Rarely does expostulation work to change another person's opinions. From LearnThat.org.
Noun : In spite of my expostulations, he insisted on driving me home. From Dictionary.com.
Well, Daddy! said Norah in expostulation – whereat everybody laughed. From Wordnik.com. [Mates at Billabong] Reference
The Dewan roared; the burden of his expostulation was the word liar. From Wordnik.com. [Caste] Reference
The Vatican decrees and the "expostulation" by Robert Rodolph Suffield. From Wordnik.com. [Our Children Deserve More - When Will the Church Learn?] Reference
They sent off a kind of expostulation, which amounted to this -- "How now, my good sir?. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843] Reference
Then another voice raised in pained expostulation. From Wordnik.com. ["Contemptible", by "Casualty"] Reference
No expostulation could deter him from accompanying us. From Wordnik.com. [St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 4, February 1878] Reference
Spener with the expostulation of a master in his voice. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873] Reference
He opened his hands in a gesture of surprised expostulation. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
Maternal expostulation and paternal threats availed nothing. From Wordnik.com. [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885] Reference
"Ah, Mr. MacTaggart!" cried the Duke in a comical expostulation. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
"But the King cannot do evil," said Mary, in a tone of expostulation. From Wordnik.com. [Hayslope Grange A Tale of the Civil War] Reference
The crown drew back with horror, uttering cries of vain expostulation. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348] Reference
I heard John's voice too, raised in expostulation, but it was too late. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Coventry An Autobiography] Reference
After some hours of troublesome expostulation and entreaty, during which. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
He had expected a scene in a quiet way, a refusal, at least expostulation. From Wordnik.com. [The Hippodrome] Reference
For three days they besieged Ivan with expostulation, incredulity, persuasion. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
Heaume had a cute dodge of replying to an officer's angry expostulation that he. From Wordnik.com. [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference
It is a sort of expostulation with the Duke, but mildly and sensibly expressed. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference
Take of Shakespeare a line or two of Henry the Fourth's expostulation with sleep. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
But neither argument, nor expostulation, could induce her to touch the forbidden notes. From Wordnik.com. [Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York] Reference
Kathleen laughed tolerantly, recognising that further argument or expostulation was vain. From Wordnik.com. [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference
Mr. Gillett started as if to venture a mild expostulation, but thought better of the impulse. From Wordnik.com. [Half A Chance] Reference
Persis leaned toward her, speaking with a vehemence that swept the feeble expostulation aside. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
"And why not, my dear?" demands Mr. Massereene, his manner full of mild but firm expostulation. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
There was just a hint of expostulation in his raised eyebrows, and in the expression of his voice. From Wordnik.com. [Young Mr. Barter's Repentance From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
In hers there was tenderness, expostulation, entreaty; in his some shade of mingled horror and regret. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
"I shall ring for candles that will burn during the night," said Mr. Clifton, heedless of my expostulation. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863] Reference
Perot, whose preferred rhetorical mode is the murky expostulation, is what used to be called a blatherskite. From Wordnik.com. [The Veep And The Blatherskite] Reference
"I want do d'an'ma," he said with stolid defiance, unmoved alike by his shaking or the nurse's expostulation. From Wordnik.com. [Teddy The Story of a Little Pickle] Reference
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