reprehend

In the trite line 1 is a poorly placed "only" that Poe would reprehend.

"Gentles, do not reprehend; if you pardon, he will mend."

Washington himself, when he is quoted, sounds as wooden as those teeth ("I reprehend with severity").

I do suspect I have done some offence That seems disgracious in the city's eye, And that you come to reprehend my ignorance.

She elaborates: "If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue in a nice derangement of epitaphs."

I myself reprehend his own person, for I am his Grace's farborough; but I would see his own person in flesh and blood.

They report that Jemaah Islamiyah has set up a suicide squad to conduct large actions against Western interests, over the objections of some group members who reprehend killing civilians.

At a couple of points, she wants people to "reprehend the true meaning" and in a discussion of the academic subject that she calls geometry, she endorses the effort to "learn something of the contagious countries."

But, as recorded by the famed historian Plutarch, an inscription above one of Apollodorus' painting read, "'Tis no hard thing to reprehend me; But let the men that blame me mend me."

In Act III Scene 3, she declares to Captain Absolute, "Sure, if I reprehend any thing in this world it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!"

M. de Treville was about to reprehend this breach of the rules of etiquette, when he felt the hand of Athos, who had rallied all his energies to contend against pain, at length overcome by it, fell upon the floor as if he were dead.

On the other hand, the capo di Gotcha, Louis Jay Herman of New York, writes, "Your use of a ways will, of course, incur the wrath of a bevy of schoolmarms, who will reprehend you for not knowing the difference between singular and plural."

The silly boy, believing she is dead, Claps her pale cheek, till clapping makes it red; And all amazed brake off his late intent, For sharply he did think to reprehend her, Which cunning love did wittily prevent: Fair fall the wit that can so well defend her!

Repeated knocking at Mrs. Flyter's gate awakened in due order, first, one or two stray dogs, who began to bark with all their might; next two or three night-capped heads, which were thrust out of the neighbouring windows to reprehend me for disturbing the solemnity of the Sunday night by that untimely noise.

I do not know whether the critics will reprehend the insertion of some of the most imperfect among them; but I frankly own that I have been more actuated by the fear lest any monument of his genius should escape me than the wish of presenting nothing but what was complete to the fastidious reader.