450 collocations for inquires

I have seen him stand bare-headedsmile if you pleaseto a poor servant girl, while she has been inquiring of him the way to some streetin such a posture of unforced civility, as neither to embarrass her in the acceptance, nor himself in the offer, of it.

On inquiring the cause, I was made to understand that our noble host was taken suddenly ill.

Before he could inquire the reason, the guard arrested him as a stranger, and conducted him to the presence of the Caliph Omar.

One of them was of a man who went to inquire the price of graves in a certain cemetery.

Thus, as they moved from place to place, he followed them in his thoughts, and was able to point out their whereabouts to inquiring friends.

Momentarily nonplussed by such unheard-of calmness under a ghostly visitation, the apparition, without changing position, allowed itself to roll one inquiring eye towards the opening above the step-ladder, where the moonlight revealed an attentive head of red hair.

" "You want more moneyis that it?" inquired the little wizened man, who seemed to be the leader though he spoke the leasta not unusual characteristic.

"But you don't think Captain Nugent is in London, do you?" "Why not?" inquired Hardy, somewhat startled.

We inquired of some stragglers from the throng, the meaning of what we saw; but they were too much occupied with their sport to afford us any satisfaction.

" "Are you the new girl?" inquired a voice at Johnnie's shoulder.

When Haunch approached the grave, leading Oriana's pony, the mourner looked up, and gazed in his face again with that sad and inquiring look.

Dawson's men were scattered here and thereone a passenger of inquiring mind, another a deckhand, yet a thirda pretty girl in khakisold tea and cakes in the vessel's saloon.

From this time Boerhaave lived with less publick employment, indeed, but not an idle or an useless life; for, besides his hours spent in instructing his scholars, a great part of his time was taken up by patients, which came, when the distemper would admit it, from all parts of Europe to consult him, or by letters which, in more urgent cases, were continually sent to inquire his opinion and ask his advice.

'What can make me unhappy, mamma?' inquired Venetia.

" "What is your proof?" inquired the judge, stifling a yawn.

They were forbidden by general order to inquire even the names of the towns they passed through; directed to reply "I don't know" to every question; and it is said that when Jackson demanded the name and regiment of a soldier robbing a cherry-tree, he could extract from the man no reply but "I don't know.

anywhere, Mr. Tutt?" inquired Tutt, appearing suddenly in the doorway of his partner's office.

I'll speak my mind to her, that I will.' 'What has Lady Annabel to do with it?' inquired Cadurcis, in a loud tone.

"Won't you step in, gentlemen?" said Darrow, "May I offer you the makings of a cigarette?" "Wouldn't you be robbing yourself?" inquired the captain, with a twinkle.

We spent above an hour in examining these curious habiliments, and in inquiring the purposes and uses of the several parts.

"Your name, sir?" inquired the officer.

"Have you got him a job as a general in the army yet, ma'am?" inquired the Little Red Doctor suavely.

what is it?" inquired a fussy old lady, craning her neck towards the combatants.

"'Have you many of your way of thinking in these parts?' inquired Crosby.

What were their names? inquired the white-faced women.

450 collocations for  inquires