10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SELF-REPROACHFULLY»
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self-reproachfully in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
self-reproachfully and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
ELSIE: (Self—reproachfully.) Shows how much I've been noticing things, doesn't
it? RADFERN: (Afi'ectionately, embracing her.) Never mind. ELSIE: What will you
have for breakfast then, Dad? BAXLEY: Want a good breakfast if you're ...
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Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry: Hardy to Mahon
Having betrayed 'my snake' by an act of violence, Lawrence reminds himself self-
reproachfully of Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, alluding suc- cinctly
to the near-inexpiable blame visited on the Mariner for his similar act of ...
Michael O'Neill, Madeleine Callaghan, 2011
He was seldom at leisure at all, but, as he self-reproachfully said, “ too busy to
think except of his patients and his wife”; and poor mamma, with all her real
dignity, had caught something of the shy, retiring ways of a reduced
gentlewoman, and ...
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Chaucer: Complaint and Narrative
(V, 1058-62) By making the character begin the very process of name-blackening
which she self-reproachfully regrets, the poet allows a kind of tragic dignity to
Criseyde. She accepts the price of her falsehood and pays tribute to Troilus, even
...
William Anthony Davenport, 1988
“And I'm afraid,” he said self-reproachfully, “ that you've torn your dress? ” “ Oh, no
. . . a little.” She made-believe to look at her skirt between the table and sofa, and
take steel: of the damage done. “ It's nothing." “At the time," said the Spawer, ...
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The Dead Secret: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition
Strong in the self-denying generosity of his purpose – though strong in nothing
else – when he and his niece met in the morning, and when Sarah spoke self-
reproachfully of the sacrifice that he was making, of the serious hazards to which
he ...
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The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel
... whose actions it was my duty, and every man's duty, mercifully to control?
Iturned sick at heart when the question occurred to me, and when I felt self-
reproachfully that it was asked too late” (ibid., 31-32). Walter's susceptibility to a
sensation, ...
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Secret Selves: Confession and Same-sex Desire in Victorian ...
By indulging Bosie's desires, Wilde writes self-reproachfully that "I . . . let myself
be lured into the imperfect world of coarse uncompleted passions, of appetite
without distinction, desire without limit, and formless greed" (463). Again, Wilde ...
Regretfully, self reproachfully, morosely, I held my peace. That lady is ignorant to
this day of the tantalising “might have been.” Tell George Henry Lewes a good
story and he became your fast friend for life. At this time another authoress lived
in ...
Matilda Betham-Edwards, 2012
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Tales of Men and Ghosts
... eyes, the whole complex pressure of his personality. She had phrased it once
self-reproachfully by saying to herself that she “never could remember him,” so
completely did the sight of him supersede the counterfeit about which her fancy
221.
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SELF-REPROACHFULLY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
self-reproachfully is used in the context of the following news items.
Britain, Amid Austerity, Turns Rather Cutthroat
You are suddenly grateful for those panes of glass; you may also think, perhaps self-reproachfully, of the distance and closeness of what we watch on television ... «New York Times, Jun 12»
London Theater Journal: Body Counts
You are suddenly grateful for those panes of glass; you are also inspired to think, perhaps self-reproachfully, of the distance and closeness of what we watch on ... «New York Times, Jun 12»
Dumb Americans/Smart Chinese???
While most Americans self-reproachfully will say 'we Americans are the most racist such-and-such in the world', they are not aware that most of the world is not ... «China Law Blog, Sep 11»
Cultural Influence of Gender
The next morning one of those who chose sleep over drinks, aged 22, said half-jokingly, half-self-reproachfully, “I'm such a bad 20-something.” It's a thought with ... «The Perpetual Post, Feb 11»
Classic Facel Vega HK 500 Gran Turismo
"I've only managed one wheelie," he says self-reproachfully. "With windows closed it's totally silent; open them and you are assailed by the roar." Other owners ... «Telegraph.co.uk, May 10»
