Use reproach in a sentence
Sentences starting with reproach
- Reproach me. [5]
Sentences ending with reproach
- Barbara crossed the threshold, and called her by her name in a tone of kindly reproach. [10]
- It had all the sombreness of reproach--of immitigable reproach. [11]
- The name of the city is becoming a reproach. [5]
- Have you seen that veiled deep glow, that pathetic hurt dignity, that unsubdued and unsubduable spirit that burns and smolders in the eye of a caged eagle and makes you feel mean and shabby under the burden of its mute reproach? [5]
- It will show that I was--human--and save my memory from reproach. [6]
- In the Emperor's suite all exchanged rapid looks that expressed dissatisfaction and reproach. [2]
- And though our place is low, judged by the world's eye, we will make it as high as the highest in the great essentials of honest work for what we eat and wear, and conduct above reproach. [5]
- On the subject of my uncle, the old coachman's taciturnity gave way to torrents of reproach. [9]
- The farm-house makes no pretensions, but it has a good warm kitchen, at any rate, and one can be comfortable there with the rest of the family, without fear and without reproach. [6]
- But there was no anger in Mr. Carvel's voice--only reproach. [9]
Short sentences using reproach
- Don't reproach me. [4]
Sentences containing reproach two or more times
- Nor is it probable that the primitive conscience would reproach a man for injuring his enemy; rather it would reproach him, if he had not revenged himself. [1]
- No, she would not reproach him; she never did reproach him. [4]
- He seemed in his heart to reproach her for being too perfect, and because there was nothing to reproach her with. [2]
- He had regarded Dalton Street in a very special sense as a reproach to St. John's, but now he saw that all such neighbourhoods were in reality a reproach to the city, to the state, to the nation. [9]
More example sentences with the word reproach in them
- But, what was worst of all, he could not regard himself as altogether free from the reproach of having accepted a reward for the service he had so thoughtlessly rendered. [10]
- Without saying a word in reply, or giving them a look of reproach, he followed the old woman who had summoned him (and who had now rejoined them) into another room, where his infant friend, half-dressed, lay stretched upon a bed. [12]
- To study nature without fear is possible, but without reproach, impossible. [6]
- He saw it with no reproach to himself. [11]
- Thus he gazed with mute reproach at the smith for some time, then pushed the goblet far away, exclaiming with sincere indignation: "What doings are these, friend Adam? [10]
- I can say with conscious truth that there is not a man on earth who would sacrifice more than I would to relieve us from this heavy reproach in any practicable way. [7]
- They were people who were beyond reproach, and that was sufficient. [5]
- What would they who thus reproach us have done? [7]
- But when she was with Natasha she was not vexed with her and did not reproach her. [2]
- Her sole reproach was to return his kiss. [9]
- Her only fault was that she had not grown with him, and surely he could not reproach her with that. [6]
- Her open rebellion was less annoying than Janet's silent reproach, but at least she had something to take hold of. [9]
- Then every reproach was forgotten, and resentment was transformed into doubly ardent longing. [10]
- This fellow's reproachlessness was a standing reproach to every lad in the village. [5]
- I wouldn't have wanted him there--his appalling energy would have been an insufferable reproach to mild adventurers like you and me. [5]
- Very unlike Barine's voice, too, were the deep, earnest tones trembling with emotion, in which she confronted him with the brief question, concealing a faint reproach, "Another demand? [10]
- This request confers upon me a certain right to express my opinion on this weighty subject without fear and without reproach even from those who might be ready to take offence at one of the laity for meddling with pulpit questions. [6]
- Each one came up, glanced at what had been done, and with horror, reproach, and astonishment pushed back again. [2]
- The reproach which, unjust as it might be, had spoiled many an hour for Wolff and entailed such fatal consequences, was now removed, and to her also "Ursel's" altered manner had often seemed like a silent accusation. [10]
- The file-leaders of Unitarianism drew back in dismay, and the ill names which had often been applied to them were now heard from their own lips as befitting this new heresy; if so mild a reproach as that of heresy belonged to this alarming manifesto. [6]
- We have tried to put reason before sentiment, duty before love; our minds approve, but our hearts reproach us. [5]
- It didn't occur to me that you would care--for the first few years," he added, and there was in his voice a note of reproach that did not escape her. [9]
- She felt thankful to him for the shelter he was affording her, but often said to herself, "It's a shame to let him see in my cryings a reproach--as if he could ever do anything that could make me reproach him! [5]
- Yet he dreaded to go back to England and face it all: the reproach of his people; the amusement of society; his wife herself. [11]
- The passionate resolve to compel him to reproach himself in soul for his merciless, if subtle, indictment of her to bring him to the old place where he had knelt in spirit so long ago--ah, it was so long!--came to her. [11]
- But while he thought this, and while he could justly blame Fulkerson for Lindau's presence at Dryfoos's dinner, which his zeal had brought about in spite of March's protests, still he could not rid himself of the reproach of uncandor with Lindau. [8]
- When she spoke there was no reproach in her voice, but triumph. [9]
- The first time the young foreigner allowed himself to reproach her, she lifted her beautiful head and, half turning to him, said firmly: "That's just like a man--selfish and cruel! [2]
- It was with the utmost effort that she uttered all her heart prompted her to tell; she had nothing to look for from me but mockery, warning, and reproach, and yet she opened her heart to me. [10]
- He spoke in the tone of entreaty and reproach that a carpenter uses to a gentleman who has picked up an ax: "We are used to it, but you, sir, will blister your hands. [2]
- Her obedience to the supreme will of her jealous jailer gave no ground for scolding or reproach, and that saved her much. [11]
- To the Egyptians the Philadelphi, Ptolemy and Arsinoe, are gods, and what cause have we to reproach them except that they use their omnipotence? [10]
- Helena, Gorgias, and the old philosopher Euphranor, had approached her, and when the latter asked with loving reproach, "Why, Barine, how did you get through the howling mob? [10]
- She now retorted that if he did not choose to take her at her word be need not, but that whatever he did she should have nothing to reproach herself with; and, at least, he could not say that she had trapped him into anything. [8]
- I am sure that he would never reproach me, even if things went wrong, but--the day might come when--when he would wish that it had been otherwise. [9]
- When I heard that Cambyses had really resolved on your death, I hastened to him with a storm of entreaties; but these were of no avail, and then I was presumptuous enough to reproach him bitterly in his irritated state of mind. [10]
- The order of St. Francis alone regarded them with favour, interceded for them, and watched over them with kindly interest, taking care that they were kept aloof from everything which would expose them to reproach or blame. [10]
- As a monarch she was without reproach in her great office. [5]
- But all that she had done for the man to whom the posthorses were swiftly bearing her seemed to her free from reproach and blameless. [10]
- I hope I shall not be misunderstood as implying any reproach against the inquirers who, in order to get at facts which ought to be known, apply to all whom they can reach for information. [6]
- The honest man sent her through the Haller banking house a thousand ducats, that he might not be open to the reproach of having defrauded her. [10]
- By your rashness, Richard, and I pray it is such, you have brought grief to your grandfather in his age, and ridicule and reproach upon a family whose loyalty has hitherto been unstained. [9]
- The novelist cannot reverse the facts without such a shock to our experience as shall destroy for us the artistic value of his fiction, and bring upon his work the deserved reproach of indiscriminately "rewarding the good and punishing the bad. [4]
- It contains no reproach, only a delicately-hinted fear. [6]
- She uttered this reproach to her preservers very indignantly; but as the physician saw her eating a bunch of grapes with much enjoyment, he asked if this pleasure did not suffice to make her rejoice over the preservation of her existence. [10]
- He meant to reproach the unprincipled fellow who by base arts had alienated the betrothed bride of an honest man--for that Wolff certainly was--when adverse circumstances prevented his watching the faithless woman himself. [10]
- I intend no reproach or complaint when I assure you that, in my opinion, if you all had voted for the resolution in the gradual-emancipation message of last March, the war would now be substantially ended. [7]
- To avoid the reproach of the Pharisees, I went into the closet of my bed-chamber to pray, requesting that the quarter should be dropped on the north side of Lyme Street, between Stamford and Tryon; in short, as conveniently near home as possible. [9]
- Save me the reproach of being a spendthrift. [10]
- I cannot but reproach myself for even wishing to be happy while she is otherwise. [7]
- He did not reproach Mrs. Mavick with this, but he let her see that he was very much annoyed. [4]
- There was no reproach in the strong, clear eyes of blue which even wounds and illness had not faced--only humour, only a hovering joy, only a good-fellowship, and the look of home. [11]
- There was gentle reproach in his voice, but, not anger, when he replied: "Luigi, I often consult your wishes, but you never consult mine. [5]
- She could not reproach him --which perhaps in any event she would have been too wise to do; but she could not, try as she would, bring herself to the point of a discussion of their situation. [9]
- We must not reproach her, or she shuns us; I have found that out. [12]
- A look of reproach came into her eyes. [11]
- She did not recognise him until, with pathetic reproach, he called her by name and, horrified by the spectacle he presented, she fell upon her knees. [10]
- Even this died quickly away, and in its place there came such a sad, pathetic expression, as she hung her pretty head, that he could neither carry on the joke nor reproach her sharply. [10]
- Her reproach was public, the world knew it, and no woman can forgive a public shame, even was it brought about by a man she loved, or loves. [11]
- She did not pride herself on her knowledge, nor reproach herself for her ignorance. [6]
- But Francis preferred poverty and contempt, nay, even his father's curse and the reproach of ingratitude, receiving in exchange possessions of a nobler nature and more lasting character. [10]
- Not a reproach passed her lips. [5]
- We must turn out what we can; we must do our endeavor and care nothing at all when the unthinking reproach us for not turning out Gobelins. [5]
- But there were other churches in the city that were ahead of St. John's--a reproach --ahem! [9]
- Whether I reproach, or a cur yelps at him, is all the same to his lordship. [10]
- The plaintive moan of reproach was drowned by the threatening and angry roar of the crowd. [2]
- The reawakened power of life that had seized Natasha was so evidently irrepressible and unexpected by her that in her presence Princess Mary felt that she had no right to reproach her even in her heart. [2]
- He expected that now he should hear nothing except sentiments which would be a reproach to him in his changed mental attitude, and he rather wished he might be excused. [5]
- The Queen, a notorious character in those days, and whose name is a by-word and a reproach even in these, came in and asked him wherefore he sorrowed, and he told her. [5]
- A subtle smile, not wholly free from reproach, accompanied Archibius's reply: "Had I spoken of her virtues, you would hardly have thought of asking further details. [10]
- And she had no word of reproach for this poor wretch who had wrought day and night with deceits and treacheries and hypocrisies to betray her to her death. [5]
- She had uttered no syllable of reproach --and that cut him. [5]
- I often reproach myself with my wrong-doings. [6]
- Gyges has saved my soul from the guilt of shedding innocent blood, and thine from the reproach of having revenged thyself meanly on a man, to whom thy father is indebted. [10]
- But this troubled Miriam, who seemed to regard it as a reproach to know that the orphaned, inexperienced lad, who had grown up under her own eyes and whom she herself had sent forth among strangers, was beneath an Egyptian roof. [10]
- And I am making the journey, not merely to purge myself from reproach, but to obtain Omar's permission for the future to exact no extortionate payments, but to consider only the true weal of the province. [10]
- The cattle, too, lowed so mournfully and beseechingly that it pierced the shepherds' hearts like a reproach. [10]
- Her voice was low, and tho' there was no anger in it, the tone seemed that of reproach. [9]
- No one now loves virtue; it seems like a reproach to everyone. [2]
- I determined to let other persons know what a convenience I had found the "Star Razor" of Messrs. Kampf, of New York, without fear of reproach for so doing. [6]
- She knew that Jethro had never ceased to reproach himself for inviting Wetherell to the capital, and she was sure that something had happened there which had disturbed her father and brought on that fearful apathy. [9]
- So, I took it, would be thy mind--which Heaven fill with light for Egypt's sake!-- that thou wouldst have none about thee who were not above reproach, neither liars, nor thieves, nor murderers. [11]
- The next day it was made a reproach to the house that such deceptive hopes were put upon the public. [4]
- Her mother made it a reproach that she was so pale and unresponsive. [4]
- Thus the reproach is removed of laying the foundation of the noblest part of our nature in the base principle of selfishness; unless, indeed, the satisfaction which every animal feels, when it follows its proper instincts, and the dissatisfaction felt when prevented, be called selfish. [1]
- But the second instance was too much for her, and she woke him up, in his tracks, with a reproach. [5]
- I saw reproach in the eyes of her Excellency, and was bitterly ashamed. [5]
- I tell her I didn't reproach you and never thought of such a thing. [5]
- Just before him hung the large crucifix, and the Saviour on the cross, who with his head bowed on one side, usually gazed so gently and mournfully upon the ground, to-day seemed to look at him with mingled reproach and accusation. [10]
- After a moment, however, he muttered a reproach against his own darkness of spirit and his lack of faith in her womanliness, and opened the envelope. [11]
- The reproach in his voice was in itself a denial. [9]
- Not only did his reason not reproach him for what he had done, but he even found cause for self-satisfaction in having so successfully contrived to avail himself of a convenient opportunity to punish a criminal and at the same time pacify the mob. [2]
- She stood before him, young and beautiful, listening without reproach or censure as he besought her forgiveness and confided to her his sins, and how severely he was punished by Nemesis. [10]
- When she finds herself deceived--and she will soon discover it--she will not rest--" "Until she has brought ruin upon him," interrupted Charmian, in a tone of sorrow rather than reproach as though she already beheld the impending disaster. [10]
- He looked into her eyes with friendly reproach and raised his right hand toward heaven; but she understood his meaning, and kissing his hand with grateful warmth, replied: "You stand under the protection of the Most High, and I fear no longer. [10]
- At the exit he, parted from his friend, who had been made happy by the ability to absolve his more distinguished leader from the reproach of having become faithless to their common purpose, and who intended to intercede further in his behalf in the palaestra. [10]
- He should return; he should not triumph in his self-righteousness, be a living reproach to her always by his careless indifference to everything that had ever been between them. [11]
- As they passed, he heard Croesus say: "I reproached him bitterly, little as he deserves reproach in general, for having given such an inopportune proof of his great strength. [10]
- The Romans would have cause to reproach me if I deprived them of the sight of this Queen, this peerless woman, in many respects the first of her time. [10]
- That the wedding had taken place far down in Gaspe and not in St. Saviour's was a reproach and almost a scandal; and certainly it was unpatriotic. [11]
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