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Lady Selina paused for a reply, and then added, in a voice of sorrowful rebuke,
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Adverting to the first scene of the second act, when irritated by Lysimachus demanding the princess Parisatis in marriage; in the swell of passion from the mild rebuke,
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810
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Aunt Rachel stood erect before her, and answered with frozen rebuke,
Aunt Rachel David Christie Murray
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'Master Heywood,' cried goody Rees, drawing herself with rebuke,
St. George and St. Michael George MacDonald 1864
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'Master Heywood,' cried goody Rees, drawing herself with rebuke,
St. George and St. Michael Volume II George MacDonald 1864
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It is hardly fair, however, to take this incipient period of the organization as a criterion of a more established and more auspicious future, and the present statements are made not in the way of rebuke,
Minutes of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States of America. With an Appendix. Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States of America. General Assembly 1862
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She had uttered this vague and half-frightened rebuke,
Lucile Owen Meredith 1861
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More reproachful perchance than all utter'd rebuke,
Lucile Owen Meredith 1861
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"Constance," said Fleda, with a miserable attempt at rebuke,
Queechy, Volume II Susan Warner 1852
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I have been present when a trespasser of the looser class, has received, a rebuke,
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey Cottle, Joseph 1847
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