All 38 Uses of
inquiry
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- Fyodor Pavlovitch made her an offer; inquiries were made about him and he was refused.†
Chpt 1 *
- On his arrival in the town he made no answer to his father's first inquiry why he had come before completing his studies, and seemed, so they say, unusually thoughtful.†
Chpt 1
- Dmitri kissed his hand respectfully, and with intense feeling, almost anger, he said: "Be so generous as to forgive me for having kept you waiting so long, but Smerdyakov, the valet sent me by my father, in reply to my inquiries, told me twice over that the appointment was for one.†
Chpt 2
- It occurred to one young gentleman to make the whimsical inquiry whether any one could possibly look upon such an animal as a woman, and so forth….†
Chpt 3
- I've made inquiries about his victim, and find he is quite a poor man.†
Chpt 4
- Maybe he has gone away," the old man said in answer to Alyosha's persistent inquiries.†
Chpt 4
- In answer to his repeated inquiry for the captain, one of them at last understood that he was asking for their lodgers, and pointed to a door across the passage.†
Chpt 4
- But what struck Alyosha most was the expression in the poor woman's eyes—a look of surprised inquiry and yet of haughty pride.†
Chpt 4
- It was about nine o'clock when Marfa Ignatyevna came in with her usual inquiry, "Where will your honor take your tea, in your own room or downstairs?"†
Chpt 5
- He was admitted into the yard pretty quickly, but, in response to his inquiry whether the lady was still up, the porter could give no answer, except that she was usually in bed by that time.†
Chpt 9
- The deputy police inspector of the town was commissioned to take four witnesses, to enter Fyodor Pavlovitch's house and there to open an inquiry on the spot, according to the regular forms, which I will not go into here.†
Chpt 9
- All were delayed, however, by the inquiry, the search, and the formalities, etc., in the house of Fyodor Pavlovitch.†
Chpt 9
- You are positively hindering the inquiry….†
Chpt 9
- Before we go on with our inquiry, I should like, if you will consent to answer, to hear you confirm the statement that you disliked your father, Fyodor Pavlovitch, that you were involved in continual disputes with him.†
Chpt 9
- He had grown more and more gloomy as the inquiry continued.†
Chpt 9
- "You may ask any question," the prosecutor replied with frigid severity, "any question relating to the facts of the case, and we are, I repeat, bound to answer every inquiry you make.†
Chpt 9
- After sternly reprimanding Mitya, he cut short all further inquiry into the romantic aspect of the case, and hastened to pass to what was essential.†
Chpt 9
- In answer to the prosecutor's inquiry, where he would have got the remaining two thousand three hundred roubles, since he himself had denied having more than fifteen hundred, Mitya confidently replied that he had meant to offer the "little chap," not money, but a formal deed of conveyance of his rights to the village of Tchermashnya, those rights which he had already offered to Samsonov and Madame Hohlakov.†
Chpt 9
- After the first inevitable inquiries and warnings, Nikolay Parfenovitch asked her, hesitating a little, but preserving the most courteous manner, on what terms she was with the retired lieutenant, Dmitri Fyodorovitch Karamazov.†
Chpt 9
- "The preliminary inquiry is not yet over," Nikolay Parfenovitch faltered, somewhat embarrassed.†
Chpt 9
- At first, of course, on the conclusion of the preliminary inquiry, relations and a few other persons could only obtain interviews with Mitya by going through certain inevitable formalities.†
Chpt 11
- He made no further inquiry about Smerdyakov, but twice he happened to hear that he was very ill and out of his mind.†
Chpt 11
- Four of the witnesses were not present—Miuesov, who had given evidence at the preliminary inquiry, but was now in Paris; Madame Hohlakov and Maximov, who were absent through illness; and Smerdyakov, through his sudden death, of which an official statement from the police was presented.†
Chpt 12
- Of what was that balsam, or, rather, decoction, made, which, as we learn from the preliminary inquiry, you used on that evening to rub your lumbago, in the hope of curing it?†
Chpt 12
- And so I think it essential to press you to tell me what facts have led you to this conviction of your brother's innocence and of the guilt of another person against whom you gave evidence at the preliminary inquiry?"†
Chpt 12
- "I only answered the questions asked me at the preliminary inquiry," replied Alyosha, slowly and calmly.†
Chpt 12
- What was important and striking about it was that one fact at least had been found, and even though this were only one tiny bit of evidence, a mere hint at evidence, it did go some little way towards proving that the bag had existed and had contained fifteen hundred roubles and that the prisoner had not been lying at the preliminary inquiry when he alleged at Mokroe that those fifteen hundred roubles were "his own."†
Chpt 12
- At the preliminary inquiry, he told me with hysterical tears how the young Ivan Karamazov had horrified him by his spiritual audacity.†
Chpt 12
- 'He would have killed me, I could see that he would have killed me,' he said at the inquiry, trembling and shaking even before us, though his tormentor was by that time arrested and could do him no harm.†
Chpt 12
- "What's more, Smerdyakov at the inquiry volunteered the statement that it was he who had told the prisoner of the envelope of notes and of the signals, and that, but for him, he would have known nothing about them.†
Chpt 12
- If he had really been a guilty accomplice, would he so readily have made this statement at the inquiry?†
Chpt 12
- But you know the facts, gentlemen of the jury, from the preliminary inquiry.†
Chpt 12
- What's more, when he declared at the inquiry that he had put fifteen hundred roubles in a bag (which never existed) he may have invented that little bag on the inspiration of the moment, because he had two hours before divided his money and hidden half of it at Mokroe till morning, in case of emergency, simply not to have it on himself.†
Chpt 12
- By strict calculation of time it was proved at the preliminary inquiry that the prisoner ran straight from those women servants to Perhotin's without going home, and that he had been nowhere.†
Chpt 12
- 'My mother must have been praying for me at that moment,' were the prisoner's words at the preliminary inquiry, and so he ran away as soon as he convinced himself that Madame Svyetlov was not in his father's house.†
Chpt 12
- I made some inquiries: he resented his parentage, was ashamed of it, and would clench his teeth when he remembered that he was the son of 'stinking Lizaveta.'†
Chpt 12
- Did he not insinuate the same idea at the inquiry and suggest it to the talented prosecutor?†
Chpt 12
- "But they declare—the superintendent of that etape told Ivan himself—that if it's well managed there will be no great inquiry, and that they can get off easily.†
Chpt Epil.
Definition:
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(inquiry) the act of asking a question or performing an investigation