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Now, then, look at my neck and see if it is fatter than your master’s, and if you can justly reprehend me.”

For example, the word ‘governor,’ as applied to a father, is to be reprehended.

His modern instances are, of course, sheer blunders, and cannot be too severely reprehended; and artists must always remember that such liberties should never be taken, unless by these means some higher object is gained.

The Colonel reprehended them sharply, suspended them, and struck them out of the list of aids-de-camp of the General.

These words pierced my heart and soul, to hear a subject thus audaciously to reprehend his Sovereign, who ever and anon replied with great magnanimity and prudence.’