| But Bill knew Barber Sam and he had presence of mind enough to couch his expostulatory reply in the most obsequious terms. |
| Eve made a deprecating and expostulatory noise with her tongue against her upper teeth. |
| Her poetry ranged widely in manner but was fundamentally ecstatic and expostulatory, often in an angry tone concerning the harms that had been done to her, but also outrageously ludic in the surrealist line. |
| In all the years of their acquaintance he had never known the Commandant in an expostulatory vein. |
| Her letters were exposed, her expostulatory verses read at clubs and taverns, and the unhappy Sappho toasted in derision. |
| The comments of the press began to assume an expostulatory tone. |
