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query 453 occurrences

Some similar but trivial query, whose purport I have now forgotten, was addressed by the junior of the Chiefs to Eveena; and I was struck by the patient courtesy with which he waited till, after two or three efforts, she sufficiently recovered her self-possession to understand and her voice to answer.

He sat down to wait, and addressed to his bewildered judgment a query as to whether or not he ought to keep on carrying the burdensome rifle.

Mrs. Potts was aghast in behalf of William Shakspere, and Marcella Eubanks was crimsoning at the blunt query about Byron, well knowing that he could be taken up by a lady only with the wariest caution, and that he would much better be let alone.

How did you find the stuff, Hyman?" The one called Hyman here seemed to despair of putting off this query.

One such fellow came to our mess the other day, and in answer to our query as to the special nature of his flock, he answered that, though strictly speaking a Congregationalist, he had found that he had become a "dealer in out-sizes in souls," as he called it.

What was the query about?

His whole manner was a mute testimony to his participation in the eternal query: How did I get into it?

* Query for Naturalists.

A bit grave, he seemed to me to be looking, and I probed the matter with a kindly query: "Something on your mind, Jeeves?"

If Mr. HAROLD LAKE'S account of the British forces in Macedonia is supposed to supply an answer to a not unnatural query as to what they are doing there, I am afraid one must take it that in fact they are doing nothing in particular.

[Footnote 10: Sometimes called in the romances Frusberta (query, from fourbir, to burnish; or, froisser, to crush?).

This query was a happy afterthought which Sanders craftily suggested in a designedly artless manner.

In response to Leverage's query, he explained: "Shot fired from mighty close," he said.

But French Pete seemed to know instinctively the direction he should go, and once, in reply to a query from Joe, bragged of his ability to go by the "feel" of things.

Query VIn Rees' Cyclopæia, article BOURBON, we are told that in that island there is "a kind of large bat, denominated l'Oiseau bleu, which are skinned and eaten as a great delicacy."

Where did the compiler of the article pick up this statement? Query VI.Is there in existence any figure, published or unpublished, of the Dodo-like bird which once inhabited the Isle of Bourbon? Query VIIWhat is the derivation or meaning of the words

Where did the compiler of the article pick up this statement? Query VI.Is there in existence any figure, published or unpublished, of the Dodo-like bird which once inhabited the Isle of Bourbon? Query VIIWhat is the derivation or meaning of the words

A splendidly bound copy of The Dodo and its Kindred will be given to any one who can answer this query affirmatively.

Query IX.In Holme's Academy of Armory and Blazou, Chester, 1688, p. 289, we find a Dodo figured as an heraldic device, a fac-simile of which is given in the Annals of Natural History, 2nd series, vol.

Before concluding, I will add a query on a very different subject.

to A CORNISHMAN'S Query (No. 13.

p. 202) respecting "Bacon's Metrical Version of the Psalms," suggests another query.

"GASTROS" has also obligingly replied to my query as to "the meaning of the term Pisan, used in old records for some part of defensive armour," but he seems to have forgotten that I expressly stated that term had no relation to "the fabrics of Pisa;" at least such is my belief.

In answer to "B.'s" query (No. 14.

"W.P.P." has also kindly replied to this query by furnishing a part of the Article on Calamitas in Vossius; and "J.F.M." adds, Calamitas means "The spindling of the corn, which with us is rare, but in hotter countries common: insomuch as the word calamitas was first derived from calamus, when the corn could not get out of the stalk.

inquiry 3627 occurrences

And it is proof of my fogged condish that my first words to him were words not of reproach and stern recrimination but of inquiry:

she asked; and then followed the solemn inquiry, "How do you know it?"

She was unable to speak, but to her mother's inquiry, "Tell me once again, my child, are you quite happy?" she replied by lifting up her hand, and pointing to heaven, while the brightest smile lighted up her countenance.

A practice prevails amongst newspaper publishers in America, which is, I believe, only resorted to in England in cases of public emergency or unusual excitement, and that but seldom; I mean that of posting on large placards the latest arrival of news, home or foreign: thus, whenever you return home after a sojourn in the city, the eager inquiry is sure to be, "Any news up town?"

At length a doctor arrived, and, after some inquiry, pronounced effort useless, from the time the body had been under water.

On inquiry, I was told that the landlord had that morning been played a Yankee trick by a travelling pedlar, who had stopped the previous night at his house.

He was evidently used to such intrusions; for, after inquiry where we came from and whither bound, he began, in a tremulous voice, which, from his extreme age, was scarcely intelligible, to narrate his early adventures.

The Roman see has ever had a lingering kindness for the fair humanities of old religion, which live no longer in the faith of Protestant reason and free inquiry.

Two women and a brood of children stood in the door, and in answer to my inquiry one of the women (the children had already scampered out of sight) invited me to enter the yard.

[The very inquiry, Jack, that gave us all so much uneasiness.

'Well but, methinks, thou questionest again, Is it not probable that Miss Howe will make inquiry after such a man as Tomlinson?And when she cannot' I know what thou

These are her words, on relating what the commission of the pretended Tomlinson was, after the apprehensions that his distant inquiry had given her:] At last, my dear, all these doubts and fears were cleared up, and banished; and, in their place, a delightful prospect was opened to me.

It cannot but yield me some pleasure, hardly as I have sometimes thought of the people of the house, that such a good man as Captain Tomlinson had spoken well of them, upon inquiry.

And this inquiry brought out, >>> from different people, that the house was suspected to be one of those genteel wicked houses, which receive and accommodate fashionable people of both sexes.

What can you then think of Tomlinson's declar- ing himself in favour of it upon inquiry?

Indeed, it would seem inexcusably wasteful to attempt to maintain a primate or anthropoid station for psychological observations alone, or for any other narrowly limited biological inquiry.

The loss of the records prevents a detailed statement of these until they can be supplied by inquiry.

Neither is as perfect as could have been wished, and the latter not so much so as further time and inquiry may enable us to make it.

This, therefore, forms a strong motive with me for the inquiry which I now invite.

This ignorance was rather too much; we made inquiry, and found that Herr Beske had not intended to send us the guide we had, but his brother, who, however, had died six months previouslya circumstance which Herr Beske must have forgotten.

It neither admires nor inquires into the causes of effects that are ever seen to happen in the same manner, as if it were the novelty, and not the importance of the thing itself, that should excite us to such an inquiry."

At the conclusion of their inquiry they summed up their report by saying that Dr. Palmer had administered the abolition law in the spirit of the English abolition act, and in his administration of the law he had adapted it more to the comprehension of freemen than to the understandings of apprenticed laborers.

Ask you if a cringe of this murderous nature went unvisited, and if no inquiry was made respecting its circumstances?

A coroner's inquest was called; for the laws decreed that no such injuries should take place without having an inquiry instituted.

The females who thus hire their time, pursue various modes to procure the money; their masters making no inquiry how they get it, provided the money comes.

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