Will not the Lord thusexpostulate with us, Why did you suffer so many helpless persons to die with hunger, when you had gold to relieve and support them?
Fleetwood on account of his conjunction with the malcontents, "Pray give me leave toexpostulate with you.
Still, with a mind as calm as a sense of the indignity of the occasion will permit, I have resolved to expostulate with you.
Commencing with Madame Wang herself, who is it who could muster sufficient courage to expostulate with the old lady?
You may reason or expostulate with the parents, but never attempt to kidnap their children, and to make proselytes of them.
Men expostulate with erring friends; they bring accusations against enemies who have done them a wrong.
To expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is.
These words are commonly interchangeable, the principal difference being that expostulate is now used especially to signify remonstrance by a superior or by one in authority.
Subjects remonstrate with their rulers; sovereigns expostulate with the parliament or the people.
Others rather marvel at the greatness and continuance of judgments, and expostulate with God as dealing hardly and unkindly with them, and tell him how good a people he afflicteth.
In thy meditations upon all these incentives of love, preach them over earnestly to thy heart, and expostulate and plead with it by way of soliloquy, till thou feel the fire begin to burn.
How may God expostulate with this generation, as those of little faith?
Christ begins here to expostulatewith the multitudes, and with the scribes and Pharisees about it.
For Mechanical sciences the old Veale of Bodmyn might iustly expostulate with my silence, if I should not spare him a roome in his Suruey, while hee so well deserues it.
Should the outsider persevere, he was first to expostulate with him, and endeavor to persuade him to go peaceably away.
Pizarro thought these very odd preparations for a voyage; but as he did not think proper toexpostulate with his brother he said nothing.
However, it is too late now to expostulate with him.
The queen, astonished at finding such animosity in one apparently tender and gentle, condescended to expostulate with her.
Janina began toexpostulate with him, and finally to urge him to take back his money, saying that she did not need it, that she would not accept it, and showing a deep aversion to being helped.
He began to expostulate with her, to beg, and to explain that they were all sacrificing their very lives for the theater, something more than the mere whim of a woman.
So as I was saying before, I expostulate with you for some testimonies of your love.
I wouldexpostulate for some testimonies of your love.
The number of deputies was unlimited: they might continue to expostulate as long as they thought fit; and meanwhile all their expenses were defrayed by the obstinate community which refused to yield to their arguments.
He ventured even to expostulate with the King, and, without blaming His Majesty's intention of employing Roman Catholics, expressed a strong opinion that the Roman Catholics who might be employed should be Englishmen.
Except under strong excitement his constitutional shyness kept him dumb, and how was he to venture to expostulate with his friend's wife upon such a subject?
I'll not expostulate with her, lest her body and beauty unprovide my mind again.
If your lordship will please to expostulate calmly, you will have no cause to repent of your condescension; otherwise I am not to be intimated into any confession.
I thought myself then at liberty to expostulate with his lordship, whom I treated with great freedom in a letter, for amusing me with vain hopes, when he neither had the power nor inclination to provide for me.
I must be allowed to expostulate seriously with the ladies, who follow these idle inventions; for ladies, mistresses of families, are not ashamed to drive in their own carriages to the door of the cunning man.
Now, suppose that some proprietor of houses at Leeds or Manchester were to expostulate with the Government in the language in which the Government has expostulated with the supporters of this bill for the regulation of factories.
There at least he will find persons who have a right to advise him and to expostulate with him, and who will, I doubt not, have also the spirit to do so.
The friend who had cared so much for the family as to come to the islands to expostulate with the Darlings on this subject, received the warmest thanks, both of Grace and her father, for his kindness and solicitude.
But the friend turned to William Darling, and began to expostulate with him.
She began to expostulate with her jailor; but he sternly bade her "Be silent--he had not gone so far, not to go further.
Do not expostulate the heavens' will, But, O, remember to forget thyself; Forget remembrance what thou once hast been.
What vermin bred of putrefacted slime Shall dare to expostulate with thy decrees!
The widow told me that she had taken the liberty to expostulate with her upon the occasion she had for raising this money, to such great disadvantage; and it produced the following short and affecting conversation between them.
