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Comes here yesterday and says to me, reproachful-like, as I was lifting a twenty-pound codfish out of my boat, ` Uncle Jim, ain't a codfish a dumb animal? '
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Comes here yesterday and says to me, reproachful-like, as I was lifting a twenty-pound codfish out of my boat, 'Uncle Jim, ain't a codfish a dumb animal?'
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Because whenever I was naughty Mrs. Thomas would ask me how I could be such a bad girl when she had brought me up by hand -- reproachful-like.
Anne of Green Gables 1908
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I was so interested in it that I never noticed Miss Stacy coming down the aisle until all at once I just looked up and there she was looking down at me, so reproachful-like.
Anne of Green Gables 1908
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"They seem tew be a lookin 'at me right now, sort of forlorn an' reproachful-like," and a smile lighted his face at the whimsical thought.
The Cave of Gold A Tale of California in '49 Everett McNeil 1895
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Remember, after I'd been here an hour or two, some big yeller animal with yellerish-green eyes come starin 'in at me through the bushes, angry and reproachful-like.
The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" 1890
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David lagged quite behind the others; and poor Maggie confided to George that somehow or other, she could not tell why, they were all turning their eyes reproachful-like on her.
Polly A New-Fashioned Girl L. T. Meade 1884
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Now, don't look at me so reproachful-like! well, then, I'll beg
One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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And wasn't it agreed as we'd open on her reproachful-like? an 'then, one thing leadin' to another -- "
Hocken and Hunken Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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