All 50 Uses of
inquire
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- 'Public meeting?' inquired Noggs.†
Chpt 2
- 'What! and nobody called respecting it?' inquired Mr Nickleby, pausing.†
Chpt 3
- 'What HAS come, then?' inquired Mr Nickleby.†
Chpt 3
- 'Children alive?' inquired Noggs, stepping up to him.†
Chpt 3
- Mr Nickleby looked very indignant at the handmaid on being thus corrected, and demanded with much asperity what she meant; which she was about to state, when a female voice proceeding from a perpendicular staircase at the end of the passage, inquired who was wanted.†
Chpt 3
- 'How old is this boy, for God's sake?' inquired Ralph, wheeling back his chair, and surveying his nephew from head to foot with intense scorn.†
Chpt 3
- 'Are you willing to work, sir?' he inquired, frowning on his nephew.†
Chpt 3
- Having entered Mr Snawley's address, the schoolmaster had next to perform the still more agreeable office of entering the receipt of the first quarter's payment in advance, which he had scarcely completed, when another voice was heard inquiring for Mr Squeers.†
Chpt 4
- I can easily inquire.
Chpt 4 *inquire = ask about or look into something
- 'What's that?' inquired Noggs, pointing to the parcel.†
Chpt 4
- This was such a very singular proceeding on the part of an utter stranger, and his appearance was so extremely peculiar, that Nicholas, who had a sufficiently keen sense of the ridiculous, could not refrain from breaking into a smile as he inquired whether Mr Noggs had any commands for him.†
Chpt 4
- 'Does it take long to get a nose, now?' inquired Nicholas, smiling.†
Chpt 5
- 'To the wery top, sir?' inquired the waiter.†
Chpt 5
- 'What's this?' inquired Nicholas.†
Chpt 5
- 'Are they all brothers, sir?' inquired the lady who had carried the 'Davy' or safety-lamp.†
Chpt 6
- 'Dear me,' said the merry-faced gentleman, looking merrier still, 'I merely intended to inquire—'†
Chpt 6
- Even the box-passenger caught the infection, and growing wonderfully deferential, immediately inquired whether there was not very good society in that neighbourhood, to which the lady replied yes, there was: in a manner which sufficiently implied that she moved at the very tiptop and summit of it all.†
Chpt 6
- ' "Anything else, my lord?" inquired the domestic.†
Chpt 6
- 'The baron took another look at his new friend, whom he thought an uncommonly queer customer, and at length inquired whether he took any active part in such little proceedings as that which he had in contemplation.†
Chpt 6
- 'Are you cold, Nickleby?' inquired Squeers, after they had travelled some distance in silence.†
Chpt 7
- 'What do you say, Mr Knuckleboy?' inquired Mrs Squeers.†
Chpt 7
- 'Ale, Squeery?' inquired the lady, winking and frowning to give him to understand that the question propounded, was, whether Nicholas should have ale, and not whether he (Squeers) would take any.†
Chpt 7
- 'Whom do you speak of?' inquired Nicholas, wishing to rouse the poor half-witted creature to reason.†
Chpt 8
- 'Think of who?' inquired Mrs Squeers; who (as she often remarked) was no grammarian, thank Heaven.†
Chpt 9
- Now, a proud usher in a Yorkshire school was such a very extraordinary and unaccountable thing to hear of,—any usher at all being a novelty; but a proud one, a being of whose existence the wildest imagination could never have dreamed—that Miss Squeers, who seldom troubled herself with scholastic matters, inquired with much curiosity who this Knuckleboy was, that gave himself such airs.†
Chpt 9
- 'Shall it be a hard or a soft nib?' inquired Nicholas, smiling to prevent himself from laughing outright.†
Chpt 9
- 'Did he look in this way?' inquired the miller's daughter, counterfeiting, as nearly as she could, a favourite leer of the corn-factor.†
Chpt 9
- 'My dear girl, what have I got to do with her dressing beautifully or looking well?' inquired Nicholas.†
Chpt 9
- 'What do you say, Mr Nickleby?' inquired Miss Price.†
Chpt 9
- Pray don't trouble yourself to inquire,' said Miss Squeers, producing that change of countenance which children call making a face.†
Chpt 9
- 'Number of what, child?' inquired Miss La Creevy, looking up from her work.†
Chpt 10
- 'I suppose he has money, hasn't he?' inquired Miss La Creevy.†
Chpt 10
- 'Have you nothing to say to your uncle, my love?' inquired Mrs Nickleby.†
Chpt 10
- 'Is it far from here, sir?' inquired Kate.†
Chpt 10
- Mr Nickleby came back, and looked as confused as might be, as he inquired whether the ladies had any commands for him.†
Chpt 12
- Without waiting for a reply, he inquired of the boys whether any one among them knew anything of their missing schoolmate.†
Chpt 13
- 'Why must he?' inquired Squeers.†
Chpt 13
- They were lost on Squeers, however, whose gaze was fastened on the luckless Smike, as he inquired, according to custom in such cases, whether he had anything to say for himself.†
Chpt 13
- When his mirth had subsided, he inquired what Nicholas meant to do; on his informing him, to go straight to London, he shook his head doubtfully, and inquired if he knew how much the coaches charged to carry passengers so far.†
Chpt 13
- When his mirth had subsided, he inquired what Nicholas meant to do; on his informing him, to go straight to London, he shook his head doubtfully, and inquired if he knew how much the coaches charged to carry passengers so far.†
Chpt 13
- Having adopted in its place a dirty cotton nightcap, and groped about in the dark till he found a remnant of candle, he knocked at the partition which divided the two garrets, and inquired, in a loud voice, whether Mr Noggs had a light.†
Chpt 14
- Uttering a low querulous growl, the speaker, whose harsh countenance was the very epitome of selfishness, raked the scanty fire nearly out of the grate, and, emptying the glass which Noggs had pushed towards him, inquired where he kept his coals.†
Chpt 14
- 'Kenwigs is afraid,' said Mrs K. 'What of?' inquired Miss Petowker, 'not of her failing?'†
Chpt 14
- 'They are living in the city still?' inquired Nicholas.†
Chpt 15
- 'I hope you don't see anything against him, uncle?' inquired Mrs Kenwigs.†
Chpt 15
- 'What word?' inquired Mr Lillyvick.†
Chpt 15
- Occupied in these reflections, as he was making his way along one of the great public thoroughfares of London, he chanced to raise his eyes to a blue board, whereon was inscribed, in characters of gold, 'General Agency Office; for places and situations of all kinds inquire within.'†
Chpt 16
- As there was a stream of people pouring into a shabby house not far from the entrance, he waited until they had made their way in, and then making up to the servant, ventured to inquire if he knew where Mr Gregsbury lived.†
Chpt 16
- 'What's that?' inquired Mr Gregsbury.†
Chpt 16
- 'May I beg your pardon again, if I inquire what you mean, sir?' said Nicholas.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(inquire) to ask about or look into something