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How To Use Reproachfully In A Sentence

  • O Serena, Serena, "reproachfully," I thought better things of you! Uncle Rutherford's Nieces A Story for Girls
  • Stryker, "reproachfully," I don't see my pearl pin. The Black Bag
  • When I was leaving the country the last time, a taking young man with Homburg hat, blue tie, light gloves, smart clothes and cane, came up with extended hand to meet me, and seeing uncertainty as to his identity in my expression as I took it, he exclaimed reproachfully--"What, have you forgotten poor Fr.------already?"
  • One thing is sure, -- that my superstition and credulity reached their height at the very period of my life which my critics reproachfully assign as the date of my Fourieristic beliefs. What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government.
  • Two women walking past started and glanced my way reproachfully.
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  • He circled me and I kept my eye reproachfully on him watching for his first movement.
  • Do you not think, Molly, "-- reproachfully, --" your conduct toward me is a little cold and unfeeling? Molly Bawn
  • The piece of rosewood, clamped to her worktable, seemed to look at her reproachfully. THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
  • One Britton, who was friendly towards Lenthal and who spoke "reproachfully" and slurringly of a book which defended the course of the Boston churches, was whipped with eleven stripes, as he had no money to pay the imposed fine. Sabbath in Puritan New England
  • And yet, still self-reproachfully, he also continued to search his soul concerning his own country, "our great unxix endowed, unfurnished, unentertained? unentertaining continent, where [...] we ought to have leisure to turn out something handsome from the very heart of simple human nature. 'The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1872-1876, Volume 1'
  • At this the Scarecrow gave a gasp and the Tin Woodman stopped short and looked reproachfully at the Woggle-Bug. The Woggle-Bug’s Thorough Command of the Language
  • Then there are always the enormous old classics that you haven't got around to reading and that are staring at you reproachfully from the shelf, like the rest of Dickens or the rest of Balzac.
  • Still, pleasant as her recollections were, she often looked back self-reproachfully upon passages of her youth; and Sainte-Beuve, though he calls her coquetry "_une coquetterie angelique_," recognizes it as a blemish. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864
  • He walked or sat with his eyes continually fixed upon these feet -- reproachfully, it seemed -- as if their disproportion were a source of perennial woe; he carried his arms looped behind him, and had acquired a peculiar stoop -- to facilitate his vigilant guardianship of his feet, apparently. The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy
  • I let go, and they looked reproachfully at me, as though I had imperilled their chance for a bed and three parts of skilly. THE CARTER AND THE CARPENTER
  • These persons made up the committee of state, which was reproachfully after called the junto, and enviously then in the Court the Cabinet Council "(" History of the Rebellion, "vol. i., p. 211, edit. Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 59: November 1667
  • Just below, a freshly skinned ox head, looking chillingly alive, stares reproachfully at the viewer.
  • [NED looks at her reproachfully.] [LORETTA looks back tantalisingly from doorway and disappears.] [NED flings himself disgustedly into Morris chair.] A WICKED WOMAN (A CURTAIN RAISER)
  • I _told_ you, sister," reproachfully, "us should always bring old Us An Old Fashioned Story
  • By the bye, "reproachfully," I have come a journey to-day, and am dreadfully tired, and you have never even offered me a chair; must I get one for myself? Molly Bawn
  • Eli looked at Tim reproachfully as the two joined the stream of teens heading for the doors.
  • No," for a monosyllable is the most one can hope to secure of the conversation in an interview; but the pretty lady interviewer went on reproachfully: "Have you seen that stately hill of the dead, the Without Prejudice
  • I had to resort to clouting her with my underwater flashgun; she looked at me reproachfully with her enormous eyes and went off in search of more receptive playmates!
  • ‘You're getting me into trouble, puss,’ Louis would say reproachfully.
  • We halted by some pasture bars in the shade of an old cider-apple tree, and I threw the bridle over a leaning post in the unsteady fence; and there the horse and I waited, and looked at each other reproachfully. The Landscape Chamber

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