Just as Rochester and Paul Ferroll are protests against the conventional hero, so Lady Isabel is a protest against the conventional heroine--and a portent of her time!
Protests have been offered in other places against a similar treatment of other persons; but scarcely any protest has been attempted in respect to Charlotte Bronte.
He also protestsagainst the doctrine of an everlasting Hell, as unconfirmed by the Holy Scriptures, as destructive of God's work, and as incompatible with His great goodness.
In its final pages he vehemently protests against the continued union of Church and State, or rather against the continued upholding of the persecuting power of the Church by the secular authorities.
By the end of a couple of months the statue was eaten up before it had been made, and the series of protests and writs recommenced.
A chorus of protests from the surrounding group only deepened her determination.
The retirement was not made without protestsfrom Hill and from Coke's staff officer who was still on the plateau.
It has lived and become historical when the decorous protests of professional divines have been forgotten with the breath which uttered them.
Too weak from illness to express his indignation in more than words, heprotests against the insolent deceit.
The failure of the Boers to attain their ends in the field did more to improve the efficiency of the administration of the customs than the protests of England.
Under the protests of the British Government, however, orders arrived from Lisbon which revived an old law requiring all persons leaving Portuguese territory to obtain passports signed by the Governor-general.
In spite of the protests of Great Britain and of Portugal as to his unneutral attitude he had been continued in his position.
But, notwithstanding the continued protestsby England, the Hague Government seemed reluctant to take any official notice of the evident partiality of its consular agent.
Every year protests have gone up to both mayor and council, but without result.
To be sure, but the burning fact remains that in spite of the protests of the people, it was not done.
Despite of these protests the error held its ground.
Skinner (Etymologicon, 1671) protestsagainst the word altogether, as purely French, and having no right to be considered English at all.
The painter protestsagainst the rough usage to which he has been subjected.
The lyric protests against the temptation to self-centered seclusion on the part of those who are entirely satisfied in each other's love.
In Paracelsus he definitely protests against man's way of reading his own moods into nature, and of attributing to her his own qualities and emotions.
In spite of the protests of Sheridan and other members of the opposition, a campaign of press and other prosecutions now began which threatened to extinguish the most cherished right of Englishmen--liberty of speech.
For some years he was constrained to take a minor part in politics, only emerging occasionally to make violent and unwise protests against peace with France.
Protests against the corruption of the Church and the interference of the papacy in national affairs had always been rife in England.
This and his ready tongue were the main arguments by which he convinced the few magnates present, and persuaded them to back him, despite the protests of some supporters of Robert.
That some Turks did venture on protests we are ready to admit gladly; but with the bulk of the nation the crime was actually popular.
The Sabaeans, represented by the personal servants of the Sheikh, had come down on the animals as they were feeding, and disregarding all protests had carried off every one!
There could come no protests from Europe, but perhaps from America there might--and the presence of American missionaries in the country rendered it impossible for the facts to be altogether hid.
A prodigious effort was made, but unsuccessfully, loud protestsgoing up from the packed crowd.
Another favourite Scotch picture of Keene's is that in which a drunken workman, remonstrated with by the parson, protests that the latter is always blaming him for his drinking, but "You forget my droth!
On other occasions he would relapse into his original practice of violent and scornful attack--to such a point, as is seen elsewhere, as to extort the vigorous protests of Thackeray and Ruskin.
Here there were most indignantprotests from the crew of the gallant Sarah; and the question was argued out with some energy on the floor of the shoe-room before Langrish could proceed.
To her mother's protests and brother's encouragement she was quite obdurate.
AMEN: Now, will you tell the Tribunal what were the grounds of the protests which you made?
AMEN: Did these protests in the ordinary course go also to Jodl?
AMEN: To whom in the ordinary course did these protests go?
AMEN: Do you know whether anyprotests were made with respect to that order?
The indignant protests of Selwyn, Hadfield, and Martin had taken effect; an enquiry into the Waitara case proved the illegality of the Government's action.
In his alarm he sent protests both to the Archbishop of Canterbury and to New Zealand.
Selwyn and Hadfield sent protests and petitions to the Government and to the Queen.
Numerous protests were raised against this assertion of papal power.
But the protests on the part of bishops were unavailing, and they were themselves largely to blame for the height to which the papal power had grown.
Palfrey and Mr. Bancroft to employ the words "faction" and "factionists" to the protestsof John and Samuel Brown.
Treaty of Peace between Great Britain and the United States; rights and interests of the Loyalists sacrificed by it; omissions in it; protests against it in Parliament.
First protestsagainst the second Royal Charter, then thanks King William for it.
Protests and Loyal Petitions of the Colonists against English Parliamentary Acts to raise a revenue in the Colonies.
When protests were made against Eaton's appointment to the cabinet, Jackson savagely cried, "I will sink or swim with him, by God!
Protests were elsewhere made against forcing small notes into circulation.
Such fanciful speculation the Republicans, led by Van Buren, opposed with strong and heated protests, in tone not unlike the Liberal protests of 1878 in England against Disraeli's Jingo policy.
My very text protests against the modern attempt to wrench away the sentiments and emotions produced in men, by the reception of Christian truth, from the truth which it recognises as the only basis on which they can be produced.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "protests" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
