He waved an admonitory finger at Corbett.
admonitory directives such as these did not necessarily improve morale in Negro units.
He wagged an admonitory finger to fend off any protest from Corbett.
Book 10: The Hortatory and admonitory Epigrams.
Sometimes he would communicate with individual flints, a continuous admonitory prattle broken by sudden triumphant squeals.
Terzaghi) and to Leo VI the Wise ( admonitory Chapters of Basil I).
His poetry was admonitory in nature and, taken as a whole, constituted an account of his political action.
They shared their dreams and aspirations, encouraged by the benevolent, admonitory , tutelary spirit of ample broad-faced Flora.
The specimens were proverbs or quotations, or little commonplace hortatory or admonitory sayings – the ones in the poem illustrate.
And the effects are terrific: doors open to reveal the rotating magnified eyeball or the admonitory finger of the predatory giant.