Vocabulary Word
Word: remonstrate
Definition: protest; objection; V. remonstrate: say in protest
Definition: protest; objection; V. remonstrate: say in protest
Sentences Containing 'remonstrate'
``And did you not remonstrate against such infamy?''
I had it in my thoughts to remonstrate with him upon his desperate way of pursuing any fancy that he took--such as this buffeting of rough seas, and braving of hard weather, for example--when my mind glanced off to the immediate subject of our conversation again, and pursued that instead.
'Don't you think, my dear,' said I, 'it would be better for you to remonstrate with Mary Anne?'
I was going to remonstrate; but he silenced me by pouring them into my trowsers' pockets.
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