Then she added, censoriously: "But he does laugh.". From Wordnik.com. [Breakfast At Tiffany's]
Several people around us looked at me censoriously. From Wordnik.com. [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference
Ned eyed Jamie censoriously over his half-spectacles. From Wordnik.com. [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference
"There is a time and place for everything," he said censoriously. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Rapunzel]
Seesis adjusted his pince-nez and regarded his prisoner censoriously. From Wordnik.com. [Hokas Pokas]
In the dawn sky, the moon had faded to a cadaverous phantom that glared censoriously down. From Wordnik.com. [Soul] Reference
A host of exciting, thought-provoking explorations are reduced to a petty list of rules, censoriously enforced. From Wordnik.com. [Origins] Reference
Medussa shook her head censoriously, sending a shower of flaky scales cascading from her writhing, snake-infested head. From Wordnik.com. [unclebob Diary Entry] Reference
Matthew stared at her censoriously and did not even dignify that piece of information with a grunt as he groped for his newspaper. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Stories Vol 1]
He wished that he had retained his moustache with the waxed tips, so that he might twist its extremities balefully and censoriously. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]
He would tipple with his comrades, and though not actually drunk, would, for all that, leave the inn a bit merry, babbling nonsense and talking loudly and censoriously. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas in Legend and Story A Book for Boys and Girls] Reference
Soros's long support for an ideal of an open society, in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, makes him particularly attuned to the pitch of societies that are censoriously closing down. From Wordnik.com. ['Independent Jewish Voices'] Reference
He lifted his cigar and looked at it censoriously. From Wordnik.com. [Jill the Reckless] Reference
"You -- you should have told me," she exclaimed censoriously. From Wordnik.com. [The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon] Reference
"I suppose you both drink?" she went on thoughtfully, not censoriously. From Wordnik.com. [The Song of the Lark] Reference
"That sounds exactly like you, Abby," commented Mrs. Whittle censoriously. From Wordnik.com. [An Alabaster Box] Reference
The want of humility showed itself in that proneness to judge censoriously of others. From Wordnik.com. [The Scriptural Expositions of Dr. Augustus Neander: II. The Epistle of James, Practically Explained.] Reference
Pry not, then, too curiously; pronounce not too censoriously on God's dealings with thee. From Wordnik.com. [The Faithful Promiser] Reference
"Aha! Strong feeling," I muttered, thinking to myself censoriously: like this, at once, all in a moment!. From Wordnik.com. [Under Western Eyes] Reference
Manse, he speaks censoriously of "those adventurous spirits who leave their homes to emigrate to Texas.". From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne] Reference
'You don't believe in having any standard of behaviour at all, do you?' he challenged Birkin, censoriously. From Wordnik.com. [Women in Love] Reference
But there was in Cowper a great sense of humour, as there was also plenty of what Hazlitt, almost censoriously, calls "elegant trifling.". From Wordnik.com. [Immortal Memories] Reference
So that I do this, the manner of it is my own affair, and who presumes to criticize my methods censoriously impugns my honour and affronts me. From Wordnik.com. [Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys...] Reference
Go on as you please, dear Lysander; for I have been too much indebted to your conversation ever to suppose it could diverge into any thing censoriously irrelevant. From Wordnik.com. [Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance] Reference
But he looked a right fool in a plaid, "he added censoriously. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
A little girl begged severely, almost censoriously, of us, and presently. From Wordnik.com. [Familiar Spanish Travels] Reference
And no wonder, the things they eat at Court, "he added censoriously, stretching backward. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
Not that there aren't Viking circle dances, "he said, raising his brows censoriously, as though I had suggested there weren't. From Wordnik.com. [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference
"By a 'fair exchange' you mean," her aunt suggested, a little censoriously, "that you expected him to barter his country's secrets for. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Prince Shan] Reference
The woman squinted censoriously at the basket. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
Mr. Denton eyed him censoriously. From Wordnik.com. [Murder to Go]
Stoddard regarded him censoriously. From Wordnik.com. [Rimrock Jones] Reference
ELIZABETH censoriously. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
" she said censoriously. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
"Come now," said the elf censoriously, "be truthful. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Stories Vol 1]
"Houps are feckless things, Alec," returned Thomas, censoriously. From Wordnik.com. [Alec Forbes of Howglen] Reference
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