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Sentences starting with complaint

Complaint is to be entered against him-- 3. [5]

Sentences ending with complaint

The passengers bore with meekness the cheat which had been put upon them, and made no complaint. [5]
His son's blood, which flowed for his Emperor's cause, gives him a peculiar claim upon our consideration, and we therefore devoted particular attention to his complaint. [10]
In neither of the two speeches I have mentioned did he make any such complaint. [7]
Dyspepsia would answer the purpose well enough: so Mr. Murray Bradshaw picked up a medical book and read ten minutes or more for that complaint. [6]
Singular indeed that the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found to raise the voice of complaint. [7]
I do not speak of this mole in any tone of complaint. [4]
I went and sat before my oracle upon the vine-covered porch under the eaves, and poured out my complaint. [9]
It was the same kind of look and movement, I remember, as you trust, too, in my uncle who died with that complaint. [6]
The wretches,--I suppose only because they were priests too,--refused to take any notice of me or my complaint. [10]
Thus a few men, that own capital, hire a few others, and these establish the relation of capital and labor rightfully, a relation of which I make no complaint. [7]

Short sentences using complaint

I heard no complaint. [5]

Sentences containing complaint two or more times

I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception. [5]

More example sentences with the word complaint in them

I must pronounce you right again, in your complaint of the transfer of interest in the third volume, from one set of characters to another. [14]
He said: 'There--now you have touched upon a crying defect in the complaint system. [5]
He, Berthold Vorchtel, would make no complaint against him, for he knew that Wolff had been forced to cross swords with his Ulrich. [10]
I stated that, without making any complaint of it at all. [7]
He had listened with affable condescension to the complaint of a landed proprietor, whose cattle had been driven off for the king's army, and had promised that his case should be enquired into. [10]
Those kind friends who suggest to a person suffering from a tedious complaint, that he "Had better try Homoeopathy," are apt to enforce their suggestion by adding, that "at any rate it can do no harm. [6]
Just there is where my complaint originates. [5]
Opposition or complaint was rare among the warriors, but the murmurs, curses, and threats grew all the louder among those who bore no weapons. [10]
If the complaint was legitimate in Scaliger's time, it was better founded half a century ago when Mr. Emerson found cause for it. [6]
The abbot listened to the magistrate's complaint very quietly. [10]
It presently occurred to him that there might be some local source of infection which had brought on the complaint, and was still keeping up the symptoms which were the ground of alarm. [6]
Mr. Clay says this was one of the great and just causes of complaint against Great Britain by the Colonies, and the best apology we can now make for having the institution amongst us. [7]
Six epidemics of this complaint had visited Boston in the course of a hundred years. [3]
Dr. Kittredge, is there any ketchin' complaint goin' about in the village? [6]
You all know, the world knows, the forces and the resources the public agents have brought into employment to sustain a government against which there has been brought not one complaint of real injury committed against society at home or abroad. [7]
The doctor remembered the story of Galen, and the young maiden whose complaint had puzzled the physicians. [6]
Once when resisting the pressure and the threats of war of a foreign diplomatist, he had, after a trying hour, written to Faith in a burst of passionate complaint, and his letter had ended with these words. [11]
It is wonderful, the power of a faith like that, that can make multitudes upon multitudes of the old and weak and the young and frail enter without hesitation or complaint upon such incredible journeys and endure the resultant miseries without repining. [5]
I took down the name and rank of their commanding officer, to hand in a complaint about it. [2]
Berenike had greeted the guest with a complaint of the young Roman's recklessness and unseemly conduct, to which Barine added the declaration that they had now sacrificed enough to Zeus Xenios, the god of hospitality. [10]
He swung open the door, even as the engine touched the edge of the abyss and shrieked its complaint under the hand of the terror-stricken driver, caught David's shoulder, and cried: "Jump-jump into the river-- quick! [11]
Perhaps there is something wrong in ourselves when we hear the complaint so often that men are pursued by disaster instead of being pursued by happiness. [4]
I really cannot say that I have heard any complaint of you. [7]
I intend no reproach or complaint when I assure you that, in my opinion, if you all had voted for the resolution in the gradual-emancipation message of last March, the war would now be substantially ended. [7]
Well, I couldn't rack the executioner, neither would I overlook the just complaint of the priests. [5]
A woman's grief passes in stormy and violent complaint, but the sterner character of a man cannot so soon be comforted. [10]
If Mrs. Fletcher or anybody else has any complaint against me, the courts are open. [4]
He is not only sly, but is keen-witted, and he has at once connected the complaint which I have threatened to bring against him with the manuscript which Serapion, the recluse, gave me in his presence. [10]
Besides, more than one complaint of her offensive arrogance had reached him. [10]
Before that day on which I did these things was there complaint, or cause for it? [11]
He was one of thousands such, and being a person of distinction he now and then received letters of inquiry, complaint, or condolence. [5]
But the name of this complaint sets me thinking. [6]
I am one of these humorists American dissected by him, and hence the complaint I am making. [5]
At the end of the day no complaint had been made about it, so after that we were satisfied that it was real gold, and dropped the anxiety out of our minds. [5]
Not a word of complaint, you see--only a patient, sad surprise. [5]
The bitter complaint of a woman he had wronged cruelly, by having married her, had wrung from him his own first wail of life, in the one cry "Kathleen! [11]
The complaint is not wholly sentimental, and has a deeper philosophical reason than the mere pleasure in variety on this planet. [4]
Not a sigh, not a complaint has passed her lips. [10]
Neither at home nor elsewhere did Ruth utter any complaint, or admit any weariness or doubt of her ability to pursue the path she had marked out for herself. [5]
Perhaps there is no ground of complaint on our part. [7]
Her grandfather made no complaint, but he sighed heavily as he leaned upon his staff, and vainly tried to pierce the dusty distance. [12]
There would be no complaint of the kind in the future. [4]
The specialist called my complaint conjunctivitis, but that did not make it feel any better nor get well any quicker. [6]
He did no more nor less than his orders, and I made no complaint nor asked any favour. [11]
You remember poor Monsieur Jacques's complaint of the favoritism shown to Monsieur Berthier,--it is in that exquisite "Week in a French Country-House. [6]
The compounds of mercury have yielded their place as drugs of all work, and specifics for that very frequent subjective complaint, nescio quid faciam,--to compounds of iodine. [3]
Nor did the maid, who was in the personal service of the daughters of the house, make any complaint against them. [10]
No complaint is made of the cost of these schools of the higher education; the point is whether they produce interesting people. [4]
I was thinking just now, if Mr. George had only been home, in the shops, maybe we wouldn't be having all this complaint and trouble. [9]
By the way it's going, pretty soon there 'll be a new disease in the doctor-books --sheriff complaint. [5]
I trust he is not worse, but his complaint is still weakness. [14]
The reproachful complaint is heard by the messenger outside the door, for the old woman who shoved in the trencher over the threshold answers quickly but not crossly. [10]
He has an internal complaint and a wound. [10]
Is Plotinus really ill of a complaint akin to the plague? [10]
The first thing I will proceed to is the record of Mr. Gurney and the complaint of Judge Wead that the record did not extend back over all the time from the completion of the bridge. [7]
For the rest, I can make no complaint. [11]
Curiously enough, the Honourable Brush Bascom and the Honourable Jacob Botcher join Mr. Crewe in his complaint, and reiterate that it is an outrage that a man of such ability and deserving prominence should be among the submerged four hundred and seventy. [9]
He put out his tongue at her, but presently released his sister, who stood rubbing her arm, her lips moving in evident recrimination and complaint. [9]
I should be heartily ashamed if a word of complaint ever fell from my lips. [9]
So effectually was he frightened that he made no complaint, until his friends forced him. [5]
For unselfish reasons he did so earnestly wish this complaint might not become chronic. [14]
A foul fiend, he assured Gombert, was hidden in that golden-haired delight of the eyes with the siren voice; but the leader of the orchestra had interceded for her, and thought that her complaint was just. [10]
I think I have cause for complaint. [11]
Many deaths have happened in a neighboring large city from that well-known complaint, Icterus Invidiosorum, after returning from a visit to the Music Hall. [6]
At least he had heard no complaint from her lips, and her husband had often told him of the happiness which he had obtained through her in marriage. [10]
I have never had any complaint to make of amatoors. [6]
Such were the grounds of complaint. [6]
The other complaint from which they suffered, but which has nearly disappeared from among us, was intermittent fever, or fever and ague. [3]
But they wrung from her no complaint, or look of suffering; and, though the two travellers proceeded very slowly, they did proceed. [12]
Albeit she had forthwith set him in his place, and right sharply, it seemed that to protect herself against his advances there was no remedy but a complaint to his master, which would disturb the peace of the household. [10]
And yet the first complaint a Washoe visitor to San Francisco makes, is that the sea winds blow so, there! [5]
The complaint your father is suffering from is one I know well. [10]
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one. [6]
And the very fact that those who may be called our chief parishioners had no complaint merely added to my uneasiness. [9]
And it can express every shade of feeling, from the rich yellow of prosperous wooing to the brick-colored weariness of life that is hardly distinguishable from the liver complaint. [4]
No one has ever heard him utter a groan or a word of complaint. [2]
It came last evening and I began to read it; but the first words are a complaint of your father, and that--you know, just before going to sleep--I could not read any more; I could not bear it! [10]
I could have eaten with the hogs if I had had birth approaching my lofty official rank; but I hadn't, and so accepted the unavoidable slight and made no complaint. [5]
One of our early friends, who recently died of the same complaint, was thought to have had his attack mainly in consequence of the excitements of the time. [6]
I will step down to Doctor Kittredge's myself, and make inquiries as to the natur' of the complaint. [6]
It was a disappointment to her to find it locked, but Bias did not heed her angry complaint, and led her into the artist's sitting room, requesting her to wait for his master there. [10]
Sure enough, at crowdie-time, the men were seen coming aft, with Maxwell in the van carrying a bowl, on the pretext of a complaint against the cook. [9]
My complaint simply concerns the decay of the art of lying. [5]
Any new complaint concerning them would then be lawfully rejected by both court and magistrate. [10]
Nor is the complaint well founded that the stories have all been told, the possible plots all been used, and the combinations of circumstances exhausted. [4]
Its keen buzzing complaint was harmonious with the grumble of the mill-stones, as though a supreme maker of music had tuned it. [11]
He uttered no complaint to me; dropped no hint on the subject. [14]
There was a complaint then, as now, that in many trades men scamped their work, but, on the whole, husbandmen and artificers had never been so good; only there were too many of them, too many handicrafts of which the country had no need. [4]
With little outer complaint she had adapted herself to the constantly lowering levels to which her husband had dropped, and if she hoped that in Fillmore Street they had reached bottom, she did not say so. [9]
We make no complaint of this. [4]
We have the complaint of the Cambridge "Phi Beta Kappa Oration," reiterated, that there is no complete man, but only a collection of fragmentary men. [6]
He makes no complaint of Lanphier, who must have known it to be a fraud from the beginning. [7]
I have heard complaint of a police corps at Nashville, but your name was not mentioned in connection with it, so far as I remember. [7]
The grounds of complaint against Mr. Motley are to be looked for:-- 1. [6]
The East India Company had put forth a complaint. [9]
Though the wet came stealing through the roof and trickling down upon their heads, Miss Brass uttered no complaint, but presided over the tea equipage with imperturbable composure. [12]
I shall abide by your opinion,--I understan' you to say distinc'ly, her complaint is not ketchin'?--and urge upon Miss Darley to fulfil her dooties to a sufferin' fellow-creature at any cost to myself and my establishment. [6]
He was troubled by his old complaint. [5]
The magistrate now brought the complaint to the person against whom it was made, adopting a merry jesting tone, in which Cordula gaily joined. [10]
It is the best telegraphic work I have seen since I have been here, and I am mentioning it in this place not as a complaint but as a compliment. [5]

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