All 50 Uses of
inquire
in
War and Peace
- "Charming!" said Anna Pavlovna with an inquiring glance at the little princess.†
Chpt 1
- The visitor's daughter was already smoothing down her dress with an inquiring look at her mother, when suddenly from the next room were heard the footsteps of boys and girls running to the door and the noise of a chair falling over, and a girl of thirteen, hiding something in the folds of her short muslin frock, darted in and stopped short in the middle of the room.†
Chpt 1
- Isn't that friendship?" remarked the count in an inquiring tone.†
Chpt 1
- Boris said no more, but looked inquiringly at his mother without taking off his cloak.†
Chpt 1 *
- Marya Dmitrievna's deep voice suddenly inquired from the other end of the table.†
Chpt 1
- The Military Governor of Moscow, who had been assiduous in sending aides-de-camp to inquire after the count's health, came himself that evening to bid a last farewell to the celebrated grandee of Catherine's court, Count Bezukhov.†
Chpt 1
- This action was so unlike her usual composure and the fear depicted on Prince Vasili's face so out of keeping with his dignity that Pierre stopped and glanced inquiringly over his spectacles at his guide.†
Chpt 1
- Pierre hesitated, not knowing what to do, and glanced inquiringly at his guide.†
Chpt 1
- Anna Mikhaylovna looked attentively at the sick man's eyes, trying to guess what he wanted; she pointed first to Pierre, then to some drink, then named Prince Vasili in an inquiring whisper, then pointed to the quilt.†
Chpt 1
- He looked inquiringly at his monitress and saw that she was again going on tiptoe to the reception room where they had left Prince Vasili and the eldest princess.†
Chpt 1
- Pierre gave her an inquiring look.†
Chpt 1
- Michael Ivanovich did not at all know when "you and I" had said such things about Bonaparte, but understanding that he was wanted as a peg on which to hang the prince's favorite topic, he looked inquiringly at the young prince, wondering what would follow.†
Chpt 1
- "And how do you get on with the officers?" inquired Zherkov.†
Chpt 2
- "Buonaparte?" said Bilibin inquiringly, puckering up his forehead to indicate that he was about to say something witty.†
Chpt 2
- What is it all about?" inquired Prince Andrew impatiently.†
Chpt 2
- Prince Andrew looked inquiringly at him and gave no reply.†
Chpt 2
- Prince Andrew smiled involuntarily as he looked at the artillery officer Tushin, who silent and smiling, shifting from one stockinged foot to the other, glanced inquiringly with his large, intelligent, kindly eyes from Prince Andrew to the staff officer.†
Chpt 2
- A young officer with a bewildered and pained expression on his face stepped away from the man and looked round inquiringly at the adjutant as he rode by.†
Chpt 2
- "Then what is this blood on the gun carriage?" inquired Tushin.†
Chpt 2
- Prince Bagration was thanking the individual commanders and inquiring into details of the action and our losses.†
Chpt 2
- How was it that two guns were abandoned in the center?" he inquired, searching with his eyes for someone.†
Chpt 2
- She looked at her niece, as if inquiring what she was to do with these people.†
Chpt 3
- Pierre took them off, and his eyes, besides the strange look eyes have from which spectacles have just been removed, had also a frightened and inquiring look.†
Chpt 3
- "His Excellency Prince Vasili Kuragin and his son, I understand?" she said inquiringly.†
Chpt 3
- She took the liberty of inquiring whether it was long since Anatole had left Paris and how he had liked that city.†
Chpt 3
- "Why not?" inquired Boris.†
Chpt 3
- He looked intently and inquiringly into his friend's eyes, evidently trying in vain to find the answer to some question.†
Chpt 3
- Boris inquired what news there might be on the staff, and what, without indiscretion, one might ask about our plans.†
Chpt 3
- At the quarters of the commander in chief, Kutuzov, where he inquired for Bolkonski, all the adjutants and even the orderlies looked at him as if they wished to impress on him that a great many officers like him were always coming there and that everybody was heartily sick of them.†
Chpt 3
- And what did he say?" inquired Bolkonski.†
Chpt 3
- "The Pavlograd hussars?" he inquired.†
Chpt 3
- Not wishing to agree to Dolgorukov's demand to commence the action, and wishing to avert responsibility from himself, Prince Bagration proposed to Dolgorukov to send to inquire of the commander in chief.†
Chpt 3
- "Vasili Denisov, your son's friend," he said, introducing himself to the count, who was looking inquiringly at him.†
Chpt 4
- The evening before, in the first happy moment of meeting, they had kissed each other, but today they felt it could not be done; he felt that everybody, including his mother and sisters, was looking inquiringly at him and watching to see how he would behave with her.†
Chpt 4
- "The countess told me to inquire whether your excellency was at home," said the valet.†
Chpt 4
- Only when footsteps or voices were heard did they look at one another, the princess anxious and inquiring, the nurse encouraging.†
Chpt 4
- She looked at him inquiringly and with childlike reproach.†
Chpt 4
- Pierre looked silently and inquiringly at him over his spectacles.†
Chpt 5
- …do all in his power to carry out the count's wishes, seeing clearly that not only would the count never be able to find out whether all measures had been taken for the sale of the land and forests and to release them from the Land Bank, but would probably never even inquire and would never know that the newly erected buildings were standing empty and that the serfs continued to give in money and work all that other people's serfs gave—that is to say, all that could be got out of them.†
Chpt 5
- "Did you see it yourselves?" he inquired.†
Chpt 5
- Boris looked at his general inquiringly and immediately saw that he was being tested.†
Chpt 5
- "Whom do you want?" someone inquired.†
Chpt 5
- "To what committee has the memorandum been referred?" inquired Prince Andrew.†
Chpt 6
- In Petersburg they were provincials, and the very people they had entertained in Moscow without inquiring to what set they belonged, here looked down on them.†
Chpt 6
- The victorious huntsman rode off to join the field, and there, surrounded by inquiring sympathizers, recounted his exploits.†
Chpt 7
- "Oh?" said "Uncle" in surprise, looking inquiringly at Natasha, who nodded her head with a happy smile.†
Chpt 7
- "What were you thinking about just now, Nicholas?" inquired Natasha.†
Chpt 7
- "And how does one do it in a barn?" inquired Sonya.†
Chpt 7
- "Well, the Lord have mercy on us!" said the count, half in jest, half in earnest; but Natasha noticed that her father was flurried on entering the anteroom and inquired timidly and softly whether the prince and princess were at home.†
Chpt 8
- I would not be silly and afraid of things, I would simply embrace him, cling to him, and make him look at me with those searching inquiring eyes with which he has so often looked at me, and then I would make him laugh as he used to laugh.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(inquire) to ask about or look into something