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Novelist William Styron has reproached Kuznetsov for not remaining silent after his defection.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. Kugler has reproached us for our carelessness.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

In the vanity of scholarship, England has reproached us that we have no finished scholars.

From Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

France has reproached her with abandoning Napoleon, and still more perhaps for having given two obscure successors to the most famous man of modern times.

From The Happy Days of the Empress Marie Louise by Imbert de Saint-Amand, Arthur Léon, baron

I have therefore for some time ceased from writing to your Holiness, although my conscience has reproached me for my silence.

From The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII by Froude, J.A.