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Scornfully in his own mind he berated that momentary weakness and steadied himself.
During that time I had not ceased to berate myself for my inexcusable procrastination.
Casey heard the show lady's clear treble berating Jack dear with thin politeness.
The shrew who publicly berates her husband is no worse than the engaged pair who snuggle in public.
We went, silently berating the brutal harshness of grown people.
He does not berate the Galatians, "I marvel that ye are so unsteady, unfaithful."
This was quite appropriate for an introduction, but the speaker then turned abruptly to one of his political speeches and berated the foreigner in America for not becoming at once an entirely made-over citizen.
Despite the fourteenth century innovation of necks cut low and off the shoulders (berated by the Church), most necks in the fifteenth century are still cut round at the throat, and the necklace worn instead of collar.
Berating him roundly for hiding from her, bending over him, the pallor of his face frightened her.
Sometimes he condescended to berate him, much to the enjoyment of the assembly.
I came unobserved upon one who was berating his beasts with a refinement of cruelty.
I berated myself for having entertained any doubt and now felt anew, and with aggravation, my affection for her.
It was a mean thought against meanness done to him, but he decided that he would not berate himself for it.
Big Buffalo slunk away like a whipped dog, as the chief berated him, and the boys saw no more of him that day.
About the same time and place a young mulatto called on us and began to berate his comrades.
Tears would flood her eyes and she would berate him roundly.
Bobs often berated her for her taste, but admitted she was an intelligent pupil.
Her comrade sat beside her with his back curved like a berated schoolboy and rubbed his nails against one another.
Dee and Mary found us in the kitchen and roundly berated us for not calling them in time to help.
His voice rang out in the masterful way she had so often berated to Julie.
He berated his men roundly and danced about like a madman.
Scold, rate, berate, chide, reprimand, censure, reprove, blame, scold at.
Immediately after our arrival, we were soundly berated by General Pfeifer, and then sent out to the camp, half a mile from the town, where we were placed under guard for the night, in a small plot of ground surrounded by a chain.
He was much disturbed, and roundly berated the painter who had caused the conflagration.
Even now, they had come forth upon the ramparts to berate her with her sin.
The postman will berate the provost for bad play at bowls, but touch his hat respectfully to him on the pavement.
Her sense of proprietorship showed in the way she fussed over his coffee and eggs, berated him for his lack of appetite.
Authority was regarded as tyrannical and Lincoln soon became widely berated as a despot.
Even the private soldiers whom he berated and punished were scrupulously addressed by the title of "Sir."
In other instances the stupidity and dullness for which children are berated are only apparent.
Once in port, they began to berate the Genoese for his foolhardy scheme.
Furthermore, parents should not scold or berate the child because he stammers or stutters.
I had not gone fifty feet into their reedy domain when I began to catch a furious berating.
Every man in the party had begun to berate the kind of car he owned, and every woman was scolding the weather.
In fact, he seemed to be occupied exclusively with his ankle, for, while they were berating him, he stooped over and rubbed it with both hands, flinging his long bow aside, as though it could be of no further use to him.
Her dreams, in which she placed in the mouth of other people the expression of her own wish for health, corresponded well in their mechanism with her delusions in which she heard people berating her for her imaginary sins.
Strange to say, I have been unable to berate him for his impudence.
The servant was soundly berated each time and cautioned to be more careful, which she always promised but never performed, and was finally dismissed in disgrace without either a recommendation, or the wages she had been promised when hired.
I once heard her berating her servants, and they wilted, withered, shrivelled like spiders on a hot skillet.
He was berated as an imperious master berates an offending servant.
The vigorous plants were only a mockery, and the people who sold them were berated as humbugs.
After that, while he still berated the watchman, he began to think.
Shaking his fist in Grant's face, he stammered and choked in a futile effort to berate him.
At length his patience gave out, and he soundly berated the sailors for their cowardice and imbecility.
One glance at the damaged fenders, and she began to berate the two men in an angry voice.
Inside they heard her singing, and a moment later berating and scolding the maid who was to wait upon her mistress.
It is not necessary to relate what took place when he descended upon the unfortunate Jim; it is sufficient to say that he dragged him from his sick wife's bedside and berated him soundly for his treachery.
There was an embarrassing pause, and he began to berate our government for bad management.
Roundly Captain Perkins berated the man in the pilot house, but a grin was his only answer.
Then she berated herself soundly for this unholy wish.
She had been a prisoner, tied to the stirrups of her captor; and he had berated her, had preached at her.
It's me who am a dangling and a dangling after her, and she is laughing at me, or berating me for it all the time.
It was plain that the berating he had received had not disturbed his phlegmatic calm.
This false turn made White Buffalo very angry, and he berated himself roundly for the mistake.
Instead of continually berating the cats, let the friends of birds secure laws to license cats, to compel people to keep their cats on their own premises, to punish people for putting cats astray, and to put homeless cats out of their misery.
With the fears still upon their agitated faces, they turned to berate the one who had shrieked.
The lady of the manor hears my lament, and, believing me to be in love with her husband, berates me in a dramatic duet.
Hearing Ed Hall berate a farmer who doubted the practicability of the machine, Steve took him aside and talked to him.
The dog was alternately licking his heels and whining and berating the fox.
He made a rapid motion toward the passenger whom he had so berated for jostling him.
They misunderstood it and berated its adherents and accused them of robbing man of all that was most precious in life.
Never was a well-intentioned scribe so berated and ridiculed as I, never a simple news gatherer so discredited.
And thus berating myself I trotted a mile to the steamer wharf and arrived just in time to be too late.