Which preposition to use with questioning
They were already agitating the question of the Parliament coming back to Paris.
and keep all sordid and ugly questions in the background.
She had come to ask me all sorts of questions about clothes, hotels, people to see, etc.
That evening and the following day the greater portion of their free time was spent in discussing the great question as to what should be done.
He soon distinguished me from the rest of his visitors, by addressing questions to me relative to my history and adventures; and I, in turn, was gratified to have met with one who took an interest in my concerns, and who alone, of all I had here met with, could either enter into my feelings or comprehend my opinions.
The Parliament of course (le peuple souverain) was invited, but it was a different question for the women, wives of the senators and deputies.
And PUNCHINELLO is constrained to answer the latter question with an emphatic No!
CHAPTER XXV At Westgate 'I've got to go up to town on special business,' said Bruce, one afternoon, after receiving a telegram which he had rather ostentatiously left about, hoping he would be questioned on the subject.
"See here, Mr. Barnett, you're not going to fire a broadside of disturbing questions at my patient yet a while.
Gull and Hawley, however, anxious at all costs to save their own skins, practically answered the question by saying, "We didn't," and casting significant glances at Noaks and Fletcher.
Give her full speed," said the captain, replying to a question from the officer of the deck.
He was perfectly au courant of all the questions between the Vatican and the French clergyhis son, secretary of embassy, would go with him.
The question before us to-day is, shall the territory of Kansas be a free or a slave state.
It was characteristic of Colonel Musgrave that he went about answering the question without delay.
The voices of Dante, Milton, Shakespeare, Tennyson, and Browning sweep the soul upward to spiritual heights, and answer some of the deepest questionings of the soul of man.
This, however, is a branch of the question into which I do not now purpose to enter.
It costs me more than you can ever understand to say this, but questions like yours must be answered.
"I got easier questions than usual, I guess," he said to Dave, with a mournful smile.
Consider again, Sir, the audacity of this person (called a man), in repeating his odious question after the rebuke I had administered!
" BISMARCK was the first to break silence: "The difficulties which embarrass the questions under discussion stand first in the order of elimination.
The only questions over which he had no final power were those of making treaties.
We have said that the rank of the bishop of Rome as head of the Church had never been seriously questioned among the Teutons; but now the popes asserted a political authority as well.
She dared not face the ghastly questioning in Merry's meek eye.
The sessions of the Commission on the League of Nations and the absence of President Wilson from Paris interrupted further consideration of the Shantung Question until the latter part of March, when the Council of Four came into being.
Though he is far from the contemptible arrogance, or the impious licentiousness of Bolingbroke, yet he decides, too easily, upon questions out of the reach of human determination, with too little consideration of mortal weakness, and with too much vivacity for the necessary caution.