Inquiring

Examples

• I could not forbear inquiring. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• On his inquiring if he might have a conversation with her she replied, Yes, walk beside me, and continued to move on. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• It might have been her own fate she was inquiring after. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• As to his real character, had information been in her power, she had never felt a wish of inquiring. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Inquiring at the hotel, I received the necessary directions for finding the Sergeant's cottage. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Glancing towards Mr and Mrs Boffin, she very slightly raised her eyebrows, as though inquiring of her husband: 'Do I notice anything wrong here? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Inquiring after him at night, Mr Flintwinch found, with surprise, that he had paid his bill and gone back to the Continent by way of Calais. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• There has been no inventor who has covered such a field, and each step he takes opens new and fascinating vistas to his ever-inquiring eyes. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Head of the garrison,' said the stranger, in reply to Mr. Tupman's inquiring look. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Acquiring is always secondary, and instrumental to the act of inquiring. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Amy was too well-bred, and just now Laurie was too lazy, so in a minute he peeped under her hatbrim with an inquiring air. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• If they had only done that, the matter would not have been worth inquiring into. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• My own mental insight informs me that three inevitable questions will be asked here by persons of inquiring minds. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• On inquiring for such a man Chaplain Eaton, now and for many years the very able United States Commissioner of Education, was suggested. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The old man saw his inquiring look, and arose to take his leave. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.

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