Thereupon Burch desisted, saying, with an admonitory shake of his fist in my face, and hissing the words through his firm-set teeth, that if ever I dared to utter again that I was entitled to my freedom, that I had been kidnapped, or any thing whatever of the kind, the castigation I had just received was nothing in comparison with what would follow.
Three months ago, in an admonitory talk to a conference on Wall Street, Williams preached the example of a "good life" spent spreading the wealth that is "the sum of one's loving relationships with people" — which does not entirely explain why he spends so much effort in pursuit of "loving relationships" with the most unbending conservatives in his church.
Yet it was also an admonitory poem — admonitory to myself.
Some African peoples hold that the first mask to be used was an admonitory one.
"The hand that adjusts the green carnation suddenly shakes an admonitory finger".
"Glovebox," she says in an admonitory voice, a cue for him to put the device into purdah for a while.
It shows the guerrilla commander raising an admonitory finger above the words: "Never betray the Congo".
Another Upper East Side president requested an admonitory letter directed at his neighbors for disturbing his sleep with their rambunctious lovemaking.
Lest there be any doubt about the moral of this tale, Perrault added an admonitory coda.
For too many, the hand of friendship felt like an admonitory finger that was once again pointing at Britain's Muslims," she added.
At 86, Angelica, now the dowager Duchess of Paltry, was last seen riding away on an admonitory hippopotamus.
