remonstrant

"The reader should know," writes Henry Kissinger in his lengthy coronation of John Lewis Gaddis's "magisterial" biography of the American foreign-policy seer and remonstrant George Kennan in the November 13 New York Times Book Review, "that for the past decade, I have occasionally met with the students of the Grand Strategy seminar John Gaddis conducts at Yale and that we encounter each other on social occasions from time to time."

Jim Sleeper: Henry Kissinger's Grand Strategy Takes a New Turn at Yale Jim Sleeper 2011

"The reader should know," writes Henry Kissinger in his lengthy coronation of John Lewis Gaddis's "magisterial" biography of the American foreign-policy seer and remonstrant George Kennan in the November 13 New York Times Book Review, "that for the past decade, I have occasionally met with the students of the Grand Strategy seminar John Gaddis conducts at Yale and that we encounter each other on social occasions from time to time."

Jim Sleeper: Henry Kissinger's Grand Strategy Takes a New Turn at Yale Jim Sleeper 2011

Continuing to chuckle when his laugh is over, as though remonstrant with himself on his drinking powers, he rolls to the door and unlocks it.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 2007

‘What CAN be your antipathy to Baker Street?’ asks some fair remonstrant, evidently writing from that quarter.

The Book of Snobs 2006

The deep angry remonstrant eyes, the shaggy eyebrows, telling tales of frequent anger — of anger frequent but generally silent — the repressed indignation of the habitual frown, the long nose and large powerful mouth, the deep furrows on the cheek, and the general look of thought and suffering, all combined to make the appearance of the man remarkable, and to describe to the beholders at once his true character.

The Last Chronicle of Barset 2004

She spoke with a hesitant, remonstrant voice, as if in half-hearted protest,

Heart of the Blue Ridge Waldron Baily

Any woman can do as she pleases without a remonstrant word, provided she has mind enough.

The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

By ones and twos we collected them, half drowned yet shrilly remonstrant, and dropped them into the dry shed where they belonged.

More Jonathan Papers Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris 1917

Garry's was gravely censorious, almost remonstrant.

The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance 1916

The man swung and saw a stranger of barely half his bulk, who addressed him in what seemed to be politely remonstrant tones.

The Unspeakable Perk Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914