48 adjectives to describe inquirers

His face well, we will pass that over, and, on our return to civilized life, will refer the curious inquirer for a fac-simile to the first best painting of Salvator, there to select at pleasure the most ferocious bandit countenance that he can find.

" "You see, my friend," said I to the anxious inquirer after truth, "that I am exceedingly busy just now.

With all his excesses and vanities, he was not frivolous, and seemed at an early age to be a sincere inquirer after truth.

The Inductive half discriminates and brings into clear view, for the first time, those virtues of method which have insensibly grown into habits among consummate scientific inquirers of the post-Baconian age, as well as the fallacies by which some of these authors have been misled.

The news that nothing must be expected from the Government but persecution seemed to give strength to the three converts and to several really earnest inquirers.

A calm inquirer might, perhaps, have suspected that abandoned profligacy is not very compatible with severe study, and that an author is seldom loose in his life, even if he be licentious in his writings.

In our own metropolis and its environs a diligent inquirer will find them at every step."

It is generally conceded, I believe, by candid Protestant inquirers, that he was not; whatever zeal in the foundation and support of the tribunal may have been manifested by his order.

"I 'ope you ain't lost nobody, Sam?" said a discomfited inquirer at last.

The career of a mere rake, who shuns no means of gratifying his low appetites, has little analogy with that of an originally honest inquirer, led astray by the want of faith and his sensual nature.

"The first question of an impartial inquirer is: 'To which of these gentlemen is the honor due?'

The discovery of documents and the recovery of lost pictures in the last few years have increased the available material for a more comprehensive study of the artist, and the time has come when the divergent results arrived at by independent modern inquirers may be systematically arranged, and a reconciliation of apparently conflicting views attempted on a psychological basis.

It is fit to gratify the most ingenious and serious inquirer.

We do not read of any remarkable philosophical inquirer until Thales arose, the first of the Ionian school.

It has been asked by a profound and sagacious inquirer, or at least the question is put forth on undoubted authority in his name, "Why did England create for herself a difficulty, and what will be by and by a natural enemy, in uniting Holland and Belgium, in place of managing those two immense resources to her commerce by keeping them separate?

Yes, and it was precisely this fact that made its meaning one of what the baronet childishly calls "the lost secrets of the world": for every successive inquirer, believing it part of an English phrase, was thus hopelessly led astray in his investigation.

One was forwarded to the author by Mr. Ballantyne, and the alterations which it received were, by his own hand, copied upon the other proof-sheet for the use of the printers, so that even the corrected proofs of the author were never seen in the printing-office; and thus the curiosity of such eager inquirers as made the most minute investigation was entirely at fault.

He talks in his preface about MILTON, as a "Republican," and a "bold inquirer into Morals and religion."

Then we were besieged by excited inquirers, and the rosy-fingered Aurora, daughter of the dawn, appeared before the calm which succeeded the storm.

In these, my lords, much more is comprehended than can properly be inferred in a law not occasionally variable; nor do I think any thing omitted, which an experienced and candid inquirer will think useful to the increase of our naval strength, or necessary to the protection of our commerce.

To this day, the most distinguished American and English historians are at issue respecting the justice of his doom; and to this day, the grave inquirer into the rise and fall of empires pauses by the way to glean some scanty memorial of his personal adventures.

His report is full of matter of value to the historical inquirer, and of entertainment for the general reader.

He swept aside the erroneous theories and conjectures which had previously prevailed, and guided the astronomical inquirer into the right path.

From this last I learned to drop my abrupt contradiction and positive argumentation, and to put on the humble inquirer and doubter.

If the vigilance of those who are intrusted with the chief direction of great numbers of subordinate officers be such, that corrupt practices are not frequent, and their justice such, that they are never unpunished when legally detected, the most strict inquirer can expect no more.

48 adjectives to describe  inquirers