All 26 Uses of
inquire
in
Middlemarch
- The pride of being ladies had something to do with it: the Brooke connections, though not exactly aristocratic, were unquestionably "good:" if you inquired backward for a generation or two, you would not find any yard-measuring or parcel-tying forefathers—anything lower than an admiral or a clergyman; and there was even an ancestor discernible as a Puritan gentleman who served under Cromwell, but afterwards conformed, and managed to come out of all political troubles as the proprietor…†
Chpt 1
- "We must not inquire too curiously into motives," he interposed, in his measured way.†
Chpt 1 *
- Let any lady who is inclined to be hard on Mrs. Cadwallader inquire into the comprehensiveness of her own beautiful views, and be quite sure that they afford accommodation for all the lives which have the honor to coexist with hers.†
Chpt 1
- His private minor loans were numerous, but he would inquire strictly into the circumstances both before and after.†
Chpt 2
- The reflection of that smile could not but have a little merriment in it too, even under dark eyelashes still moist, as Dorothea said inquiringly, "Something amuses you?"†
Chpt 2
- Will could not omit Thorwaldsen, a living celebrity about whom even Mr. Casaubon inquired, but before the day was far advanced he led the way to the studio of his friend Adolf Naumann, whom he mentioned as one of the chief renovators of Christian art, one of those who had not only revived but expanded that grand conception of supreme events as mysteries at which the successive ages were spectators, and in relation to which the great souls of all periods became as it were…†
Chpt 2
- She too was silent, only raising her eyes to him inquiringly.†
Chpt 3
- She rose quickly and went out of the room, hurrying along the corridor, with the irresistible impulse to go and see her husband and inquire if she could do anything for him.†
Chpt 3
- Papa was not a rock: he had no other fixity than that fixity of alternating impulses sometimes called habit, and this was altogether unfavorable to his taking the only decisive line of conduct in relation to his daughter's engagement—namely, to inquire thoroughly into Lydgate's circumstances, declare his own inability to furnish money, and forbid alike either a speedy marriage or an engagement which must be too lengthy.†
Chpt 4
- She was really uncomfortable on the point he inquired about, but she only became a little more serious, and her eyes did not swerve.†
Chpt 4
- "I have been inquiring into the thing, for I've never known anything about Middlemarch politics before—the county being my business.†
Chpt 4
- I mean," she said, after a moment's hesitation, "that the people in our village are tolerably comfortable, and my mind has been too much taken up for me to inquire further.†
Chpt 5
- Look what Stanley said the other day—that the House had been tinkering long enough at small questions of bribery, inquiring whether this or that voter has had a guinea when everybody knows that the seats have been sold wholesale.†
Chpt 5
- If there were one man who would carry you a medical reform and another who would oppose it, should you inquire which had the better motives or even the better brains?†
Chpt 5
- The widow's cap of those times made an oval frame for the face, and had a crown standing up; the dress was an experiment in the utmost laying on of crape; but this heavy solemnity of clothing made her face look all the younger, with its recovered bloom, and the sweet, inquiring candor of her eyes.†
Chpt 6
- He never knew what meat he would choose, and if Susan had said that they ought to live in a four-roomed cottage, in order to save, he would have said, "Let us go," without inquiring into details.†
Chpt 6
- …city business and gained a fortune before he was three-and-thirty, that he had married a widow who was much older than himself—a Dissenter, and in other ways probably of that disadvantageous quality usually perceptible in a first wife if inquired into with the dispassionate judgment of a second—was almost as much as she had cared to learn beyond the glimpses which Mr. Bulstrode's narrative occasionally gave of his early bent towards religion, his inclination to be a preacher, and…†
Chpt 6
- It was easy for him to settle what was due from him to others by inquiring what were God's intentions with regard to himself.†
Chpt 6
- Will had felt no particular surprise at the request, and connected it with some new notions about the "Pioneer;" but when he was shown into Mr. Bulstrode's private room, he was struck with the painfully worn look on the banker's face, and was going to say, "Are you ill?" when, checking himself in that abruptness, he only inquired after Mrs. Bulstrode, and her satisfaction with the picture bought for her.†
Chpt 6
- "I ordered Trumbull not to inquire further," she said, with a careful calmness which was evidently defensive.†
Chpt 7
- Various motives urged Bulstrode to this open-handedness, but he did not himself inquire closely into all of them.†
Chpt 7
- But he immediately threw himself into the consideration of the patient, and inquired strictly into all that had occurred.†
Chpt 7
- "Something new, I fear," said Bulstrode, inquiringly.†
Chpt 7
- Mr. Frank Hawley followed up his information by sending a clerk whom he could trust to Stone Court on a pretext of inquiring about hay, but really to gather all that could be learned about Raffles and his illness from Mrs. Abel.†
Chpt 7
- How can we begin to inquire into it?†
Chpt 8
- If the invitations had been accepted she would have gone to invite her mamma and the rest, whom she had seen nothing of for several days; and she now put on her bonnet to go and inquire what had become of them all, suddenly feeling as if there were a conspiracy to leave her in isolation with a husband disposed to offend everybody.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(inquire) to ask about or look into something