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A question a few weeks ago from a parent upset that another restaurant patron was disciplining the writer’s child for running around motivated me to write to you.

From Slate • Dec. 23, 2019

"Time!" said Benis, who enjoyed his relative hugely—when she was disciplining someone else.

From The Window-Gazer by Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone

Max was disciplining himself to put up with hardships of all sorts which would probably become a part of everyday life.

From A Soldier of the Legion by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)

While he was disciplining his troops, and preparing to defend the country, he kept an anxious eye upon Paris, and saw with ever-increasing alarm the prevalence of the savage element in the national politics.

From Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs by Fuller, O. E. (Osgood Eaton)

Stewart Duff was a rancher, once a "remittance man," but since his marriage three years ago he had learned self-reliance and was disciplining himself in self-restraint.

From The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land by Connor, Ralph