Example Sentences

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And I was forty-five years old, and for twenty years I had been reproaching myself if ever I spent a single sou uselessly.

From The Widow Lerouge by Gaboriau, Émile

She blushed as if I had been reproaching her with her insignificance.

From A Passionate Pilgrim by James, Henry

And I had been reproaching myself for not having adjured more sternly that ill demon of perversity.

From Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 1 by Various

She had been reproaching herself for her neglect of the child; she had meant to do so much for him and had done nothing!

From The Prodigal Judge by Kester, Vaughan

It seemed as if she had been reproaching him, as if some explanation had passed, and I heard him say that from henceforth they could only be brother and sister.

From East Lynne by Wood, Henry, Mrs.