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  • The letter itself was virtually endless in length, overwritten, teaching, repetitious, opinionated, remonstrative, condescending, embarrassing—and filled, to a surfeit, with affection.   (source)
    remonstrative = (written) in a manner that argues in protest or opposition
  • Adam remonstrated, "What are you getting upset about?"   (source)
    remonstrated = argued in protest or opposition
  • There was a long, nagging argument that went round and round, with shouts, whines, tears, remonstrances, bargainings.   (source)
    remonstrances = arguments in protest or opposition
  • Finally Haie stood Himmelstoss on his feet again and gave one last personal remonstrance.   (source)
    remonstrance = argument in protest or opposition
  • And, in spite of all remonstrances and advices to the contrary, King Pelles struggled out of his costly robe, which he popped over Lancelot's head.   (source)
    remonstrances = arguments in protest or opposition
  • Mercedes continually fluttered in the way of her men and kept up an unbroken chattering of remonstrance and advice.   (source)
    remonstrance = argument in protest or opposition
  • PICKERING [in good-humored remonstrance] Does it occur to you, Higgins, that the girl has some feelings?   (source)
    remonstrance = arguing in protest
  • I shrugged my shoulders, however, and rested silent, for Van Helsing had a way of going on his own road, no matter who remonstrated.   (source)
    remonstrated = argued in protest or opposition
  • After some ineffectual remonstrance I kept away from him, staying in a room—evidently a children's schoolroom—containing globes, forms, and copybooks.   (source)
    remonstrance = argument in protest or opposition
  • he immediately wrote her a letter of unqualified disapproval and remonstrance.   (source)
  • The soft air was filled with the tremendous remonstrance.   (source)
  • ...your remonstrance at the time...   (source)
  • "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he continued, disregarding my remonstrance.   (source)
  • He showed me tattoo marks, baring his breast in the teeth of the wind and in spite of my remonstrances, for I thought it was enough to kill him;   (source)
    remonstrances = arguments in protest or opposition
  • Passepartout, desirous of respecting the gentleman whom he served, ventured a mild remonstrance on such conduct; which, being ill-received, he took his leave.   (source)
    remonstrance = argument in protest or opposition
  • Still once more, a little before the progress was ended, the Duke was obliged to ride forward, and make remonstrance.   (source)
  • "You shall not make a guy of yourself," remonstrated Meg,   (source)
    remonstrated = argued or protested
  • She saw her father's face, with its bold brow, and reverend white beard that flowed over the old-fashioned Elizabethan ruff; her mother's, too, with the look of heedful and anxious love which it always wore in her remembrance, and which, even since her death, had so often laid the impediment of a gentle remonstrance in her daughter's pathway.   (source)
    remonstrance = argument in protest or opposition
  • Dorothea quietly persisted in spite of remonstrance and persuasion.   (source)
    remonstrance = argument in opposition
  • "But why are you angry?" remonstrated Tikhon,   (source)
    remonstrated = protested
  • But as all my remonstrances produced no effect upon Queequeg,   (source)
    remonstrances = arguments in protest or opposition
  • In the beginning of spring she had the garden turned up from end to end, despite Bovary's remonstrances.   (source)
  • Peter remonstrated earnestly.   (source)
    remonstrated = argued in protest or opposition
  • This, under the circumstances, has been justly characterized by one of the witnesses (Montani, the confectioner,) as an expression of remonstrance or expostulation.   (source)
    remonstrance = argument in protest or opposition
  • ...they had plundered and stripped the inhabitants, totally ruining some poor families, besides insulting, abusing, and confining the people if they remonstrated.   (source)
    remonstrated = argued in protest or opposition
  • As a call to action, or a remonstrance.†   (source)
  • The victim bore its suffering patiently, without showy remonstrations.†   (source)
  • I remonstrate, but it does little good.†   (source)
  • "And yet, Jans," Father remonstrated gently, "medicine has prolonged many a life."†   (source)
  • "You're already pimping her, you're already taking her lifeblood," remonstrated her savior, a pharmacist named Kuduz.†   (source)
  • I was about to remonstrate.†   (source)
  • The chaplain stepped forward impulsively to remonstrate.†   (source)
  • But at first chance Hamilton commenced to "remonstrate" against the mission to France.†   (source)
  • Sometimes he would take his trophies to the Miner's Tivern, set them upon the bar, and brag on his cleverness; when even his cronies began to remonstrate with him, he bought off their ill opinion by paying for their ale with the shillings of the dead.†   (source)
  • Payment to an Idris Ghidi went into the budget under fees to sources who could not be named, which meant that the accountant would remonstrate about the lack of an invoice or receipt and insist that the matter have the board's approval.†   (source)
  • But there was no coldness from her, either, no front of unwelcoming or remonstrance.†   (source)
  • The PLAYER has moved down, to remonstrate with ALFRED.†   (source)
  • My rather meek remonstrance to the effect that wolves had been preying on caribou, without decimating the herds, for some tens of thousands of years before the white men came to Brochet, either fell on deaf ears or roused my listeners to fury at my partisanship.†   (source)
  • In spite of his earlier remonstrances about Southern literature falling into desuetude, his brotherly concern for my work had been constant and encouraging.†   (source)
  • Peter opened his mouth to remonstrate; but his mouth filled suddenly with water; the bush boy had ducked him again.†   (source)
  • TYRONE Remonstrates gently.†   (source)
  • Harper's Weekly, pointing out that Lamar voted in opposition to "the strong and general public feeling of his state," concluded: No Senator has shown himself more worthy of universal respect than Mr. Lamar; for none has stood more manfully by his principles, in the face of the most authoritative remonstrance from his state...The Democratic Senator from Mississippi has shown the manly courage which becomes an American statesman.†   (source)
  • And now, she opened her mouth to remonstrate, but became silent; her hand dropped from the door of the cupboard, and she found herself thinking of Dick's anger.†   (source)
  • She wondered why Pete saw fit to remonstrate with the woman, pleading for forgiveness with his eyes.   (source)
    remonstrate = argue (present reasons in opposition)
  • "I didn't arrange it," she remonstrated.   (source)
    remonstrated = argued in protest
  • "I am a mortal," Scrooge remonstrated, "and liable to fall."   (source)
    remonstrated = argued in protest or opposition
  • I cannot see you acting wrong, without a remonstrance.   (source)
    remonstrance = argument in protest or opposition
  • ...in spite of the remonstrances that had been offered to him, he persisted in having the review,   (source)
    remonstrances = arguments in opposition
  • sufficiently disturbing the darkness to elicit loud remonstrance from an owl   (source)
    remonstrance = protest
  • 'My dearest,' I remonstrated, 'don't talk preposterous nonsense!'   (source)
    remonstrated = protested
  • said Lucy, in a tone of remonstrance, "I don't believe a word of that."   (source)
    remonstrance = argument in protest or opposition
  • His father, remonstrative, but covertly proud of the excess, had paid his bills and brought him home.   (source)
    remonstrative = expressed disapproval
  • Yet, though so well acquainted with this amiable weakness, no individual among his parishioners chose to make the black veil a subject of friendly remonstrance.   (source)
    remonstrance = argument of opposition
  • His spirit recoiled, however, in the very act, and Georgiana, out of the midst of her deep sleep, moved uneasily and murmured as if in remonstrance.   (source)
    remonstrance = argument in protest or opposition
  • ...Snap occasionally desisting in order to remonstrate with the cat by a cogent worrying growl on the greediness and futility of her conduct; till Eppie relented, caressed them both, and divided the morsel between them.   (source)
    remonstrate = argue
  • At any other time, this remonstrance, and the tone in which it was delivered, would have had the desired effect; but the girl being really weak and exhausted, dropped her head over the back of the chair, and fainted, before...   (source)
    remonstrance = argument in protest or opposition
  • ...for these reasons, I was willing to overlook his eccentricities, though indeed, occasionally, I remonstrated with him.   (source)
    remonstrated = argued in protest or opposition
  • Mr. William Guppy, however, having got the advantage, cannot quite release it without a little more injured remonstrance.   (source)
    remonstrance = argument in protest or opposition
  • Heyward would have ventured a remonstrance had there been anything encouraging in the gloomy reserve of Magua.   (source)
  • her brother sulkily remonstrated.   (source)
    remonstrated = argued in protest or opposition
  • "But I'll either start her ladyship, or break the door down!" She shook it accordingly, and the bell, having a spiteful little temper of its own, rang obstreperously, making its remonstrances heard,—not, indeed, by the ears for which they were intended,—but by a good lady on the opposite side of the street.   (source)
    remonstrances = protests or arguments
  • Isabella, however, caught hold of one hand, Thorpe of the other, and remonstrances poured in from all three.   (source)
    remonstrances = arguments in protest or opposition
  • 'But she is, after all, only a piece of stone,' Ian remonstrated.†   (source)
  • So the second chime of the twice-tolling clock was most definitely a remonstrance.†   (source)
  • But I remonstrated with him and soon we were on our way back to City Hall.†   (source)
  • Now, Mandy, you don't believe any such as that," remonstrated Johnnie, with a half-smile.†   (source)
  • "Ef you fix up like that," she remonstrated, "you're bound to look too nice to suit Miss Lyddy.†   (source)
  • I shooed Tefu away and remonstrated with the warder.†   (source)
  • We remonstrated with him, but to no avail.†   (source)
  • "Let me do it for you, and part it straight," Johnnie remonstrated.†   (source)
  • Kruger remonstrated with me, but to no avail.†   (source)
  • She had tried "remonstrances."†   (source)
  • She remonstrated with the little mother, saying that she aimed not to disturb anybody—not even Uncle Pros.†   (source)
  • I remonstrated with them but was told in no uncertain terms that the matter was the women's affair and that the ANC—as well as anxious husbands—should not meddle.†   (source)
  • "See here, Lydia," Mrs. Hexter remonstrated in crisp tones, "what's the matter with the girl's aspiring after a blouse like yours?†   (source)
  • No, no," remonstrated MacPherson, coming in and leaning with affectionate familiarity on the younger man's chair.†   (source)
  • Please don't, Shade," remonstrated the girl, walking on fast, despite the oppressive heat of the evening.†   (source)
  • When Stoddard would have remonstrated, or asked why, his lips were closed by sight of her daunted, miserable face.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • "Shut up—will you?" ejaculated Buckheath, so suddenly and fiercely that the old man fairly jumped, rousing the yellow cat to remonstrative squirmings.†   (source)
  • He didn't remonstrate with his friend, though.†   (source)
  • Doc Daneeka yelped and ran out of the medical tent to remonstrate with Sergeant Towser, who edged away from him with repugnance and advised Doc Daneeka to remain out of sight as much as possible until some decision could be reached relating to the disposition of his remains.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • "Father Joseph," he remonstrated, "you will never be able to take all these things back to Denver.†   (source)
  • Surely you're too big for a rocking-horse!" his mother had remonstrated.†   (source)
  • That's foolish, Bertha," her sister remonstrated gently.†   (source)
  • He remonstrated with Eugene, with good-natured seriousness, about his habits.†   (source)
  • 'My dear fellow,' Sieveking remonstrated, 'I know everything of Chopin's that exists, and I can assure you that he never wrote what you have just played.†   (source)
  • Towards the end of that summer term I received the last visit and Grand Remonstrance of my cousin Jasper.†   (source)
  • On the day after Jasper's Grand Remonstrance I received another, in different terms and from an unexpected source.†   (source)
  • When I remonstrated he said, "I can't stand all these people about," but it was when they finally left and he had to face his family at close quarters that he broke down.†   (source)
  • I let her get clear of the place and was about to follow—the rooms were nearly empty—when I heard a voice at the turnstile I had not heard for many years, an unforgettable self-taught stammer, a sharp cadence of remonstration.†   (source)
  • Sh!" came in angry remonstrance from different parts of the house.†   (source)
  • Once Hare heard Snap remonstrating with his father.†   (source)
  • Minnie remembered Hanson's remonstrance.†   (source)
  • "I ain't accusin' Bo," remonstrated Laramie, with eyes that made Duane thoughtful.†   (source)
  • "Think of the long rest this winter," was her reply to my remonstrances.†   (source)
  • [remonstrating] Now, now, Mr Tanner, come now†   (source)
  • '"You mustn't laugh like this, with all these people about," I remonstrated.†   (source)
  • She remonstrated with him, all to no purpose.†   (source)
  • "Steady on there!" he cried, in a tone of remonstrance.†   (source)
  • "In THIS weather?" she remonstrated; and with a sigh he buried his head in his book.†   (source)
  • "But, Al—be reasonable," remonstrated Dale.†   (source)
  • We might never have a better chance than we've got right now," he remonstrated.†   (source)
  • "But, Dale, listen," remonstrated Wilson, earnestly.†   (source)
  • Van Helsing raised his hand over his head for a moment, as though in remonstrance with the Almighty.†   (source)
  • DOOLITTLE [remonstrating] Now, now, look here, Governor.†   (source)
  • They polished him up and her husband remonstrated seriously with her.†   (source)
  • I can't lie down all the time," remonstrated Milly.†   (source)
  • "I hope to die," said the youth, pitching his tones to the key of angry remonstrance.†   (source)
  • To Philip's remonstrances she replied: "I don't want her to get into habits.'†   (source)
  • "It is raining," I remonstrated, "and I ..."†   (source)
  • LOMAX [remonstrating] No but look here don't you know—[Overcome] Oh I say!†   (source)
  • "You shouldn't funk your own deeds, man," remonstrated the friend.†   (source)
  • She made tentative efforts at remonstrating with him.†   (source)
  • "Now, Bo, don't get excited," remonstrated Helen.†   (source)
  • DOOLITTLE [remonstrating] Now, now, Henry Higgins!†   (source)
  • "Aw, Gul let him go!" remonstrated Jesse Smith.†   (source)
  • Think of ME in evening suit at the theatre!" he remonstrated.†   (source)
  • Well, he is thin, father,' remonstrated Sally.†   (source)
  • "I didn't want, ma!" he cried, very red, suffering and remonstrating.†   (source)
  • Jim, if we wanted to git rid of her we'd let Riggs take her off," remonstrated the outlaw leader.†   (source)
  • "But you're not a BIT high," he remonstrated.†   (source)
  • "You only gave me TWO of them," she remonstrated.†   (source)
  • He ceased his remonstrances, and proceeded to the party at the other line.†   (source)
  • He knew the prejudices of the frontiermen too well, however, to attempt a remonstrance.†   (source)
  • Sometimes Madame Magloire essayed a remonstrance in advance, but never at the time, nor afterwards.†   (source)
  • M. Morrel felt that further resistance or remonstrance was useless.†   (source)
  • Pray do; but I don't say I shall always think your remonstrance just.†   (source)
  • She meant to avoid any such alteration of manners as might provoke a remonstrance on his side.†   (source)
  • "Why, hang it, Pitt!" said the father to his remonstrance.†   (source)
  • No, no, no, sir," remonstrates Grandfather Smallweed, cunningly rubbing his spare legs.†   (source)
  • "I say, you know!" muttered Joe, shaking his head at me in very serious remonstrance.†   (source)
  • 'Now, don't,' remonstrated Mr Meagles, 'don't!†   (source)
  • "I'm coming to that, if you'll leave me alone, Mister Oak!" remonstrated Cainy.†   (source)
  • "Mother," he said, in a remonstrating tone, "don't think that of me.†   (source)
  • She neither heard remonstrances, nor felt the touch.†   (source)
  • "But, Mr. Harris," remonstrated the manufacturer, "isn't this rather sudden?"†   (source)
  • 'Then what a doubly demd infernal rascal that footman must be, my soul,' remonstrated Mr Mantalini.†   (source)
  • 'Because you know, my darling,' I remonstrated, 'you are not a child.'†   (source)
  • Not reasoning; not remonstrance; not entreaty wilt thou hearken to; all this thou scornest.†   (source)
  • They remonstrated also upon the risk of damage to their horses by these forced marches.†   (source)
  • "You must not be weak, my darling," he remonstrated; "don't tremble so.†   (source)
  • The slave is a servant who never remonstrates, and who submits to everything without complaint.†   (source)
  • FRANK [remonstrating piteously] But, my dear Viv, I want to talk to you ever so seriously.†   (source)
  • "Maggie," he said, in a tone of remonstrance, "don't persist in this wilful, senseless privation.†   (source)
  • 'I think he really is ill, your worship,' remonstrated the officer.†   (source)
  • "But why should you think the child would turn out ill?" said Godfrey, in his remonstrances.†   (source)
  • "Oh, why?" said Sir James, in a tender tone of remonstrance.†   (source)
  • "Don't be cheeky, Jack," remonstrated the landlord, in a melancholy and pathetic way.†   (source)
  • 'Oh, Trotwood!' she remonstrated, with a smile.†   (source)
  • PRAED [remonstrating] My dear Frank: aren't you a little unsympathetic?†   (source)
  • What place was there in her mind for a remonstrance to lodge in?†   (source)
  • Middleton and Paul saw no use in wasting their breath in remonstrances against this proposal.†   (source)
  • 'But do you mean to say, my dear,' remonstrated the Jew, 'that the women can't be got over?'†   (source)
  • —Pray think how long ago,' gently remonstrated Arthur.†   (source)
  • "Nay, it was you who said so," remonstrated Lucy.†   (source)
  • I remonstrated, in allusion to the epithet and the vigorous emphasis Miss Jellyby set upon it.†   (source)
  • 'Nicholas, my dear, recollect yourself,' remonstrated Mrs Nickleby.†   (source)
  • 'Isn't natur, natur, Mrs. Bumble?' remonstrated the workhouse master.†   (source)
  • "Volumnia," remonstrates Sir Leicester with his utmost severity.†   (source)
  • 'Have you made no remonstrance about it, Agnes?†   (source)
  • 'I remonstrated with you,' she began again, 'because—' 'I won't have it!' cried Jeremiah.†   (source)
  • '"But I am not joking; I was never farther from it," remonstrated the baron.†   (source)
  • I remonstrated, for he made no reply at all.†   (source)
  • "How can you think of that?" said Dorothea, in a tone of earnest remonstrance.†   (source)
  • 'Mama!' returned Kate, in a tone of remonstrance.†   (source)
  • "No, no, not so bad as that," said Lydgate, giving up remonstrance and petting her resignedly.†   (source)
  • "Why, Tony," remonstrates his friend, "how you look!†   (source)
  • I was so unwilling to see the look again, that I made no remonstrance against this tone.†   (source)
  • 'There now, Bill,' remonstrated Fagin, eagerly catching at the word.†   (source)
  • "Oh, dear me!" remonstrated Sir Leicester.†   (source)
  • 'I say, Johnson,' remonstrated Mr Folair, suddenly losing all his dignity, 'none of that, you know.†   (source)
  • 'Oh, Mr. Bumble!' remonstrated Mrs. Corney.†   (source)
  • "Father!" said Mary, in her deepest tone of remonstrance.†   (source)
  • Which growl being taken up by his fellows, swelled into a very earnest and general remonstrance.†   (source)
  • 'Hold your noise,' remonstrated the Dodger, looking cautiously round.†   (source)
  • "Still, Tony, you were on the wrong side of the post then," remonstrates Mr. Guppy.†   (source)
  • The auctioneer burst out in deep remonstrance.†   (source)
  • 'My dear Led,' remonstrated Miss Snevellicci, 'how you do talk!'†   (source)
  • There is a quiet decision in his reply which admits of no remonstrance.†   (source)
  • Tilda, dear, really,' remonstrated Miss Squeers, 'we shall be taken for I don't know what.'†   (source)
  • 'You are so demd hard, Nickleby,' remonstrated Mr Mantalini.†   (source)
  • 'I say,' remonstrated Squeers, looking uneasily round: 'don't call it that!†   (source)
  • And she just sat absolutely deaf to the remonstrances of the head waiter with his face like a grey ram's.†   (source)
  • But it's late," he remonstrated.†   (source)
  • The prince heard Keller and Lebedeff remonstrating and quarrelling with these unknown individuals, and soon went out himself.†   (source)
  • Don't hurry him," remonstrated Burn.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Peniston, however, was at the moment inaccessible to remonstrance: since early morning she had been shut up with her maid, going over her furs, a process which formed the culminating episode in the drama of household renovation.†   (source)
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