"gentle" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- And you, my tender sir,' said Mr Pecksniff, addressing himself in a tone of gentle remonstrance to the old man, 'how could you ever leave me, though even for this short period!
- But in honesty I must warn you," continued Blueshell, brushing back Greenstalk's gentle remonstrance, "professional communications folk would not honor your request for talk-would probably not even recognize it as such.
- After a slight pause, during which the members of the Lawes family slowly directed curious glances at each other, Helena spoke on a note of gentle remonstrance.
- They heard the gentle remonstrance of a kindly king with an erring but much-loved minister.
- Adams raised a hand in gentle remonstrance.
- The tall youth came right up to him, and spoke in a tone of gentle remonstrance.
- The chuckle certainly hadn't come from the seaman whose incautiously moving foot had elicited Yairley's gentle remonstrance when it knocked over one of the cutlasses piled on the launch's floorboards with a loud clang.
- She wished, by a gentle remonstrance, to remind Isabella of her situation, and make her aware of this double unkindness; but for remonstrance, either opportunity or comprehension was always against her.
- He added in a tone of gentle remonstrance, "You know - we are allowed on a battlefield."
- Finding all gentle remonstrance useless, Mr. Pickwick at length yielded a reluctant consent to his taking lodgings by the week, of a bald-headed cobbler, who rented a small slip room in one of the upper galleries.
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