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Usage examples of complain.

Or in an Accra daily, with African politicians complaining of neo-colonial exploitation.

Neighborhood cops complain that acidheads throw themselves in front of moving cars, strip naked in grocery stores and run through plate-glass windows.

In voluminous correspondence with members of Congress and in his private writings, Adams had not a complaining or disrespectful word to say about Franklin, nothing of the bitter disdain expressed in letters the year before.

Pluto complained to Zeus, who eliminated Aesculapius with a thunderbolt.

Leweli went with Ahl and the actors, though she looked unhappy and began complaining as soon as they were in the forest.

The saint complained that certain Alamanni, Bavarians, and Franks refused to give up various heathen practices because they had seen such things done in the sacred city of Rome, close to St.

Now Andi complained loudly of being betrayed, wadding her clothes into a ball and throwing them against the wall in frustration.

This made me angry, and I called upon the Baron de Taxis, the postmaster, and complained of the clerk, but he answered very rudely that the clerk had simply obeyed his orders, and that my letters would only be delivered on payment of the postage.

It was cut into a gently rising slope of grass, and critics had complained that it was antiheroic and nearly invisible.

Once again, he will complain against psychological determinism in literature, and will remind us not to confuse his novel, or antinovel, with simple leisure reading.

When the station refused to air opposing viewpoints, an antinuke group complained.

Queen Arete, to whom Medea had appealed for protection, kept her royal husband awake by complaining, in a general way, of the ill-treatment to which fathers too often subjected their daughters, whether the daughters were guilty of anything or not.

She frequently complained of headache, and when she was exceedingly irritable and violent all the athetoid movements would be intensified.

Enciso had complained to King Ferdinand of the way in which he had been treated, and the king had not only refused to support Balboa with a royal warrant for his actions, but had condemned his course and ordered him to return to Spain.

To drive the convoy away as well, to leave the colonnade, go into the palace, order the room darkened, collapse on the bed, send for cold water, call in a plaintive voice for his dog Banga, and complain to him about the hemicrania.