The generous nature of Safie was outraged by this command ; she attempted to expostulate with her father, but he left her angrily, reiter- ating his tyrannical mandate. From LearnThat.org. [www.archive.org/stream/.../ghostseer01schiuoft_djvu.txt]
Verb (used without object), : His father expostulated with him about the evils of gambling. From Dictionary.com.
Only if he had that kind of expostulate during football games. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-11-01] Reference
He began to expostulate with me on my latest folly. From Wordnik.com. [Orrain A Romance] Reference
I would expostulate for some testimonies of your love. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of James Renwick A Historical Sketch Of His Life, Labours And Martyrdom And A Vindication Of His Character And Testimony] Reference
But with gentle voice did lady Feng again expostulate. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
Yet how could he argue and expostulate against himself?. From Wordnik.com. [The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal] Reference
A blow was the only response when she tried to expostulate. From Wordnik.com. [A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D.] Reference
In that desperate situation there was no time to expostulate. From Wordnik.com. [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference
Gillian's and left the room without attempting to expostulate. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the East] Reference
Mr. Engineer started to expostulate farther but the ominous click of a. From Wordnik.com. [Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers] Reference
"He mustn't expostulate sounds too freely 'cause it might keep us awake.". From Wordnik.com. [Through the Air to the North Pole or The Wonderful Cruise of the Electric Monarch] Reference
If a man rose to expostulate, Marsena was equal to him with tongue and wit. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce of the North Woods] Reference
But the friend turned to William Darling, and began to expostulate with him. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
CHAP.I. Esdras is sent to expostulate with the vngratful I.wes for neglecting. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference
He caught the shorter by the arm, and seemed to argue or expostulate with him. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896] Reference
Paulina meantime has entered to expostulate with Polyeuctes and with her father. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
Moses began to expostulate in a loud voice, but Isaac hushed him with a whisper. From Wordnik.com. [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference
Tyler opened his mouth as if to expostulate, then apparently thought better of it. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
I expostulate with him on the destructive influence of his habits upon his country. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
So as I was saying before, I expostulate with you for some testimonies of your love. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of James Renwick A Historical Sketch Of His Life, Labours And Martyrdom And A Vindication Of His Character And Testimony] Reference
She drew the line there, and rarely had any one dared to expostulate further with her. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
All he would do was to get into his carriage and set off to expostulate with the King. From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference
He began to expostulate then, and eventually broke down and apologised to me -- in the most abject fashion. From Wordnik.com. [The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police] Reference
Therefore, as it is mine and the common cause of mankind, I presume to expostulate with you on this occasion. From Wordnik.com. [The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899] Reference
I wish to expostulate with thee, but do not thou in wrath turn away from the truth, nor will I speak overlong. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.] Reference
Windt, marvelling at the recklessness of the affair, came once to the twain, thinking to expostulate with Ivan. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
Especially would we expostulate with such as have any regard for the Judicial Testimony adopted at Ploughlandhead. From Wordnik.com. [Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive] Reference
"Hush, Carry!" said the Parson to his wife, who, with the usual liveliness of her little temper, was about to expostulate. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
Messer Alessandro, who loved her like a maniac, went shivering out alone into the moonlit garden to expostulate with Nature. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
To expostulate with them on the wickedness of such barbarous conduct is hopeless; one might as well quote Hebrew to a tadpole!. From Wordnik.com. [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference
The very next day, contrary to stipulation, the Malay Pangerans tried to ascend the river, and when stopped began to expostulate. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
Outwardly calm, inwardly quivering, she mounted the stairs to expostulate on behalf of the Students 'Association for Self-Government. From Wordnik.com. [Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls] Reference
Lady Vernon turned sharply round to expostulate with her lord, but seeing his forbidding countenance, she desisted, and her silence Sir. From Wordnik.com. [Heiress of Haddon] Reference
But of course it was useless to expostulate with them; to their minds the omission of the watch would be a mark of the greatest disrespect. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)] Reference
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