All 16 Uses of
inquiry
in
The Power and the Glory by Cooke
- The others passed, calling gay inquiries to him.†
Chpt 4
- He began some carefully worded inquiries as to her experience in the mill and her opinion of the work.†
Chpt 7 *
- No, I ain't et anything that disagreed with me," Laurella pettishly replied to his well-meant inquiries.†
Chpt 16
- Work always put the old man in a sort of incandescent fury, and now as Bob spoke to him, he raised an inflamed face, from which the small eyes twinkled redly, with a grunt of inquiry.†
Chpt 17
- She continually huddled the light cape together at the neck with tremulous, unsteady fingers; and it was characteristic of these two that, although the woman had heard of the calamity at the Victory mill the night before, and knew that Shade came directly from the Himes home, she made no inquiry as to the welfare of Deanie, and he offered no information.†
Chpt 19
- This unintentional and wholly innocent falsehood stopped any inquiry that there might have been.†
Chpt 20
- MacPherson had meant to 'phone the club during the day, but he failed to do so, and it was not until evening that he walked up himself to put more cautious inquiries.†
Chpt 20
- "I sure would have remembered, sah," in answer to a startled inquiry from MacPherson.†
Chpt 20
- Perhaps Gray himself was there; and the Scotchman cursed his own dilatoriness in waiting till darkness had covered the earth before setting afoot inquiries.†
Chpt 20
- The inquiries were fruitless.†
Chpt 20
- "Let her be," the doctor counselled Johnnie, in reply to anxious inquiries.†
Chpt 21
- Dare she make inquiry as to whether he had heard of Gray Stoddard's disappearance, or met any of the searchers?†
Chpt 22
- For some reason which she would herself have been at a loss to explain, she hastened to detail to this chance-met stranger the exact appearance and nature of Pros Passmore's injuries, her listener nodding his head at this or that point; making some comment or inquiry at another.†
Chpt 22
- Johnnie nodded in answer to these inquiries, forbearing to go into any details.†
Chpt 23
- After a time there came a sort of ruth to Johnnie for the poor creatures, furtive, stealing glances at each other, and answering her inquiries or Uncle Pros's with dry, evasive platitudes.†
Chpt 23
- People in wagons and buggies, or on foot, drawn out along the roadside, cupped hands to lips and yelled startled inquiries.†
Chpt 24
Definition:
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(inquiry) the act of asking a question or performing an investigation