Eliot Middlemarch|52Fred's voice had taken a tone of grumbling remonstrance.
1922, Ben Travers, A Cuckoo in the Nest Chapter 6, But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.
2004, Perry Link, "China: A new postmortem on Tiananmen," Time, 15 March:In the past, emperors based their right to rule mostly on heredity and so could listen to remonstrance from below without necessarily feeling that legitimacy was at stake.
