Which preposition to use with expostulating
The younger lady expostulated with the tiger, and he forthwith released me.
" I frowned and expostulated in vain.
Among the Romans there is the highest regard to treaties, and consequently, on hearing of the siege of an allied city, and remembering, too, the compact made with the Carthaginians, they did not at once have recourse to arms, but chose rather to expostulate on legal grounds.
This point is also uncertain, whether the ambassadors went to expostulate to the Boii suffered violence, or whether an attack was made on the triumvirs while measuring out the lands.
If you had a house that was adjudged to contain the materials required, and expostulated against pulling it down, the penalty was incurred.
On their expostulating with the landlord at being treated in this manner, instead of making a direct reply, he strutted up and down the room, repeating continually, "Ja, ja, ja, ja!
During the course of these troubles, the emperors of Blefuscu did frequently expostulate by their ambassadors, accusing us of making a schism in religion by offending against a fundamental doctrine of our great prophet Lustrog, in the fifty-fourth chapter of the Blundecral (which is their Alcoran).
They were thrown weeping and expostulating into an adjoining cell.
There is my shield, and, Knight, but for my haste, I would expostulate of other things:
"Gladys Ferguson always loved me," she expostulated after a brief silence, and there was a quiver in her voice.