Complaints

Examples

• The Colonel had his office full of people, mostly from the neighboring States of Missouri and Kentucky, making complaints or asking favors. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Dear Ma'am, replied Elinor, smiling at the difference of the complaints for which it was recommended, how good you are! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• The newspapers sent in frantic complaints, an investigation was made, and our little scheme was discovered. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• On every hand was heard the complaints of women, the wailing of children, and the cries of men. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Though those complaints produced no act of parliament, they had probably intimidated the company so far, as to oblige them to reform their conduct. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Here's my mother who never has anything of her own, except her complaints. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The event acquitted her of all the fancifulness, and all the selfishness of imaginary complaints. Jane Austen. Emma.
• The gentleman who made the complaints informed me first of his own high standing as a lawyer, a citizen and a Christian. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It took hours of my time every day to listen to complaints and requests. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• You may possibly have some idea, Miss Trotwood, of abetting him in his running away, and in his complaints to you. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• About their complaints and their doctors do ladies ever tire of talking to each other? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I took no steps to answer these complaints, but continued to do my duty, as I understood it, to the best of my ability. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Complaints of that sort are sometimes made, about Ratcliffe and Wapping and up that way. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Many were the complaints below, and great the chagrin of the head cook at her failures. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• People who suffer as I do from nervous complaints can have no great inclination for talking. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Wildeve, notwithstanding his complaints against his fate, had been seized upon by destiny and placed in the sunshine once more. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• My mother is not given to complaints,' said he, a little proudly. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I am reminded, now, of one of these complaints of the cookery made by a passenger. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Large quantities of shoes were made at reduced prices, but complaints were made as to the nails penetrating into the shoe and hurting the feet. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• No complaints. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• You shall have relief from your complaints, whatever they are. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I mak' no complaints o' bein turned to the wa', o' bein outcasten and overlooken fro this time forrard, but hope I shall be let to work. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Eliza generally took no more notice of her sister's indolence and complaints than if no such murmuring, lounging object had been before her. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The complaints of the old man, however, excited the indignation of the bystanders. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Yes, said Adeimantus, they give us plenty of them, and their complaints are so like themselves. Plato. The Republic.
• The latter were generally reasonable, and if so they were granted; but the complaints were not always, or even often, well founded. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Almost the first complaints made to me were these two outrages. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Mr Pancks wouldn't hear of excuses, wouldn't hear of complaints, wouldn't hear of repairs, wouldn't hear of anything but unconditional money down. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Politics set in a short time after dessert, when the ladies retired upstairs and talked about their complaints and their children. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Head master and clergyman turn a deaf ear to the complaints of an indignant mother. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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