The anguish produced by this self-reproof was so strong that I put my hand suddenly to my forehead, and was obliged to allege a sudden megrim to my attendant, in apology for the action, and a slight groan with which it was accompanied. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Repentance is a kind of self-reproof for having neglected something useful; but that which is good must be something useful, and the perfect good man should look after it. ❋ Unknown (2004)
"Bugger, " he said in self-reproof, then went to collect his rifle from Joana, but Sarah was crouching beside the wounded man in the passageway. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (2003)
"I hope you have made it as beautiful as Elfrida is," she cried, with sharp self-reproof. ❋ Sara Jeannette Duncan (N/A)
They may ask themselves, with some feeling of self-reproof, whether they should have merited such praise from one so revered, and so well qualified to judge. ❋ Thomas Boyles Murray (N/A)
Poor fellow! he never purchased a bottle of claret, within my knowledge of him; and, from such observation as could not escape me, I am bound to assert that his domestic expenses never could have occasioned him a regret or a self-reproof. ❋ Various (N/A)
It was this view of the subject that justified, to his mind, the means which he had used -- that silenced self-reproof, when it accused him of artifice, and called him to account for the deception he had practised upon his colleagues. ❋ Various (N/A)
Yorick protests prosaically that it was only a sparrow, yet on being assured that it was also a living being, he succumbs to vexation and self-reproof at his own failure to be true to his own higher self. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Jessamy sighed again and shook his head in self-reproof. ❋ Jeffery Farnol (1915)
But no activities of life, not even those which are governed by the impulses of religion, are without the appearing of sin in consciousness, at least in germ, in some way -- warning, presentiment, self-reproof, regret. ❋ 1862-1929 (1911)
They were indeed trifles, very trifles; I have since perused them with a blush of self-reproof, and wondered how I could venture on presenting them to the public. ❋ Mary Elizabeth Robinson (1895)
Aid against this subtlety of conscience rose in the form of self-reproof administered by that joyous voice of nature which no longer timidly begged a hearing, but came as a mandate from an unveiled sovereign. ❋ George Gissing (1880)
Now, while this original source of mental discomfort, which afflicts the uncivilized man, had ceased materially to affect the Athenians, they on the other hand lived at a time when the vague sense of sin and self-reproof which was characteristic of the early ages of Christianity, had not yet invaded society. ❋ Unknown (1876)
He assumed a tone of raillery, which is, perhaps, the readiest mode of escaping from the feelings of self-reproof. ❋ Unknown (1855)
Expressions occasionally escaped him that indicated a self-reproof on this subject, though they were partially disguised by an affected undervaluing of the importance of having such a prisoner, so long as he retained the custody of the principal object of the enterprise. ❋ Unknown (1852)
She looked up at him with that submission in her glance which belonged to her state of self-reproof; but the subtle change in his face and manner arrested her speech. ❋ George Eliot (1849)
