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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

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)

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

Who made thee a preacher of righteousness, a rebuker of sin, thou little stray lamb of the Savior's fold?

From Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters Volume 3 by Whittelsey, Mrs. A. G.

To shun the retrogression To any sort of office job; I'd jest as a profession And burst upon the world a new Satirical rebuker, Acquiring fame and maybe too A modicum of lucre.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 7th, 1920 by Various