The Psalmist here desires that his reprover may be a righteous man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference

Besides it is a jeering and flouting vice, and apt to put jests on the reprover.    From Wordnik.com.  [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference

To this the man replied nothing, but slackened his pace, and slunk behind his reprover.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Italian] Reference

Like an earring of gold and an ornament of fine gold is a wise reprover to a listening ear.    From Wordnik.com.  [the power of an encouraging word] Reference

Instead of repenting, they seek vengeance, and resolve to put the reprover to shame or to death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barnes New Testament Notes] Reference

Like an earring of gold and an ornament of fine gold is a wise reprover to a listening ear. previous | next.    From Wordnik.com.  [senorcoconut Diary Entry] Reference

They attempted to shield their own open sores from painful probing by raising a laugh at the expense of the reprover.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference

I: ip. n I, before have j and for prover r: reprover,!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Truth, the strongest of all, witnessed forth in the spirit of truth, against all deceit: and ...] Reference

Flew in great fear at sight of this reprover of our doings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Song Book of Quong Lee of Limehouse] Reference

But her station makes it inexpedient for her to turn reprover.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism With reference to the duty of American females] Reference

Isaiah, who had often been his comforter, is now his reprover.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther)] Reference

The last, and not the least important requisite for a reprover, is.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism With reference to the duty of American females] Reference

The burglars had been gazing at their reprover with wide-open eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Reminiscences in Book Making and Some Short Stories] Reference

The last, and not the least important requisite for a reprover, is discretion.    From Wordnik.com.  [An essay on slavery and abolitionism, with reference to the duty of American females. By Catharine E. Beecher] Reference

"Ay, for honest Kolgrim also," he answered; "but what of old Thord, my reprover?".    From Wordnik.com.  [King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet] Reference

The North is her passionate reprover; she is held to be, by many, her avowed enemy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861)] Reference

Christ's forerunner was a reprover, and preached repentance, and so prepared his way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference

But his pride was offended at the freedom taken by the honest reprover of royalty, and in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

Mordecai, in this appeal, shines as a "wise reprover;" and it was "upon an obedient ear.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I] Reference

For had not she, the immaculate, the reprover, fallen herself into the slough of the vernacular?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alec Forbes of Howglen] Reference

The prophet here was a wise but faithful reprover, in God's name, and he met with an obedient ear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference

The reprover was Hanani the seer, the father of Jehu, another prophet, whom we read of 1 Kings xvi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther)] Reference

What quickness to avail themselves of any mistake, or apparent concession, in the examiner or reprover.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance] Reference

And a man is not fitted for the duties of a reprover, until he can bring his feelings under this control.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism With reference to the duty of American females] Reference

It were to be wished that a wise reprover should always meet with an obedient ear, but often it is not so.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference

As an ear-ring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear, Prov. xxv.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther)] Reference

Another indispensable requisite for the office of reprover is a character distinguished for humility and meekness.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism With reference to the duty of American females] Reference

But if the reproof be just, though the reprover be not so, we must make a good use of it and learn obedience by it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference

Instead of correcting their errors, they excite indignation against the reprover, as if he were the sole cause of difficulty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan] Reference

Vice met in him an austere and uncompromising reprover; no man was too high for his reproach, and none too low for his sympathy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2] Reference

"Pull away, my lad," said the captain, in the softest tones of his deep voice, at the same time looking his reprover straight in the face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader] Reference

The sense of this was so keen upon him that it was tea or fifteen minutes before he could recover himself to speak to his little reprover.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queechy] Reference

The sense of this was so keen upon him, that it was ten or fifteen minutes before he could recover himself to speak to his little reprover.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queechy, Volume I] Reference