Asking

Examples

• The next morning after the capture of Petersburg, I telegraphed Mr. Lincoln asking him to ride out there and see me, while I would await his arrival. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Andreu Nin will find it easily by asking, if he knows what to ask for. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Who raised her head upon his coming in and asking: 'Where did you go, Liz? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I have thought that if Mr. Yeobright would like to pay me a visit sometimes he shouldn't stay away for want of asking. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The Colonel had his office full of people, mostly from the neighboring States of Missouri and Kentucky, making complaints or asking favors. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But as to listening to what one lawyer says without asking another--I wonder at a man o' your cleverness, Mr. Dill. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• On the edge of her consciousness the question was asking itself, automatically: 'Why ARE you behaving in this IMPOSSIBLE and ridiculous fashion. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The affection, which he had been asking to be allowed to create, if he could, was already his! Jane Austen. Emma.
• Asking the operator the best direction, he pointed west, and noticing a rabbit in a clear space in the sage bushes, I said, 'There is one now. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I pondered over this report for some time, finally asking, What might a sorak be, Sola? Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• I cannot imagine why Mrs. Grant should think of asking her? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I don't go about asking busy people what seven and sixpence is in Moorish--which I don't understand. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• They've been asking ever since when she's coming back; and she's promised me----oh! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I am sorry to say it's no use asking me about days of the month, and such-like. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Have I no claim to be spared the insult of your asking me what you have done? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

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