"Admonitory" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... an admonitory hand toward the window, and the box went up swiftly. The applicant looked again toward the pavilion, where Billy Grant, having kissed the Nurse's hands, had buried his ...
— Love Stories • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... pass too near the Bailie, he received an admonitory hint from his horsewhip, which converted ...
— Waverley • Sir Walter Scott
... forward in front of the little girls and Mrs. MacCall. His face was very red, and he shook an admonitory finger ...
— The Corner House Girls at School • Grace Brooks Hill
... bring the god of love to the audit of age and the ravage of wrinkles. This is the last sonnet of the first series; with the next begins the series relating to his mistress. Reading it literally, considering it as addressed to his friend, it is sparkling and poetic, a final word, loving, admonitory, in perfect line and keeping with the central thought of all that came before. From this Sonnet, interpreted as I indicate, I shall try to find assistance in this study. But if it is a mere poetical ascription to Cupid, it, of course, tells us nothing except that ...
— Testimony of the Sonnets as to the Authorship of the Shakespearean Plays and Poems • Jesse Johnson
... listened to, and the most trifling actions of his life recorded, it would be deemed unfair and illiberal, and he who should practice such meanness would be thought worthy of no punishment more respectful than what might be inflicted by an oaken censor, or an admonitory heel.—But it will be said, a King is not an individual, and that such a habit, or such an amusement, is beneath the dignity of his character. Yet would it be but consistent in those who labour to prove, by the public acts of Kings, that they are less than men, not to exact, that, in their ...
— A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, • An English Lady
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