Which preposition to use with protesting
Before the Crimean war was over, Sir Colin resigned his command, and returned to England, as a protest against an affront he had received.
" So Patsy had old Hucks hitch Joe to the surrey, and the three girls accompanied their uncle in his drive to town, leaving Arthur Weldon shaking his head in a deprecating way but fully realizing that no protest of his would avail to prevent this amazing undertaking.
The ridiculous command, 'Do not touch,' cannot be imposed on him while he is screaming in his cradle or protesting in his dinner chair; and so all manner of thingsreels, rings, boxes, tins, that is to say a variety of surfacesis offered to him, to his great delight and advantage.
The members who had not been consulted thereupon protested to Irving, who assured them that Carleton must have done so by accident, not design.
Once in the far distance there came the cry of a wolf, and now and then, to punctuate the deathly silence, the snow owl hooted in blood-curdling protest from his home in the spruce-tops.
Constantine was too weak to resent the menace with vigor, and Mahomet treated his mild protest with contempt, denying the right of a vassal of the Porte to dispute the Sultan's will.
We learn that he got wrecked on the "Ba-ha-ha-hamys," that he swam ashore with the papers in his hat, and, I believe, entered his protest at the nearest "Counsel's" (Anglicé.
he cried, in answer to a feeble protest on the part of Mugford, "make it on level ground?
Under new orders to their submarine commanders, in spite of protests by the United States Government, Germany and Austria inaugurated on March 1 the policy of sinking without warning all Allied merchant vessels believed to carry any armament for defensive purposes, and the world waited with bated breath for fresh developments of the Teutonic campaign of frightfulness.
The officer took my protest as an added reason for congratulation upon their conduct.
" To this, a mild protest for the major, Uncle John replied: "Dear Major Doyle: Yours received.
Sir Beverley suffered the action with no further protest than a frown.
The news editor had turned out a column about a Bolshevik advance on the Dvina to make room for it, and it was side by side with the Rectory Oil Mystery, the German Invasion (dumped goods, of course), the Glasgow Trades' Union Congress, the French Protest about Syria, Woman's Mysterious Disappearance, and a Tarring and Feathering Court Martial.
I myself was at Salonica at the time, and, knowing that this was not true, I protested through the Daily Telegraph against the misleading rumor.
I must confess my Soul is scarce diverted Of that fond Passion which I had for her; But I protest before the Gods and you, Did she still live, and I might still possess her, I would refuse it, though I were ignorant Of what the Gods and your fair self design me.
And then will He protest unto themI never knew you.
Secondly, in rearranging the boundaries of States, one point, and one only, must be kept in mind: to give to all peoples suffering and protesting under alien rule the right to decide whether they will become an autonomous unit, or will join the political system of some other nation....
The people had gathered to protest, and, hardly knowing what they did, they had turned their protests into a revolution.
It is this extraordinary conception which is at the back of protests like that of Professor Haeckel and Professor Eucken (men whom, in the field of their own studies, all Europe is proud to honour) against "England fighting with a half-Asiatic power against Germanism.
" I could not well make protest after this explanation, and, in fact, it seemed to me that there was little choice of position.
Too free use of editorial blue pencil and scissors has furnished occasion for protest among authors and for comment by the press.
It was the same protest over and over again, and it was vain to answer.
If she were the princess, this sacrifice that is practised without a protest throughout the world had come home to me, for Yolanda had nestled in my heart.
" Sylvia, anxiously hanging on her father's response, was surprised when he made no protest beyond, "Well, do as you please.
" It would, however, have been unreasonable to expect that such people would confine their protest within the bounds of law and order.