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    1. The Romans, they feared, would use an uprising, any disturbance of their dictatorial status quo, as they had many times in the past, to upbraid their truculent subjects additionally, in their sullen acquiescence to the rule of this abhorrent “invader


    2. 18 A fool will upbraid churlishly, and a gift of the envious consumes the eyes


    3. wickedness to the end; he shall reprove them, and shall upbraid them by their cruelty


    4. As we rode out of the city, he rode a little apart with me and told me that he had felt it necessary to upbraid the papa for his scandalous behavior


    5. 15 And he came to the men of Succoth, and said, Note Zebah and Zalmunna, with whom you did upbraid me, saying, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your men that are weary?


    6. An unauthorized raise, perhaps to save a resignation of a popular newscaster, resulted in an order for the Ithaca supervisor to travel to the location immediately to upbraid the general manager and possibly reverse that action


    7. He would upbraid or direct anyone regardless of whom the person reported to, and he had the urge to do this often


    8. 31 And the lion whom you saw rising up out of the wood and roaring and speaking to the eagle and rebuking her for her unrighteousness with all the words which you have heard; 32 This is the anointed who the Highest has kept for them and for their wickedness to the end; he shall reprove them and shall upbraid them by their cruelty


    9. He turned to Aaron, to upbraid,


    10. As a result what he now extraordinarily wanted was to upbraid her

    11. congratulated her, and then ridden off to upbraid Ad-


    12. He knew his mother wanted to upbraid him


    13. first scheme naturally, was to rush in and upbraid them; this, indeed,


    14. True to her too much of a gentleman to upbraid his daughter in front of her


    15. Merriwether to upbraid her daughter and wanted satin


    16. Rage, punctured vanity and disappointment threw her mind into a turmoil and, before she even thought of which came to her lips— the high moral grounds on which she should upbraid him, she blurted out the first words


    17. But she did not upbraid him on his return, for she was of the money she had given him


    18. So she sat down to cry again and upbraid herself; and by this time the scholars began to gather again, and she had to hide her griefs and still her broken heart and take up the cross of a long, dreary, aching afternoon, with none among the strangers about her to exchange sorrows with


    19. When the officer had gone away, Denisov, who did not himself know what Rostov’s relations with the Polish girl might be, began to upbraid him for his quickness of temper, and Rostov replied:


    20. She looked at him and, screwing up her eyes sternly, continued to upbraid the general who had won from her

    21. I did upbraid her and fall out with her


    22. You upbraid me every moment with being stupid


    23. What is more, he will talk to you with excitement and passion of the true normal interests of man; with irony he will upbraid the shortsighted fools who do not understand their own interests, nor the true significance of virtue; and, within a quarter of an hour, without any sudden outside provocation, but simply through something inside him which is stronger than all his interests, he will go off on quite a different tack—that is, act in direct opposition to what he has just been saying about himself, in opposition to the laws of reason, in opposition to his own advantage, in fact in opposition to everything


    24. Iván's parents came out to see him off on his way to the king, and when they heard that he had given away the last root and had nothing left with which to cure the king's daughter, they began to upbraid him


    25. When the officer had gone away, Denísov, who did not himself know what Rostóv’s relations with the Polish girl might be, began to upbraid him for his quickness of temper, and Rostóv replied:


    1. And that Saul-of-Tarsus had been there, by his own admission, helping in the stoning, even as Stephen upbraided them with the Word that he’d so newly laid hold of


    2. Said colonel had openly upbraided Higgens for his sophomoric antics


    3. 1 But the eleven disciples went into Galilee to the mountain s where Jesus had 2 appointed them; And when they saw him they worshipped him but there were of 3 them who doubted; And while they sat there he appeared to them again and upbraided them for their lack of faith and the hardness of their hearts those who saw him when he was risen and believed not


    4. 2 Jesus mildly upbraided the twelve, in substance saying: Do you not know the traditions of Israel relating to the growth of the idea of Yahweh, and are you ignorant of the teaching of the Scriptures concerning the doctrine of God? And then did the Master proceed to instruct the apostles about the evolution of the concept of Deity throughout the course of the development of the Jewish people


    5. When, therefore, the chief priests and the Pharisees upbraided Eber and his assistants because they had not brought Jesus with them, Eber only replied: "We feared to arrest him in the midst of the multitude because many believe in him


    6. meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and


    7. When his disciples upbraided a woman for anointing Jesus with expensive ointment because the money could have been better used to help the poor, the great humanist, Jesus, had this to say:


    8. But the majority, probably, were envious of Him, gloated and upbraided Him with their animal vanity, with rottenness, with hate and indifference


    9. upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them


    10. She upbraided herself for the sentiment, but could not overcome or lessen it

    11. Recovered at length to a more shew of life, by his tender condolences, kisses and embraces, I upbraided him, and reproached him with my ruin, in such natural terms, as added to his satisfaction with himself, for having accomplished it; and guessing, by certain observations of mine, that it would be rather favourable to him, to spare him, when he some time after, feebly enough, came on again to the assault, I resolutely withstood any further endeavours, on a pretext that flattered his prowess, of my being so violently hurt and sore, that I could not possibly endure a fresh trial


    12. My brother was, however, of a hasty temper, and upbraided me with my slackness, on account, as he tauntingly insinuated, of the


    13. Had he exploded with rage and injured vanity or upbraided her, as other men would have done, she could have handled him


    14. I upbraided myself for my absurd superstition, which had caused me to fall into the trap


    15. So you shun me?—you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided me with vehemence


    16. This fellow is madly, insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows to be absolutely impossible


    17. The master upbraided the old negro for allowing it to happen when he could easily have removed the traps


    1. 28 These things are grievous to a man of understanding; the upbraiding of the houseroom, and reproaching of the lender


    2. 22 Or to be overbusy with his maid, and come not near her bed; or of upbraiding speeches before friends; and after you have given,


    3. And Seth and Eve went into the regions of Paradise; And as they were going along, Eve saw her son, and a wild beast fighting with him; And Eve wept, saying: Woe's me, woe's me; for if I come to the day of the resurrection, all who have sinned will curse me, saying, Eve did not keep the commandment of God; And Eve cried out to the wild beast, saying: O you evil wild beast, will you not be afraid to fight with the image of God? How have your mouth been opened? how have your teeth been strengthened? how have you not been mindful of your subjection, that you were formerly subject to the image of God? Then the wild beast cried out, saying: O Eve, not against us your upbraiding nor your weeping, but against yourself, since the beginning of the wild beasts was from you


    4. And Seth and Eve went into the regions of Paradise; And as they were going along Eve saw her son and a wild beast fighting with him; And Eve wept saying: Woe's me woe's me; for if I come to the day of the resurrection all who have sinned will curse me saying Eve did not keep the commandment of God; And Eve cried out to the wild beast saying: O you evil wild beast will you not be afraid to fight with the image of God? How have your mouth been opened? how have your teeth been strengthened? how have you not been mindful of your subjection that you were formerly subject to the image of God? Then the wild beast cried out saying: O Eve not against us your upbraiding nor your weeping but against yourself since the beginning of the wild beasts was from you


    5. but often passionately upbraiding them


    6. He listened: someone was upbraiding and almost tearfully scolding, but he heard only one voice


    7. "But in the midst of his conversation he stopped and became silent, keeping his eyes fixed upon the ground for some time, during which we stood still waiting anxiously to see what would come of this abstraction; and with no little pity, for from his behaviour, now staring at the ground with fixed gaze and eyes wide open without moving an eyelid, again closing them, compressing his lips and raising his eyebrows, we could perceive plainly that a fit of madness of some kind had come upon him; and before long he showed that what we imagined was the truth, for he arose in a fury from the ground where he had thrown himself, and attacked the first he found near him with such rage and fierceness that if we had not dragged him off him, he would have beaten or bitten him to death, all the while exclaiming, 'Oh faithless Fernando, here, here shalt thou pay the penalty of the wrong thou hast done me; these hands shall tear out that heart of thine, abode and dwelling of all iniquity, but of deceit and fraud above all; and to these he added other words all in effect upbraiding this Fernando and charging him with treachery and


    8. And yet, in the midst of this outburst of execration and upbraiding, I found excuses for her, saying it was no wonder that a young girl in the seclusion of her parents' house, trained and schooled to obey them always, should have been ready to yield to their wishes when they offered her for a husband a gentleman of such distinction, wealth, and noble birth, that if she had refused to accept him she would have been thought out of her senses, or to have set her affection elsewhere, a suspicion injurious to her fair name and fame


    9. At last Anselmo and I agreed to leave the village and come to this valley; and, he feeding a great flock of sheep of his own, and I a large herd of goats of mine, we pass our life among the trees, giving vent to our sorrows, together singing the fair Leandra's praises, or upbraiding her, or else sighing alone, and to heaven pouring forth our complaints in solitude


    10. But such a stang as I got on entering the house, when I heard his mother wailing that he was dead, he having fainted away in getting the bullet extracted; and when I saw his father coming out of the room like a demented man, and heard again his upbraiding of me for having refused a warrant to apprehend the murderers—I was so

    11. He could not write Suellen, upbraiding her for her faithlessness; he shrank from the very idea


    12. was upbraiding and almost tearfully scolding, but he heard only one voice


    13. But Count Rostopchin, who now taunted those who left Moscow and now had the government offices removed; now distributed quite useless weapons to the drunken rabble; now had processions displaying the icons, and now forbade Father Augustin to remove icons or the relics of saints; now seized all the private carts in Moscow and on one hundred and thirty-six of them removed the balloon that was being constructed by Leppich; now hinted that he would burn Moscow and related how he had set fire to his own house; now wrote a proclamation to the French solemnly upbraiding them for having destroyed his Orphanage; now claimed the glory of having hinted that he would burn Moscow and now repudiated the deed; now ordered the


    14. Excited and vexed by the failure and supposing that someone must be responsible for it, Toll galloped up to the commander of the corps and began upbraiding him severely, saying that he ought to be shot


    15. Without one overt act of hostility, one upbraiding word, he contrived to impress me momently with the conviction that I was put beyond the pale of his favour


    16. Very often do the captains of such ships take those absent-minded young philosophers to task, upbraiding them with not feeling sufficient "interest" in the voyage; half-hinting that they are so hopelessly lost to all honourable ambition, as that in their secret souls they would rather not see whales than otherwise


    17. I did not know how to behave with dignity in these gambling saloons and assemblies; I either sat still, inwardly upbraiding myself for my excessive mildness and jwliteness, or I suddenh


    18. We went home, my second upbraiding me all the way, while I kissed him


    19. She spent two days in abusing and upbraiding the lodgers


    20. But Count Rostopchín, who now taunted those who left Moscow and now had the government offices removed; now distributed quite useless weapons to the drunken rabble; now had processions displaying the icons, and now forbade Father Augustin to remove icons or the relics of saints; now seized all the private carts in Moscow and on one hundred and thirty-six of them removed the balloon that was being constructed by Leppich; now hinted that he would burn Moscow and related how he had set fire to his own house; now wrote a proclamation to the French solemnly upbraiding them for having destroyed his Orphanage; now claimed the glory of having hinted that he would burn Moscow and now repudiated the deed; now ordered the people to catch all spies and bring them to him, and now reproached them for doing so; now expelled all the French residents from Moscow, and now allowed Madame Aubert-Chalmé (the center of the whole French colony in Moscow) to remain, but ordered the venerable old postmaster Klyucharëv to be arrested and exiled for no particular offense; now assembled the people at the Three Hills to fight the French and now, to get rid of them, handed over to them a man to be killed and himself drove away by a back gate; now declared that he would not survive the fall of Moscow, and now wrote French verses in albums concerning his share in the affair—this man did not understand the meaning of what was happening but merely wanted to do something himself that would astonish people, to perform some patriotically heroic feat; and like a child he made sport of the momentous, and unavoidable event—the abandonment and burning of Moscow—and tried with his puny hand now to speed and now to stay the enormous, popular tide that bore him along with it

    1. 20 Whoever casts a stone at the birds scatters them away, and he who upbraids his friend breaks friendship


    2. Or, as more frequently happens, he addresses the multitude, upbraids it for disobedience, and announces that the ringleaders must be punished; he seizes a certain number of men considered as such, and without any form of trial causes them to be beaten with rods in his presence


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    Synonyms for "upbraid"

    reproach upbraid denounce reprehend charge accuse inculpate involve

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    express criticism towards