Crossword-Solution: REPROVING 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

This will astonish no one who considers that the calm reproving glance of reason, which allays the excesses of the mighty and courageous in our own species, has seldom any other effect than to add to the insolence of the feeble and foolish, who become placid as doves upon the infliction of chastisements, which if attempted to be applied to the former would only serve to render them more terrible, and like gunpowder cast on a flame, cause them in mad desperation to scatter destruction around them.

For though we do have to work, we make fun of ourselves, and are a pretty jolly set, as Jo would say.” “Jo does use such slang words!” observed Amy, with a reproving look at the long figure stretched on the rug.

You will then not blame us if we go our way as it is pointed out to us by the Lord.” A few days later Reck received a sharp note from the Trustees of Georgia, reproving him for his temerity in agreeing to take the Moravians with him to Georgia without consulting them, and reiterating the statement that the funds in their hands had been given for the use of the Salzburgers, and could be used for them alone.

The sound carries me back, for it was the first to greet me when I rose to draw water and gather kindling in my roadmender days; and if I slip back another decade they survey me, reproving my laziness, from the foot of the narrow bed in my little attic overseas.

Item, that upon brother Ambrose reproving him for this blasphemous wish, he did hold the said brother face downwards over the piscatorium or fish-pond for a space during which the said brother was able to repeat a pater and four aves for the better fortifying of his soul against impending death.” There was a buzz and murmur among the white-frocked brethren at this grave charge; but the Abbot held up his long quivering hand.