Example Sentences

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Was it so, Miss Ashton?” and Kate made up a face which a sterner rebuker than her teacher could not have seen without a smile.

From Miss Ashton's New Pupil A School Girl's Story by Robbins, Mrs. S. S.

The future is not with Jacob, the rebuker, but with the dreaming, and, possibly, somewhat offensive Joseph.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Dods, Marcus

One instant he resents John's boldness, and significantly exclaims, 'If I command to kill, they kill;' the next he trembles before his rebuker, and promises to amend his life.

From The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers by Upton, George P. (George Putnam)

The faithful rebuker, the merciful inflicter of pain, is the truest friend of the wrongdoer.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Maclaren, Alexander

I never took myself for a rebuker, much less for a reformer of states and kingdoms.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac