John Wiswall, a "young man with somewhat original objurgatory tendencies," was not of the meaner sort of families. From Wordnik.com. [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1884] Reference
Although known by various titles on the plantation, objurgatory among the hands, facetious among the heads, such as Dancing Devil, Spinning. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865] Reference
Among his children, by his wife Hannah, was one John, born March 21, 1667, who became the "young man with somewhat original objurgatory tendencies," and in the autumn of 1684 was rising seventeen years of age. From Wordnik.com. [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1884] Reference
The awful objurgatory practice he is accustomed to. From Wordnik.com. [Roundabout Papers] Reference
The man said something objurgatory under his breath, but forbore to continue the discussion. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of St. Austin's] Reference
In which objurgatory strain Paris and France joins it, or rather has preceded it; making fearful chorus. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
With eager and obsequious "Yes, Mas'rs" they obeyed the overseer's objurgatory indications as to their disposition. From Wordnik.com. [Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia] Reference
Never before had I the faintest conception of the breadth and depth and height of a naval officer's objurgatory powers. From Wordnik.com. [King Solomon's Mines] Reference
English papers joined in a sort of objurgatory chorus which, for a time at least, spared neither the author nor his work. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete] Reference
"You did not head for your pretended creek," added he, after dealing in some objurgatory remarks that we do not deem it necessary to record. From Wordnik.com. [Pathfinder; or, the inland sea] Reference
Nevertheless, I have chosen, as being more equitable, to prepare some also sufficiently objurgatory, that readers of every taste may find a dish to their palate. From Wordnik.com. [The Biglow Papers] Reference
Thus, for instance, in the matter of Government, the period of the Invaluable Constitution has to be followed by a Reform Bill; to laudatory De Lolmes succeed objurgatory Benthams. From Wordnik.com. [Paras. 20-39] Reference
His next work was “The Centaur not Fabulous; in Six Letters to a Friend, on the Life in Vogue,” which reads very much like the most objurgatory parts of the “Night Thoughts” reduced to prose. From Wordnik.com. [The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete] Reference
Then, too, I was much under the influence of Thomas Carlyle: his preachments, hortatory and objurgatory, witty and querulous, that men should defer work in literature until they really have some worthy message to deliver, had a strong effect upon me. From Wordnik.com. [[Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White] Reference
They also voiced the public abhorrence for it, or what it represented, by applying to it all the objurgatory and abusive epithets they could muster -- and their vocabulary was by no means limited -- such as "detestable," "cruel," "villainous," "pernicious,". From Wordnik.com. [Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)] Reference
I am encouraged in this belief by the fact that, of the three bitter attacks which this work in its earlier form has already encountered, one was purely declamatory, objurgatory, and hortatory, and the others based upon ignorance of facts easily pointed out. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom] Reference
Our Saviour, on this occasion, expatiates rather more at large than usual, and his discourse also is more divided; but the concluding sentence brings back the whole train of thought to the incident in the first verse, viz. the objurgatory question of the Pharisees, and renders it evident that the whole sprang from that circumstance. From Wordnik.com. [Evidence of Christianity] Reference
Bless your sweet face!” said Mrs. Poyser, who was remarkable for the facility with which she could relapse from her official objurgatory to one of fondness or of friendly converse. From Wordnik.com. [Adam Bede] Reference
The Daily Telegraph gave it something more than a column of careful review, which did not fail to point out the book’s sins with a good deal of justice and dignity; but the majority of English papers joined in a sort of objurgatory chorus which, for a time at least, spared neither the author nor his work. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference
Gifford's dread of Miss Rodney is not to be looked at with surprise, nor altogether with contempt - for every body knows how much more influence disagreeable people acquire over us, than pleasant ones; if they are of the silent species, they are like a perpetual nightmare, and if they are of the violent and objurgatory, we dread them like a storm; either way we put ourselves to more pains than we would own, to keep them in their most inoffensive humour. From Wordnik.com. [Zoe: The History of Two Lives] Reference
"This speech, differing from the other speeches in Sallust both in words and thoughts, conveys a clear notion of that fierce and objurgatory eloquence which was natural to the rude manners and bold character of Marius. From Wordnik.com. [Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War] Reference
What a nice, varied, sentimental, joyous, lachrymose, objurgatory, laudatory, reflective volume might be made, entitled, "Meditations at the Mast-head!". From Wordnik.com. [Rattlin the Reefer] Reference
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