Rebuking a person harshly

Usage examples of objurgation.

I think I would have gone through ten times as much objurgation as I had to encounter for those few words.

But it must be remembered that a public man who has to encounter so much bitter reviling and objurgation, is fairly entitled to have a little extravagance on the other side that the balance may be even.

The old man would have followed him with objurgation beyond the door, but for the restraining hand of Flip.

Growling an objurgation in her ear, he snatched her up under his free arm and swept her, in a flutter of limply waving arms and legs, across the arch and into the aperture that opened at the other end.

It would have done me good to launch some objurgation against the precious little puppet, within doors, but this delicacy forbade.

While we were talking together Robinson broke out with his accustomed objurgations levelled at several very worthy and excellent men.

With derision and foul objurgations he slashed at protruding arms and hands, thrust his sword again and again through the port into that close-packed, weltering mass, until at last the shipwrights backed away the boat to escape the suction of the sinking lighter.

But now grim Ranulph tangled beard tore And wrung his hands and sighed and groaned and swore With loud complaints and woeful lamentations, With muttered oaths and murmured objurgations, With curses dire and impious imprecations.

The man was at length worked to a pitch of frenzy, and then--thud, thud, mingled with objurgations and shrill night-piercing yells.

Rabecque, bumping horribly in his saddle, and attempting wildly, and with awful objurgations, to find his stirrups.

Unhappy woman, she has been too long and too persistently denied her legitimate prerogative to listen to his objurgations with any other feeling than the derision of the desperate.

Spanish is confined to a few objurgations which generally preclude extended conversation.

Inside the studio there was a shuffling of heavy feet, a rustling of hands groping in the dark, a clatter of things being tumbled about, accompanied by stifled objurgations.

The Captain, having learnt enough, did not linger in the Blue Boar, but paid his shot, and slouched off, leaving the landlord to explain to Coate that if he desired to enlist the services of a constable he must ride to Tideswella piece of intelligence which provoked him to break into a fury of objurgation, and a declaration that he would be damned if he would put himself to so much trouble only to seek out some gapeseed who, he dared swear, would be of no more use than a month-old baby.

Threading our way patiently against the hurrying flood of tourist-cars and luggage trucks, we might have excited curiosity if we had been dressed as Europeans, but as Kashmiri merchants we only drew down objurgations on our heads.