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Day after day, year after year, the blank legal pad had reproached him with its fine lines.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 28, 2013

They note that Bush has a history of nurturing plans in secrecy and suddenly springing them, to the consternation of critics who had reproached him for indecision and timidity.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Princess, whose deep veil, still worn on such occasions as the present, concealed a blooming face, felt more uncomfortable than if he had reproached her openly.

From The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 by Verrall, A. W. (Arthur Woollgar)

It is true that I had sinned grievously against that house, and the lady had reproached me with it to my face.

From Eyes Like the Sea by Jókai, Mór

During those years, in the lonely watches of the night, she had often lain awake thinking of him, wondering about him; and her conscience had reproached her for throwing that undisciplined nature back upon itself.

From Grit Lawless by Young, F.E. Mills