104 collocations for complain

He complains a little, but all in good humour; and good-naturedly asks what he was to expect, when so many hungry kinsmen and partisans were to be served first.

At first, even though you be one of her children, she seems and for how long like something fallen, calling you with the monotonous, mighty, complaining voice of a fallen archangel, ceaselessly through the days, the years, the centuries and the ages.

Or, rather, let me ask, did they ever cease complaining of their condition under you their lordly masters?

And what right have you to complain of that, lying all your length, a huge hulking fellow snoring and snorting half asleep on a sofa, sufficient to sicken a whole street?

He has complained a great deal of his head, and his face looks flushed and feverish.

I don't mean to complain all the time, either, but I don't believe mother or granny realized how difficult it was going to be.

To weary out the time, until they come, Sing me some doleful ditty to the lute, That may complain my near-approaching death.

in loud, complaining tones, I have no doubt of real suffering, but in strange contrast with the silent patience which was the almost universal rule.

In the stormy east-wind straining, The pale yellow woods are waning, The broad stream in his banks complaining, Heavily the low sky raining Over tower'd Camelot; Down she came and found a boat Beneath a willow left afloat, And round about the prow she wrote The Lady of Shalott.

Our Lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the Purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do: We are always complaining our Days are few, and acting as though there would be no End of them.

This last beautiful Moral is, I think, clearly intimated in the Speech of Sin, where complaining of this her dreadful Issue, she adds, Before mine Eyes in Opposition sits Grim Death my Son and Foe, who sets them on, And me his Parent would full soon devour For want of other Prey, but that he knows His End with mine involv'd I need not mention to the Reader the beautiful Circumstance in the last Part of this Quotation.

"I didn't have no luck borryin' for this one," complained the sick woman fretfully.

But, ah! how vain to think his word Can add a straw to Berry's.' On the following day, Mary, whom he terms the Latin nymph sent the following lines: 'Had Rome's famed Horace thus addrest His Lydia or his Lyce, He had ne'er so oft complained their breast To him was cold and icy. '

The governor of the State of New York complains of the cutting out and burning of the steamboat Caroline by order of Colonel McNab, commanding Her Majesty's forces at Chippewa, in the Province of Upper Canada, and of the destruction of the lives of some American citizens who were on board of the boat at the time she was attacked.

How free-born citizens complain, with many Yankee curses, Of fate which fills, in spite of them, their coffers and their purses.

"Yes, but she'll never be the same," sorrowfully complained her commander.

So decorous, indeed, are the little sauvagesses forming the miniature processions, that I do not remember ever detecting the eyes of any of them wandering and wantoning around, like those of the naughty little processional in white about whose conduct I just now complained.

The interior appearance of that window afforded, perhaps, as vivid and complaining contrast to its exterior as had ever been presented since views had rivalry.

"But if you can't help it, whom do you complain of?"Collier cor.

" Of women's unnatural, insatiable lust, what country, what village doth not complain?

Even Symonds wrote of Theocritus, possibly with Fontenelle's words in his mind: 'As it is, we find enough of rustic grossness on his pages, and may even complain that his cowherds and goatherds savour too strongly of their stables.'

a little weak, complaining creature, who had had not only every ill that flesh is heir to, but a great many ills besides that she was firmly persuaded no other flesh had ever inherited, and who stood in an awe of her sister Sophia only equalled by her intense admiration of her.

Wegeler and Schindler, writing several years after the great composer's death, state, that, of these three instructors, he considered himself most indebted to Pfeiffer, declaring that he had profited little or nothing by his studies with Neefe, of whose severe criticisms upon his boyish efforts in composition he complained.

And should the lad his fate upbraid, Although he ignominious fade And in an alien country die? Will for him the beauteous maid Complaining cry? LERMONTOFF.

The prince complained already some time ago. Czeska.

104 collocations for  complain