Questions
['kwɛstʃənz]
Examples
- He only told me a little about his parents and grandparents, and almost all in answer to my questions. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- We cannot pretend to-day that we have arrived at solutions to most of the questions they asked. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I will answer any questions this once, but after to-night let us never speak of it again. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- And where are the open questions: the issues that everybody should consider, the problems that scientists should study? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We have endeavored here to embody all the answers to questions that we suppose may be asked. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- My mind being made up, after that circumstance, I had two questions to consider next. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I did not choose to ask any further questions, but turned abruptly away. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I will read you the questions and answers as they stand. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- In my overpowering anxiety to hear what she had to tell me, I could not answer her--I could only put questions on my side. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Reader, do you know, as I do, what terror those cold people can put into the ice of their questions? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Obviously, these two questions overlap. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I am sorry to hear you putting any such extraordinary questions. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Perdita's questions had ceased; she leaned on my arm, panting with emotions too acute for tears--our men pulled alongside the other boat. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- With the questions of reorganization thus suggested, we shall be concerned in the concluding chapters. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I am brimful of downright questions; and I expect you to be brimful of downright answers. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It is eminently mine to ask such questions, when I have to decide whether I will have transactions with you and accept your money. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In vain I endeavored to interest him in Afghanistan, in India, in social questions, in anything which might take his mind out of the groove. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Of course it would be a great relief to me to ask you several questions, sir; but I remember your prohibition. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Both he and his company would often descend to ask me questions, and receive my answers. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Hast any questions? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- You see the point of my questions, of course. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- She talked principally of Sir Percival, and asked a great many questions about where he had been travelling, and what sort of lady his new wife was. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I see three very serious questions involved in the Colonel's birthday-gift to my cousin Rachel. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- These questions continually recurred, but I was unable to solve them. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- They asked me so many questions as to where I was going, that I was obliged to confess I was waiting for somebody to meet me. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- And do you suppose that I ask these questions with any design of injuring you in the argument? Plato. The Republic.
- The sailors were all in amazement, and asked me a thousand questions, which I had no inclination to answer. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Though answers to the questions surged up fastmy mind filling like a rising well, ideas were there, but not words. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I will tell anybody who asks me questions, this exact tale. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- But historians must stand to the questions a politician can evade. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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