curtain-lecture

Why do you not curtain-lecture your hub, why not tease, worry, and torment him, when he dares to leave me in ignorance of your well being?

New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn 2007

For the reasons you will see in the inclosed papers, which give an account of the noblest and earliest curtain-lecture that ever girl had: one of which is, that he expects to be borne with

Pamela 2006

"I have at least, she said, escaped the disgusting curtain-lecture about marrying Beauman."

Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father Daniel Jackson

When Paul discovered that I had broken my word to him he was furious and he gave me a curtain-lecture that left my ears tingling.

Madeleine: An Autobiography Madeleine 1919

When Paul discovered that I had broken my word to him he was furious and he gave me a curtain-lecture that left my ears tingling.

Madeleine An Autobiography Anonymous 1919

I'd hold a séance, too, with Mistress Elsin, wherein a curtain-lecture should be read, kindly, gravely, but with firmness fitting!

The Reckoning 1899

Western life, but silent? ah, no! Poor old Pelham's life had become a perennial curtain-lecture, so Lieutenant Blake expressed it, and when

Marion's Faith. Charles King 1888

Persian war to the influence of a doctor or a curtain-lecture from

Miscellanies Oscar Wilde 1877

Their tempers, doubtless, are rendered pliant and malleable in the fiery furnace of domestic tribulation, and a curtain-lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering.

The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon Washington Irving 1821

'Tis in vain to talk to you; but remember I have a curtain-lecture for you, you disobedient, headstrong brute.

The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2] William Congreve 1699