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But he passed not away without holding speech with his cousin, on both sides bitterly recriminative.

From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne

From this point the conversation became very contradictory in tone, then recriminative, and after that personally abusive.

From The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

Indeed, the answers of Phillis and Mark on their examination are mutually recriminative, and amount to a plenary confession of the crime of each.

From The Trial and Execution, for Petit Treason, of Mark and Phillis, Slaves of Capt. John Codman Who Murdered Their Master at Charlestown, Mass., in 1755; for Which the Man Was Hanged and Gibbeted, and the Woman Was Burned to Death. Including, Also, Some Account of Other Punishments by Burning in Massachusetts by Goodell, Abner Cheney

She recognised as she had never before recognised those qualities in Jim which, she felt, should have at least won from her a less recriminative tone than she had, the night before, assumed toward him.

From Running Sands by Kauffman, Reginald Wright