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“It was really a very honest and sometimes self-reproaching record of her own behavior at that time,” Steve Dew said.

From Washington Post • May 27, 2020

Chilled at her touch, the self-reproaching soul    Flies from the heart and home she dearest loves, To where lone mountains tower, or billows roll,    Or to your endless depth, ye solemn groves.

From The Christian Year by Keble, John

His self-reproaching conscience, no doubt, was the cause of it.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 9 by Richardson, Samuel

P: Then some of them drew near unto others, self-reproaching.

From Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side by Ali, Abdullah Yusuf

I looked up at its dark and sullen front with a heavy and self-reproaching heart.

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II by Lever, Charles James