Example Sentences

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"After all, we too are admonishing our street urchins to love cats and dogs instead of torturing them."

From Time Magazine Archive

SOCRATES: And now, my friend, as you are already beginning to be a public character, and are admonishing and reproaching me for not being one, suppose that we ask a few questions of one another.

From Gorgias by Jowett, Benjamin