Reproach
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157 examples of Reproach in a sentence
But it is difficult for a dissatisfied man not to
reproach
some one else, namely, the person most closely connected with the subject of his dissatisfaction.
He did not understand that, but she knew it instinctively; and while getting ready for her gigantic task she did not
reproach
herself for the moments of careless and happy love that she now enjoyed while building her nest for the future.
Levin at once felt the
reproach
in the look fixed on him, and a sense of repentance because of his own happiness.
How can he leave me alone in my anguish?' she suddenly thought with a sense of reproach, forgetting that she herself had hidden from him all that concerned her son.
He assured her of his love, because he saw that that alone could pacify her now, and did not
reproach
her with words, though he reproached her in his heart.
But Levin had no heart to admonish him: for one thing because any
reproach
from him would appear to be provoked by the danger he had escaped and by the bump which had risen on his head and also because Veslovsky was at first so naively grieved, and then laughed so good-naturedly and contagiously at their general perturbation, that Levin could not help joining in the laugh.
Her search became more and more indolent, and she looked round at the sportsmen as if in perplexity and with
reproach.
'Anna has acted excellently, and I at any rate shall not
reproach
her at all.
So don't
reproach
me, don't condemn me for anything!
The only thing Kitty could
reproach
herself with when that visit was over was that for an instant, on recognizing Vronsky's once so familiar figure in his civilian clothes, she grew breathless, the blood rushed to her heart, and she felt a deep flush suffusing her face.
I don't think I have anything to
reproach
myself with.
I've nothing to
reproach
you with; but if I were in your shoes I should be dead of grief by now after causing such harm to the mates."
She suffered too much by living thus in idleness, feeling continual looks of
reproach
weighing on her; she would rather run the risk of being knocked about down there by Chaval.
No doubt they knew him and no longer had any spite against him; they seemed, on the contrary, to fear him, blushing at the thought that he would
reproach
them with cowardice.
Bovary was searching at the bottom of his purse for a centime, and without appearing to understand all there was of humiliation for him in the mere presence of this man, who stood there like a personified
reproach
to his incurable incapacity.
'I am old and liked here,' he murmured to himself at length, 'they would never dare!'Turning at once to the gentleman from Paris, with eyes in which, despite his great age, there burned that sacred fire which betokens the pleasure of performing a fine action which is slightly dangerous:'Come with me, Sir, and, in the presence of the gaoler and especially of the superintendents of the poorhouse, be so good as not to express any opinion of the things we shall see.'M. Appert realised that he had to deal with a man of feeling; he accompanied the venerable cure, visited the prison, the hospital, the poorhouse, asked many questions and, notwithstanding strange answers, did not allow himself to utter the least word of
reproach.
If your answer is no,' he went on without giving M. de Renal time to speak, 'how dare you presume to
reproach
me with neglecting them?'M. de Renal, who had barely recovered from his alarm, concluded from the strange tone which he saw this young peasant adopt that he had in his pocket some more attractive offer and was going to leave him.
'If I keep my wife,' he said to himself; 'I know my own nature; one day, when she taxes my patience, I shall
reproach
her with her offence.
Then I tie my own hands, I cannot afterwards
reproach
her with anything.'
The first thing that Julien did on arriving in Verrieres was to
reproach
himself for his unfairness to Madame de Renal.
'There can be no doubt,' replied Madame de Renal in a harsh voice, the tone of which offered a cutting
reproach
to Julien, 'my misdeeds were known in the town, at the time of your departure.
I thought I had not heard aright.''It was a
reproach.
It is not, generally speaking, with want of prudence that one can
reproach
the pupils of the noble Convent of the Sacre-Coeur.
Finally, the fear of a subsequent
reproach
from his prudence made him look.
No regret, no
reproach
came to mar this night which seemed odd rather than happy to Julien.
It would be like her to
reproach
herself with what she has done for me, solely on account of my humble birth.'
Certainly they shall not
reproach
me with a second lapse; I should die of shame.'Mathilde's meditations were not all as grave, it must be admitted, as the thoughts we have just transcribed.
Woe to the student who belongs to no set, even his minute and far from certain successes will be made a
reproach
to him, and the higher virtue will triumph over him as it robs him.
'It is almost,' she told herself in moments when she exaggerated her distress, 'as though I had to
reproach
myself with a weakness for one of the footmen.'
I
reproach
myself for it, and yet God knows that I respect you sufficiently not to lie.
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