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  • Into the gardens, down the long, shadowed walks; Amanda saw no reason to remonstrate. ON A WILD NIGHT
  • `Mildred... "Sarah Ellis had raised a hand, meekly, as though to remonstrate gently with her companion, calm her down. A TROUT IN THE MILK
  • If they do not remonstrate with the young couple for their sacrilegious behaviour, it may be because that they know that the church over which they have stewardship is an unconsecrated one.
  • A lorry driver who got out of his cab to remonstrate with a motorist fled in terror when the man produced a gun, a court heard.
  • Dehors had the imprudence to remonstrate with those about him, dissuading them from imbruing their hands in the blood of a wretched man, when their desire was so soon to be accomplished by the minister of the law. The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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  • But before he could turn to remonstrate she was volubly bidding him not to go off into a brown study over some plesiosaurus, and forget all about his charge, or make a mistake and introduce her to the dinotherium, instead of Professor Sara, a Princess
  • I only holloed in _one_ ear, Tod," remonstrated Budge "an 'you ought to love dear Aunt Alice enough to have _that_ hurt a little rather than not wake up. Romance of California Life
  • Sunday bedizened in Spanish finery, with such a blaze and rustle, that the good vicar had to remonstrate humbly with Mrs. Leigh on the disturbance which she caused to the eyes and thoughts of all his congregation. Westward Ho!
  • He turned angrily to remonstrate with Tommy, only to see a rat the size of a rabbit lying between his legs.
  • Aruz (Rice): is dry, though Hakims remonstrate as to either it is prohibited or cold. Islamic Healing A-Z A's
  • This year I was too busy to fulminate about it, too busy to remonstrate or dismiss or despair, and now the opportunity is gone forever. What I've missed
  • ‘I am only trying to turn you into a lady,’ he remonstrates.
  • ‘You know it's important to him,’ his wife remonstrated.
  • The stall holder remonstrated with him and demanded payment for the rarefied comestible. Times, Sunday Times
  • Mr Martin said he did walk over and "remonstrate" with opposition staff, but did not swear at them. Daily Telegraph | Top Stories
  • As an instance of the wild liberality of the age, we are informed, that Henry the "munificent" Count of Champagne, being applied to by a poor gentleman for a portion to enable him to marry his two daughters: his steward remonstrated to him, "that he had given away every thing," "thou _liest_," said Henry, "I have _thee_ left;" so he delivered over the steward to the petitioner, who put him into confinement until he gave him 500 livres, a handsome sum in those days. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 377, June 27, 1829
  • This year I was too busy to fulminate about it, too busy to remonstrate or dismiss or despair, and now the opportunity is gone forever. What I've missed
  • Elena tries to remonstrate Jeremy to stay away from Vicki, though Jeremy of course refuses to listen. Archive 2009-10-01
  • Finally, the doctor had remonstrated that he could not cardiovert her indefinitely—sooner or later her heart wouldn't start again. Pawns and Symbols
  • Sullivan remonstrates with the Chelsea forward, who lifts an arm to fend him off.
  • He remonstrated to his wife that she was too careless.
  • The next day it voted to remonstrate yet again against the king's reply to the protestations of the thirteenth.
  • Now, Barnabas" -- remonstrated his father, rasping his chin harder than ever -- "wherefore argufy -- if you do go for to argufy -- The Amateur Gentleman
  • Into the gardens, down the long, shadowed walks; Amanda saw no reason to remonstrate. ON A WILD NIGHT
  • The prophet Hud remonstrated; but his remonstrances went for nothing, and the indignant monarch and his courtiers suddenly found their visages simious, their tongues chattering, and their lower portions furnished with tails -- a species of transformation, which, so far as regards visage and tongue, is supposed to be not unfrequent among courtiers to this day. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844
  • And before he could remonstrate she had turned and run back into the house. THE GOSPEL MAKERS
  • Shouting for it to stop, he propped his charge against a wall and went to remonstrate with the impertinent driver.
  • I recently remonstrated with two of them throwing crisps at each other and then the bag thrown on the ground and received a torrent of abusive foul language.
  • I heard a woman trying to remonstrate with him, but he cut her off with more shouts. THE EXECUTION
  • Eve immediately realizes that this cut results from her frustration and fear, and remonstrates with her mother about her ability to distinguish real or presciently envisioned danger from that which exists only in her imagination.
  • You [illegible word] what I have paid for the enclosed, and must remonstrate with him if he is wrong. — Letter 288
  • Mr Martin said he did walk over and "remonstrate" with Opposition staff, but did not swear at them. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
  • I heard a woman trying to remonstrate with him, but he cut her off with more shouts. THE EXECUTION
  • I wouldn't call her insipid if I were in your place," he remonstrated. Frank Merriwell's Son A Chip Off the Old Block
  • For the next two hours, the bold captain stayed below, eating and drinking, rebuffing nervous passengers and becoming more and more brusque and abusive to anyone who remonstrated with him.
  • Let's hope they can remonstrate a Senators which a "yes" vote is needed immediately. Obama Foodorama: Citizen Food Safety Advocates Visit White House ...
  • If I were still a member of the party, I would have remonstrated with them when they voted not to reselect him.
  • While Anita was the live wire who inspired, remonstrated and cajoled, Gordon's great strength was a sympathique nature that enabled this unassuming, conservative Scot to build friendships in the most surprising places. Observer Ethical Awards: Gordon Roddick, Lifetime Achievement Award
  • Her uncles had tried to remonstrate with her, telling her there were plenty of others to arrange the flowers and attend to what the local newspaper would, in its account of the affair, be sure to call the "collation," and to make the hundred and one preparations necessary for even so small and simple a wedding as this. Mary-'Gusta
  • `Mildred... "Sarah Ellis had raised a hand, meekly, as though to remonstrate gently with her companion, calm her down. A TROUT IN THE MILK
  • Aunt Patty said she should be lost without her "hinny," and George Wild remonstrated half angrily with her, for going off to leave him alone; but all to no effect -- Annie must go. Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems
  • Elinor gently remonstrated with him on the meanness and absurdity of such conduct; but he silenced what he termed her impertinent interference in matters which did not concern her. Mark Hurdlestone Or, The Two Brothers
  • I went to the boss to remonstrate against the new rules.
  • We sense this as he remonstrates at one point by cellular phone with his parents in Tehran about a funeral at which he should be present, yet which he will have to miss, on account of his work, except for the seventh day of mourning.
  • His mother on discovering this note pinned to her chair gave way to very natural alarm and rushed upstairs to her darling, with whom she remonstrated in terms deservedly severe, pointing out the folly and wickedness of self-destruction and urging that such thoughts were unfit for one of his tender years, for he was then barely thirteen. On Nothing and Kindred Subjects
  • Now, don't come all over toplofty on me!" the captain remonstrated. Tran Siberian
  • In another he remonstrates against certain frivolous affectations, and some of the coxcombries of literary modishness. Diderot and the Encyclopaedists
  • Helen remembered that kind-hearted Cecilia had often remonstrated for humanity's sake, and stopped the quizzing which used to go on in their private coteries, when the satirical elder sister would have it that _le petit bossu_ was in love with Louisa. Tales and Novels — Volume 10
  • The architect, however, takes the tool out of the artisan's hand and although he remonstrates with him for his clumsiness, begins to enact forgiveness.
  • Into the gardens, down the long, shadowed walks; Amanda saw no reason to remonstrate. ON A WILD NIGHT
  • `Mildred... "Sarah Ellis had raised a hand, meekly, as though to remonstrate gently with her companion, calm her down. A TROUT IN THE MILK
  • And before he could remonstrate she had turned and run back into the house. THE GOSPEL MAKERS
  • Dethroned monarchs and fallen statesmen would not have needed to remonstrate against a domicil so spacious, so deeply secluded from the world's scorn, and so admirably in accordance with their thenceforward sunless fortunes. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863
  • Taking his privilege as a dying man and the king's uncle, Gaunt remonstrates with him, calling him England's landlord rather than her king.
  • When he set down a brimming but unordered glass before me with coffee one night, I remonstrated… mildly.
  • At the same time his wife, Nina, remonstrates with him to assume the mantle of what she regards as his responsibility to bear witness: ‘Survivors are witnesses, and when they are gone there will be nothing left’.
  • I went to the boss to remonstrate against the new rules.
  • We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Vitter, DeMint, et al: time to go Patrick Henry on Obama’s assault on conservatives - E_Pluribus_Unum’s blog - RedState
  • I heard a woman trying to remonstrate with him, but he cut her off with more shouts. THE EXECUTION
  • The court remonstrated that the edict did away with the last vestiges of its authority despite solemn pledges of previous kings.
  • Chief Constables remonstrated that their forces were undermanned and hampered by the increased powers of the Militia. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
  • And before he could remonstrate she had turned and run back into the house. THE GOSPEL MAKERS
  • My dear young lady," he remonstrated, "can you blame me for the unwise, indiscreet utterances of every Dutch predicant who opens his mouth? The Rhodesian

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