Townsend, apparently satisfied that expostulation would after all be useless.
Moderate men were startled and pained by the fierce energy of his language; and he not unfrequently made implacable enemies of opponents whom he might have conciliated and won over by mild expostulation and patient explanation.
This chapter refers to the condition of Israel at the time of this prophecy, and to the expostulation and threatened procedure of God concerning the nation.
The man lifted his hands, but any further evidence of surprise or expostulation was interrupted by a sudden ebullition in the pot.
Once during the night Hawkhurst summoned them on deck, but they obeyed not the order; and to the expostulation of the boatswain's mate, who came down, they made no reply.
Should he not, he would send up to Ethelberta the strong note of expostulation which was already written, and waiting in his pocket.
To these questions, which might be rhetorically multiplied ad infinitum on a hundred tones of querulous and sad expostulation with the past, there is no satisfactory answer.
This consciousness, all neglected by them, gives broad ground for the expostulation of the Lord--'Ye will not come unto me that ye might have life!
How endlessly more powerful with men would be expostulation grounded, not on what they have done, but on what they will not do!
She was hardly dressed when a huge crowd collected on the terrace under her window, shouting for her to show herself; and, when she came forward, they began to accost her in a mingled tone of expostulation and menace.
Expostulation of the Emperor Maximilian with his sister.
In the second chapter the prophet appears standing on his watch to see what answer Jehovah will give to the expostulation with which the preceding chapter closes.
Expostulation was unavailing: go he must, he said, or his soul would tear itself out of his body, and go without it.
And as you admit that certain documents are wanted to produce a change in his opinions, you may see clearly that until you produce them an expostulation would be worse than useless.
Lucy's Vain but Affecting Expostulation with her Father --Her Terrible Denunciation of Ambrose Gray.
Lucy's Vain but Affecting Expostulation with her Father--Her Terrible Denunciation of Ambrose Gray XXXVI.
However, expostulation and reproach were bootless; nor would it answer here to go into the quarrel which ensued over the dead body.
As I thus passed them, my eyes fixed upon the shining road ahead, my ears caught a word or two of indignant expostulation from her lips.
I had reached the door by this time, but paused now, determined to venture one word of expostulationat his recklessness.
The zealous attempt to bring about conversion by preaching and expostulation was fair and commendable.
But repeated expostulation was of no use against the impetuous needs of Constable & Co.
It was not merely from the hateful sight of his rival, or the monotonous expostulation of his mother, that the poor youth fled; it was sometimes to escape the heavily chastening hand of his bigoted father.
He was about to leave the chamber, had already placed his hand upon the latch of the door, when he heard the voice of his hostess, on the stairway, in seemingexpostulation with her son.
He was subject to the daily lecture from the old man, and the nightly exhortation and expostulation of the old woman Tho latter did her spiriting gently.
The Czar, too, would have held out longer but for the expostulation of Austria and the advice of his ministers, who pointed out his inability to continue the contest with the hostility of all Europe.
Cavour's lucid exposition of the internal affairs of Italy brought out the condemnation of the Russian and Prussian envoys as well as that of the English ministry, and led to their expostulation with the Austrian government.
Resistance and expostulation being out of the question, Peveril submitted to have a light pair of fetters secured on his ankles, which allowed him, nevertheless, the power of traversing the apartment.
One cried out to him, and then another, and then a third, but in notes of expostulation rather than temper.
While he talked I would here and there mark a dingy face with a look ofexpostulation in it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "expostulation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
