| 1. | Nay, we must use expostulation kindly. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 2. | In his expostulation he dropped his cleaner hand perhaps accidentally, perhaps not upon the joker's heart. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 3. | Miss Bingley warmly resented the indignity he had received, in an expostulation with her brother for talking such nonsense. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| 4. | A dress-rehearsal occupied the afternoon before the day of days, and the pathetic expostulations of the lovely Mary-. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 5. | Yet her distress when I left her was very great, her expostulations at the parting were sometimes frantic, and I think, altogether, I had as much trouble as comfort from her devotion. - from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells |
| 6. | I wasted no condolences on Miss, nor any expostulations on my mistress nor did I pay much attention to the sighs of my master, who yearned to hear his lady's name, since he might not hear her voice. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |