Example Sentences

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I don’t mind the loss of the property if you are safe; all the way out here, my boy, I have been reproaching myself for ever allowing you to come out to this country.”

From The Award of Justice Or, Told in the Rockies A Pen Picture of the West by Barbour, A. Maynard (Anna Maynard)

I have been reproaching myself for having said so much already.

From Long Live the King by Boothby, Guy

He was still at Elberthal, and appeared to have been reproaching himself for having accepted my “sacrifice,” as he called it.

From The First Violin A Novel by Fothergill, Jessie

You have been reproaching other people all your life; you have been always sure you yourself are right.

From The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George

I have been reproaching myself for my folly ever since.

From The Triumph of Jill by Young, F.E. Mills