Sentence example with the word 'expostulations'

expostulations

Last update: September 14, 2015


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While hundreds were imprisoned or burned, Protestants seemed steadily to increase in numbers, and finally only the expostulations of the parlement of Paris prevented the king from introducing the Inquisition in France in accordance with the wishes of the pope and the cardinal of Lorraine.   [Please select]

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Vain were all the old man's expostulations.   [Please select]

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But Carne, too quick of temper for a really fine intriguer, cut short his expostulations.   [Please select]

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But the English mobs erected no barricades, and used no other weapons than groans and expostulations.   [Please select]

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Instead of the prompt expostulations which he probably expected, a dead silence greeted these words.   [Please select]

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I wanted to surprise Pa," she continued rapidly, to head off the young gentleman's expostulations."   [Please select]

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Of course these expostulations made not a bit of impression on Johnny Morris.   [Please select]

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