in protestation

He stepped to the door and was about to knock when he heard the voice of a woman crying out in protestation and pain.

I wondered at his eagerness and the fact that not once had he contracted his sphincter in protestation.

Vance lifted his eyebrows in protestation.

Presently it is involved in protestation against Nepalese who wants new state of so-called Gorkhaland.

Derues shuddered all over; he exhausted himself in protestations; but the other, almost beside himself, continued to shout.

De Saint-Aignan almost exhausted himself in protestations of devotion, took the King's hand, kissed it, and left the room radiant with delight.

Next day, on November 1, he received a telephone call from Washington, from a bureaucrat whose voice seemed to come sliding down the wire on its knees in protestations of apology.

In protestation, Dr. Lena Sadler and I appealed to the management for representation and space for some exhibit in the Hall of Science.

French ARF organized a demonstration in front of US consulate in Lyon, in protestation against Sassounian's arrest.

But, before God, Kate, I cannot look greenly nor gasp out my eloquence, nor I have no cunning in protestation; only downright oaths, which I never use till urged, nor never break for urging.

In many cases, it is the bully's ability to create the illusion that he or she has the support of the majority present that instills the fear of "speaking out" in protestation of the bullying activities being observed by the group.

A few days later when I talked to the boy, and told him that I planned to go north soon, but wanted no one to know of it, so would leave him behind to cover my retreat, he was enthusiastic, and fervent in protestations of faithfulness and secrecy.

He uses credible as a modifier in protestations of no wrongdoing: "There is no credible evidence and no credible charge that I violated any criminal or civil Federal law eight or nine years ago when most of these facts that are being bandied around are discussed."

"Then I wouldn't know what to say," he answered-and felt a rush of blood to his brain, tight as a slap, realizing suddenly the double infamy of a lie uttered in protestation of honesty; he had said it sincerely, but it implied a boast to which he had no right any longer.