Shook a monitory finger at him. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
They are also too far away, normally a monitory should be as far away as its size. From Wordnik.com. [Small Home Office Idea for a Small Apartment] Reference
(abolition of slavery in the N.W. territory) has eventuated in effects which speak a monitory lesson. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4] Reference
I know keep a towel by monitory to wipe up coffee. From Wordnik.com. ["I invite all the people to enjoy peace, because the snow means peace."] Reference
He lifted his caduceus, which wagged a monitory snake. From Wordnik.com. [The Unicorn Trade]
It is a monitory judgment, and so laid down by the prophet. From Wordnik.com. [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference
Under her aunt's monitory eye, though, there was no escape. From Wordnik.com. [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]
Its long shadow lay like a monitory finger across the headland. From Wordnik.com. [She Closed Her Eyes] Reference
The last glow of twilight dulled away; monitory mists hid the stars. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862] Reference
But before this monitory was published, the mob had got a notion that. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Five years she listened to these monitory voices with internal struggles. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4] Reference
If you have a 20 inch monitory, you should put it 20 inch in front of you. From Wordnik.com. [Small Home Office Idea for a Small Apartment] Reference
A melancholy and monitory lesson this, to all timeserving and temporising statesmen!. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
A melancholy and monitory lesson this, to all time-serving and temporising statesmen!. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
A melancholy and monitory lesson this, to all time-serving and temporizing statesmen!. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
They are either monitory tokens of God's displeasure, or they are actual punishments. From Wordnik.com. [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference
In fact this monitory influence lasted with more or less force for six or seven years. From Wordnik.com. [The Opium Habit] Reference
The readers of THE CONTINENTAL have been favored with the first perusal of this monitory novel. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864] Reference
It came in a vague grey monitory form, a cloud, a portent, a chill menace; but it came, and he paled under it. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of a Star] Reference
It came in a vague, grey, monitory form, a cloud, a portent, a chill menace; but it came, and he paled under it. From Wordnik.com. [Hilda A Story of Calcutta] Reference
I only put the copyright logo on so that random people don't nab them off flickr and use them for monitory gain. From Wordnik.com. [[copyright] and the nastiness of litigation] Reference
CARVILLE: If it's not a financial or monitory thing involved, which I don't know, if there's not something deeper. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 10, 2008] Reference
Him nature solicits with all her placid, all her monitory pictures; him the past instructs; him the future invites. From Wordnik.com. [The American Scholar] Reference
They could not exist but for monitory policy of the Federal Reserve System creating the existence of too much money. From Wordnik.com. [The Rich vs. the Rest: Devolvement of America - Unless] Reference
Where we're looking at monitoring the states -- giving the states money to monitory the quality of their ocean water. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 4, 2006] Reference
The bishop of the diocese had issued monitory proclamations, and conducted a solemn procession to the insulted crucifix. From Wordnik.com. [Voltaire] Reference
The SA Reserve Bank's monitory policy committee would not hesitate to adjust its monetary policy stance if necessary, the. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The University is of unitary type which offers monitory, consultancy services and research in the area of women's studies. From Wordnik.com. [2008 National 'A' Women's Chess Championship of India] Reference
Lycaelon glared down at his son for a moment, looking as if he'd never seen him before, then pointed a monitory finger at him. From Wordnik.com. [Tran Siberian] Reference
Not to get all hall monitory or anything, but she did request pretty strongly that the back-and-forth insults with Chris stop. From Wordnik.com. ["If you don't pass universal health care by July of 2009... I'm going to use my power as president to take your health care away from you."] Reference
We have an obscure remembrance that the Queen's speech uttered a voice on this point -- a solemn, a monitory, a parental voice. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844] Reference
There is no monitory penalties or rewards for performance. From Wordnik.com. [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference
There's not a monitory penalty or reward that goes with it. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The monitory voice penetrated at last; Harriet awoke, smiling. From Wordnik.com. [Harriet and the Piper] Reference
Candidate Britt waggled the monitory finger more energetically. From Wordnik.com. [When Egypt Went Broke] Reference
He walked close to Mayo and shook a monitory finger under the young man's nose. From Wordnik.com. [Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916] Reference
Cosatu wants a new growth-path linked more to industrial growth, and a more expansionary fiscal and monitory policy. From Wordnik.com. [IOL: News] Reference
Alain spoke petulantly; at that moment the French were very much irritated by the monitory tone of the English journals. From Wordnik.com. [The Parisians — Complete] Reference
Neither the wretched victim nor the world at large was any better for such a visitation, for it was neither remedial nor monitory. From Wordnik.com. [The Revolution in Tanner's Lane] Reference
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