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The more obstinately and upbraidingly Mrs. Wilson refused, the more Mary pleaded, with ever the same soft entreating cry, "Let me stay with you."

From Mary Barton by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

Mark Antony upbraidingly tells him that his great-grandfather was a freedman of the territory of Thurium 107, and a rope-maker, and his grandfather a usurer.

From The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius

Gemmel glanced upbraidingly on Judith, and he passed by her parents in sullenness and in silence.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 by Various

“I’ve heard thee exciting John for the last half-hour, Mr. Washington,” she said upbraidingly.

From Janice Meredith by Ford, Paul Leicester

I recalled my promises of reform and preached to myself persuasively, upbraidingly, exhaustively.

From Roughing It, Part 4. by Twain, Mark