Questioning

Examples

• The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my companion. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• But one word of the fate of poor Gurth, and I have done with questioning thee. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• It must be either publicly by setting the magistrate and coroner to work, or privately by questioning Lydgate. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• I think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all this cross-questioning. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Their eyes met, but with a strange questioning gravity. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Are you questioning me as another's proxy? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She smiled again as one might in bored indulgence of a questioning child. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• When the second questioning was over, my girl came back to me in a frenzy. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Our visitor sank into an armchair and looked from one to the other of us with questioning eyes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• With one hand across his breast and the other on the easy chair, Riah, without justifying himself, waited for further questioning. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Well, said he, smiling at her questioning, astonished face, which is which? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• His niece was deep in thought likewise, trying to harden and prepare herself against farther questioning. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Then there seemed no reason for questioning. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She appeared to be cross-questioning me, attempting to draw from me information unawares. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

Editor: Val