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Thence he sent an expostulatory letter to James.

Sir Nathaniel held up an expostulatory hand.

The Director lifted expostulatory hands.

In a gentle expostulatory manner Joe describes the scene as the couple collect themselves before changing his tone to a more poetic one.

Jasper had apparently become excited and expostulatory, and made a long speech about fascist imperialism.

The scientist looked at him furtively and smiled,--a bland, expostulatory smile.

Dot Moxon's expostulatory and belligerent voice dominating the broken murmur of male voices.

Petra announced in a subdued, somewhat expostulatory, tone: 'That was very horrid.'

Mr. Gibbs's two customers catch plenty of salmon on the screen and find them big enough to force an expostulatory "Nice fish!"

At an early period he parted company with the Oxford movement, and wrote expostulatory and warning letters to Keble and Newman.

'Veteres Vindicati, in an expostulatory letter to Mr. Sclater of Putney,' &c., 1687.

The Corps Diplomatique Terrestrienne will make expostulatory noises, but it will accept thefait accompli .

When I visited Dean in his office at the D.N.C., he explained, in his famously expostulatory style, why his party had been losing white working-class voters.

'An Expostulatory Letter to the Right Rev. Bishop Wiseman on the Interpolated Curse in the Vatican Septuagint,' 1850.

Such a Fact, that Louis XIV., for example, could answer the expostulatory Magistrate with his "L'Etat c'est moi (The State?

A Serious and Expostulatory Letter to the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, on the occasion of his late Letter to the Bishop of London and other Bishops, 1744.

I drew Joe away, and he immediately became placable; merely stating to me, in an obliging manner and as a polite expostulatory notice to any one whom it might happen to concern, that he were not a going to be bull-baited and badgered in his own place.

And it so happens that, as I lay down my pen to rest my hand after writing this sentence and lift a London evening paper, I read this editorial note, set within the well-known brackets at the end of an indignant and expostulatory letter: ['Our correspondent's complaint is just.