Sentence Examples:
Keep together, and either silence your differences, or gently debate them; yea, rather chide it out, then withdraw asunder.
One thinks of Him, from pictures and from books, as grave, abstracted, chiding, precise, mournfully kind, solemnly considerate.
"Shame on you, Doc, both for your indiscriminate taste and your too great thirst," chided Holmes, as everybody else laughed.
With quiet dignity and cheerful resignation he sits among his people, hushing their lamentations and chiding their complaints.
Cried the mother, in a sudden flash of vehemence, dropping the persuasive tones she had heretofore employed for resentful chiding.
Sometimes, too, the would-be recipient was chided away with a sharp dab of the bill instead of the reached-for refreshment.
It is not unusual to hear mothers threaten to send their children home to their respective fathers, whenever their rudeness requires chiding.
"That was downright mean of you, Will Baldwin," chided Stella, with her usual motherly interest in the comfort of her boys.
However, you have not much to fear from his Eminence, who is too kind-hearted to do more than chide you for your indiscretion.
A friend advises by his whole behavior, and never condescends to particulars; another chides away a fault, he loves it away.
"It will long be remembered in my annals," whispered Caroline to her cousin, with a bright smile, despite her father's chiding.
We quote the passage now-a-days as if it enjoined attendance upon the Supper; but he wrote it merely to chide them for drunkenness.
There was a large, maternal tenderness about her which appealed powerfully to Lance, upon whose boyhood fretful, chiding Roxy had tended.
Noemi did not remember him, and Jeanne chided her sharply, as if such forgetfulness rendered her unworthy of her position of confidante.
Chiding herself for unwarranted timidity and lack of courage, she silently left her seat at last and stepped from Grenville's side.
A smile of disdain played for an instant on his lips, as if he were chiding himself for the silliness of his conjectures.
He also went up to each to instruct him, praising those whose tasks were well done and gravely chiding those who were slovenly.
The lover is often tardy, careless, too deficient in tenderness, so that the woman has to chide him and invite his caresses.
Distinctness, character, is what he admires, what through life he struggles for, what he and Schiller alike chide the Germans for wanting.
All stood silent, though doubtless there were several disappointed and surprised at receiving chiding instead of thanks from so zealous a protestant.
Chided Sophia, whose large, warm heart was not democratic enough always to stand the intense humility of certain maternal reminiscences. "Pshaw!"
Chiding himself for the obsession, he straightened his shoulders and crept on doggedly toward the sinister mystery of the camp fire.
Not a chiding word was spoken, not a look of reproof given, as with outstretched arms the culprit was received to our hearts.
For a long time she chided him gently for his aimless manner of living; and he defended himself with a half-mocking sadness.
And then comes our uncompromising pessimist and chides us for our softness and for letting ourselves be led astray from our pessimism.
And the stately pines kept whispering and murmuring; it almost seemed as if they were chiding the quaking aspens for being frivolous.
Cross-legged they perched on mounds, whistling, singing, playing impish pranks, chaffing and chiding one another, in all the happiness of easy idleness.
Placing with vehemence the right fist in the left palm is a gesture commonly used to mock, chide, insult, reproach, and rebuke.
At this time houses which had never shown a flag were draped, and merchants were chided because they could not supply the demand.
Critics at the moment chided this advice as an exhibition of bad taste; an intrusion, if not an impertinence, on the part of a foreigner.
Sure that in her voice there would be consolation, and the sight of her sympathizing tears would chide away the bitterness of mine?
And Richard meekly took her chiding and promised that, if Ruth would but sanction it, things should be changed upon the morrow.
"Don't talk that way, Father, you'll scare the young folks," chided his wife gently, as she looked at Ruth and smiled reassuringly.
While we are still children, if haply we stumbled as we were gaping about, the nurse did not chide us, but beat the stone.
If his chiding has wrought the effect it was intended to produce, then these words of softened admonition will be grateful and healing.
If they yield and practice the secret vice, they chide and condemn themselves, become despondent and decide there is no hope for them.
Then they began to talk of Madame de Lamberthon, and the old deputy chided his young colleague for the rarity of his visits.
It was almost as if, like naughty children, they were awaiting the expected chiding following upon some escapade in which they had been found out.
Polly always chided in grave Quaker phraseology, but, like many of the younger generation, fell into worldly pronouns in seasons of haste or merriment.
He had a warm love for children, and was always an affectionate and indulgent parent, seldom chiding, but rebuking in love when occasion required.
Nevertheless, the cool hand laid on his hot brow was invested with a motherly tenderness, and the chiding voice was gentle and kind.
Many times, he wrote, he chided and begged and shamed his erstwhile partner into resuming the project where it had been last abandoned.
The dowager's chiding laugh, low and musical, at that festive gathering of little Sue's, was at once rebuke and pardon for the past.
She felt responsible for the girls losing the game and even though they in no way chided her or scolded she blamed herself.
We may chide a friend, and so prove our friendship, but it must be done very daintily, or we may lose our friend for our pains.
This made him often chide Bonner, calling him 'ass,' though not so much for killing poor people as for not doing it more cunningly.
Here it is: 'Charles, 'I am sure that I must begin my first letter by chiding you, because I hear that you will not take physic.
It was in vain to chide or chastise them; trustful obedience, humility, content with home, simple duties, cheerful playfulness, were during this interval gone.
He retreated a short distance and then a bystander came up and chided me in a whisper for my folly in not claiming the purse.
As soon as he could move his eyes from the hag, he turned round to chide his companion, when he found that she had disappeared.
Their elder, impatient at the disgraceful conduct of her offspring turned and chided them with a stamp of her forefoot and a low grunt.
And it had a dear mother-face peeping in at the door to chide her gently if she sat too late writing those long letters to Dick.
It chides us with unnatural inconsistency, when we strain at a little twine and paper, and swallow the monstrous cables and armaments of War.
The tender eyes looked at him wistfully, as if afraid that she had done something to offend him, and that he was about to chide her.
Her duties were the light chores, which had to be well done, or she was chided, the same as the white children would have been.
Again I chided myself for my fears, when, as I looked up the alley to the street, I saw a group of four men come in stealthily.
You chide me for my laziness, in not telling you a thousand agreeable and surprising things, that you say you are sure I have seen and heard.
Why, within the past twenty-four hours I have come to look on you as a sort of elder brother, who can be indulgent even while he chides.
The poor creature was inclined to chide Tom for not having come up oftener to see her, when she discovered that he was going away.
I dared to chide her, gently, for her love affair with the handsome singer, and, above all, to exhort her to fidelity to her husband.
The foreman hated to chide his friends, but he and his wife were tired of turning the ranch house into a haven for Chinese cooks.
For example, there is a fugue, or else the soldier goes to his superior and aggressively chides him for having troubled him the night before.
In the box that had been occupied by the Marines, Panama sat in convulsions of laughter, chiding his two buddies, hilarious over their apparent discomfort.
He has faithfully chided them for their defection, but his anger is directed, not towards them, but towards those who have injured them.
Nay, would not feelings of outraged confidence, of soul-anguish, sorrow, and shame coin themselves into bitter chiding words which you would be powerless to repress?
Here Christie learned of Donald's adventures since their midnight parting, and, while applauding his bravery, chided him for engaging in so dangerous an undertaking.
Of late neglectful of his duties, Colonel Miranda has severely chided him, thus kindling the hereditary antipathy of his race towards the white man.
The pretty pout on the rosy lips was the same as it used to be when she chided him for some trifling forgetfulness of her wishes.
He had gone from the place which had grown so dear, and while pretty Marie wept, Helen chided her for her lack of fortitude.
She chided herself for her attitude towards David, yet she was unable to bring her mind to any dearer feeling for him than kindliness.
She regains her self-possession at once, looks insolently at me, nay, downright maliciously, and enters the house with a chiding remark to her offspring.
The family had agreed to neither chide him nor caress him; but grandfather, who was then a little boy, slyly carried him some supper.
Gaunt, eager, restless, moody, silent, their leader neither urged his men nor chided them, nor did he refer to the encounter with the Blackfeet.
When she sees her husband, she chides him scornfully for his cowardice, and regrets that he had not perished at the hands of Menelaus.
He left the room and walked down the passage to admonish Joan, yet knowing that there was nothing he could honestly chide her for.
In a drowsy sort of way she was chiding herself for her carelessness when she seemed to see a hand moving noiselessly over the toilet articles.
There is a little woman here on the Flat that chides me for this attitude, and tells me that I am wasting good strength fighting windmills.
And never did they array themselves in their somber weeds, that the thought of Ellen's unobtrusive grief did not come up and chide them.
For a while she dared not look out, remembering what lay yonder; and then she chided herself for cowardice, and peeped through the moonlight.
The mother who was at once his best adviser and sincerest worshiper was not likely to chide his folly as the father had done.
Rebecca ventured to chide him for his threats, but offered to bind up his head for him, which she did with her own kerchief.
Other women, jealous of me, affirmed that I painted; they told my confessor, who chided me for it, though I assured him I was innocent.
I chided her for a neglect which had enabled some evil-disposed woman to penetrate into my chamber, and not only terrify but also plunder me.
Her old nurse, Mary, who spins diligently herself and keeps the rest at their task, chides her, not very severely, for her idleness.
How would he chide them for shifting their ground, and changing their system, while they nevertheless pretend to build on the same foundation of predestination!
Again and again she had to stifle the rising fear of possible change in his love, and chided herself for unworthy thoughts and lukewarm energy.
Gently, too, he chided them that naught would be gained were the yoke of their oppressors but exchanged for an inward yoke of unrestrained selfishness or indulgence.
He did chide the criminals for their regrettable proclivities in the past and warn them that he would tolerate no such conduct in his museum.
Hark to the Nurse's strident laughter, old Capulet's jesting and chiding, the low tones of the Friar, and the irrepressible rattle of Mercutio's wit!
Mistress Deborah curtsied; then chided Audrey for not minding her manners, but standing like a stock or stone, with her thoughts a thousand miles away.
"I warned you to keep close together," began Joshua, but forbore to chide, as he saw the dumb agony in the eyes of the other two men.
His conduct was homage carried to unscrupulous and inconvenient lengths, a sort of thing which a woman may chide, but which she can never resent.
Bacon, when weariness compels him to leave to his servant the task of watching the Brazen Head, chides him for slowness in answering his call.
Moreover, it was so exacting, or rather so covetous and jealous, that he had often occasion to chide, gently of course, the less caressing and enthusiastic Titus.
If I waver again, I hope that you will pity, rather than chide me with vexation; for I shall try to act honestly, according to my impressions.
His heart bounded at the sight, and then sank with a sense of remoteness and loss for which, a moment later, he chided himself bitterly.
Oh, sir, there are arts to reclaim the wildest men, as there are to make spaniels fetch and carry: chide them often, and feed them seldom.
She would see the cloud of dust and rush towards it, cry out to honest Jean to use his spurs, chide him for his culpable delay.
She had often asked herself what spell had the power to charm the wanderer, and would then chide her heart for its jealous doubts.
He told me, after their light conversation in French, that he had chided her to the effect that her career was ruining her once lovely voice.