"I hope you have made it as beautiful as Elfrida is," she cried, with sharp self-reproof.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Daughter of To-Day] Reference

"Bugger, " he said in self-reproof, then went to collect his rifle from Joana, but Sarah was crouching beside the wounded man in the passageway.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Escape]

They may ask themselves, with some feeling of self-reproof, whether they should have merited such praise from one so revered, and so well qualified to judge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kalli, the Esquimaux Christian A Memoir] Reference

Yorick protests prosaically that it was only a sparrow, yet on being assured that it was also a living being, he succumbs to vexation and self-reproof at his own failure to be true to his own higher self.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference

It was this view of the subject that justified, to his mind, the means which he had used -- that silenced self-reproof, when it accused him of artifice, and called him to account for the deception he had practised upon his colleagues.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844] Reference

Poor fellow! he never purchased a bottle of claret, within my knowledge of him; and, from such observation as could not escape me, I am bound to assert that his domestic expenses never could have occasioned him a regret or a self-reproof.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861] Reference

Jessamy sighed again and shook his head in self-reproof.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peregrine's Progress] Reference

I have since perused them with a blush of self-reproof, and wondered how.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beaux and Belles of England Mrs. Mary Robinson, Written by Herself, With the lives of the Duchesses of Gordon and Devonshire] Reference

It has endeared us more than any thing to your good Lady; and your own self-reproof that follows delighted us.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb] Reference

He assumed a tone of raillery, which is, perhaps, the readiest mode of escaping from the feelings of self-reproof.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woodstock; or, the Cavalier] Reference

They were indeed trifles, very trifles; I have since perused them with a blush of self-reproof, and wondered how I could venture on presenting them to the public.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Mary Robinson] Reference

She looked up at him with that submission in her glance which belonged to her state of self-reproof; but the subtle change in his face and manner arrested her speech.    From Wordnik.com.  [Romola] Reference

Repentance is a kind of self-reproof for having neglected something useful; but that which is good must be something useful, and the perfect good man should look after it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius] Reference

Aid against this subtlety of conscience rose in the form of self-reproof administered by that joyous voice of nature which no longer timidly begged a hearing, but came as a mandate from an unveiled sovereign.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Life's Morning] Reference

I suspect that, for all his self-effacement and self-reproof, Kermode realises the value that his work has had for readers without his facility and energy who nevertheless desire a rich understanding of literature.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Statesman] Reference

Expressions occasionally escaped him that indicated a self-reproof on this subject, though they were partially disguised by an affected undervaluing of the importance of having such a prisoner, so long as he retained the custody of the principal object of the enterprise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency.] Reference

He had so accustomed himself to his own hypothesis, that 'self-gratification is the law of nature,' and had so confused a sense of what true self-gratification is, with such an active faculty of perverting facts and exhibiting pictures of general turpitude, that he had very little sense of the vice of his own conduct; and was therefore very little subject to self-reproof.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Hugh Trevor] Reference

Sharpe tutted and shook his head in self-reproof.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Fortress]

With self-reproof made known.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ballads Founded on Anecdotes Relating to Animals] Reference