All 50 Uses of
inquire
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- "And the cargo?" inquired the owner, eagerly.†
Chpt 1-2
- "And how did this misfortune occur?" inquired the latter, resuming the interrupted conversation.†
Chpt 1-2
- I wished to inquire why you stopped at the Island of Elba?†
Chpt 1-2
- "Well, my dear Dantes, are you now free?" inquired the owner.†
Chpt 1-2
- "And," inquired Dantes, with some hesitation, "do you know how my father is?"†
Chpt 1-2
- "Ah, ha," said the shipowner, "I am not in the least surprised, for she has been to me three times, inquiring if there were any news of the Pharaon.†
Chpt 1-2
- Are you ill?" inquired the young man, much alarmed.†
Chpt 1-2
- "Whom does this belong to?" he inquired.†
Chpt 1-2
- "And why did you refuse, my son?" inquired the old man.†
Chpt 1-2
- Then, turning to Mercedes, he inquired, "Who is this gentleman?"†
Chpt 3-4
- "Why, we must inquire into that," was Caderousse's reply; and turning towards the young man, said, "Well, Catalan, can't you make up your mind?"†
Chpt 3-4
- "In an hour?" inquired Danglars, turning pale.†
Chpt 5-6
- "May I venture to inquire the reason of this unexpected visit?" said M. Morrel, addressing the magistrate, whom he evidently knew; "there is doubtless some mistake easily explained."†
Chpt 5-6
- "What is the meaning of all this?" inquired Caderousse, frowningly, of Danglars, who had assumed an air of utter surprise.†
Chpt 5-6
- "Where is Fernand?" inquired Caderousse.†
Chpt 5-6
- "That I believe!" answered M. Morrel; "but still he is charged"— "With what?" inquired the elder Dantes.†
Chpt 5-6
- Yes, indeed; I had previously inquired of Dantes what was his opinion of you, and if he should have any reluctance to continue you in your post, for somehow I have perceived a sort of coolness between you.†
Chpt 5-6
- "Do you, indeed, think so?" inquired the marquise.†
Chpt 5-6
- It was Mercedes, who, hearing no news of her lover, had come unobserved to inquire after him.†
Chpt 9-10
- Her beauty and high bearing surprised him, and when she inquired what had become of her lover, it seemed to him that she was the judge, and he the accused.†
Chpt 9-10
- "Scratches himself?" inquired the duke, "what does your majesty mean?"†
Chpt 9-10
- "Well, Blacas, what think you of this?" inquired the king triumphantly, and pausing for a moment from the voluminous scholiast before him.†
Chpt 9-10
- "And Dauphine, sir?" inquired the king, of Villefort.†
Chpt 11-12
- "And how did this despatch reach you?" inquired the king.†
Chpt 11-12
- "And now," he said, "may I inquire what are the orders with which your majesty deigns to honor me?"†
Chpt 11-12
- What had become of him he cared not to inquire.†
Chpt 13-14
- He inquired how they were fed, and if they had any request to make.†
Chpt 13-14
- Very possibly; only I am not come to discuss politics, but to inquire if you have anything to ask or to complain of.†
Chpt 13-14
- Then turning to Faria—"I inquired if you are well fed?" said he.†
Chpt 13-14
- For a week since he had resolved to die, and during the four days that he had been carrying out his purpose, Edmond had not spoken to the attendant, had not answered him when he inquired what was the matter with him, and turned his face to the wall when he looked too curiously at him; but now the jailer might hear the noise and put an end to it, and so destroy a ray of something like hope that soothed his last moments.†
Chpt 15-16
- "And with what did you contrive to make that?" inquired Dantes.†
Chpt 15-16
- "Well?" inquired Dantes.†
Chpt 15-16
- "Is there anything else I can assist you in discovering, besides the villany of your friends?" inquired the abbe with a laugh.†
Chpt 17-18
- "Why so?" inquired Dantes.†
Chpt 17-18
- A part of the good abbe's words, however, were wholly incomprehensible to him; but, like the aurora which guides the navigator in northern latitudes, opened new vistas to the inquiring mind of the listener, and gave fantastic glimpses of new horizons, enabling him justly to estimate the delight an intellectual mind would have in following one so richly gifted as Faria along the heights of truth, where he was so much at home.†
Chpt 17-18
- "What is that?" he inquired.†
Chpt 17-18
- They began dinner and Spada was only able to inquire of his nephew if he had received his message.†
Chpt 17-18
- "Well, do you comprehend now?" inquired Faria.†
Chpt 17-18
- "But," inquired Dantes hesitating, "has this treasure no more legitimate possessor in the world than ourselves?"†
Chpt 17-18
- "Wasn't his name Faria?" inquired one of the officers who accompanied the governor.†
Chpt 19-20
- "Must this last formality take place in your presence, sir?" inquired a turnkey.†
Chpt 19-20
- "At what hour?" inquired a turnkey.†
Chpt 19-20
- "Have you tied the knot?" inquired the first speaker.†
Chpt 19-20
- "Well, have you tied the knot?" inquired the grave-digger, who was looking on.†
Chpt 19-20
- And when Jacopo inquired of him, "What is the use of teaching all these things to a poor sailor like me?"†
Chpt 22-23
- "Where shall we pass the night?" he inquired.†
Chpt 23-24
- He then inquired how they had fared in their trip.†
Chpt 25-26
- …profit of at least eighty per cent. The following day Dantes presented Jacopo with an entirely new vessel, accompanying the gift by a donation of one hundred piastres, that he might provide himself with a suitable crew and other requisites for his outfit, upon condition that he would go at once to Marseilles for the purpose of inquiring after an old man named Louis Dantes, residing in the Allees de Meillan, and also a young woman called Mercedes, an inhabitant of the Catalan village.†
Chpt 25-26
- As Edmond passed the door on the fourth floor, he paused to inquire whether Caderousse the tailor still dwelt there; but he received, for reply, that the person in question had got into difficulties, and at the present time kept a small inn on the route from Bellegarde to Beaucaire.†
Chpt 25-26
- But what raised public astonishment to a climax, and set all conjecture at defiance, was the knowledge that the same stranger who had in the morning visited the Allees de Meillan had been seen in the evening walking in the little village of the Catalans, and afterwards observed to enter a poor fisherman's hut, and to pass more than an hour in inquiring after persons who had either been dead or gone away for more than fifteen or sixteen years.†
Chpt 25-26
Definition:
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(inquire) to ask about or look into something