On arriving at the clergyman's house, she was not sorry to find but few of the family stirring, as she naturally wished to avoid much questioning.

For a long time he had resisted all questioning, but at length had developed such strange changes of mood, showing a reluctance to go to school, a desire to be fetched in the carriage at night,which was a ridiculous piece of luxury,an unwillingness to go out into the grounds, and nervous start at every sound, that his mother had insisted upon an explanation.

Certain that they hold "by no merit of our own, but by the mercy of our God the one truth which he hath revealed", they can permit no questionings, they can accept nought but the most complete submission.

I recognised in this famous divine the spirit of the priest, which could be tender and pitiful to the sinner, repentant, humble, submissive, craving only for pardon and for guidance, but which was iron to the doubter, to the heretic, and would crush out all questionings of "revealed truth", silencing by force, not by argument, all challenge of the traditions of the Church.

There was that in Sir Beverley's manner that silenced all questioning.

Rudolf in particular would have liked to know whether it was a hurricane or sharks or pirates or a nice desert island that had been the end of that little boy, and he was about to begin his questioning in a roundabout manner by asking whether sea serpents had often been known to swallow ships whole, when the door opened, and in came Betsy, Aunt Jane's old servant.

We will not attempt to describe the mother's anguish when she was made acquainted with the dreaded fate of her son; but Helen was a Christian, and while her heart was bowed down with crushing grief, her spirit strove to hush its rebellious questionings, and to submit itself to the will of God.

One effort I made to escape it; I appealed to Dr. Pusey, thinking that if he could not answer my questionings, no answer to them could be reasonably hoped for.

She dared not face the ghastly questioning in Merry's meek eye.

She felt the questioning in them, and turned her face to the clinging folds of the veil.

H'm!naturally there followed a terrible questioning, by my aunt, my father, the nurse, the governess everyone...

"Rubbish!" ejaculated Harold in a tone which forbade further questioning, and the matter dropped.

The hunters gazed blankly at one another, mute questioning in their eyes.

Rumor had it that a Japanese prince had come in it to inspect the coast line, but newspaper reporters were forbidden to scale the side and no satisfaction was given their eager questioning by the bluff old captain who commanded the craft.

She did not reply, nor even hear his alarmed questioning.

A knock at the door interrupted Sofia's questioning.

He read a portion of the Scriptures, explained its meaning as he could,and invited all possible questioning.

Christina believed in God, in heaven, in the eternal life, with an unfaltering constancy and fullness which left no questionings except, it might be, concerning her fulfillment of her religious obligations.

My object in maintaining the mental questioning was, of course, to prevent Miss A. from getting any clue to the meaning of the questions, and I carried the precaution so far as not to look at her while forming the questions in my mind.

But, were it far greater, and the present writer of a much higher order of intellect, there would still be sufficient cause for humility in view of those impassable bounds that have ever met every self-questioning of the mind.

Isak misses her questioning; it was her curiosity and her praise of all he did that made him the contented man, the incomparable man he was.

[Footnote Z: Compare in the 'Ode, Intimations of Immortality': '... those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings,' etc. Ed.]

This gave him the confidence he needed to offset the fearless questioning in the blue eyes.

But she was shrewd enough to parry all his ingenious cross-questioning.

Squire Boatfield, who was visibly embarrassed, was still standing and tried to murmur some excuse, being obviously anxious to curtail this interview and to postpone his further questionings.