self-reproaches

And he sauntered off, humming, while my fond spouse assailed me with lamentations and self-reproaches -- for she was sharp enough to see that her folly had tipped the balance.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

The Rat paid no heed to his doleful self-reproaches.

'Wind In The Willows': A Christmas Take On A Classic 2009

And think how she tortured herself with baseless self-reproaches in the last years of her life!

Rosmersholm 2008

And think how she tortured herself with baseless self-reproaches in the last years of her life!

Rosmersholm 2008

Lavinia, who, in her countenance and abrupt departure, read the new distress she had incautiously excited, with a thousand self-reproaches followed her.

Camilla 2008

Cecilia, more incensed than ever to see no preparation made for his departure, and all possible pains taken to unfit him for setting out, refused him with equal firmness and displeasure, and lamented, with the bitterest self-reproaches, the consent which had been forced from her to be present at a scene of such disorder: but Mrs Harrel would have opposed him in vain, had not his attention been called off to another object.

Cecilia 2008

What with the purgings and the semi-starvation and sleeplessness and, worst of all, the regret gnawing at my soul and the incessant torturing self-reproaches, I got weaker and weaker; my clothes hung on me; I could scarcely move.

Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions 2007

Amyas, utterly unnerved by the horror of his misfortune, and by the over-excitement of the last few weeks, was incessantly delirious; while Cary, and Brimblecombe, and the men nursed him by turns, as sailors and wives only can nurse; and listened with awe to his piteous self-reproaches and entreaties to Heaven to remove that woe, which, as he shrieked again and again, was a just judgment on him for his wilfulness and ferocity.

Westward Ho! 2007

There were rencounters accidental and contrived, stealthy correspondence, sudden misgivings on one side, sudden self-reproaches on the other.

The Woodlanders 2006

Dale, his self-reproaches would sometimes be very bitter.

The Small House at Allington 2004