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  • She began investigating unlikely crevices: behind the refrigerator, where age-old layers of dust whirled into frantic life under her breath; within the tangle of chair legs and living feet beneath the kitchen table; inside the boots and shoes sagging in a line beside the back porch door—none with any success, though freshly baited mousetraps began to appear behind the appliances, beyond the reach of her delicate, inquisitive nose.†   (source)
  • He was about eight years old, wide-eyed and inquisitive, and he was not stupid.†   (source)
  • In the silence, broken only by the exaggerated oosh shoo of my own breath, I watched shoals of tiny iridescent fish, and larger black-and-white fish, that stared at me with blank, inquisitive faces, and gently swaying anemones filtering the gentle currents of their tiny, unseen haul.†   (source)
  • Last year she had been inquisitive (to the point of being a little annoying at times), she had laughed easily, she had made jokes.†   (source)
  • The mother cocked her head and peered inquisitively at the branch where Grant and Lex were sitting.†   (source)
  • After all, I was an inquisitive kid.†   (source)
  • This remark made him seem inquisitive, and I resented it.†   (source)
  • He had a neutral, vaguely inquisitive air, and seemed untroubled by this sibling squabble.†   (source)
  • He was eager to feed my inquisitive mind, and I was a willing sponge, soaking up all the information and inspiration he could give me.†   (source)
  • Her eyebrows were plucked into thin arched lines, which gave her a permanent look of surprise, or outrage, or inquisitiveness, such as you might see on a startled child, but below them her eyelids were tired-looking.†   (source)
  • I think I was always an inquisitive person.†   (source)
  • Questions show an inquisitive mind.†   (source)
  • They were very inquisitive.†   (source)
  • An inquisitive ant was busy in one of the eye sockets but otherwise the thing was lifeless.†   (source)
  • Nothing wrong with an inquisitive mind.†   (source)
  • He is knotted with muscle, canny, inquisitive, and still powerful.†   (source)
  • Breckin taps his pencil on my knuckles and looks at me inquisitively, then returns his attention to his book.†   (source)
  • I can't, but I've caught the eye of an inquisitive-looking little girl in a lemon yellow coat.†   (source)
  • His eyes were sharp and inquisitive.†   (source)
  • By that I mean he was inquisitive, and funny, and easygoing and secure.†   (source)
  • "Why would you do that?" she asked, head tilted inquisitively.†   (source)
  • She gave him a patient, inquisitive look as she said casually, "Well, of course, darling."†   (source)
  • This lack of inquisitiveness is diagnostic, since the basis of his downfall is his inability to know himself.†   (source)
  • You are cheerier, more positive, more polite, more generous, more inquisitive.†   (source)
  • He gave me an inquisitive look.†   (source)
  • He sat there in his worst enemy's kitchen for quite a long time, watching the fairy flying around the room investigating everything, for fairies are naturally inquisitive, and this one was obviously no exception.†   (source)
  • Raphael turned, eyes widening inquisitively, and Jace threw his knife.†   (source)
  • That's because my dad had this infectious inquisitiveness about current events, history, our lives.†   (source)
  • Inquisitiveness is self-serving, Johanna.†   (source)
  • Susanne brought him coffee and sandwiches, casting an inquisitive glance at his computer.†   (source)
  • I looked at her inquisitively.†   (source)
  • "What are they playing?" asked Tock, looking up inquisitively at Alec.†   (source)
  • Marlena and I are alone, holding various bits of foodstuff toward Rosie's inquisitive trunk.†   (source)
  • "I'm fine," she repeated, looking at the baby, who gazed up at her with wide inquisitive eyes.†   (source)
  • Make them inquisitive.†   (source)
  • Fernanda would wander alone among the three living ghosts and the dead ghost of Jose Arcadio Buendia, who at times would come to sit down with an inquisitive attention in the half-light of the parlor while she was playing the clavichord.†   (source)
  • You know his inquisitive disposition; he was hopeful that they could be tamed.†   (source)
  • Bishop Crandall did offer an inquisitive stare, trying to assess the success—or failure—of my summer punishment.†   (source)
  • You sit there, you let your body go weak and slack, you don't walk, you don't see people, or mingle, or feel the bloodflow of inquisitive interest.†   (source)
  • My inquisitiveness and obedience made me a very good student, which made my mother proud.†   (source)
  • They set him up with the cheese, which he took hesitantly at first, nibbled with an inquisitive look, and then let a big smile slowly work its way across his face before saying as if it had just popped into his head, with clear intonation and stress on all the right syllables, "This is the best cheese I have ever eaten."†   (source)
  • She tilted her head inquisitively.†   (source)
  • 'My dear old hobbit, you don't allow for the inquisitiveness of friends.†   (source)
  • "So," Claire went on, with a look of inquisitiveness, "anything going on?"†   (source)
  • When I opened them, Snow Flower was looking down at me inquisitively.†   (source)
  • Her eyes were very bright and inquisitive, like a bird hunting among the grasses for insects.†   (source)
  • "The other teachers don't have much to do, with so many kids absent," she turned away from the inquisitive Horse, "and they would like to come to our play—"†   (source)
  • Of the six men, three were there to play the same role as she: they were unsettled; they seemed eager to ask all sorts of questions, but feared making nuisances of themselves and so held their tongues and merely looked about inquisitively.†   (source)
  • Their lewd, inquisitive gazes traveled over us.†   (source)
  • The battle went on for a long time, and I slowly became aware of the fact that both Danny and his father, during a point they might be making or listening to, would cast inquisitive glances at me, as if to ask what I was doing just sitting there while all this excitement was going on: Why in the world wasn't I joining in the battle?†   (source)
  • Cesar's answer was intended to stifle, not provoke Angel's inquisitiveness, but it served only to encourage more questions.†   (source)
  • The Lord of the Radch tilted her head inquisitively.†   (source)
  • John Adams, a frequent patron, remembered Knox as a youth "of pleasing manners and inquisitive turn of mind."†   (source)
  • Then why is this learned man from America here following me with a blank face and inquisitive eyes, monseigneur?†   (source)
  • Back then a simple answer had seemed enough for Stephen's inquisitive mind.†   (source)
  • An inquisitive huddle of heifers stood with lowered heads on the other bank to watch.†   (source)
  • He could have spoken at length of her beauty: the smooth sweep of her forehead, the coppery gold of her eyebrows and lashes, the pertness of her nose, her shell-like ears, the combination of fragility and stubborn strength in her face that sometimes made his heart ache when he watched her sleeping, the inquisitiveness and unmistakable intelligence that informed her every expression.†   (source)
  • 'Has anybody else been inquisitive?†   (source)
  • A plump goose waddled out from the tunnel, followed by a dozen goslings that began to honk inquisitively.†   (source)
  • To explain would only have left his classmate more confused and more inquisitive.†   (source)
  • It was done through a couple of stooges and under a phony name-but I'll need your help to prevent anyone on your staff from becoming inquisitive about it.†   (source)
  • The other was that it would be full of shipping and of course anyone on the deck of a ship who saw two horses swimming past would be almost certain to be inquisitive.†   (source)
  • The brown people of this island seem to me odiously inquisitive and bothery-idiotic.†   (source)
  • They were good people all--open-minded, inquisitive, and, yes, confused.†   (source)
  • They had the instinctive cruelty of border guards, but were so puzzled at having lost the war that they found it difficult to be inquisitive.†   (source)
  • —and Deb who was Abby herself at that age, a wiry knot of inquisitiveness, and poor clumsy, effortful Alexander who could wrench her heart, and finally Elise who was just so different from Abby, so completely other, that Abby felt privileged to be granted this close-up view of her.†   (source)
  • And is greeted by the inquisitive gold and white muzzle of a beautiful collie.†   (source)
  • Inquisitive, enlightened statesmen are best qualified to make a judicious selection of the proper objects of taxation.†   (source)
  • The young Egyptian looked up inquisitively.†   (source)
  • This was serious, since some inquisitive member of the Opposition might at any time have got wind of the matter and asked a question in the House of Commons.†   (source)
  • Bill, inquisitive, said, "Planning a big barbecue or party or something, Randy?†   (source)
  • They'll tell us when we're ready for it-and, frankly, I'm not inquisitive.†   (source)
  • There had been suddenly established a bond between Morris and me, and I relaxed, filled with inquisitive zeal.†   (source)
  • I hope you won't think I'm inquisitive even if I am.†   (source)
  • The boy was young - certainly no older than she was; he was unarmed, and his attitude was more inquisitive than threatening: more puzzled than hostile.†   (source)
  • He, too, had mistaken me for an Arab, and when we crossed he had dropped the burdened-down expression and given me a look of wistful inquisitiveness, like a puppy that wanted to play but had just been made to understand that it wasn't playtime.†   (source)
  • He possessed, however, that persistent inquisitiveness which for journalists and lawyers is an end in itself.†   (source)
  • Men hurrying by stopped to stare inquisitively before moving on, idlers stood or sat around lazily indulging their curiosity.†   (source)
  • They watched with set faces his incredible mechanics, while the dogs after one bark stood off in inquisitive humility, until he winked.†   (source)
  • if someone saw a man climbing a light post they might get inquisitive
  • "Is she dead?" repeated the inquisitive twin trotting at his side.   (source)
    inquisitive = curious
  • But I was an inquisitive young scullion once.   (source)
  • A few helicopters came and hovered inquisitively round the tower.   (source)
    inquisitively = curiously
  • Still, she led the too inquisitive twins away and made them join in the game of hunt-the-zipper, which had been organized by one of her colleagues at the other end of the room.   (source)
    inquisitive = curious
  • He loves to formulate full-sentence questions, and his inquisitiveness goes beyond his years.†   (source)
  • My dear Pippin, no Took ever beat a Brandybuck for inquisitiveness; but is this the time, I ask you?†   (source)
  • One of the birds hopped to the edge of the roof and cocked its head inquisitively at them.†   (source)
  • My second son was a good and smart boy, but he did not have the inquisitiveness of my first son.†   (source)
  • Jeff bad all the energy and inquisitiveness of any other seven-year-old.†   (source)
  • A colorful bird with wide tail feathers and a sharp, powerful beak looked at Eragon inquisitively from a cage near the window.†   (source)
  • He trotted over to Percy and nuzzled his face, then turned his head inquisitively toward Piper and Jason.†   (source)
  • Instead of stopping, she simply turned and continued walking backward, her head tilted inquisitively.†   (source)
  • If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you.†   (source)
  • Despite my badgering inquisitiveness as Sophie related these things, it was difficult for me to gain a thorough picture of her childhood and youth, though some things became very clear.†   (source)
  • Perhaps, she thought with resignation, with mild despair, if she explained the rudimentary part of it to him now, patiently and explicitly, she would get it all over with, and if she was lucky, be spared any further inquisitiveness about more somber and complex matters which she could never describe or reveal to anyone.†   (source)
  • You are an inquisitive little tadpole, aren't you?†   (source)
  • For he was a very inquisitive boy, and always asking questions.†   (source)
  • I could tell that the inquisitive souls in front of the church hadn't even entered her mind.†   (source)
  • She looked back with an inquisitive expression.†   (source)
  • She seems very healthy, though, and inquisitive.†   (source)
  • It was opened by a little girl with dark red braids and inquisitive eyes.†   (source)
  • They were intelligent, inquisitive creatures.†   (source)
  • What was essential, Adams advised, was an inquisitive mind.†   (source)
  • She addressed her question to Miss Byrd, but ran inquisitive eyes over Milkman.†   (source)
  • Rowan's photographer to feed her inquisitive nature.†   (source)
  • Orik's guards gave him inquisitive glances, but he ignored them, too upset to explain his outburst.†   (source)
  • He was always inquisitive and very logical.†   (source)
  • I hurried past his inquisitive gaze, towing Ian with me.†   (source)
  • Rosie and her snuffing, inquisitive trunk.†   (source)
  • At first they talked, or hummed a tune softly together, being now far away from inquisitive ears.†   (source)
  • "What school?" asked his father, giving an inquisitive smile.†   (source)
  • It was Claudia—a stout, inquisitive girl—who was the first to work alongside Max.†   (source)
  • I'm a person if you're too inquisitive I tune you out completely.†   (source)
  • Jonasson gave her an inquisitive glance and stopped in his tracks when he saw her desperate look.†   (source)
  • Watching the action, with an inquisitive tilt of its delicate head, stood the golden fawn.†   (source)
  • Prusias nodded, speaking to the demon as though it were an inquisitive child.†   (source)
  • The most inquisitive and curious-minded of that family was called Smeagol.†   (source)
  • I'm beginning to feel very inquisitive about these people," whispered Eustace to Edmund.†   (source)
  • Sullivan toyed with the controls of his microscope, then shot Jan an inquisitive glance.†   (source)
  • He was ingratiating now, inquisitive without being nosy, and I responded easily to the questions.†   (source)
  • He was rolling his wand between his fingers, watching it, his thoughts on the room in the castle, the secret room only he had ever found, the room, like the chamber, that you had to be clever and cunning and inquisitive to discover…He was confident that the boy would not find the diadem…although Dumbledore's puppet had come much farther than he ever expected…too far… "My Lord," said a voice, desperate and cracked.†   (source)
  • Softly, surrounded by a fringe of inquisitive bright creatures, itself a silver shape beneath the steadfast constellations, Simon's dead body moved out toward the open sea.†   (source)
  • An inquisitive look enters his eyes and he slowly shakes his head, either in disbelief or …. disgust?†   (source)
  • Mr. Kinnear said I was very inquisitive for such a young person, and soon he would have the most learned maidservant in Richmond Hill, and he would have to put me on display, and charge money for me, like the mathematical pig in Toronto.†   (source)
  • Her name was Maureen Quilling, but everyone called her Mo, and she was thin and had pale skin and pale yellow hair, watery blue eyes, and a sharp, inquisitive nose.†   (source)
  • The word 'inquisitive' means—"†   (source)
  • As hogs are far more inquisitive and destructive than dairy cattle, the plan was to install concrete partitions to about five feet, then wood frame walls above that.†   (source)
  • The gate proscribed the entry of other realities: our father, Ken LaSalle (though not Mary Carson, who came in his inquisitive way and said to me, "It's just you and Ty now, I guess.†   (source)
  • Rose was upstairs, talking to Linda and Pammy, getting them to go to sleep in spite of everything, since because of everything there was something intolerable about their inquisitive and fearful presence.†   (source)
  • Rose shopped harder in Pike and Cabot than she had in a year, riffling through every sales rack, bringing home a hundred dollars' worth of groceries, and deploring my father's drinking (but in an indulgent, daughterly, respectful sort of way) to five or six inquisitive women, including Mary Carson's mother.†   (source)
  • In the middle of our fit of hysteria, the flap to the door of our tent was pulled aside by an inquisitive head, and Hans Hands entered.†   (source)
  • It was for the best that Trinity belonged to the inquisitive rather than the malicious type of computer marauder.†   (source)
  • There were hostile, inquisitive eyes everywhere — allies and enemies alike — who knew of the work these men did, and if they were observed together, alarms would surely go out.†   (source)
  • "Stay here, I vote," said Jill. "I'd much rather not see it." But she felt a little inquisitive all the same.†   (source)
  • His tone was urgent and inquisitive.†   (source)
  • Smaller, beadier, more inquisitive?†   (source)
  • His memoir, An Historical Relation, was used by Defoe as a psychological source for the ever inquisitive Robinson Crusoe.†   (source)
  • He was delicate, thin, with a curiosity that unnerved the adults, but unlike the inquisitive and sometimes clairvoyant look that the colonel had at his age, his look was blinking and somewhat distracted.†   (source)
  • There were all kinds of travelers, Sterne had written—inquisitive travelers, idle travelers, vain travelers—but the true value of travel was not in strenuous sight-seeing.†   (source)
  • Max held Nick and stood close to his father, looking out at the motley, inquisitive faces of the fishermen who eyed them curiously as they sipped from steel thermoses in the pre-dawn chill.†   (source)
  • "What?" came the inquisitive response.†   (source)
  • Ceylon always did have too many foreigners …. the 'Karapothas' as my niece calls them—the beetles with white spots who never grew ancient here, who stepped in and admired the landscape, disliked the "inquisitive natives" and left.†   (source)
  • They engaged in quiet conversation, giving an occasional nod to an older student or an inquisitive glance at the new arrivals.†   (source)
  • The children shrieked with delight as the sparkling lights descended lower like inquisitive pixies, zooming about the room and pausing periodically at each eager face.†   (source)
  • What an inquisitive lot they all are!†   (source)
  • The hobbits took no notice of the inquisitive heads that peeped out of doors, or popped over walls and fences, as they passed.†   (source)
  • The Bree-hobbits were, in fact, friendly and inquisitive, and Frodo soon found that some explanation of what he was doing would have to be given.†   (source)
  • His house was a meeting place for the idle, talkative, and inquisitive among the inhabitants, large and small, of the four villages; and a resort of Rangers and other wanderers, and for such travellers (mostly dwarves) as still journeyed on the East Road, to and from the Mountains.†   (source)
  • His task, according to the original plans of the conspirators, was to stay behind and deal with inquisitive folk, and to keep up as long as possible the pretence that Mr. Baggins was still living at Crickhollow.†   (source)
  • She hated the exposed fleshiness of them, their soft brown bodies and soft bashful faces that were also insolent and inquisitive, and their chattering voices that held a brazen fleshy undertone.†   (source)
  • Anna, the small, delicately featured sister of Saul who rarely spoke but who possessed one of the brightest, most inquisitive minds in the class, was copying a witch out of a book.†   (source)
  • Excuse me — I don't want to be inquisitive — but should I be right in thinking that you are a Daughter of Eve?†   (source)
  • Here, billy-goats!" they cried, but' the little goats were prancing so close, their inquisitive noses were almost in the spokes of the wheels.†   (source)
  • Foolish, inquisitive birds, rather like scraggy turkeys, they followed the children almost at their heels: sniffing, scratching, and pecking.†   (source)
  • At first Edmund tried to remember that it is rude to speak with one's mouth full, but soon he forgot about this and thought only of trying to shovel down as much Turkish Delight as he could, and the more he ate the more he wanted to eat, and he never asked himself why the Queen should be so inquisitive.†   (source)
  • Inquisitive.†   (source)
  • It was obvious that little could be learned from a study of this primitive vehicle, even if its owners handed it over without reservation to inquisitive terrestrial scientists.†   (source)
  • He spoke now, as he had once or twice before, with an odd inquisitive undertone in his voice, as if he might be wishing to solicit Sophie's opinion without compromising his authority by actually doing so.†   (source)
  • The Professor has now turned subtly (without appearing to be inquisitive) to the subject second most dear to his heart—industry and commerce, especially German industry and commerce, and the power excitingly attending those activities, now so energetically on the upswing.†   (source)
  • And the lad opened his eyes inquisitively to his father.†   (source)
  • He nodded, not surprised that she kept her own door opened, watching him inquisitively.†   (source)
  • And then inquisitively.†   (source)
  • She was showing an inquisitiveness that really made it seem like she was going senile.†   (source)
  • Two gray deer loped out of a thicket and turned inquisitively.†   (source)
  • Nastasia Philipovna looked at him inquisitively, but did not laugh.†   (source)
  • His glance, wandering inquisitively, fell on the bed.†   (source)
  • He immediately stood up and looked at the gentlemen inquisitively.†   (source)
  • But their officious inquisitiveness was not gratified.†   (source)
  • The young man, left standing alone in the middle of the room, listened inquisitively, thinking.†   (source)
  • Not understanding what he meant, I repeated inquisitively: 'Came to an end, Mr. Barkis?'†   (source)
  • They looked up, and stared at us inquisitively, but without moving.†   (source)
  • They stood still on the bridge, staring inquisitively at the carriage.†   (source)
  • "Till what happened?" put in Nikolay Parfenovitch inquisitively, but Mitya did not hear it.†   (source)
  • "Good night, citizen," said Sydney Carton, pausing in going by; for, the man eyed him inquisitively.†   (source)
  • Several persons crowded inquisitively into the doorway.†   (source)
  • "English?" asked Madame Defarge, inquisitively raising her dark eyebrows.†   (source)
  • On the contrary, I have hopes," said Dolly, looking inquisitively at Anna.†   (source)
  • "I felt that you were going to ask some question like that," she said, looking inquisitively at him.†   (source)
  • "Do you know that I am being followed?" asked Raskolnikov, looking inquisitively at him.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile the door from the inner rooms was opened inquisitively again.†   (source)
  • "Well?" said Carrie, inquisitively.†   (source)
  • "But aren't they always waylaying you to go out with them, dear?" said the little lady inquisitively.†   (source)
  • —he looked up at me inquisitively.†   (source)
  • Farmer Groby had espied the two figures from the distance, and had inquisitively ridden across, to learn what was their business in his field.†   (source)
  • It sometimes seemed to him that people were watching him inquisitively as a man whose place might soon be vacant.†   (source)
  • Whereupon the customary tests confirmed the Surgeon's first glance, who now looking up in unfeigned concern, cast a look of intense inquisitiveness upon his superior.†   (source)
  • Out of the fresh little green hearts of their foliage the lilacs raised inquisitively over the fence of the park their plumes of white or purple blossom, which glowed, even in the shade, with the sunlight in which they had been bathed.†   (source)
  • He looked up at me inquisitively.†   (source)
  • It was a kind of cool speech that showed the cowboy in control of himself and master of the situation—not an easy speech to follow up with undue inquisitiveness.†   (source)
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