All 13 Uses of
inquire
in
The House of Mirth
- She returned a sympathetic enquiry, and gradually he was drawn on to talk of his latest purchases.†
Chpt 1.2
- Lily enquired.†
Chpt 1.4
- "Late for what?" enquired Mrs. Dorset tartly.†
Chpt 1.5 *
- "Is that what you would do in such an emergency?" she enquired.†
Chpt 1.5
- But I thought Mr. Gryce was to stay for the rest of the week?" she added enquiringly.†
Chpt 1.7
- "What is it that you wish?" she enquired.†
Chpt 1.9
- Before this she had sent her maid to enquire if she might see Mrs. Dorset; but the reply came back that the latter was tired, and trying to sleep.†
Chpt 2.2
- She could not, at the moment, separate herself definitely from her party, who had hospitably assumed that she would remain with them till they took their departure; but she found time for a momentary pause of enquiry, to which he promptly returned: "I've seen him again—he's just left me."†
Chpt 2.3
- There she had been sorely tempted to linger on in a society which asked of her only to amuse and charm it, without enquiring too curiously how she had acquired her gift for doing so; but Selden, before they parted, had pressed on her the urgent need of returning at once to her aunt, and Lord Hubert, when he presently reappeared in London, abounded in the same counsel.†
Chpt 2.4
- In her ignorance of legal procrastinations she had supposed that her legacy would be paid over within a few days of the reading of her aunt's will; and after an interval of anxious suspense, she wrote to enquire the cause of the delay.†
Chpt 2.4
- The end of it was that, after anxious enquiry and much deliberation, Mrs. Fisher and Gerty, for once oddly united in their effort to help their friend, decided on placing her in the work-room of Mme. Regina's renowned millinery establishment.†
Chpt 2.10
- "Wasn't it a soft berth?" he enquired, with an attempt at lightness.†
Chpt 2.10
- Rosedale, a day or two after their chance meeting, had called to enquire if she had recovered from her indisposition; but since then she had not seen or heard from him, and his absence seemed to betoken a struggle to keep away, to let her pass once more out of his life.†
Chpt 2.11
Definition:
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(inquire) to ask about or look into something