All 10 Uses of
inquest
in
Bleak House
- There will be an inquest, and you will be asked the question.†
Chpt 10-12
- There are a few dirty scraps of newspapers, all referring to coroners' inquests; there is nothing else.†
Chpt 10-12 *
- He is understood to be in want of witnesses for the inquest to-morrow who can tell the coroner and jury anything whatever respecting the deceased.†
Chpt 10-12
- Is much applauded and encouraged; goes out of the room as Swills; comes in as the coroner (not the least in the world like him); describes the inquest, with recreative intervals of piano-forte accompaniment, to the refrain: With his (the coroner's) tippy tol li doll, tippy tol lo doll, tippy tol li doll, Dee!†
Chpt 10-12
- It reminded Caddy to tell me as we proceeded upstairs that there had been a sudden death there and an inquest and that our little friend had been ill of the fright.†
Chpt 13-15
- Were you examined at an inquest?†
Chpt 16-18
- Upon which law-writer there was an inquest, and which law-writer was an anonymous character, his name being unknown.†
Chpt 28-30
- CHAPTER XXXIII Interlopers Now do those two gentlemen not very neat about the cuffs and buttons who attended the last coroner's inquest at the Sol's Arms reappear in the precincts with surprising swiftness (being, in fact, breathlessly fetched by the active and intelligent beadle), and institute perquisitions through the court, and dive into the Sol's parlour, and write with ravenous little pens on tissue-paper.†
Chpt 31-33
- …occurring in the first floor of the house occupied as a rag, bottle, and general marine store shop, by an eccentric individual of intemperate habits, far advanced in life, named Krook; and how, by a remarkable coincidence, Krook was examined at the inquest, which it may be recollected was held on that occasion at the Sol's Arms, a well-conducted tavern immediately adjoining the premises in question on the west side and licensed to a highly respectable landlord, Mr. James George Bogsby.†
Chpt 31-33
- The house has not done so much in the stomachic article of cloves or in brandy-and-water warm since the inquest.†
Chpt 31-33
Definition:
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(inquest) a formal inquiry or investigation -- typically into the cause of an undesirable event -- often an investigation of an unexpected death