Which preposition to use with queried

of Occurrences 32%

" To a query of Mang Wu respecting filial piety, the Master replied, "Parents ought to bear but one troublethat of their own sickness.

in Occurrences 20%

he queried in amazement.

as Occurrences 18%

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.

to Occurrences 17%

" Tsz-k'in put this query to his fellow disciple Tsz-kung: said he, "When our Master comes to this or that State, he learns without fail how it is being governed.

with Occurrences 13%

It is often a query with me, how am I spending this precious time, which passes so swiftly away never to return?

about Occurrences 10%

" Fan Ch'i put a query about wisdom.

from Occurrences 9%

" "What do you make it out to be?" came the query from below.

for Occurrences 8%

* A Query for Physicians.

by Occurrences 6%

The public proposal of these and other queries by a man of so great commercial knowledge as Postlethwaite, and by one who was himself a member of the African Committee, was of great service in exposing the impolicy as well as immorality of the Slave Trade.

at Occurrences 5%

'What's your produce?' is now the first query at this season, when planters meet.

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Malachi Postlethwaite, in his Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce, proposes a number of queries on the subject of the Slave Trade.

into Occurrences 2%

Ask your own heart and conscience whether (for instance,) they are satisfied with this defence 'duri per durius': or whether frightening a modest query into silence by perverting it into an accusation of the Almighty, by virtue of a conclusion borrowed from the Calvinistic theory of Predestination, is not more in the spirit of Job's comforters, than becomes a minister of the Apostolic Church of England and Ireland?

under Occurrences 1%

We trust all our friends and correspondents will follow PHILO's example by bringing NOTES AND QUERIES under the notice of such of their friends as take an interest in literary pursuits.

across Occurrences 1%

Skinny queried across the table.

before Occurrences 1%

One of the printed queries before me is, "Do they (the Indians) believe in ghosts?"

within Occurrences 1%

He recollected having heard, some time before, of Mr. Duncan's death, and he queried within himself what had become of that beautiful child.

alike Occurrences 1%

Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.

out Occurrences 1%

Jim queried out of his morbid curiosity, for he knew that he looked upon a man that was soon to die.

over Occurrences 1%

Shall we freesk him?" As he flung the query over his shoulder his beady little eyes did not leave Pringle's.

after Occurrences 1%

He was pleasant and urbane as usual, but to my anxious query after Theodore he only gave me the old reply: "No trace of him can be found.

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suddenly inquired the driver, throwing the query toward Miss Sterling.

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