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The Consul's only daughter, Rachel, was standing by the old-fashioned stove, talking merrily with Uncle Richard, and as the door opened, and the pastor and the new inspector entered the room, she was laughing still more gaily, and her mother gave her a reproving look. As this was Mr. Johnsen's first visit to Sandsgaard, Mr.
Then the corps moved his head again, and made reverence to the people and sayd, Verily I was poisoned by the meanes of my wicked wife, and so thereby yeelded my bed unto an adulterer. Whereat his wife taking present audacity, and reproving his sayings, with a cursed minde did deny it.
What you want to go there so often? It's no wonder if you are drowned crossing that nasty place in such a storm, You are like a wet sea-gull. If you were a baby you wouldn't be more trouble," etc., etc. Cardo still waited until he saw in the kitchen the blaze of freshly-piled logs on the culm fire, Gwen's voice still reaching him in snappish, reproving tones through the closed door.
She almost brought the tears into my eyes, she received me so kindly. If her mother had not been in the room but her mother was in the room; I had no other choice than to enter on my business, as if I had been the family lawyer. Mrs. Eyrecourt began by reproving Stella for asking my advice, and then assured me that she had no intention of leaving London.
She felt wild and happy, and it came to her that a man who could behave like this when he had made up his mind, might be allowed a long time in coming to it. But she tried reproving him. "O Jerry, the horse'll freeze to death!" "No, he won't. He's all blanketed. Besides, little Jim Pillsbury's there tendin' the fire for the sociable, an' he'll find him.
At length he turned to these half-grown boys, looking very sad, as he said, "Boys, I am just as God made me, an' so is a toad." At this the boys slunk away; and I felt very indignant in seeing the men who were standing near only laugh, instead of sharply reproving those ill-behaved children. Another colored man, named Ben, came to our town with a family who opened an inn.
John Douglas of Birlstone Manor, then whose death have we been investigating for these two days, and where in the world have you sprung from now? You seemed to me to come out of the floor like a jack-in-a-box." "Ah, Mr. Mac," said Holmes, shaking a reproving forefinger, "you would not read that excellent local compilation which described the concealment of King Charles.
Mallard's turn of luck downward to the deadly drop had come under Potts' first inspection of the table. Admiring his friend's audacity, deploring his rashness, reproving his persistency, Potts allowed his verdict to go by results; for it was clear that Mallard and Fortune were in opposition. Something like real awe of the tremendous encounter kept him from a plunge or a bet.
"Commit the crime!" he repeated, with a reproving look; "perhaps it would have been a crime, but I'm not so sure about that." "I am; Jack I'm ashamed of you." "So am I; but don't forget that I was younger then than now." "Yes; two or three months; persons sometimes grow a good deal in that period." "They may not grow so much in stature, but they do in sense."
The brute cowered, staggered back, and fell in a heap on the floor." "Magnificent," broke out Lockwood. "Superb! And well told. You would make a great actor, Murford." "Perhaps," answered Silas with a reproving look, "but don't forget that it HAPPENED." "I haven't a doubt of it," exclaimed Felix quietly, "but please go on, Mr. Murford. To me your story has only begun. What happened next?"
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