5214 examples of protested in sentences

Our own age is, in some respects, more Pagan than were the darkest times of mediaeval violence and priestly despotism, since we are reviving the very things against which Christianity protested as dangerous and false,the pomps, the banquets, the ornaments, the arts of the old Pagan world.

He protested against a debate, in which he could trace nothing like reason; but, on the contrary, downright phrensy, raised perhaps by the most extraordinary eloquence.

Sternly did the Don command the man to pay the lad's wages, and when the fellow promised to do so directly he got home, and the boy protested that he would surely never keep that promise, Don Quixote threatened the farmer, saying, "I am the valorous Don Quixote of La Mancha, righter of wrongs, revenger and redresser of grievances; remember what you have promised and sworn, as you will answer the contrary at your peril."

I protested in vain, and this iniquitous settlement, which placed every farthing of the £20,000 in Sir Percival's pocket, and prevented Miss Fairlie providing for Miss Halcombe, was duly signed.

" "But you can't swim in such awfully full bloomers," Sahwah protested.

" "But there isn't anybody else as light as Carmen," Hinpoha protested, "and I can't carry anybody that's any heavier.

" "It wasn't anything much thatI did," Agony protested in a flat voice.

They seemed first of all to think it would be an awkward Parliamentary case, and Peel protested against our becoming responsible, as we should, for the horrible consequences which might attend the continuance of the trade for six months.

" This time, while even Martine protested, Clotilde, wounded in her affection, grew angry.

But against this I protested, seeing that it would be dangerous to our design to let her know so much (she having a woman's tongue in her head), and also of a bad tendency to make her, as it were, at the very beginning of her life, a knowing active party to what looked like nothing more nor less than a piece of knavery.

"When you've known her as long as I havenineteen years," said Mr. Letts, as the other protested, "things'll be a bit different.

His manner alarmed the rascal, who apologized, and protested that there must be a mistake; he had never said so.

I told him likewise, that the church had once preferred a similar complaint against her God; upon which Jehovah protested that it was possible for a mother to forsake her infant child, but impossible for him ever to leave or to forsake his people; for he had pledged his word to the contrary.

When the first Sabbath arrived, he protested against transacting business on that day, declaring that he had never been accustomed to any thing of that kind.

And when Moreau protested indignantly: "Well, perhaps you, and one or two more may have minded a little,but most of them did not even notice it."

" Of course they all protested indignantly against this comparison; in their eyes war and those who waged it were equally infamous.

This I do, and always have protested against.

'We told you we wouldn't fight a girl,' protested Teddy indignantly; 'you don't speak the truth.

she protested.

Tom, who had at once applied to his Uncle Deane, partner in a wealthy merchant's business, for work, and was now earning a pound a week, had protested against entertaining the proposition; he shouldn't like his father to be under Wakem; he thought it would look nothing but mean spirited.

Garrick vainly protested; but Johnson was inexorable.

From time to time the tall old priest turned mildly and protested, trying to get more air and elbow room for Veronica.

Each individual muscle in his whole body protested when called upon to move.

Jean protested.

The Landenberg sent for him, and required He should produce his son upon the spot; And when the old man protested, and with truth, That he knew nothing of the fugitive, The tyrant call'd his torturers.

5214 examples of  protested  in sentences