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Uncle Tom’s Cabin vocabulary
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upbraid
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synonyms: reproach, censure, revile, objurgate, vituperate, excoriate, ~vilipend ???
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Definition:to admonish; to reprove
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When Rostov approached her she was standing settling up for the game. She looked at him and, screwing up her eyes sternly, continued to upbraid the general who had won from her.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman
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several cases are reported of "the holy" men of that age appearing in public in a state of nudity. His wife Michal upbraided him for "uncovering himself to the eyes of the handmaids, his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself" (2 Sam. vi.). It is said that "David danced before the Lord with all his might." Can we suppose the Lord would fancy such sights?
Kersey and Lydia Graves. The Bible of Bibles (1879)
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You left me too: but I won’t upbraid you!
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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you have no desire to expostulate, to upbraid, to make a scene: you are thinking how to act—talking you consider is of no use.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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You will not thank me for detaining you from the bewitching converse of that young lady, whose bright eyes are also upbraiding me.
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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that very shepherd, on whose account it lately upbraided the river with such a flow of eloquence, perished in it with all his flock, and of his cottage not even a trace was left behind.
Ivan Krylov.The Brook (Ralston translation, 1869)
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