The Duke of Cumberland stood at the King's left hand, and quizzed the people as they passed.

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"'Then how does it come that you are at liberty?' quizzed the attorney.

"In a sailboat?" quizzed Belle.

"He had been quizzing a great big boy who lisped, and the boy knocked him down, and they had fought."

"It is a mill," said an attorney, to quiz the bumpkin.

Lord Beaconsfield, quizzing John Wilson Croker in Coningsby, says: "He bored his audience with too much history, especially the French Revolution, which he fancied was his forte, so that the people at last, whenever he made any allusion to the subject, were almost as much terrified as if they had seen the guillotine."

Our mock Indians had noticed him, and not knowing who he was, expressed a determination "to quiz that deaf old devil," after supper.

Miranda took the blushing face between her palms, and with quizzing eyesand noseinquired: "Is there any reason under heaven why Anna Callender shouldn't go to bed and have glad dreams?"

I remember his quizzing a common friend of ours,one much esteemed by us all,who had a wonderful ability of falling asleep in an instant, when not talking.

A torch-bearing band have stationed themselves at the doors to bid us god-speed,to make merry at our droll masquerade,to quiz our odd head-gear,to criticize us from head to foot, in short,but between all, to offer words of caution.

While they were waiting for Mr. Madera, Captain Marks-Owens quizzed Gene further.

" [Illustration: A curious expression of baffling quizzing half pathetic and wholly cynical interrogation]

No sooner had I entered the sanctum, than the senior partner, Mr. Precepts, began to quiz his junior, Mr. Jones, with, "Well, Jones must never joke friend Discount anymore about usury.

Then she criticized all the ladies in the room, which only drew my attention more admiringly upon herself; and she quizzed all the young men, whereby I felt indirectly flattered, without exactly knowing why; and she praised Dalrymple in terms for which I could have embraced her on the spot had she been ten times less pretty, and ten times less fascinating.

Like his prototype, the Captain advanced in a jaunty military step, with a kind of leer on his face that seemed to quiz the whole matter."

Cockneys shall come and poke their noses Into our churns as sweet as roses; And to quiz MAUDLIN in clean kirtle

With a good fire, however, and plenty of hot tea, we succeeded in making ourselves very comfortable inside the yurt, and passed away the long evening in smoking Circassian tobacco and pine bark, singing American songs, telling stories, and quizzing our good-natured but unsophisticated Cossack Meranef.

I could not help quizzing Mr. Robert Miller, who asked me in an odd sort of way, as I thought, why it was not out?

The next you see of him he is off loafing about, quizzing somebody; and if you call his attention back to what you set him at, he laughs at you.

Old Anazeh on my right sat in grim silence, quizzing each talker in turn with puckered eyes.

" Another quizzed his teacher unmercifully, when, in trying to teach him the alphabet, she drew a figure on the board and told him it was A, he called out: "How do you know that is A?" "Why, when I went to school my teacher told me it was A."

Thou art greatly mistaken in supposing that I meant to quiz thee; no, not I, indeed.

Burnes, David, quizzes Washington about his marriage, 16.

At the end of his first sentence any fool would have known that he had been put up to quiz Abdul Ali, in order that Abdul Ali might have an excuse to justify himself.