The Nashville people complained that the Creeks were "as busy in killing and scalping as if they had been paid three thousand dollars for so doing, in the room of fifteen hundred dollars to keep the peace.
Among the numerous men whom Wilkinson had complained of was Harmar, who, he said, was not only addicted to drink, but was also a bad disciplinarian.
There was much friction between him and the Spanish officials; he complained bitterly to the home government of the insolence and intrigues of the Spanish party.
The Creoles further complained of Claiborne's indifference to their wishes; and as he possessed little tact he also became embroiled with the American inhabitants, who were men of adventurous and often lawless temper, impatient of restraint.
Soon after his return to Darien he received letters from Zamudio, informing him that Enciso had complained to the king, and had obtained a sentence condemning Balboa and summoning him to Spain.
As usual, he complained of bitter oppression and injustice from the Kurdish Mirs, who had lately driven a large part of the Christian population across the frontiers into Persia.
The inhabitants complainedmuch of oppression, and unfortunately, chiefly from brother Christians formerly of their own creed.
The inhabitants complained loudly of oppression, and appeared to be an active, industrious race.
He was a Turkish officer belonging to the household of Kiamil Pasha, and complained bitterly of his solitude, of the difficulties of collecting the taxes, and of dealing with the Bedouins who haunted the plains.
On the morning after his arrival he complained that the asses by their braying during the night had allowed him no rest; and the asses were accordingly peremptorily banished from the village.
Mohammed Ali formally complained to the Governor of Damascus, Nazim Pasha, sending Mirza Majd-ud-Din as his special messenger.
After his dismissal he instigated the Persian pupils, whom he had previously secretly beguiled, and they complained to the Persian Government that "they, as good (?
A woman's wit is like dancing in fetters," she complained sometimes: "there are so many things one must not say!
Here one man came forward and complained of frequent gripings--another of rumbling in the bowels, and two or three more of cold sweats.
The next day I complainedof a headache, and said, that I would walk out until dinner-time.
He very often threatens me, but I have never had a blow yet, although Mr Brookes has complained once or twice.
You called Mr Masterton 'an old thief of a lawyer' to his face: he complained to me of the language before I had the pleasure of meeting you.
The Guards remonstrated, but the revelerscomplained bitterly that people of wealth should leave the city.
The latter complainedof the freedom of speech allowed by the Sardinian King to his people, and in reply D'Azeglio issued a pamphlet setting forth his views of the unwarranted assumption of civil authority by the Church.
When not given to debauchery he was known as a silent, gloomy, discontented youth, who quarrelled with his lot and complained always of his bad luck.
As the story is told, the gentleman robbed was much displeased at Mackoull's release and complained of this failure of justice.
When Chester went out in the morning, his wife had complained of illness, and this added to his depression as he returned home.
She neither complained nor wept; but sinking on the stone, gathered her frail limbs in a heap and buried her face in the old cloak.
It seemed to me as if He had done it when my mother complained of being so lonesome up there in the Hospital garret, and wished that she had something to read.
Calvin could have saved Servetus if he had pleased; but he complained of him to the magistrates, knowing that his condemnation and death would necessarily follow.
Byron complained of their coarseness, but Byron's poetry is far more demoralizing.
He complained bitterly to the Florentine ambassador, of the haughty friar who rebuked and defied him.
Sir William FitzGerald, the then Lord Deputy, complained loudly of the extraordinary powers granted to Essex; and some show of deference to his authority was made by requiring the Earl to receive his commission from him.
Tyrone appeared at the Castle soon after, and complained of the suspicions which were entertained of his loyalty, not, it is to be supposed, without a very clear personal conviction that they were well founded.
The ceremony had concluded, and the prince had neither moved nor complained of the severe suffering he had endured.
The ecclesiastics, however, protested against the summons, and complained to the king of the injustice and inconsistency of demanding their presence on such occasions.
Had they complainedof low wages prior to that time?
I never heard them express their views on that point, but theycomplained they were not getting full time.
In your official duties, did you inquire into the causes and origin of the riots, to ascertain what were the causes and grievances complained of?
And they complained of a large portion of the men unnecessarily being thrown out of employment by doubling up the trains.
Q, They only complained about the orders for running double-headers?
They complained about the double-headers; that they would take a great many of them off; that it would take their work away at any rate, and they thought they might as well fight it.
Was that one of the thingscomplained of by the men?
He nevercomplained of the pain in his arm, though it was excruciating.
He could not help loving you, his own daughter, dearly and fondly," soothed the lady, though she knew that she had herself noticed and complained of the same thing in her husband.
Beyons sought the king, and loudly complained to him of the infatuation and obstinacy of M.
I summoned my sister-in-law, and complained of the harshness of conduct thus adopted against my pleasure.
I mean the day which followed that on which I had complained to the duc de Duras of M.
She received us with her usual courtesy, complained that we had arrived at the very moment of the dressing of her wound, and told us she would defer it; but I would not agree to this.
If the King led her with him, she complainedof everything; if he did not, there were floods of tears.
The boys had once spoken to their father of their uncle's apparent lack of sympathy; Harry had complainedthat Uncle James never seemed to "have any feelings.
Beatrice, however, was bound by no such restriction and complained bitterly of his desertion.
But you made us lug all this camping outfit up here," complained Jack, "so the men who steered the burros up the hills wouldn't know where we camped.
Balzac complained of lack of appreciation; though, as has just been shown, he captivated one of his readers to such a degree as to bring him a wife and a fortune.
No wonder Emerson complained of her "mountainous me," or that Lowell called the whole of her being a "capital I.
I never knowed ye was so all-fired religious, Bill," complained one of his surprised hearers.
I don't see as Canyon Pass has got to be bumped by a gospel sharp to wake it up," complained Smithy, stretching his arms as though they were elastic.
He pleaded sickness, and, as Charley had complained to Barney MacFarland, lay in his bunk reading novels, or sat in the smoking room playing checkers with the mail boat doctor, while Charley was left to his own resources.
He stated that the lad had seemed most unhappy and lonesome, and complained that Mr. Wise had done little to make the voyage a pleasant one for him, or to help him find entertainment.
The prelates complained to him on one occasion that Christianity was going to the dogs, because no one feared their excommunications, and prayed that he would order his sergeants to lend the secular arm to enforce their authority.
He stopped in front of the uncourtly soldier, took his axe from him, complained of its foul state, and flung it angrily on the ground.
Many complained that they were poor, illiterate soldiers, neither able to pay for legal defence nor to comprehend the charges indicted in Latin against them.
Metz to the intercession of the saint, and in 1754, when the abbot complained to the king of the almost ruined condition of the abbey church, he found a sympathetic listener.
His jester once claimed to be of his family through their common father Adam, and complained that the heritage had been badly divided.
Already in the tenth century Richer complained that the monks of his time were beginning to wear rich ornaments and flowing sleeves, and with their tight-fitting garments[46] looked like harlots rather than monks.
The rector complained to the papal legate and threatened to close the schools if reparation were not made and justice done within fifteen days, whereupon the legate ordered the provost of the monastery to be expelled for five years.
Conservative Churchmen became alarmed and complained of disputants and blasphemers exercising their wits at every street corner.
Jeanne, in a letter to the Marquis de Beauvais, complained that holes were made in her rooms that she might be spied upon.
He never complained of it, however, nor seemed to realize any thing out of the way.
He's deviling me all the time," Meldrum complained to the owner of the horse ranch.
I told you to keep the brute away," he complained querulously.
He was of opinion that complainant had not shown that the maintenance of which he complained came within the meaning of the statute.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "complained" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
