"Remonstrant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a strongly remonstrant tone, turning away from the glass with an air of vexation, "don't begin to be dull here. It spoils all my pleasure, and everything may be so happy now. What have you to be gloomy ...
— Daniel Deronda • George Eliot
... being aided by certain wealthy English merchants who wished him to controvert the supporters of the English church in Leiden. At Rotterdam, clad in the fisherman's habit donned for the passage, he opposed Grevinchovius (Nicholas Grevinckhoven, d. 1632), minister of the Arminian or Remonstrant church, and overwhelmed him with his logical reasoning from Phil. ii. 13, "It is God that worketh in us both to will and to do." The fisherman-controversialist made a great stir, and from that day became known and honoured in the Low Countries. Subsequently Ames ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... to the Englishman's calmly averted face, "that being in a free country—" he dashed off Shotwell's remonstrant hand. ...
— John March, Southerner • George W. Cable |
