scold的示例

• This holds good for scolds (predominantly female) as well as for exclusively or predominantly male offences.

• Employees were aware that a longer time spent trying to understand a directive would result in being scolded for not having fulfilled the directive promptly.

• He praised the energetic and scolded the slack; and competition for honour proved as effective as compulsion.

• In addition to three presentments as a scold and one for hedgebreaking, she was co-defendant with her husband in three or more trespass suits.

• In the second decade of the sixteenth century, male scolds begin to appear, albeit in very small numbers.

• Instead of dutifully keeping his mouth shut when instructed or scolded, he answered back with unbecoming impunity.

• We don't scold, but give advice instead and tell them what they should do.

• But since most were long-term residents, it seems that being presented as a scold was something that happened only once to most of these individuals.

• This will be followed by a more detailed examination of the presentments for scolding and closely related offences in the same period.

• Three other women were presented simply as scolds.

• Prosecutions of scolds took place from the late fourteenth century onwards, and hardly amounted to an epidemic in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

• There is no surviving record of anyone being presented as a scold between 1533 and 1563, when two women and a man were charged.

• There were other individuals with comparable or longer histories of misdemeanours who were neither accused of scolding nor had spouses who were.

• Of the 23, 17 were presented only once for scolding, as far as we can tell.

• The only "hospital bureaucracy" he faced was the nursing staff, who constantly scolded him for working too hard.