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The deputies generally were complaining of the loss of time and the discomfort of the daily journey even in the parliamentary train.
I rather complained to W. after the first three or four dinnersit seemed to me bad manners, but he said no, I was the wife of a French political man, and every one took for granted I was interested in the conversationcertainly no one intended any rudeness.
The only stipulation he made when I engaged him was that he should not be required to drive on Sundays and Wednesday evenings, and, when I hear people complaining about their surly, incapable coachmen, I consider it is a light price to pay.
Henshaw was in the hall, bulking big in a fur coat and complaining in a masterful tone of the unpunctuality of his fly.
[p. 531]; but he who answered in behalf of our nation, was willing to give more latitude to the Rule; and cites the words of CORNEILLE himself, complaining against the severity of it, and observing what beauties it banished from the Stage, page 44, of my Essay.
" "But we have you, my dear," said Uncle John, smiling into her dancing eyes; "so we won't complain at one egg instead of two.
The Corfutes complained with great reason of the intolerable weight of taxation to which they were subjected; of the utter neglect of their interests by the central government, which consumed their wealth, and of the great abuses which prevailed in the administration of justice; but the remedy they adopted, by placing themselves under the rule of foreign masters, was not likely to alleviate these evils.
He had a little fault in the way of often showing a disposition to look at the darker side of things; and doubtless being unusually tired, after a hard day's tramp, with such a heavy pack on his back, had something to do with his spirit of complaining on the present occasion.
"Well, some men have odd notions of mercy and providence, to be sure; but if it pleases him, certainly I shall not complain for one.
frown, scowl, make a wry face, gnash one's teeth, wring one's hands, tear one's hair, beat one's breast, roll on the ground, burst with grief. complain, murmur, mutter, grumble, growl, clamor, make a fuss about, croak, grunt, maunder; deprecate &c (disapprove) 932. cry out before one is hurt, complain without cause.
The manager complained from time to time, and said it was all the fault of the engineers; said that we did not know our business, and that he would get some men from the East who would make the 'Mormon Flyer' fly on time.
Women, it seems, have lost their native shame, As no man better may complain than I; Though not of any whom I made my wife, But of my daughter, who procured my fall.
At last, when Innocent IV., in 1245, called a general council at Lyons, in order to excommunicate the Emperor Frederic, the king and nobility sent over agents to complain before the council of the rapacity of the Romish church.
Jeremy, democrat of democrats, who had slept without complaining between the legs of a dead horse on a rain-swept battlefield, with a lousy Turkish prisoner hugging him close to share the blanket, was up in arms at once.
It is now polluted by one of those manufactories, of which it would he trifling to complain as nuisances only in the eye of taste.
He at first began to complain amongst his friends, and to express his indignation, that the king should be summoned to plead his cause: but afterwards, having prevailed on some of those whom he had made acquainted with his views to join him, he secretly called the army away from Pelusium to Alexandria, and appointed Achillas, already spoken of, commander-in-chief of the forces.
"They had an inalienable right to complain by petition, and to remonstrate to either House of Parliament, or to the King; and to make two magistrates, who might be strong partisans, irresponsible judges whether anything said or done at a meeting had a tendency to encourage sedition, was to say that a free constitution was no longer suitable to us."
He depicts the universal weakness of human nature and the corruption of his time with great vivacity and not without a certain pleasure in the obscene; and besides folly and passion, complains above all of the fact that so few understand the art of enjoyment, of which he, a true man of the world, was master.
Many honest Minds that are naturally disposed to do good in the World, and become Beneficial to Mankind, complain within themselves that they have not Talents for it.
Every merchant but Eph Hill grew fat an' round, an' complained of indigestion an' sick-headache.
Although his temper was soothed, he continued complaining during the rest of the stroll.
"Yes, Mass'r,I ha'n't got nuffin to complain ob in dat matter.
Others were again sent, more in number (for he had complained among other points of the smallness of the first embassy), and they made the announcement that many marks of distinction had been voted to him: these he received gladly, even going out to meet them, for which action he received fresh honors at their hands.
And homeless winds complain along The columned choir once thrilled with song.
Yet of the many-worded Lorena he was never heard to complain through all the years.