Abraham had risen with creaks of his rheumatic joints, and was now walking up and down the room, his feet lifted slowly and painfully with every step, yet still his blue eyes flashing with the fire of indignant protest.

In 1621 he was committed to the Tower and only released after the House of Commons had made a vigorous protest against his incarceration.

For this reason I have not resented much in your letters which would otherwise call for earnest protest.

On the 9th August, 1915, the German Ambassador at Constantinople handed in a formal protest against the deportations, in which his Government "declined all responsibility for the consequences which might result.

This has been received with loud protests by men whose work one is obliged to respect, by Sir Harry, Johnston, for example, and Sir Alfred Sharpe, and with something approaching a shriek of hostility by Mr. Cunninghame Graham.

But this elicited an angry protest from Constance, who on the subject of children held the same views as her husband himself professed in his more serious moments.

he cried, in answer to a feeble protest on the part of Mugford, "make it on level ground?

" To this, a mild protest for the major, Uncle John replied: "Dear Major Doyle: Yours received.

In Carlyle, indeed, I found bitter denunciations of an "age of unbelief," and of the present age as such, which I, like most people at that time, supposed to be passionate protests in favour of the old modes of belief.

No one can vie with me in my appreciation of the civilization of Switzerland, Sweden, or Holland, but the plain fact of the case is that such powers are absolutely incapable of uttering an effective protest against war.

When war recently threatened Europe over the Morocco dispute, the Socialists in each of these countries made solemn protest to the world, declaring that laboring men were brothers everywhere and had no will to fight over any governmental problem.

" Mrs. Phipps, after a faint protest, gave way, and Mr. Digson, smiling broadly, mounted his perch again.

In spite of the energetic protests of a section of the Press to the personnel of the committee, it might be said that on the whole the public were prepared to trust it especially as it contained three Indian members who could fairly be claimed to be independent.

It was a fierce protest against the luxuries of an enervated age.

Beaumaroy's eyebrows were raised in gentle protest.

" The principal organ of Germany's largest political party, the Social Democrats, contained a still more emphatic protest on July 25th.

People with a just cause are never satisfied with a mere protest.

A voice raised in vehement protest, echoing through the open door of the studio, checked her on the landing below as she mounted.

To the manoeuvre of the consul he replied by a violent protest that it was illegal.

When at last Carolyn June started to return to the house the filly followed her to the gate of the corral and whinnied a little protest against her going.

Hundreds of British officers, for example, were among the victims whose bones lie rotting in the valley of the Aisne, as whole pages of their portraits in the London journals, bearing many of the best known names in the British Empire, testified in mute protest against the horrors of war.

First, because most of the people mourn the loss of a leader and a friend, but beyond that I must say they seem to enter an unconscious protest against the ascription either to him or them of treason or personal dishonor.

she cried in bitter protest, as she stood with both her hands clenched.

The Athenians, I aver, were a duncified race; and it would have pleased me hugely to have been in the neighborhood when Alcibiades rescinded his dog's charming tail,a fine practical protest, although unpleasant to the dog.

We have added the late "Address of the American Anti-Slavery Society," and the letter of Francis Jackson to Governor Briggs, resigning his commission of Justice of the Peaceas bold and honorable protests against the guilt and infamy of this National bargain, and as proving most clearly the duty of each individual to trample it under his feet.