Thesaurus / remonstrance

remonstrance

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Instead of obeying, the officers and men held a mass meeting to draft their remonstrance to the Directory.

After an hour's insane remonstrance, he gave in to his own alarm, rather than to the persuasion of his partner.

It is said, perhaps untruly, that his remonstrance to the Prince against his remaining here has been ungentlemanlike and indecent.

Mrs. Lawton, unaccustomed to any remonstrance from her bondwoman, seized a switch and shook it threateningly.

The baron grumbled some remonstrance not heard by Gilbert, but the lackey mounted beside the driver.

For a while Eric said nothing, but as the strain grew worse, he made a faint remonstrance.

The more Inga continued silent and without remonstrance, the wilder his resentment mounted.

He was ready to go wherever he was sent, instantly, without conditions or remonstrance.

He urged that there should be "a temperate but weighty remonstrance" from parliament, backed by half a million Italian signatures.

Then the Bedford section made it known that England would not in any case go to war, and France despised their remonstrance.

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