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Quotes About Reproachful

My mother's face floated to mind, a pale, reproachful moon, at her last and first visit to the asylum since my twentieth birthday. A daughter in an asylum! I had done that to her. Still, she had obviously decided to forgive me.
~ Sylvia Plath
Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed Confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, And cries reproachful: "Was it then my praise, And not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.
~ James Russell Lowell
His tone was reproachful and she flushed and bit her lip. Miss Johnson hastily turned the conversation to the dig
~ Agatha Christie
sheers.Garth'sDispensat.2. A reproachful name for a dark complexion. Laura, to his lady, was but a kitchen-wench; Dido a dowdy; Cleopatra a gipsy; Helen and Hero hildings and harlots.Shakespeare'sRomeo and Juliet.3. A
~ Samuel Johnson
T]heir cats will be looked after too -- one only hopes Daisy won't put in more food for them than for the humans.' Faustina [the cat] looked up from her saucer, her dark face made all the more reproachful by its beard of milk.
~ Barbara Pym
Nothing to be done about it except give her a reproachful look. I did this. It made no impression whatever, and she proceeded.
~ p g wodehouse
As they prepared to mount, Barak's horse, a large, sturdy gray, sighed and threw a reproachful look at Hettar, and the Algar chuckled. 'What's so funny?' Barak demanded suspiciously. 'The horse said something,' Hettar replied. 'Never mind.
~ David Eddings
Waking up in full daylight, he dials 0 and asks if this is Saturday. A reproachful second goes by before the operator says, "This is Friday, sir.
~ David Gates
Priggish, mealy-mouthed son of a bitch
~ James Agee