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chides

  • present tense form of chide (3rd person singular).

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Abruptly830 Chides he his faltering comrades, as gently from earth he uplifts him, Soiling his ringlets with blood, that were combed in the comeliest fashion.

From Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown by Colles, Julia Keese

A look that would save blacks: whose heavy grace Chides mirth, and bears a funeral in his face.

From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by Earle, John

Chides Miss Howe for her rash, though friendly vow.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4 by Richardson, Samuel

III Fraud shrinks from faith: at sight of swans, the raven Chides blackness, and the snake recoils aghast In fear of poison when a bird flies past.

From A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Feet scuttle, fingers fleet, pens work apace; A whipt-up zeal marks every pallid face; One voice austere, sonorous, Chides, threatens, sometimes curses.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98 January 11, 1890 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir