Perhaps we should be dull were we not chidden, 115. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley] Reference
The Master said, A father or a mother may be gently chidden. From Wordnik.com. [The Sayings Of Confucius] Reference
And like a chidden child Yoshio pocketed the letters sullenly. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the East] Reference
Yet, chidden for her long walks, stic/i engaging conversations! she cries out. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
Pharisees who pronounce it, that he is rather to be chidden than condoled with. From Wordnik.com. [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference
She sat still, looking in the fire, like a child, rebuked and chidden for some unconscious fault. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863] Reference
But I was chidden by your brother; and this occasioned some angry words between him and Mr. Morden. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
You have chidden me, and again will, I doubt not, for the liberties I take with some of your relations. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Mrs. Norton is to be with me: she, although she should be chidden for it, will, in my extremity, plead for me. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
The lord of the fleet of Syracuse, of the gates and the catapults and the quarried prison, sulked like a chidden boy. From Wordnik.com. [The Mask of Apollo]
He was left to himself all day, and at night he went un-chidden to the larder, and helped himself to bread and cheese. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
Ruth faced him in silence a moment then bowed her head, turned and walked away to the door meekly like a chidden child. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Wings A Romance of Youth] Reference
Rachel suddenly realized at what length she had talked and stopped abruptly, dropping back to her place again as if chidden. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
An early or late arrival among flowers and fruit cannot be hailed or chidden where there is but trifling seasonable variation. From Wordnik.com. [My Tropic Isle] Reference
Hester looked down, blushing like a chidden child. From Wordnik.com. [Deerbrook] Reference
He was no longer the mere idler whom she had chidden. From Wordnik.com. [The Crisis — Volume 06] Reference
She turned, chidden, but with a sort of wilful content. From Wordnik.com. [Vesty of the Basins] Reference
He hung his head, and stood before her like a chidden child. From Wordnik.com. [St. George and St. Michael Volume III] Reference
From the feet that had tracked and the tongues that had chidden us. From Wordnik.com. [Poems & Ballads (Second Series) Swinburne's Poems Volume III] Reference
Those, thus chidden, also contracted and helped spread the contagion. From Wordnik.com. [The Son of the Wolf] Reference
Mother Alianora doth not get chidden for what is the best part of her. From Wordnik.com. [In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers] Reference
"Yes, he loved thee, he loved thee well, and he would have chidden me". From Wordnik.com. [Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims] Reference
Then Ralph told him how he had left his treasure, expecting to be chidden. From Wordnik.com. [Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories Reprinted from The Hill of Trouble and The Isles of Sunset] Reference
Emilia stood blinking like one sensible of having been chidden in a strange tongue. From Wordnik.com. [Sandra Belloni — Complete] Reference
Speak when ye're spoken to, do what ye're bidden, come when ye're ca'd, an 'ye'll no be chidden. From Wordnik.com. [The Proverbs of Scotland] Reference
He broke in with a muffled exclamation and shifted from one foot to the other like a chidden child. From Wordnik.com. [Moor Fires] Reference
Roisia was almost in tears, for she had just been sharply chidden for choosing too pale a shade of blue. From Wordnik.com. [A Forgotten Hero Not for Him] Reference
But, a single reproof was enough to cure him forever of the particular form of mischief which had just been chidden. From Wordnik.com. [Further Adventures of Lad] Reference
Then she had not chidden him for the use of that familiar salutation, nor did she chide him now, though she was promised to another. From Wordnik.com. [Thuvia, Maid of Mars] Reference
"It is fair enough for me," said Mark heavily; and Roland had chidden him lightly for his sombre ways, and sketched new plans of life. From Wordnik.com. [Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories Reprinted from The Hill of Trouble and The Isles of Sunset] Reference
I sheathed it at once, feeling somewhat like a chidden child, as I met the slightly satirical gleam of the clear blue eyes that watched me. From Wordnik.com. [A Romance of Two Worlds] Reference
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