objurgating

In another case a woman rushed into the street, alternately objurgating and pleading with the spirits, who, she said, were vexing her child which had convulsions.

Travels in West Africa 2003

With the loose end of bark in his bill, tugging and fluttering, using his tail as a lever with the tree as a fulcrum, and objurgating in unseemly tones, as the bark resists his efforts, the drongo assists the Moreton Bay ash in discarding worn-out epidermis, and the tree reciprocates by offering safe nesting-place on its most brittle branches.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

I by rights belonged with these malecontent and objurgating gentlemen; but a chronicler has privileges, and I got leave to count myself into the Eighth Company, my old friend Captain Shumway's.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 Various

The sailor-man, who had been objurgating straight ahead all this time, now weighed anchor and put the boat in towards shore.

Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 14, July 2, 1870 Various

I could hear him objurgating, coaxing, encouraging, explaining, and the shrill voices of women answering, as he tried at one and the same time to pass the unfortunates in the dark and to make them see the grim necessity for speed.

The Eye of Zeitoon Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

At first the latter involuntarily turned away; but, objurgating such cowardice, he forced himself to gaze at Allen.

The Happy End Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

Buddy drove, with Miss Montague by his side, the while Gray sat alone in the back seat of the car quietly objurgating the follies of youth and mournfully estimating his chances of surviving the night.

Flowing Gold Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

The engine drivers were frantically objurgating one another and demanding in opprobrious terms the right of way.

History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912 Kemp Plummer 1912

I could hear him objurgating, coaxing, encouraging, explaining, and the shrill voices of women answering, as he tried at one and the same time to pass the unfortunates in the dark and to make them see the grim necessity for speed.

The Eye of Zeitoon Talbot Mundy 1909

The gangway was crowded, and my inches did not allow me to look over the bulwarks: but I heard the boatswain knocking off their irons in the boat below, and the objurgating voice of the man in the pearl buttons.

Merry-Garden and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903