All 50 Uses of
inquire
in
Anna Karenina
- "On the table," replied Matvey, glancing with inquiring sympathy at his master; and, after a short pause, he added with a sly smile, "They've sent from the carriage-jobbers."†
Part 1
- "Alone, or with her husband?" inquired Matvey.†
Part 1 *
- One of the members going down—a lean official with a portfolio—stood out of his way and looked disapprovingly at the legs of the stranger, then glanced inquiringly at Oblonsky.†
Part 1
- The professor, in annoyance, and, as it were, mental suffering at the interruption, looked round at the strange inquirer, more like a bargeman than a philosopher, and turned his eyes upon Sergey Ivanovitch, as though to ask: What's one to say to him?†
Part 1
- "Are you always in the country?" he inquired.†
Part 1
- Dolly looked at her inquiringly.†
Part 1
- "Why should not I be dull at a ball?" inquired Anna.†
Part 1
- "What's the question?" inquired Stepan Arkadyevitch, coming out of his room and addressing his wife.†
Part 1
- When Anna returned with the album, he was already gone, and Stepan Arkadyevitch was telling them that he had called to inquire about the dinner they were giving next day to a celebrity who had just arrived.†
Part 1
- There was nothing either exceptional or strange in a man's calling at half-past nine on a friend to inquire details of a proposed dinner party and not coming in, but it seemed strange to all of them.†
Part 1
- "Why, have you met?" inquired their host.†
Part 1
- And again his eyes traveled inquiringly over all of them.†
Part 1
- "Well, my dear, so you took the olive branch?" inquired Countess Lidia Ivanovna, as soon as she came into the room.†
Part 1
- Vronsky looked inquiringly at her.†
Part 2
- And at dinner they inquire who lives at the top in that house.†
Part 2
- "Mind you're not late!" was Yashvin's only comment; and to change the conversation: "How's my roan? is he doing all right?" he inquired, looking out of the window at the middle one of the three horses, which he had sold Vronsky.†
Part 2
- And this was what caused his dubious, inquiring, sometimes hostile, expression, and the shyness and uncertainty which Vronsky found so irksome.†
Part 2
- She did not answer, and, bending her head a little, she looked inquiringly at him from under her brows, her eyes shining under their long lashes.†
Part 2
- For this reason there positively came into Alexey Alexandrovitch's face a look of haughtiness and severity whenever anyone inquired after his wife's health.†
Part 2
- She glanced round for an instant, looked inquiringly at him, and with a slight frown turned away again.†
Part 2
- "What was it?" inquired the princess.†
Part 2
- The raising of this question by a hostile department was in Alexey Alexandrovitch's opinion a dishonorable proceeding, seeing that in every department there were things similar and worse, which no one inquired into, for well-known reasons of official etiquette.†
Part 3
- He demanded the appointment of another special commission to inquire into the question of the Native Tribes Organization Committee.†
Part 3
- Anna glanced inquiringly into her face, and blushed with a scared look.†
Part 3
- But anything more than that in reality, no one cares to inquire.†
Part 3
- He got up to go to his writing table, and Laska, lying at his feet, got up too, stretching and looking at him as though to inquire where to go.†
Part 3
- "You don't mean to say he's here?" said Levin, and he wanted to inquire about Kitty.†
Part 4
- And, anxious to change the conversation, he inquired about what interested them both—the new head of Stepan Arkadyevitch's department, a man not yet old, who had suddenly been promoted to so high a position.†
Part 4
- He would again have got his brother-in-law away, but Alexey Alexandrovitch himself inquired, with curiosity: "What did Pryatchnikov fight about?"†
Part 4
- Vronsky had gone home, but in the morning he came to inquire, and Alexey Alexandrovitch meeting him in the hall, said: "Better stay, she might ask for you," and himself led him to his wife's boudoir.†
Part 4
- He felt that everyone was looking at him with inquiring wonder, that he was not understood, and that something was expected of him.†
Part 4
- When they met him, with ill-disguised enjoyment they inquired after his wife's health.†
Part 4
- She stopped suddenly, and glanced inquiringly at her husband (he did not look at her).†
Part 4
- How explain it without the Creator?" he said, looking inquiringly at Levin.†
Part 5
- "This gentleman is a Russian, and was inquiring after you," said the head waiter.†
Part 5
- Would you say it's hot?" she said, stopping short in the doorway and looking inquiringly at Vronsky.†
Part 5
- "Oh, and when you've cleared up, go away yourself," he added, looking inquiringly at his brother.†
Part 5
- "What do you think?" he inquired.†
Part 5
- Slowly and inquiringly he looked for several seconds at his mother standing motionless before him, then all at once he smiled a blissful smile, and shutting his eyes, rolled not backwards but towards her into her arms.†
Part 5
- Anna appeared not to notice Vronsky's worried and inquiring expression, and began a lively account of her morning's shopping.†
Part 5
- "What's that you don't want to think about?" inquired Levin, coming onto the terrace.†
Part 6
- Laska stopped, looking ironically at the horses and inquiringly at Levin.†
Part 6
- He inquired how his queer friend with the young wife was, and running his eyes over the ill-matched horses and the carriage with its patched mud-guards, proposed to the ladies that they should get into the char-a-banc.†
Part 6
- Where is the count?" she inquired of two smart footmen who darted out.†
Part 6
- He took Anna's hand and looked inquiringly into her eyes.†
Part 6
- Only one thing was essential: to have money in the bank, without inquiring where it came from, so as to know that one had the wherewithal to buy meat for tomorrow.†
Part 7
- The countess came in, sat down on the sofa, and she too asked after his wife and inquired about the concert.†
Part 7
- You know Prince Tchetchensky?" inquired the prince; and Levin saw by his face that he was just going to relate something funny.†
Part 7
- At the top Stepan Arkadyevitch inquired of the footman, who bowed to him as to an intimate friend, who was with Anna Arkadyevna, and received the answer that it was M. Vorkuev.†
Part 7
- You haven't told me!" she inquired, trying to conceal her triumph at the victory, which had anyway been on her side.†
Part 7
Definition:
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(inquire) to ask about or look into something