All 9 Uses of
inquiry
in
Washington Square
- Even to this inquiry she gave no audible assent; she simply let him put his arm round her waist—as she did so it occurred to her more vividly than it had ever done before, that this was a singular place for a gentleman's arm to be—and in a moment he was guiding her round the room in the harmonious rotation of the polka.†
Chpt 4
- There passed through Morris Townsend's mind a rapid wonder as to what he might, even under a remote contingency, be indebted to from the action of this principle in Dr. Sloper's breast, and the inquiry exhausted itself in his sense of the ludicrous.†
Chpt 16
- "Do you mean that for an impertinence?" he inquired; an inquiry of which, as he made it, he quite perceived the grossness.†
Chpt 18
- Here, suddenly, Morris was interrupted; these ingenious inquiries had not reached Catherine's ears.†
Chpt 20 *
- It was idle to attempt to ascertain the state of her affections without direct inquiry, because, if she had not had an expressive manner among the familiar influences of home, she failed to gather animation from the mountains of Switzerland or the monuments of Italy.†
Chpt 24
- They had a great deal of characteristic lovers' talk—a soft exchange of inquiries and assurances.†
Chpt 26
- Mrs. Penniman mused a little, as if there might be some way of making out that it was; but she had to give up the attempt, and, to carry off the awkwardness of failure, she risked a new inquiry.†
Chpt 28
- This suggestiveness was lost upon Catherine, who repeated her violent inquiry.†
Chpt 30
- There was an imperious brevity in the tone of this inquiry, against which Mrs. Penniman felt bound to protest; the information with which she had undertaken to supply her niece was, after all, a favour.†
Chpt 30
Definition:
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(inquiry) the act of asking a question or performing an investigation