chiding

“it is better to dwell in a desert Desolate country, than in a house with a chiding and an angry wife.”

“And the said Mr. Hale did not say this in a chiding, quarrelsome, or brawling manner.”

“The cause I never knew; one would have thought the knowledge of the guilt and misery which followed his former career, and above all the chidings of a wife whom he loved would have deterred him; […]”