All 50 Uses of
inquire
in
Bleak House
- Addressing him by the name of Guppy, Mr. Kenge inquired whether Miss Summerson's boxes and the rest of the baggage had been "sent round."†
Chpt 4-6
- "Did you imply that he has children of his own, sir?" inquired Richard.†
Chpt 4-6
- "And have the children looked after themselves at all, sir?" inquired Richard.†
Chpt 4-6
- I inquired of Mr. Skimpole.†
Chpt 4-6
- I ventured to inquire, generally, before replying, what would happen if the money were not produced.†
Chpt 4-6
- Mr. Jarndyce inquired.†
Chpt 7-9
- "I inquired because, coming from Lincolnshire, I of course have not yet been in town, and I thought some letters might have been sent down here.†
Chpt 7-9
- "Does the man generally sleep like this?" inquired the lawyer in a low voice.†
Chpt 10-12
- Mr. Tulkinghorn (standing by the old portmanteau) inquires if he has been dead any time.†
Chpt 10-12
- "Air you in the maydickle prayfession yourself, sir?" inquires the first.†
Chpt 10-12
- "Can you give the person of the house any information about this unfortunate creature, Snagsby?" inquires Mr. Tulkinghorn.†
Chpt 10-12
- You are impanelled here to inquire into the death of a certain man.†
Chpt 10-12
- You sent me a message respecting the person whose writing I happened to inquire about.†
Chpt 10-12
- "Yes," he says, "I inquired about the man, and found him.†
Chpt 10-12
- "Really, when we are assured by Mr. Richard that he means to go at it and to do his best," nodding feelingly and smoothly over those expressions, "I would submit to you that we have only to inquire into the best mode of carrying out the object of his ambition.†
Chpt 13-15
- As I had not seen Peepy on the occasion of our last call (when he was not to be found anywhere, and when the cook rather thought he must have strolled away with the dustman's cart), I now inquired for him again.†
Chpt 13-15
- It may not be for me to say that I have been called, for some years now, Gentleman Turveydrop, or that his Royal Highness the Prince Regent did me the honour to inquire, on my removing my hat as he drove out of the Pavilion at Brighton (that fine building), 'Who is he?†
Chpt 13-15
- For some moments, I was so lost in reconsidering what I had heard and seen in Newman Street that I was quite unable to talk to Caddy or even to fix my attention on what she said to me, especially when I began to inquire in my mind whether there were, or ever had been, any other gentlemen, not in the dancing profession, who lived and founded a reputation entirely on their deportment.†
Chpt 13-15
- These answers and his manner were strange enough to cause my guardian to inquire of Mr. Woodcourt, as we all walked across Lincoln's Inn together, whether Mr. Krook were really, as his lodger represented him, deranged.†
Chpt 13-15
- "Did he take no legal proceedings?" inquired my guardian.†
Chpt 13-15
- inquired whether I was my father's son, about which there was no dispute at all with any mortal creature.†
Chpt 13-15
- Mr. and Mrs. Bayham Badger coming one afternoon when my guardian was not at home, in the course of conversation I naturally inquired after Richard.†
Chpt 16-18
- "Now, my friends," says Mr. Chadband, "we will inquire in a spirit of love—"†
Chpt 19-21
- Mr. Guppy, who has an inquiring mind in matters of evidence and who has been suffering severely from the lassitude of the long vacation, takes that interest in the case that he enters on a regular cross-examination of the witness, which is found so interesting by the ladies that Mrs. Snagsby politely invites him to step upstairs and drink a cup of tea, if he will excuse the disarranged state of the tea-table, consequent on their previous exertions.†
Chpt 19-21
- Let us, in a spirit of love, inquire.†
Chpt 19-21
- Will you come tomorrow, my young friend, and inquire of this good lady where I am to be found to deliver a discourse unto you, and will you come like the thirsty swallow upon the next day, and upon the day after that, and upon the day after that, and upon many pleasant days, to hear discourses?†
Chpt 19-21
- "Where have you sprung up from?" inquires Mr. Guppy.†
Chpt 19-21
- Grandfather Smallweed inquires of Judy, Bart's twin sister.†
Chpt 19-21
- Grandfather Smallweed inquires, slowly rubbing his legs.†
Chpt 19-21
- "Did you speak, Mr. George?" inquires the old man.†
Chpt 19-21
- Mrs. Snagsby repeatedly inquires of herself.†
Chpt 25-27
- "My friends," he resumes after dabbing his fat head for some time— and it smokes to such an extent that he seems to light his pockethandkerchief at it, which smokes, too, after every dab—"to pursue the subject we are endeavouring with our lowly gifts to improve, let us in a spirit of love inquire what is that Terewth to which I have alluded.†
Chpt 25-27
- "Did she die at ninety, guv'ner?" inquires Phil.†
Chpt 25-27
- "What was your remark, my dear friend?" inquires the old man with his hand to his ear.†
Chpt 25-27
- Mr. George inquires, getting his hat and thick wash-leather gloves.†
Chpt 25-27
- "What do you mean?" inquired my guardian, almost sternly.†
Chpt 31-33
- I inquired.†
Chpt 31-33
- I inquired.†
Chpt 31-33
- "Airing yourself, as I am doing, before you go to bed?" the stationer inquires.†
Chpt 31-33
- "Why, what's the matter with you, Tony?" inquires Mr. Guppy, looking at him, snuffers in hand, as he sits down with his elbow on the table.†
Chpt 31-33
- "Why do YOU come here?" inquires Mrs. Snagsby.†
Chpt 31-33
- Mr. Guppy looks at his friend, repeating inquiringly, "The publichouse in the court?"†
Chpt 31-33
- "Is this all you have to say?" inquires Lady Dedlock, having heard him out—or as nearly out as he can stumble.†
Chpt 31-33
- Little Miss Flite, hearing a rumour that you were ill, made nothing of walking down here—twenty miles, poor soul, in a pair of dancing shoes—to inquire.†
Chpt 34-36
- And what does she tell our young friend but that there has been a lady with a veil inquiring at her cottage after my dear Fitz Jarndyce's health and taking a handkerchief away with her as a little keepsake merely because it was my amiable Fitz Jarndyce's!†
Chpt 34-36
- It would be idle to inquire now why I never went close to the house or never went inside it.†
Chpt 34-36
- I was beginning when my mother hurriedly inquired, "Does HE suspect?"†
Chpt 34-36
- Now I come to think of it," he looked inquiringly at us with his frankest smile as he made the discovery, "Vholes bribed me, perhaps?†
Chpt 37-39
- To the Old Street Road we went and there inquired at Mrs. Guppy's residence for Mrs. Guppy.†
Chpt 37-39
- Mr. Vholes, after glancing at the official cat who is patiently watching a mouse's hole, fixes his charmed gaze again on his young client and proceeds in his buttoned-up, half-audible voice as if there were an unclean spirit in him that will neither come out nor speak out, "What are you to do, sir, you inquire, during the vacation.†
Chpt 37-39
Definition:
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(inquire) to ask about or look into something