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Is all the council that we two have shared, the hours that we have spent, When we have chid the hasty-footed time For parting us—Oh! and is all forgot?

From The Mysteries of Udolpho by Radcliffe, Ann Ward

Good Lord, you use this dalliance to excuse Your breach of promise to the Porcupine: I should have chid you for not bringing it, But, like a shrew, you first begin to brawl.

From The Comedy of Errors by Shakespeare, William

SIR,—If it were the carrier's fault that you stayed so long for your letters, you are revenged, for I have chid him most unreasonably.

From The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 by Parry, Edward Abbott

My old Master Ascham would have chid me for forgetting the author.

From Kenilworth by Scott, Walter, Sir

Alas, I then have chid away my friend.

From Characters of Shakespeare's Plays by Hazlitt, William