uphold The foot that falters in its miry ...
— Man of Uz, and Other Poems • Lydia Howard Sigourney
... you mustn't be rude," said Mrs Gilmour reprovingly; "but sure, Captain, you shouldn't make ...
— Bob Strong's Holidays - Adrift in the Channel • John Conroy Hutcheson
... smell of soup which issued from it in appetizing gusts. Pierre and Pierrette sniffed too, and even Mother Meraut could not help saying appreciatively, "That cook knows how to make soup." Pierre laid his hand upon his stomach and smacked his lips. "Pierre," said his mother, reprovingly, "where are your ...
— The French Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins
... "Joel," said Mrs. Fisher, reprovingly. The fire in her black eyes was not pleasant to look at, and after one glance, he turned back to ...
— Five Little Peppers Midway • Margaret Sidney
... those things." Monck spoke reprovingly. "You may be young, but you're past the schoolboy stage. Dacre is more of a woman's favourite than a man's, you must remember. If your sister is not in love with him, she is about the only woman in ...
— The Lamp in the Desert • Ethel M. Dell
... so before folks," 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
... she said reprovingly. "Jack says I can go over whenever I please, as soon as the weather gits warmer and the ...
— The Trail of the Lonesome Pine • John Fox, Jr.
... 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
... 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? ...
— David Malcolm • Nelson Lloyd
... doubt it was delight that lit up her, eyes now, but she whispered reprovingly, "Oh, you! ...
— Captain Dieppe • Anthony Hope
... were just at supper, and her mother said reprovingly, "O Pearlie! now, sure Miss Morrison is teaching her, and they do be sayin' ...
— The Second Chance • Nellie L. McClung
... bit too far, dear old thing, I did really," said Bones, shaking his head reprovingly. "I ...
— Bones in London • Edgar Wallace |
