expostulate

I told you as much the other night,' he expostulated.

Someone else was expostulating with him, but to no more effect than the first man.

Meanwhile I had been long expostulating with my friend upon a different matter.

I expostulated with him, and several of our party joined me. "

From first to last, on this occasion, her aunt expostulated for about two hours.

"But he lived in these tunnels for a week," I expostulated.

"Something," she says, "was being constantly expostulated and one never knew quite what."

"You've got to give the spell time to work," he expostulated.

I expostulated with him, but in vain; neither would he so much as tell me who their new captain was.

"But that sort of thing doesn't always work," he expostulated.

"You're so young, Ma," she had expostulated more than once.

The commissioner expostulated on the importance of the news.

It sounded as though she were begging, asking, pleading, expostulating.

"Here," Billy expostulated at last, taking hold of the axe.

Buckley once expostulated, when asked if he thought National Review would ever make one.

Khalenberg led the way past a large room full of expostulating men.

The latter met him a few days afterwards, and expostulated plaintively.

I never dreamed of her being the thief,' I expostulated.

"Oh, I say, old thing," expostulated the young man; "this might even be worse."

"But we can't remember the words from only one hearing," Saxon expostulated.

Unruffled, Owen continued expostulating, albeit into the back of her head.

I managed to draw him aside as we went through the fowl-run, and expostulated.

He expostulated strongly with the most forward of the crowd, upon their turbulent behaviour.

"I haven't had a drink, Mary," expostulated the old man.

Isaac was expostulating and trying to deny the charge.