All 34 Uses of
inquiry
in
Bleak House
- " 'And begs,' " said Mrs. Jellyby, dictating, " 'to inform him, in reference to his letter of inquiry on the African project—'†
Chpt 4-6
- In answer to Richard's inquiry from whom they came, he briefly answered, "Master, sir, if you please"; and putting on his hat again (which was like a soft bowl), cracked his whip, re-awakened his music, and went melodiously away.†
Chpt 4-6
- Is made more imbecile by being constantly informed that Mrs. Green's son "was a law-writer his-self and knowed him better than anybody," which son of Mrs. Green's appears, on inquiry, to be at the present time aboard a vessel bound for China, three months out, but considered accessible by telegraph on application to the Lords of the Admiralty.†
Chpt 10-12
- For they are the public chroniclers of such inquiries by the line; and he is not superior to the universal human infirmity, but hopes to read in print what "Mooney, the active and intelligent beadle of the district," said and did and even aspires to see the name of Mooney as familiarly and patronizingly mentioned as the name of the hangman is, according to the latest examples.†
Chpt 10-12
- The inquiry proceeds.†
Chpt 10-12
- The jury learn how the subject of their inquiry died, and learn no more about him.†
Chpt 10-12 *
- Be it what it may, now, it was so direfully impressed at tea-time by Mr. Snagsby's account of the inquiry at which he had assisted that at supper-time she projected herself into the kitchen, preceded by a flying Dutch cheese, and fell into a fit of unusual duration, which she only came out of to go into another, and another, and so on through a chain of fits, with short intervals between, of which she has pathetically availed herself by consuming them in entreaties to Mrs. Snagsby not…†
Chpt 10-12
- "Neckett's children?" said she in reply to my inquiry.†
Chpt 13-15
- Whatever can have induced that transcendent woman to marry that effigy and figure-head of a baronet is one of the most impenetrable mysteries that ever baffled human inquiry.†
Chpt 16-18
- Upon that, a young man who was in the crowd said he was acquainted with you, and you were a respectable housekeeper, and if I'd call and make the inquiry, he'd appear.†
Chpt 19-21
- You can't answer for him?" says Mr. George, finishing the inquiry in his lower key with the words "You lying old rascal!"†
Chpt 19-21
- There is inquiry made at various houses for a boy named Jo.†
Chpt 22-24
- He undergoes so much from such inquiries that when they are made by boys he revenges himself by flipping at their ears over the counter and asking the young dogs what they mean by it and why they can't speak out at once?†
Chpt 25-27
- Now, what do you think the lawyer making the inquiries wants?†
Chpt 25-27
- Every possible inquiry was made, and every place was searched.†
Chpt 31-33
- Is it or is it not desirable that we should know what facts we are to prove on the inquiry into the death of this unfortunate old mo—gentleman?†
Chpt 31-33
- The facts bearing on that inquiry.†
Chpt 31-33
- The inquiry being only into the circumstances touching the death of the deceased, it's not necessary to go beyond these facts, I suppose you'll agree?"†
Chpt 31-33
- Some of these authorities (of course the wisest) hold with indignation that the deceased had no business to die in the alleged manner; and being reminded by other authorities of a certain inquiry into the evidence for such deaths reprinted in the sixth volume of the Philosophical Transactions; and also of a book not quite unknown on English medical jurisprudence; and likewise of the Italian case of the Countess Cornelia Baudi as set forth in detail by one Bianchini, prebendary of…†
Chpt 31-33
- At last come the coroner and his inquiry, like as before, except that the coroner cherishes this case as being out of the common way and tells the gentlemen of the jury, in his private capacity, that "that would seem to be an unlucky house next door, gentlemen, a destined house; but so we sometimes find it, and these are mysteries we can't account for!"†
Chpt 31-33
- The little gauzy child, having whisked her sandals into the reticule and put on a trodden-down pair of shoes, shook her head into the dowdy bonnet at one shake, and answering my inquiry whether she liked dancing by replying, "Not with boys," tied it across her chin, and went home contemptuous.†
Chpt 37-39
- Answer:"—which proved fatal to the inquiry for ten years—"Mr.†
Chpt 37-39
- In attending to your interests, I wish to have all possible checks upon me; it is right that I should have them; I court inquiry.†
Chpt 37-39
- I charge you as a friend, by the interest you have ever testified in the fashionable intelligence, and by any little advances with which I may have been able to accommodate you, so to bury it without a word of inquiry!†
Chpt 37-39
- You see, the foreign female—which you mentioned her name just now, with quite a native sound I am sure—caught up the word Snagsby that night, being uncommon quick, and made inquiry, and got the direction and come at dinner-time.†
Chpt 40-42
- Mr. C. desires to be near his professional adviser, and I am far from objecting, for I court inquiry.†
Chpt 49-51
- I know from my own inquiries and through my eyes and ears that Lady Dedlock did make such visit in the dress of her own maid, for the deceased Mr. Tulkinghorn employed me to reckon up her ladyship—if you'll excuse my making use of the term we commonly employ—and I reckoned her up, so far, completely.†
Chpt 52-54
- It's my belief that the deceased Mr. Tulkinghorn followed up these inquiries to the hour of his death and that he and Lady Dedlock even had bad blood between them upon the matter that very night.†
Chpt 52-54
- Lady Dedlock looks at him in stern inquiry.†
Chpt 55-57
- Making an inquiry or two about him in the town, I soon heard what company he was in and was coming among the brick-fields to look for him when I observed you bringing him home here.†
Chpt 55-57
- The whole household were amazed to see me, without any notice, at that time in the morning, and so accompanied; and their surprise was not diminished by my inquiries.†
Chpt 55-57
- Most inquiries there I leave to you, if you'll be so good as to make 'em.†
Chpt 55-57
- Never wavering, he never even stopped to make an inquiry until we were within a few miles of London.†
Chpt 58-60
- "Yes," cried the girl, anticipating the inquiry.†
Chpt 58-60
Definition:
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(inquiry) the act of asking a question or performing an investigation