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Examples
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Reproaching them for acting like politicians instead of statesmen is rather like getting mad at your car for not flying.
Mark Olmsted: The Fool's Game of Anti-Incumbency Mark Olmsted 2010
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Reproaching herself for inattention, she stood on her toes to look over S'Talon's shoulder.
Web of the Romulans M. S. Murdock 1990
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Reproaching the Poles, Romanians, Ukrainians, or Hungarians for being unlike the Scandinavians sounds like an Icelander reproaching a Harlem Jewish merchant for secret anti-black sentiments.
Genocide in Hungary: An Exchange Belton, Albert B. 1982
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Reproaching Plato for conceiving the soul in the body as a pilot in a boat, Aristotle saw in the soul the active principle of life, the organizing power already present in plants which are capable of feeding themselves and of growing; the soul guarantees the animal the power to desire and to move itself, and guarantees to man the power to think and to will.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas FERNAND-LUCIEN MUELLER 1968
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Quarrell, [illegible] both must be very unhappy - Reproaching each other to their faces, relating facts concerning each other, to their Neighbours.
John Adams diary 14, includes legal notes, July 1766, 4 April - 18 May 1767 1961
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Reproaching myself much, I at last resolved that even if I should have to live cast off and censured by Brahmanas, I would not yet, from desire of wealth, be anybody's servant, which is ever hateful.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Reproaching myself much, I at last resolved that even if I should have to live cast off and censured by
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Reproaching himself, therefore, with his pusillanimity, he left his cavern and went straight to the town, as
The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi Father Candide Chalippe
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Reproaching his proud brother, when she meets him,
A Handbook for Latin Clubs Susan Paxson
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Reproaching himself for his negligence he entered the doorway, then stared aghast.
Omega, the Man Lowell Howard Morrow
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