The morsel made a remonstrant squeaking, and squirmed feebly.

He found himself shaking his head under the Jesuit's remonstrant eyes.

The Arminians remonstrated on various grounds, and thus acquired the name of Remonstrants, by which they were soon generally distinguished.

The influence of Prince Maurice had gained complete success for the Calvinist party, in its various titles of Gomarists, non-remonstrants, etc.

The Remonstrants, thrown into utter despair, looked to emigration as their last resource.

Even with a subject so dull, so barren of the bare possibilities of poetry, as his "Animadversions upon the Remonstrants' Defense," he breaks out into an invocation, "Oh, Thou that sittest in light and glory unapproachable, parent of angels and men," which is like a chapter from the Apocalypse.

" We had intended to look more closely at these performances, to analyze the peculiarities of the diction, to dwell at some length on the sublime wisdom of the Areopagitica and the nervous rhetoric of the Iconoclast and to point out some of those magnificent passages which occur in the Treatise of Reformation, and the Animadversions on the Remonstrant.

The royalists obtained the name of public resolutioners; their opponents, of protestors or remonstrants.

A leader of the aristocratic party with Oldenbarneveld, he adhered to the Arminians or Remonstrants, was thrown into prison, freed in 1621 through the address of his wife, and fled to Paris, where he lived till 1631 as a private scholar, and, from 1635, as Swedish ambassador.

It didn't matter that she had gone slack and silent, because Sylvia, who just before supper had shown a disposition to dreamy elegiac melancholy, rebounded, as soon as she was filled with food, to the other end of the scale altogether and swept Rush after her into a boisterous romp, which none of Aunt Lucile's remonstrant asides to her nephew was effectual to quell.

A second peal from the bell was followed by roars of laughter, amid which a remonstrant voice was audible.

Necessity, impetuous remonstrant!

This reply somewhat calmed the remonstrants, but by no means extinguished the spirit of the malcontent party.

REMONSTRANCE, THE, the name given to a list of abuses of royal power laid to the charge of Charles I. and drawn up by the House of Commons in 1641, and which with the petition that accompanied it contributed to bring matters to a crisis. REMONSTRANTS, a name given to the Dutch Arminians who presented to the States-General of Holland a protest against the Calvinist doctrine propounded by the Synod of Dort in 1610.

There was a moment's silence, a little murmur, apologetic and remonstrant, but the deed was done.