1. Otherwise, this exercise in expostulation will have been wholly effete. 2. That may well have been just a moody expostulation . 3. It s expostulation for him to work on various images on a small surface. 4. Not all interjections of mock horror or other jowl-shaking expostulation have biblical roots. 5. The voice is low-pitched and guttural and includes chuckles, repeated clucking sounds, expostulations . 6. After 1572, the archbishop refused to ordain Utraquist candidates, despite the expostulations of Emperor Maximilian. 7. At the end of " The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation , " dread ( " Oh! 8. By the mid-19th century, the vehement expostulation had acquired a connotation of archness associated with elitist gentlewomen. 9. Listening to Matteis, one remembered " The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation " sung just a few minutes earlier. 10. Bagwell also published another short poem, entitled " An Affectionate Expostulation for the Pious Employment both of Wit and Wealth ".