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scold
«It is not the correct thing to scold children for asking questions: this is about as reasonable as to scold them for breathing or thinking.»
«Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.»
Author: Jane Howard
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Anthropology
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anthropology, beamed, scold, scolded, scolding, surveyed, The Platform
«Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.»
Author: Richard de Bury
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blunder, Hide and seek, instruct, Masters, rods, scold, scolded, scolding
«ABDICATION, n. An act whereby a sovereign attests his sense of the high temperature of the throne.Poor Isabella's Dead, whose abdication Set all tongues wagging in the Spanish nation. For that performance 'twere unfair to scold her: She wisely left a throne too hot to hold her. To History she'll be no royal riddle -- Merely a plain parched pea that jumped the griddle. --G.J.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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abdication, attested, attesting, attests, griddle, high temperature, Isabella, jumped, pea, riddle, scold, scolded, scolding, sovereign, Spanish, temperature, temperatures, unfair, wagging
«By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.»
Author: French Proverb
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accustom, accustomed, continually, despise, despising, in time, reproof, reproofs, scold, scolded, scolding, to it
«Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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Nature
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beneficent, brought, cunning, for good, praise, scold, scolded, scolding, works
«Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-hearted attempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.»
Author: Margaret Mead
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balanced, cake, characterized, hearted, ill-tempered, ill temper, last half, railing, railings, scold, scolded, scolding, selves, tempered, The Popular
«Four things drive a man out of his house: too much smoke, a dripping roof, filthy air and a scolding wife»