"Inquiry" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... keep his secret. "You see, it's so awkard like, when everybody's tryin' to ferret out how this affair came about. You didn't happen to mention it to nobody, I s'pose?" and he turned a keen glance of inquiry toward Eve. ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, September 1880 • Various
... accustomed to this inquiry after the mythic civilizer of the forest Indians, who, after carving the mysterious sculptures which appear upon so many inland cliffs of that region, returned again whence he came, beyond the ocean. He answered, as usual, by setting forth ...
— Westward Ho! • Charles Kingsley
... it shows forethought and adds greatly to the comfort of the guests to have a small framed card showing the arrival and departure of trains and of mails, especially if the house is a great distance from the railway-station. This saves much inquiry and time. In the paper rack there should be not only stamped paper bearing the address of the house, telephone number, and so forth, but also telegraph blanks, post cards, stamps, and so forth. Very often people who have beautiful places have post cards made showing various views of ...
— The House in Good Taste • Elsie de Wolfe
... are right, I go and tell my money over, and there, to my surprise, I find L194, 10s. 6d. in cash, so that I have L18 there more than I should have. Now, far from being pleased that I have more money by me than I should have, my inquiry is plain, 'How ...
— The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) • Daniel Defoe
... from the Phaedrus of Plato. It is inquired if the soul is immortal; and this being hypothetically admitted, it is inquired in the next place if it is always moved. This being demonstrated, the next inquiry is if that which is always moved, is self-moved; and this again being demonstrated, it is considered whether that which is self-moved is the principle of motion, and afterwards if the principle is unbegotten. This then being admitted as a thing acknowledged, and likewise that ...
— Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato • Thomas Taylor
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