42 adjectives to describe interrogations

She raised her brows in mute interrogation.

Aaron King's Success Illustrations from Oil Paintings By F. Graham Cootes Sibyl A curious expression of baffling, quizzing, half pathetic, and wholly cynical, interrogation "Well, what do you want?

That is rather a direct interrogation from so fair a source, and lest we might give offence we will allow people to answer it for themselves in their own way, after which they may, if inclined, communicate with the vivacious beadle, and tell him to look after the organ as well as the doors, &c.

Quietly, almost furtively, she lets fall the paper she has been reading, and turns to her husband eyes of serene welcome, meeting confidently the sharp interrogation of his glance.

He therefore, no other court of justice being at hand, considered that he had a right to try the man by his own opinion; accordingly, after a brief interrogation, he condemned him to die, and without further ceremony proceeded to put his own sentence into immediate execution.

returned Stoddard in that civil, colourless interrogation which should always check over-familiar speech, even from the dullest.

[50] This means an impertinent, or rather a chaffing, question, like our own classic interrogation, "Does your mother know you'ra out?" It is incumbent on every good Musalman to pray five times in the twenty-four hours.

returned Stoddard in that civil, colourless interrogation which should always check over-familiar speech, even from the dullest.

Marcos did not reply to this comprehensive interrogation.

I set out to obtain this by constant interrogations of every one I thought might have even a scrap of enlightenment for me.

He looked up suddenly and caught Mrs. Chaffery's tearful eye directed to Ethel and full of distressful interrogation, and his perplexity was suddenly changed to pity.

We pass over the mutual joy, the greetings, the administration of restoratives and creature comforts, the eager interrogations of Porphyry respecting the things his master had heard and seen in his trance, which proved to be unspeakable.

The sensualist's blue eyes nervously shunned that look of earnest interrogation.

Did the Colonel think he could The Colonel seemed absorbed in that eternal interrogation of the tent-top.

Rather trivial questions toohalf-foolish interrogations, as of a puzzled or curious child: Why was my sister afraid to sleep alone, and why did her friend feel a similar repugnance, yet seek to conquer it?

Other considerations might, however, have prevented this: I was a stranger to all around, and knew that I should be either subjected to impertinent interrogations, or become the object of invidious remarkthis, in my debilitated state of health, I felt anxious to avoid, as calculated to impede my restoration.

Anyone would think" A sudden pause, then in a low, eager tone, "Hullo,Avery?" The incredulous interrogation of the words cut her to the heart.

But there were hours of solitary striding over bare grassy slopes, face to face with the ironic interrogation of sky and mountains, when his anxieties came back, more persistent and importunate.

(in an accent and with eyes of the keenest, wistfulest interrogation, as if he would wring from me, against my will, the confession I so resolutely withhold).

Her companion was staring at Philip, who was returning his scrutiny with an air of mild interrogation.

These rencontres were most amusing, giving rise to mutual interrogations and many jokes, each party affirming that looting was not the object of their perambulations, but that they were only inspecting the houses out of a feeling of curiosity.

Secretary Hay properly refused to involve the Administration in the complications which would have followed any official interrogation addressed to the British Government with reference to its ultimate intentions in South Africa.

By intuition and by persistent interrogation of nature he penetrated many secrets of science; but he was contented with the acquisition of knowledge.

The unlimited mastery which he acquired over form, and which certainly seduced him at the close of his career into a stylistic mannerism, was based in the first instance upon profound and patient interrogation of reality.

Mrs. Dutton's fresh-coloured face changed as he entered the shop, and her still good eyes regarded him with scornful interrogation.

42 adjectives to describe  interrogations