All 37 Uses of
inquire
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- "A large farm?" she inquired, casting her eyes round, and swinging back her hair, which was black in the shaded hollows of its mass; but it being now an hour past sunrise the rays touched its prominent curves with a colour of their own.†
Chpt 1-3
- "Where?" she inquired, a misgiving bringing every muscle of her lineaments and frame to a standstill.†
Chpt 1-3
- "You can inquire at my aunt's—she will tell you."†
Chpt 1-3
- In the crowd was an athletic young fellow of somewhat superior appearance to the rest—in fact, his superiority was marked enough to lead several ruddy peasants standing by to speak to him inquiringly, as to a farmer, and to use "Sir" as a finishing word.†
Chpt 4-6
- The inquiring farmer would edge away and shake his head dubiously.†
Chpt 4-6
- "Can you get me a lodging?" inquired Gabriel.†
Chpt 7-9
- "And did any of you know Miss Everdene's father and mother?" inquired the shepherd, who found some difficulty in keeping the conversation in the desired channel.†
Chpt 7-9
- "What's yer hurry then, Laban?" inquired Coggan.†
Chpt 7-9
- William Smallbury is gone to Casterbridge, where her young man lives, as is supposed, and the other men be inquiring about everywhere.†
Chpt 7-9
- Why should he inquire about Fanny?†
Chpt 7-9
- —speak out—I shall not hurt you," inquired the young farmer, kindly.†
Chpt 10-12
- Are they satisfactory women?" she inquired softly of Henery Fray.†
Chpt 10-12
- "If I don't, I'll inquire."†
Chpt 10-12
- "And how is she getting on without a baily?" the maltster inquired.†
Chpt 13-15
- "Well, Shepherd Oak, and how's lambing this year, if I mid say it?" inquired Joseph Poorgrass.†
Chpt 13-15
- "What have you been saying about her?" inquired Oak, sharply turning to the rest, and getting very warm.†
Chpt 13-15
- It was to go across and inquire boldly of her.†
Chpt 16-18
- On inquiring for her at her house they had told him she was at the sheepwashing, and he went off to seek her there.†
Chpt 19-21
- "What, haven't you a watch, miss?" he inquired.†
Chpt 25-27
- "Well, Gabriel," she inquired quietly, "where are you going?"†
Chpt 31-33
- He inquired for Miss Everdene.†
Chpt 34-36
- "Affliction—what affliction?" he inquired, quickly.†
Chpt 40-42
- I inquire that query boldly?†
Chpt 40-42
- I have just been to inquire of Mrs. Troy if she could tell me the reason of the delay.†
Chpt 40-42
- But his will was not law, and he went indoors to inquire of his mistress what were her wishes on the subject.†
Chpt 40-42
- CHAPTER XLIII FANNY'S REVENGE "Do you want me any longer ma'am?" inquired Liddy, at a later hour the same evening, standing by the door with a chamber candlestick in her hand and addressing Bathsheba, who sat cheerless and alone in the large parlour beside the first fire of the season.†
Chpt 43-45
- She came back with the information that the men were just taking away the corpse; that Bathsheba had been inquired for; that she had replied to the effect that her mistress was unwell and could not be seen.†
Chpt 43-45
- Bathsheba inquired, the next time that Liddy entered the room.†
Chpt 43-45
- He waited in the yard till the tomb was packed, and saw it placed in the cart and starting on its way to Weatherbury, giving directions to the two men who were to accompany it to inquire of the sexton for the grave of the person named in the inscription.†
Chpt 43-45
- He merely inquired if the work was done, and, on being assured that it was, passed on again.
Chpt 43-45 *inquired = asked
- Then her eye followed Oak's, and she read the words with which the inscription opened:— ERECTED BY FRANCIS TROY IN BELOVED MEMORY OF FANNY ROBIN Oak saw her, and his first act was to gaze inquiringly and learn how she received this knowledge of the authorship of the work, which to himself had caused considerable astonishment.†
Chpt 46-48
- The news had preceded Bathsheba to Weatherbury by half-an-hour, and Liddy looked inquiringly into her mistress's face.†
Chpt 46-48
- Bathsheba's return from a two months' visit to her old aunt at Norcombe afforded the impassioned and yearning farmer a pretext for inquiring directly after her—now possibly in the ninth month of her widowhood—and endeavouring to get a notion of her state of mind regarding him.†
Chpt 49-51
- As the day drew on, the flocks began to change hands, lightening the shepherd's responsibilities; and they turned their attention to this tent and inquired of a man at work there, whose soul seemed concentrated on tying a bothering knot in no time, what was going on.†
Chpt 49-51
- Troy reached the tent door, and standing among the groups there gathered, looked anxiously for Pennyways, evidently not wishing to make himself prominent by inquiring for him.†
Chpt 49-51
- Troy inquired, pointing to a chair.†
Chpt 52-54
- Anybody married or engaged, born or dead?" inquired the farmer, gaily.†
Chpt 52-54
Definition:
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(inquire) to ask about or look into something