All 50 Uses of
inquire
in
David Copperfield
- Miss Betsey, looking round the room, slowly and inquiringly, began on the other side, and carried her eyes on, like a Saracen's Head in a Dutch clock, until they reached my mother.†
Chpt 1-3
- But I can't always look at him — I know him without that white thing on, and I am afraid of his wondering why I stare so, and perhaps stopping the service to inquire — and what am I to do?†
Chpt 1-3
- I inquired, provisionally.†
Chpt 1-3
- The carrier looked at me, as if to inquire if she were coming back.†
Chpt 4-6
- 'All the way where?' inquired the carrier.†
Chpt 4-6
- 'Where's there?' inquired the carrier.†
Chpt 4-6
- 'What name?' inquired the lady.†
Chpt 4-6
- I could not disguise from myself, or from the waiter, that this was an uncomfortable coincidence, and inquired how it was done.†
Chpt 4-6
- The blowing of the coach-horn in the yard was a seasonable diversion, which made me get up and hesitatingly inquire, in the mingled pride and diffidence of having a purse (which I took out of my pocket), if there were anything to pay.†
Chpt 4-6
- In my dread of the end of the vacation and their coming back, I could not read a boy's name, without inquiring in what tone and with what emphasis HE would read, 'Take care of him.†
Chpt 4-6
- He inquired, under a shed in the playground, into the particulars of my punishment, and was pleased to express his opinion that it was 'a jolly shame'; for which I became bound to him ever afterwards.†
Chpt 4-6
- My sister she wrote to me the name of this here place, and wrote to me as if ever I chanced to come to Gravesen', I was to come over and inquire for Mas'r Davy and give her dooty, humbly wishing him well and reporting of the fam'ly as they was oncommon toe-be-sure.†
Chpt 7-9
- 'What can have put such a person in your head?' inquired my mother.†
Chpt 7-9
- I inquired.†
Chpt 7-9
- I was so far from being warned off from Peggotty's society, that, provided I was not in Mr. Murdstone's, I was never sought out or inquired for.†
Chpt 10-12
- The tea table was ready, and our little locker was put out in its old place, but instead of coming to sit by me, she went and bestowed her company upon that grumbling Mrs. Gummidge: and on Mr. Peggotty's inquiring why, rumpled her hair all over her face to hide it, and could do nothing but laugh.†
Chpt 10-12
- I inquired, after drinking the toast in a wine-glass.†
Chpt 10-12
- I inquired about my aunt among the boatmen first, and received various answers.†
Chpt 13-15
- The fly-drivers, among whom I inquired next, were equally jocose and equally disrespectful; and the shopkeepers, not liking my appearance, generally replied, without hearing what I had to say, that they had got nothing for me.†
Chpt 13-15
- At length I saw some before me; and approaching them, went into a little shop (it was what we used to call a general shop, at home), and inquired if they could have the goodness to tell me where Miss Trotwood lived.†
Chpt 13-15
- The only circumstance which gave me any new hope, was my aunt's stopping on the stairs to inquire about a smell of fire that was prevalent there; and janet's replying that she had been making tinder down in the kitchen, of my old shirt.†
Chpt 13-15
- I inquired, alarmed.†
Chpt 13-15
- 'Allow me to inquire, Miss Trotwood,' interposed Miss Murdstone, 'whom you are pleased to call, in a choice of words in which I am not experienced, my brother's instruments?'†
Chpt 13-15
- 'What's that?' inquired my aunt.†
Chpt 13-15
- I inquired.†
Chpt 16-18
- I cannot say — I really cannot say — that I was glad to see Mr. Micawber there; but I was glad to see him too, and shook hands with him, heartily, inquiring how Mrs. Micawber was.†
Chpt 16-18
- Neither did I like to say, that I hoped he had not been too communicative to Uriah; or to inquire if they had talked much about me.†
Chpt 16-18
- 'With no one else?' inquires Miss Larkins.†
Chpt 16-18
- I commanded him, in my deepest voice, to order a veal cutlet and potatoes, and all things fitting; and to inquire at the bar if there were any letters for Trotwood Copperfield, Esquire — which I knew there were not, and couldn't be, but thought it manly to appear to expect.†
Chpt 19-21
- 'Do you know the Giantess in question, Daisy?' inquired Steerforth.†
Chpt 22-24
- 'Is that why you called him a humbug, just now?' inquired Steerforth.†
Chpt 22-24
- 'What do you say, Daisy?' inquired Steerforth, laughing, and resigning his seat.†
Chpt 22-24
- With the bag slung over her arm, and rattling as she waddled away, she waddled to the door, where she stopped to inquire if she should leave us a lock of her hair.†
Chpt 22-24
- I naturally inquired why he was not there too, instead of pacing the streets by himself?†
Chpt 22-24
- 'What will she do there?' inquired Ham.†
Chpt 22-24
- 'What says our aunt on the subject?' inquired Steerforth, glancing at the letter in my hand.†
Chpt 22-24
- I slept in a room on the same floor with my aunt's, and was a little disturbed in the course of the night by her knocking at my door as often as she was agitated by a distant sound of hackney-coaches or market-carts, and inquiring, 'if I heard the engines?'†
Chpt 22-24
- 'Is it the last occupant's furniture?' inquired my aunt.†
Chpt 22-24
- A man, sitting in a pigeon-hole-place, looked out of the fog, and took money from somebody, inquiring if I was one of the gentlemen paid for, and appearing rather doubtful (as I remember in the glimpse I had of him) whether to take the money for me or not.†
Chpt 22-24
- I looked at her inquiringly; but already with a foreknowledge of her meaning.†
Chpt 25-27
- Finding by degrees, however, that I was sober, and (I hope) that I was a modest young gentleman, Mrs. Waterbrook softened towards me considerably, and inquired, firstly, if I went much into the parks, and secondly, if I went much into society.†
Chpt 25-27
- I murmured an assent, which was full of feeling, considering that I knew nothing at all about him; and I inquired what Mr. Traddles was by profession.†
Chpt 25-27
- I then inquired.†
Chpt 25-27
- I suppose — I never ventured to inquire, but I suppose — that Mrs. Crupp, after frying the soles, was taken ill.†
Chpt 28-30
- I inquired.†
Chpt 28-30
- Steerforth, dismissing the subject with a light nod, and a smile, and the remark that he would be glad to see the old fellow too, for he had always been an odd fish, inquired if I could give him anything to eat?†
Chpt 28-30
- 'Littimer was here today, to inquire for you,' I remarked, 'and I understood him that you were at Oxford; though, now I think of it, he certainly did not say so.'†
Chpt 28-30
- 'Littimer is a greater fool than I thought him, to have been inquiring for me at all,' said Steerforth, jovially pouring out a glass of wine, and drinking to me.†
Chpt 28-30
- When he was again in a condition to be talked to, I thanked him for the proffered refreshment, which I declined, as I had just had dinner; and, observing that I would wait, since he was so good as to invite me, until his daughter and his son-in-law came back, I inquired how little Emily was?†
Chpt 28-30
- I inquired.†
Chpt 28-30
Definition:
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(inquire) to ask about or look into something