"Your discipline would deprive many a beauty of the means of using her power," returned la demoiselle, smiling, as much at the folly of her recent fears, as with affection for her reprover.
"The Water-Witch or, The Skimmer of the Seas"
James Fenimore Cooper
"Nay, nay, I shan't say no more," said the old man, calmly taking the place of reprover instead of being reproved; "but try a pipe, parson.
"The Man with a Shadow"
George Manville Fenn
For had not she, the immaculate, the reprover, fallen herself into the slough of the vernacular?
"Alec Forbes of Howglen"
George MacDonald