Objecting

Examples

• We must have been something else, said Celia, objecting to so laborious a flight of imagination. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It supplied Laura with a reason for objecting to the signature which was unanswerable, and which we could both of us understand. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I have been objecting to her already. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• This was the first I knew of his objecting to my going to Nashville. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It is again needless to say that, so far from objecting, I was all eagerness to assist her. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• What care I about their objecting? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Look at my mother; you don't see her objecting to everything except what she does herself. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I own to the weakness of objecting to occupy a ludicrous position, and therefore I transfer the position to the scouts. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• At any rate, as Dorothea's brother-in-law, I feel warranted in objecting strongly to his being kept here by any action on the part of her friends. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• And this, Lavinia, is my reason for objecting to a tone of levity. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• She made the declaration as if he were objecting to it: which assuredly he was not in any way. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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