All 12 Uses of
remonstrate
in
The Power and the Glory by Cooke
- She remonstrated with the little mother, saying that she aimed not to disturb anybody—not even Uncle Pros.†
Chpt 2
- "Wait till some other time, I—I don't want to—"
But her remonstrance came too late; Mandy had yanked her forward and was performing the introduction...
Chpt 6 *remonstrance = argument in protest or opposition
- When Stoddard would have remonstrated, or asked why, his lips were closed by sight of her daunted, miserable face.†
Chpt 7
- "Ef you fix up like that," she remonstrated, "you're bound to look too nice to suit Miss Lyddy.†
Chpt 8
- "See here, Lydia," Mrs. Hexter remonstrated in crisp tones, "what's the matter with the girl's aspiring after a blouse like yours?†
Chpt 8
- Now, Mandy, you don't believe any such as that," remonstrated Johnnie, with a half-smile.†
Chpt 9
- Johnnie remonstrated, half-heartedly, as he gathered the crude little invention from the frames; but his proposition wore a plausible face, and she suffered him to take them.†
Chpt 9
- Please don't, Shade," remonstrated the girl, walking on fast, despite the oppressive heat of the evening.†
Chpt 9
- "Let me do it for you, and part it straight," Johnnie remonstrated.†
Chpt 10
- "Shut up—will you?" ejaculated Buckheath, so suddenly and fiercely that the old man fairly jumped, rousing the yellow cat to remonstrative squirmings.†
Chpt 11
- He confessed frankly to himself, that, had Johnnie been a boy, a young man, instead of a beautiful and appealing woman, he would have been prompt to go to her and remonstrate—he would have made no bones of having the matter out clearly and fully.†
Chpt 18
- No, no," remonstrated MacPherson, coming in and leaning with affectionate familiarity on the younger man's chair.†
Chpt 25
Definition:
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(remonstrate) argue, complain, or criticize