All 21 Uses of
remonstrate
in
Bleak House
- The man from Shropshire ventures another remonstrative "My lord!" but the Chancellor, being aware of him, has dexterously vanished.†
Chpt 1-3
- I was going to remonstrate.†
Chpt 4-6
- I remonstrated, in allusion to the epithet and the vigorous emphasis Miss Jellyby set upon it.†
Chpt 4-6
- "Oh, dear me!" remonstrated Sir Leicester.†
Chpt 10-12
- I remonstrated.†
Chpt 16-18
- "Still, Tony, you were on the wrong side of the post then," remonstrates Mr. Guppy.†
Chpt 19-21
- Indeed, I felt the whole state of my mind in reference to her to be weak and unreasonable, and I remonstrated with myself about it as much as I could.†
Chpt 22-24
- I remonstrated.†
Chpt 22-24
- No, no, no, sir," remonstrates Grandfather Smallweed, cunningly rubbing his spare legs.†
Chpt 25-27
- Finding by this time that his friend is not to be wheedled into a more sociable humour, Mr. Guppy puts about upon the ill-used tack and remonstrates with him.†
Chpt 31-33
- Mr. William Guppy, however, having got the advantage, cannot quite release it without a little more injured remonstrance.
Chpt 31-33 *remonstrance = argument in protest or opposition
- "Why, Tony," remonstrates his friend, "how you look!†
Chpt 31-33
- "Oh, Richard," I remonstrated, "is it possible that you can ever have seen him and heard him, that you can ever have lived under his roof and known him, and can yet breathe, even to me in this solitary place where there is no one to hear us, such unworthy suspicions?"†
Chpt 37-39
- "Volumnia," remonstrates Sir Leicester with his utmost severity.†
Chpt 40-42
- There is a quiet decision in his reply which admits of no remonstrance.†
Chpt 40-42
- "So that it is even more mischievous," said my guardian once to me, "to remonstrate with the poor dear fellow than to leave him alone."†
Chpt 43-45
- "Nay, my dears," he would remonstrate; and when I saw Caddy's thin arm about his fat neck as he said it, I would be melted too, though not by the same process.†
Chpt 49-51
- I remonstrated.†
Chpt 49-51
- Mr. Bucket remonstrates.†
Chpt 52-54
- The old girl relieves her feelings and testifies her interest in the conversation by giving the trooper a great poke between the shoulders with her umbrella; this action she afterwards repeats, at intervals, in a species of affectionate lunacy, never failing, after the administration of each of these remonstrances, to resort to the whitened wall and the grey cloak again.†
Chpt 55-57
- Mr. Woodcourt, disregarding my remonstrances, had hurriedly taken off his cloak and was putting it about me.†
Chpt 58-60
Definition:
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(remonstrate) argue, complain, or criticize