All 17 Uses of
inquiry
in
Jane Eyre
- Helen Burns asked some slight question about her work of Miss Smith, was chidden for the triviality of the inquiry, returned to her place, and smiled at me as she again went by.†
Chpt 7
- Miss Temple, having assembled the whole school, announced that inquiry had been made into the charges alleged against Jane Eyre, and that she was most happy to be able to pronounce her completely cleared from every imputation.†
Chpt 8
- Inquiry was made into the origin of the scourge, and by degrees various facts came out which excited public indignation in a high degree.†
Chpt 10 *
- "The carrier, no doubt," I thought, and ran downstairs without inquiry.†
Chpt 10
- I should have followed up my first inquiry, by asking in what way Miss Varens was connected with her; but I recollected it was not polite to ask too many questions: besides, I was sure to hear in time.†
Chpt 11
- , John and his wife, Leah the housemaid, and Sophie the French nurse, were decent people; but in no respect remarkable; with Sophie I used to talk French, and sometimes I asked her questions about her native country; but she was not of a descriptive or narrative turn, and generally gave such vapid and confused answers as were calculated rather to check than encourage inquiry.†
Chpt 12
- If even this stranger had smiled and been good-humoured to me when I addressed him; if he had put off my offer of assistance gaily and with thanks, I should have gone on my way and not felt any vocation to renew inquiries: but the frown, the roughness of the traveller, set me at my ease: I retained my station when he waved to me to go, and announced — "I cannot think of leaving you, sir, at so late an hour, in this solitary lane, till I see you are fit to mount your horse."†
Chpt 12
- In answer to my inquiries after the use of this article, she informed me it was a covering for the altar of a new church lately erected near Gateshead.†
Chpt 21
- Utter it, Jane: but I wish that instead of a mere inquiry into, perhaps, a secret, it was a wish for half my estate.†
Chpt 24
- He was certain his possessions were real and vast: he made inquiries.†
Chpt 27
- One morning, being left alone with him a few minutes in the parlour, I ventured to approach the window-recess — which his table, chair, and desk consecrated as a kind of study — and I was going to speak, though not very well knowing in what words to frame my inquiry — for it is at all times difficult to break the ice of reserve glassing over such natures as his — when he saved me the trouble by being the first to commence a dialogue.†
Chpt 30
- I naturally asked myself that question as I saw him turn to her and look at her; and, as naturally, I sought the answer to the inquiry in his countenance.†
Chpt 31
- What his subsequent conduct and proposals were is a matter of pure conjecture; but when an event transpired which rendered inquiry after the governess necessary, it was discovered she was gone — no one could tell when, where, or how.†
Chpt 33
- His eye, bent on me, expressed at once stern surprise and keen inquiry.†
Chpt 34
- The inquiry was put in gentle tones: he drew me to him as gently.†
Chpt 35
- Letters have proved of no avail — personal inquiry shall replace them.†
Chpt 36
- It was easy to make my further arrangements; for I was troubled with no inquiries — no surmises.†
Chpt 36
Definition:
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(inquiry) the act of asking a question or performing an investigation