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- noun Plural form of
remonstrance .
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Examples
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Appeals and remonstrances from the porch having no effect upon her, Bess despatched a little girl to beg of her to pick no more poppies.
The Golden Poppy 2010
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Appeals and remonstrances from the porch having no effect upon her, Bess despatched a little girl to beg of her to pick no more poppies.
The Golden Poppy 1910
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He was also in receipt of frequent remonstrances from the English and other Governments as to the iniquities of the slave-trade, for which he was primarily in no sense to blame.
The Life of Gordon, Volume I Demetrius Charles Boulger 1890
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The military appointments of President Davis have elicited strong remonstrances from a portion of the Richmond press, and the Examiner roundly asserts that the Confederacy is weary of the flagrant mismanagement of Mr. Davis's Administration.
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The form of their remonstrances is conceived with the noble simplicity of freedom.]
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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I hope, my dear, your silence does not proceed from your being angry with me — believe me, my remonstrances are the dictates of my affection for you. —
The Offspring of Fancy Anonymous 1778
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“Think of the long rest this winter,” was her reply to my remonstrances.
Chapter 31 2010
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Post, their ears closed to the remonstrances of their comrades.
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Post, their ears closed to the remonstrances of their comrades.
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It positively baked me, that terrible sun, and the more it hurt me the more I delighted in it, or in myself rather, in that I was thus the master of my flesh and superior to its claims and remonstrances.
Chapter 12 2010
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