Here are two infinitives, with the prepositive omitted, "expostulate" and "attempt", both dependent on the noun "time", and another, "withdraw", without the prepositive, dependent on "attempt": "but when 'twas time [to] expostulate, [to] attempt [to] withdraw", etc.英文原著 · 《Introduction to Robert Browning》
I can feel my anger gathering against the Government here in spite of my reason. I want to go and expostulate. I have a ridiculous idea that I ought to go off to Lord Glindividuals into the roadway and then a derisive shouting. Nobody had been hit. The soldiers had fired in the air. "But thiadstone or Botha and expostulate. What good would it do? They move in the magic circles of their own limitations, an official, a politician--how would they put it?-- ��with many things to consider.英文原著 · 《The Research Magnificent》
Easter became uneasy. Once she left Clayton's side and expostulated with her father, but he shook her from his arm roughly. Raines saw this, and a moment later he led the old mountaineer from the room. Thereafter the latter was quieter, but only for a little while. Several times the kitchen was filled and emptied, and ever was the crowd unsteadier. Soon even Raines's influence was of no avail, and the bottle was passed openly from guest to guest.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Europa》
Without any trace of nervousness, she made a careful, deep incision on her upper arm. Maskull expostulated. "Really, this part of it is nothing," she said, laughing. "And if it were - a sacrifice that is no sacrifice - what merit is there in that? Come now - your arm!"
The blood was streaming down her arm. It was not red blood, but a milky, opalescent fluid. "Not that one!" said Maskull, shrinking. "I have already been cut there." He submitted the other, and his blood poured forth.英文原著 · 《A Voyage to Arcturus》
Surrounded by the guard of "Patriots," the procession of prisoners moved slowly into the outer courtyard, on its way to the revolutionary tribunal, the humpbacked jailer bringing up the rear. Lomaque was about to follow at some little distance, but the head jailer hospitably expostulated. "What a hurry you're in!" said he. "Now that incorrigible drinker, my second in command, has gone off with his batch, I don't mind asking you to step in and have a drop of wine."英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》