"Because you don't mean what you say," he Expostulated.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
"But-but," Expostulated Garrison, his face white, "supposing the real me-I mean, supposing I had not come home?
"Garrison's Finish A Romance of the Race-Course"
W. B. M. Ferguson
The whole thing is too bare-faced," Ramon Expostulated.
"The Crevice"
William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander