When things went beyond the control of her forceful personality, inventiveness or charm, if the problem was something she could not alter or manipulate, she didn't pine or remonstrate, she merely buried what was threatening or damaging to her sense of wor. From LearnThat.org. [Colin Thubron]
Mr Martin said he did walk over and "remonstrate" with Opposition staff, but did not swear at them. From Wordnik.com. [NEWS.com.au | Top Stories] Reference
He would interfere, he would remonstrate with him. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
The women remonstrated, as it was their duty to remonstrate. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
All concessions, all attempts to remonstrate, seem at an end. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
Consequently, at this time Mrs. Middleton did not remonstrate. From Wordnik.com. [Elsie Marley, Honey] Reference
Isabel, though intensely disgusted, was too proud to remonstrate. From Wordnik.com. [Isabel Leicester A Romance by Maude Alma] Reference
Yorke tried to remonstrate, but I would not let him open his lips. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
He persuaded as many of the chiefs as dared, to remonstrate with the. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Sonny Sahib] Reference
Lady Caroline and asking her to remonstrate a little with you, my dear. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
All this was permitted, and none dared to remonstrate or utter censure. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
The Iraqi soldiers remonstrate, saying it's too many patrols, and too long. From Wordnik.com. [A Daily Dance With Death] Reference
Miss Jemima ceased to remonstrate, and her brother again moved towards the door. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference
I found it idle to remonstrate with the king about the indolence of his subjects. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
In vain the Mayor sent a committee to remonstrate against burning the warehouses. From Wordnik.com. [Ten American Girls From History] Reference
George Washington was sent by the Virginia authorities to remonstrate with the French. From Wordnik.com. [The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 With Numerous Illustrative Notes] Reference
The Doctor knew it would be useless to remonstrate; approaching Sydney, he whispered. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
One of them, however, took courage to remonstrate with him, and did so with good effect. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Conduct] Reference
I remonstrate formally, with all my strength as a man, with all my authority as a father. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
To stand by and witness this, and not dare to remonstrate, was a pain no words can render. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
The doctor was about to remonstrate when he found himself confronted by the two detectives. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview] Reference
He could throw on his bathrobe, climb down and remonstrate with the two men across the way. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Business Etiquette] Reference
Then the priests, recovering somewhat their self-possession, stepped forward to remonstrate. From Wordnik.com. [King of the Jews A story of Christ's last days on Earth] Reference
Is this the time to remonstrate with me when there are two hundred thousand Cossacks at the frontiers?. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The people felt insulted, and held indignation meetings and appointed committees to remonstrate with her. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
Once indeed, when they had beaten off sixty canoes with appalling slaughter, Amady ventured to remonstrate. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference
Sir Charles was too weak to do more than remonstrate in a gentlemanly way, but his troubled face grew clear as. From Wordnik.com. [The Slave of Silence] Reference
Dr. Scarlett-Synge, with the picture of drunken soldiery very vivid in her remembrance, ventured to remonstrate. From Wordnik.com. [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference
Pat's farewells were said and the two were off before Mrs. O'Callaghan had recovered herself enough to remonstrate. From Wordnik.com. [The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys] Reference
One night he came out on his porch to remonstrate with a crowd of negroes gathered on this corner and making a disturbance. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of Old George Town] Reference
'My mother knew it would be useless to remonstrate, for my father was unchangeable, when once he had made up his mind to anything. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
All the great parties had mildly tried to remonstrate with the slave aristocracy, but quickly recoiled as from the mouth of a furnace. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Canada, and with her recovered prestige was enabled to remonstrate forcibly with the Washington Government concerning American connivance. From Wordnik.com. [The Dominion in 1983] Reference
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