With one of his fists raised towards the ceiling, Salvat seemed to be protesting against the abomination of a world and a Providence that allowed old toilers to die of hunger just like broken-down beasts.
Then, as Pierre wished to break off at the point which he had reached, they all began protesting and calling for the continuation of his narrative, so that he had to promise to go on to the triumph of the Grotto.
Mege went on still in frantic fashion, figuratively casting Sagnier into the gutter, andprotesting that there was nothing in common between himself and such a base insulter.
Something like relief, therefore, came when Monferrand started with the most emphatic denials, protesting in the name of his outraged honour, and dealing blow after blow on the tribune with one hand, while with the other he smote his chest.
Doubtless he was an unconscious revolutionary, protesting against the overflowing luxury of the Roman court by his return to the love of the humble, the simplicity of the primitive Church.
It was Reason, protesting against the glorification of the absurd and the deposition of common-sense.
He ended with protestingthat it was his earnest desire to be more closely united with the Queen his most gracious sister; which his future actions would shew.
He was on the point of protesting at this way of conducting the game when the idea occurred to him that it would be a huge satisfaction to have that city chap subjected to the same treatment, and he decided to hold his peace.
Henry VIII sent his friend's son to the scaffold, accused as a lover of Anne Boleyn; he went to the block protesting his innocence, and there was nothing to prove him guilty; his last words were a defence of the queen.
Were Seneca alive now, he would write no such letter as he once wrote to Lucilius, protesting against the ridiculous devotion of his countrymen to physical gymnastics.
Thus she ran on, laughing, and interfering with my sales, protesting all the while that I was the greatest original in all her circle of acquaintance.
She raised her eyebrows with a protesting gesture, but he looked away and opened an illustrated paper by his side.
The Baron raised his hands with a littleprotesting gesture.
Regina, comforting her protestingpets with further supplies of Indian corn.
There was a brief scrimmage about sides, Regina wanting Lesbia for a partner, and Derrick indignantly protestingagainst two girls playing together.
Two minutes later Ruxton Farlow, clad in workman's clothes, occupied the protesting wicker-chair, while Prince von Hertzwohl contented himself with a seat upon the unyielding bed.
Ruxton had risen from his protesting chair and moved across the room.
Johann Brenz, as soon as news reached him in Würtemberg of the Landgrave’s hint of an appeal to the Emperor, saw in it a threat to turn his back on the protesting party.
His voice ran up the scale of protesting self-defence.
It was as if she was protesting against something, beating herself against some invisible, eternal barrier that divided the world into two unequal parts.
He moved toward her, his hands outspread with a protesting gesture.
But dizzily, with a stark clinging to a rock of integrity in herself, she fought him off, more with her militant spirit than with her outspread, protesting hands.
A kind of watch-dog anxiety, a sulky, protesting affection breathed from her rugged features.
Her heart cried out to Warkworth in a protesting anguish.
Freddie says I must," said the other, in the attitude of a protesting child.
Would he not have felt, must not I have felt with him, that this was one of those moments when to see wrong done without protesting is to share in it?
Cicero has said that to see a wrong done without protesting is to commit one.
The Little Captain ran after her and brought her back, protesting but captive.
Betty was the first to awake, and in fifteen minutes she had the rest of the sleepy-eyed and protesting girls up and nearly dressed.
The Journal Officiel of to-day contains a letter from Monseigneur Bauer, protesting against the Prussians having shot at him when he went forward with a flag of truce and a trompette.
General Ducrot publishes a letter protesting against a statement of the German journals that he escaped from Pont-à-Mousson when on parole.
The chief of General Ducrot's staff has published a letter protesting against the assertions of certain journals that the fight at Malmaison produced no results.
Many of the men, however, have not answered to the rappel, and are remaining at home, as a mode of protesting against what is passing.
The protesting groans and denials of her companions beat in vain against the rock of her decision.
If you begin byprotesting and excusing as you are doing now, there will be no time left.
Ireland hears the oceanprotesting against Separation, but she hears the sea likewise protesting against Union.
And but for the sheer futility of it, he might have fallen to upbraiding her and protesting and complaining as of yore, and repudiated the mythical 'gal at the Settlemint.
The animal shied dubiously, protesting against this unique translation to vague subterranean spheres.
After expressing himself in a very decided manner, he suddenly threw himself down on the beach by my side, seized my hand in his, still protesting in his own guttural tongue.
They have been protesting against the established order in American business and politics.
Reformers he appraised as busybodies, who were protesting against the conditions of success in business and politics.
A shipper of oil in Cleveland, Ohio, would have a difficult time in protesting against illegal discrimination on the part of a railroad conducting an inter-state business and organized under the laws of New York.
The logic of its position makes it the aggressor, just as the logic of its opponents' position ties them to a negative and protesting or merely insubordinate part.
They were sturdily rebellious against all manner of respectable methods, ideas, and institutions, but none of them dreamed of protesting against the real enemy of American intellectual independence.
I did not like her protesting so much as this; but I saw that it was a condition of her being able to deal with herself in the matter, and I had no doubt she was telling the truth.
