Here the witness paused with every appearance of looking for some token of disapprobation from the crowd. From Wordnik.com. [The Filigree Ball] Reference
My duty to him was my point of honour; his disapprobation was the one thing which I could not bear. From Wordnik.com. [Apologia Pro Vita Sua] Reference
What would be the reasoned basis for that "disapprobation"?. From Wordnik.com. [William K. Black: Why Gay Opponents Hated and Feared the Proposition 8 Trial] Reference
Direful predictions and disapprobation of friends. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
A loud murmur of disapprobation ran through the room. From Wordnik.com. [Jack of Both Sides The Story of a School War] Reference
Undoubtedly with strong disapprobation and displeasure. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
Other expressions of alarm or disapprobation might be cited. From Wordnik.com. [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
Whence these uniformities of approbation and disapprobation?. From Wordnik.com. [Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles] Reference
The Colonel, however, expressed no surprise and no disapprobation. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time] Reference
Not a whisper of disapprobation was heard from their constituents. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
Another plan was proposed, which met with universal disapprobation. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
That was all, yet she felt completely crushed by his disapprobation. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
More than once there comes from the poodle a growl of disapprobation. From Wordnik.com. [The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'] Reference
And that disapprobation may be directly traced to the influence of Calvin. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Probably with a startled or an embarrassed smile, and a murmur of mild disapprobation. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce Carol Oates's 'In the Absence of Mentors/Monsters': Narrative Magazine] Reference
As they walked away that evening they discussed his appearance with eager disapprobation. From Wordnik.com. [Archie's Mistake] Reference
Of course my numerous acquaintances in San Francisco raised one universal shout of disapprobation. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
He did this to signalise his disapprobation of royalty, and his preference for democratic equality. From Wordnik.com. [Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget] Reference
She was alone from choice, and held down her head at my approach and showed signs of disapprobation. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of Richard Lee Mason in the Pioneer West, 1819] Reference
When he had finished the whisky-and-water, he turned and looked at her with critical disapprobation. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
But I was surprised that one of them looked at the pail of coffee and gave a grunt of disapprobation. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years on the Plains Observations of Indians, 1867-1870] Reference
He reserves his disapprobation for an ugliness that seems to be a visible sign of inner ungraciousness. From Wordnik.com. [By the Christmas Fire] Reference
Macgregor noticed that Miss Lisle was delicate, and expressed her strong disapprobation of such a state of affairs. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
England such representations of them as could not fail to render them the objects of the Proprietors disapprobation. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
Socrates had expressed his disapprobation of the licentiousness of the comic poets, in their conduct as well as writings. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810] Reference
The black eyes scanned his face narrowly for a moment, and then a high weak voice said in a tone of great disapprobation. From Wordnik.com. [Wikkey A Scrap] Reference
The same intense sensation of interest and the same applause, mixed with partial disapprobation, continued to follow her. From Wordnik.com. [Coronation Anecdotes] Reference
Tilden, caring as little for disapprobation as the son of Tisander in the story told by Herodotus, calmly awaited silence. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
“David would not be impolite,” said Aunt Amelia, after a suitable pause in which Marcia felt disapprobation in the air. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
Captain Edwards took much pains with Tatafee, the king, to make him sensible of his disapprobation of their conduct to Capt. From Wordnik.com. [Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791] Reference
With these criticisms upon the first and sixth resolutions, we proceed to record our total disapprobation of the remaining four. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Here, at least, were none of the obnoxious evidences of repletion which he viewed with such disapprobation in his sturdier nephew. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
Of course, these words are intended to express disapprobation, and carry a doubt as to the fitness of Vassar College to educate girls. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
Maximus, who was a bigoted pagan, greatly disliked the edict, but being afraid of Constantine, did not openly avow his disapprobation. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
And then he fell to reading his epistles, testifying his disapprobation of their contents presently by sundry grunts, ending finally in a. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
In disapprobation of his culture he sat stiffly for a moment in tacit and obdurate silence, but with glances down at what was beneath him. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
Now I see there is much reason in what you say, and I have only to answer that I can not leave my father with a shadow of his disapprobation. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
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