A protest made to the Diet on account of this act was of no avail, since a majority of the members were Catholics.
The agreement was nearly concluded, when Bismarck in the name of the North-German Union, made such an energetic protestthat the negotiations were suspended.
The Greek Emperors at Constantinople were not strong enough to protest against this bestowal of a dignity which they claimed for themselves.
Had she done nothing worse than to protest against this form of marriage few would condemn her; her condemnation comes rather from the life she felt it consistent with her theories to live for many years.
I thought myself a dead man once, and protest the notion gave me no disquiet about myself,--at least the philosophy is more comfortable than that which is tinctured with brimstone.
I must protest that there was no warrant for this caricature; but on the contrary, that it bore no feature of resemblance to the slight degree of eccentricity discoverable in Cumberland, and was utterly contradicted by the life in London.
Plant life that is strong enough to withstand the storms, turns its back in protest to the wind.
How unreasonable it is to protestthe measurement of the breadth of a pin-point with Him who doeth all things well!
Protest against the decrees of the Father is blasphemy.
The cause for which he stands was the Antislavery movement, as it grew into a political necessity rather than as a protest against moral evil.
And she had listened to his solemn protest without laughing in his face!
He had found me a wounded outcast, lying unconscious on the sand, and had made his mansion my hospital; and I could not lift an ungrateful finger in protest against a torture which in his belief was an act of kindness.
Received from bank, check of Landis & Snow protested for non-payment, protestfees added 1.
When a note, draft, or check is protested, the bank will charge us with the protest fee in addition to the face of the paper.
When the soldiers of the fort learned of this, over the protest of their officers they killed the prisoners.
Their protest was not evidence of sedition but a well developed sensitiveness against the danger of over-government.
In 1766, disregarding the protest of his family he married Mary McDonald, whereupon his father sent word: "In this marriage you have disregarded my advice and disobeyed me.
The young farmer, as the silence is broken by a shrill wail of protest from his for-some-time-expected son and heir, starts from his chair in a clumsy effort at noiselessness and moves towards the bedroom door.
The proposition, met with indignant protest and opposition.
Thereupon the Kentucky synod, over the protest of Calvin Campbell and several others, suspended them; leaving it to their respective presbyteries to restore them upon satisfactory proof of repentance.
I wonder the President of the United States don't make a protest about it.
He stood there, a simple fisherman, as a protest against the failure of civilization and the cowardice in the hearts of men.
The boys of eighteen followed them in the month of April, after nine months of war, and not a voice in Paris was raised toprotest against this last and dreadful sacrifice.
It's only the protest of my material earthly self.
Gaspare was exclaiming, with indignant gestures of protest to the elderly couple who were in charge of the aprons; "it is not worth two soldi!
There came to him a cry of protest from the shore.
In the case of Ferdinand and Alfonso it may also have represented a protestagainst the like pretensions of the Holy Roman Emperors, then reigning principally in Germanic Europe.
The fact that these changes were made without provoking resistance and almost without protest shows how utterly dead were the political ideals of the past.
The call for the Cortes provoked a storm of protest not only by Toledo but also by many other cities with which the first-named was in correspondence.
This provoked a storm of protest on the part of the lords, for the continuance of such a policy might result in emigrations or uprisings, much to their detriment.
The revolt of Toledo had begun as a protest of the nobles and clergy against the imposition of taxes against them.
It is not the cruelty, but rather the corrupting influence of this sport which should occupy those who protest against it.
I know children who are models of obedience in most matters, but who scream with protest and resentment when it comes to taking medicine or even to being examined by a physician.
Builders and decorators suggested one elaborate project after another, without regard to the cost, despite the protestof Colbert to the King that they were exceeding all estimates and provisions.
It was the Duchess of Burgundy who was the living embodiment of this protest of joy against sadness, of springtime against cold winter, of licentiousness against the exacting restrictions of etiquette.
He compelled attention now, however, as after this little speech he sat down near the head of the table, while Godfrey shrank into a dark corner, only withheld from a protest by the force of his brother's will.
Violet became suddenly serious, and Florella could hardly help crying out in protest against touching these things which seemed to her full of a living trouble.
Presented in the form of a proposition, the protest was read before the Stafford court by Peter Hedgman.
The climax came early in 1767 when the Corsicans captured the Genoese island of Capraja, and occupied Ajaccio and other places, evacuated by the French as a protest against the asylum given to the Jesuits exiled from France.
Maimonides perhaps correctly regarded the law as a protest against heathenism (on the magical use of representatives of the animal and vegetable kingdom, in conjunction with a metal ring, see I.
I protest I never saw a stranger sight than this of Charlotte being toyed with.
I protest," went he on to say, "I protest it was the wind of the casement; and if I live another year I will put a better in the place of it.
I protest to thee by my honour and knighthood, no ill shall come unto thee therefrom.
I protest that I was not able to speak to her, which I would have done, to have diverted her tears.
