Significados de earnest expostulation em inglês

A letter of earnest expostulation, in the handwriting of Lewis, was sent to Berlin; but in vain.

Bennington looked, and, to his surprise, perceived Lawton's girl in earnest expostulation with the leader of the band.

Here followed an earnest expostulation from Mrs. Murray, only a few words of which were audible, and once more the deep, strong, bitter tones rejoined:

His writings, like his sermons, were the earnest expostulations of a dying man with dying men.