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  • Sticky sent their query at once: Please advise about cheating.†   (source)
  • Every couple of days he'll startle the directress with some unanswerable query: "Why do we get hiccups, Frau Elena?"†   (source)
  • "You mean it adapted itself to the fly swatter?" queried Phineas.†   (source)
  • Elsewhere, strewn between the revision notes, landscape gardening and anatomy piles, were various letters and cards: unpaid battels, letters from tutors and friends congratulating him on his first, which he still took pleasure in rereading, and others mildly querying his next step.†   (source)
  • "Abigail?" my father queried.†   (source)
  • Too late?" they queried, over and over, and she fled along the road to the house where she could shut herself away from them.†   (source)
  • Going around, querying publishers, trying to find an agent.†   (source)
  • They wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters.†   (source)
  • The Criminal Element had queried in a recent issue.†   (source)
  • Query?†   (source)
  • No queries about dragon battle tactics or requests for descriptions of breathtaking aerial combat?†   (source)
  • To amuse my depraved Adah self during homework time I wrote down that quote from memory on a small triangular piece of paper and passed it to Leah, with the query: FROM WHAT BOOK OF THE BIBLE?†   (source)
  • Hypothetical questions almost always had as much luck as my time-based queries.†   (source)
  • Now it almost seemed that I was becoming invisible, passing through the house in my long sleeves and jeans-even as the weather heated upmy eyes red regardless of Visine, hardly talking except to answer their standard queries: How was school?†   (source)
  • Invariably they were polite in their queries—the legacy of TruYou—and gracious in their ratings.†   (source)
  • Santos queried.†   (source)
  • "Considering the alternative," I say in answer to her query, "it's a good place."†   (source)
  • If Rahel tried to say something, Ammu would interrupt with a new thought or query.†   (source)
  • I have never been that sort of butler who allows all sorts of people to wander in and out - with their queries and grumbles.†   (source)
  • "I thought you already got the mail?" she queried.†   (source)
  • It's late in the day in New York and no one at Juilliard seems prepared to drop everything and The Soloist ii investigate my query.†   (source)
  • I listened, confused, while Mike answered Edward's unusually friendly queries.†   (source)
  • Only after she had received her advance from the publisher did I feel it safe to query her: Why had she wanted to document her life?†   (source)
  • His query would hang in the air while she sprang over to peck him on the lips.†   (source)
  • …on mdr patients in Peru, which he had to read and respond to carefully; worried and worrisome messages about projects in which pih was involved, in Russia and Chiapas and Guatemala and Roxbury; affectionate greetings and requests for advice from priests and nuns and anthropologists and health bureaucrats and fellow doctors, in Cuba, London, Armenia, Sri Lanka, Paris, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Africa; and always a few queries like this: "Just a wrench to throw in your head.†   (source)
  • The intent of his queries as he soon established, was to introduce a subject the prosecution had emphatically avoided: the question of Wells' own role in the murder plot, and his own moral liability.†   (source)
  • As these courses became known in the general section, we began to get queries from our men on the other side.†   (source)
  • After-school queries, homework, music, TV.†   (source)
  • "Would you like to run the car?" came the next query.†   (source)
  • I was very tired and fended off each of Jason's queries by simply telling him that the lesson would begin in the morning.†   (source)
  • The white men who said that race didn't matter sent 90 percent of their e-mail queries to white women.†   (source)
  • Yet the most common response to a query about anything other than an official rule is "Honey, don't you know you don't ask questions in prison?"†   (source)
  • Franklin queried his computer terminal.†   (source)
  • Bolivar ignored all queries, direct or indirect.†   (source)
  • Thomson moves head-down toward second, coasting in, and then sees Lockman standing on the bag looking at him semi-spellbound, the trace of a query hanging on his lips.†   (source)
  • Neither Cole nor Monroe had a ready answer to those queries.†   (source)
  • She didn't, but she had indoor plumbing and her smile was just like her name, Sweet, as she nodded her head to Milkman's query about whether he could take a bath.†   (source)
  • Once he countered a query of mine with: "If only there hadn't been a flag on that pole."†   (source)
  • Char repeated the query in every letter, probably because my answers were so silly that they pleased him.†   (source)
  • I type in my newfound query, Paavo, which turns out to be nothing but the Finnish version of Paul.†   (source)
  • He was answering the constable's queries as if he were tallying an account at Barclays.†   (source)
  • Lieutenant Scheisskopf responded with a knowing smile to the queries of his colleagues.†   (source)
  • Then one day when I was nine, I overheard Mama query Madame Wang about the situation.†   (source)
  • Zayd queries philosophically, "other than her just trying to be white, like Mariah Carey, just straightening her hair?"†   (source)
  • But the people who struggle against what we call totalitarian regimes cannot function with queries and doubts.†   (source)
  • That's bound to answer any other queries.†   (source)
  • Ghosh winced, as if Shiva's query hurt.†   (source)
  • A query that wasn't a query.†   (source)
  • 0097 17 54 HOUSTON, OUR COMMAND GROUP HAS RAISED THE QUESTION OF WMpTHpR HOURS MM SEC COMMUNICATION 0097 17 59 [reply from Houston deleted] 0097 18 43 [Scoop query to Houston deleted] 0097 19 03 [reply from Houston deleted] 0097 19 11 AGREE, HOUSTON.†   (source)
  • However, Charlie's got a legitimate query.†   (source)
  • "Let me never undertake to draw a writ without sufficient time to examine and digest in my mind all the doubts, queries, objections that may arise," he wrote.†   (source)
  • Perhaps he did not wish to be confronted by the sorts of queries that I would have raised in response to such information.†   (source)
  • He didn't query it however.†   (source)
  • Who was her son? the tired face queried.†   (source)
  • Eugenides queried.†   (source)
  • While David bore Max's queries with weary patience, Mina was still young enough to believe that sheer enthusiasm was sufficient to explain the wildly complex concepts that she apparently mastered with instinctive ease.†   (source)
  • He thanked them for his food, encouraged them to talk about their hopes and histories, answered their questions politely, and never pressed too hard with queries of his own.†   (source)
  • His interviewing style is disarming and even warm, no matter how sharp his queries.†   (source)
  • He asked, looking at her as if he knew the reason of her query, "Do you wish to ask for a special exception?"†   (source)
  • I query.†   (source)
  • I don't inform Liv that it was in fact I who asked that someone to call—that someone being Nurse Dolly, who is one of those people who can seem insulted by any query whatsoever, and is thus naturally excellent at keeping secrets—not because I'm bashful for having requested her help, but because Liv herself looks deliciously intrigued by the idea that Renny Banerjee might be coming around again, perhaps finally regretting his decision to change every last one of his door locks.†   (source)
  • "What time does the moon rise?" he finally asked, as matter-of-factly as if he had been querying a ticket agent about the arrival of a train.†   (source)
  • If recruiter was not certain, just query upwards and answer came back.†   (source)
  • The only answer that I can give to this query is that the new Birmingham administration must be prodded about as much as the outgoing one, before it will act.†   (source)
  • The reason for the query is that you don't seem to be enjoying it.†   (source)
  • I QUERIED Ootek about the apparently inexplicable behavior of the band of wolves I had seen at the Eskimo camp, and in his patient and kindly fashion he once more endeavored to put me straight.†   (source)
  • "But why does it need you?" queried Jan. With all its tremendous powers, surely it could do anything it pleased.†   (source)
  • The query: "At Auschwitz, tell me, where was God?"†   (source)
  • I resolved that I would make those changes and send the two most damaging pieces of information I could guess at to the place where they might eventually be retrieved in association with something sufficiently similar to one day cause a query, a query that would hopefully lead to the destruction of that for which I was currently being tormented.†   (source)
  • When I queried Mrs. Brown, she told me that films were difficult to get to and from the island; in fact, they were more trouble than they were worth.†   (source)
  • The landlord was very kind about Alec; Mr. Leamas had paid his rent like a gentleman, right till the end, then there'd been a week or two owing and a chum of Mr. Leamas' had dropped in and paid up handsome, no queries or nothing.†   (source)
  • "It will not be long before the harvest," Nathan would murmur, and I would agree with him, stifling the query whether our strength would last till then, saying, "Ah yes, not long now; only a little time before the grain is ripe."†   (source)
  • "He offered no statement," Dr. Strickland said in response to a query.†   (source)
  • In response to a reporter's query, she said...
  • If you have other queries we can deal with them at the end of class.†   (source)
  • She smiles, trying to keep at bay the inadequacy that always creeps in with these queries.†   (source)
  • "You're sure we'll find food for the horses out there?" queried Eragon, slurring his words.†   (source)
  • The flow was steady but not overwhelming, and she got through 77 customer queries that morning.†   (source)
  • This was fascinating news, and I queried him on the particulars.†   (source)
  • Almost immediately twelve customer queries appeared.†   (source)
  • I just have to answer these queries from some subcommittee.†   (source)
  • She'd handled forty-nine queries and her score was at 91, her lowest aggregate yet.†   (source)
  • She answered three queries in rapid succession, with an average of 99.†   (source)
  • The next few queries were more complicated but she kept her rating at 100.†   (source)
  • She took three more queries, followed up with surveys and saw that her average was at 99.†   (source)
  • Green lemons and heavy breathing over your shoulder while you answer customer queries.†   (source)
  • "Is that true, Mr. Goode?" queried the judge.†   (source)
  • These were queries people had been circling for eons.†   (source)
  • No one asked them their opinion of the horses or queried them as to their method.†   (source)
  • Her newly darkened eyebrows queried Helene.†   (source)
  • Reporters queried him on his chances without Seabiscuit.†   (source)
  • To all these queries she just sighed or nodded.†   (source)
  • They were lashing her pretty hard with active sonar, then a 'can queried her on a gertrude."†   (source)
  • 'Hey, what's going on?' queried one of his roommates drowsily.†   (source)
  • Decline, Master? queried Saphira in what Eragon would have sworn was a teasing tone of voice.†   (source)
  • The captain still stared, presumably receiving by now answers to her queries.†   (source)
  • I just have a set of queries and responses.†   (source)
  • "Alessandro?" queried an unfamiliar voice, bathed in noise.†   (source)
  • "They're Imperiused," he added, in response to Hermione and Ron's confused queries about Travers and Bogrod, who were both now standing there looking blank.†   (source)
  • There was always someone who was cunning and connected, who worked the system and found you things, someone around whom the air buzzed with both opportunity and danger-It was Salim who had sent out Tariq's queries about his mother, Salim who had sat him down and told him, in a soft, fatherly voice, that she had died of exposure.†   (source)
  • Butler nearly queried the order.†   (source)
  • But as the Count began to answer Sofia's litany of queries, sketching the layout of Idlehour on the tablecloth with the tines of his fork, describing the personalities of family members and referencing various traditions—he noticed that Sofia was entirely, absolutely, and utterly engaged.†   (source)
  • In three months, Sergeant Major von Rumpel has traveled to Berlin and Stuttgart; he has assessed the value of a hundred confiscated rings, a dozen diamond bracelets, a Latvian cigarette case in which a lozenge of blue topaz twinkled; now, back in Paris, he has slept at the Grand Hotel for a week and sent forth his queries like birds.†   (source)
  • Moving quickly across the plaza, I queried my comlog about the nine-digit transfer code I'd seen on the imager.†   (source)
  • "Will my feet get wet?" queried Mack.†   (source)
  • He called on a number of old family friends who still lived there, and from their answers to his queries, Chris pieced together the facts of his father's previous marriage and subsequent divorce, facts to which he hadn't been privy.†   (source)
  • What happened? she queried.†   (source)
  • Mack queried, handing back the twig.†   (source)
  • I queried.†   (source)
  • Mother queried.†   (source)
  • Brom? queried Eragon.†   (source)
  • After Janice, Mae had a series of clients who did not know it was her answering their queries, and Mae found that this bothered her.†   (source)
  • Mae answered three more queries, her rating dipping to 98, and though she sent multiple follow-ups to these three, she got no satisfaction.†   (source)
  • Mae knew she would have to power through the next ten or so queries to get back to an acceptable average.†   (source)
  • She handled 240 customer queries, her record so far, while answering 1,129 survey questions, and while keeping the newbies on target.†   (source)
  • His fingers were typing furiously, fluidly, almost silently, as he simultaneously answered customer queries and survey questions.†   (source)
  • And Jared jumped down, and Mae climbed down, arranged herself again and was immediately thirty queries behind.†   (source)
  • She answered three more queries, and was able to get all three customers to fill out extended surveys.†   (source)
  • Mae promised Nanci that she was not peeved, answered with an XO, sent her ten subsequent smiles, and went back to her queries, hoping that Nanci was satisfied and happy and that they were cool.†   (source)
  • There were 188 latent queries.†   (source)
  • There were few people with pressing needs at that hour, but there were always unanswered queries waiting for business hours to start, so she figured she could chip away at the load before the newbies came in.†   (source)
  • There was the number of queries handled that day thus far, 221, and the number of queries handled by that time yesterday, 219, and the number handled by her on average, 220, and by the pod's other members: 198.†   (source)
  • She checked her messages, found a few dozen that needed her attention, and then, because it was only nine o'clock and her parents were already asleep, she logged on to her Circle account and handled a few dozen queries, feeling, with every fulfilled request, that she was cleaning the Mercer off of herself.†   (source)
  • Glaedr queried.†   (source)
  • Orrin and Nasuada pressed Eragon with a number of questions about the oaths he had laid upon Sloan, as well as queries about the remainder of his trip.†   (source)
  • I've submitted dozens—hundreds—of reports, suggestions, and queries to her office without receiving a single response!†   (source)
  • The library, with its paper perfume, whispered queries, and copy machine shuffles, was the only familiar place on the entire campus.†   (source)
  • He had criticized Lucy Friedman's lounge lizard piece which Annie considered quite brilliant; he'd queried the design team over two front covers—not in a heavy-handed way but enough to make an impression; and he'd sent Annie a long memo about how he thought their coverage of Wall Street was slipping behind the competition.†   (source)
  • The white women who said race didn't matter sent about 97 percent of their e-mail queries to white men.†   (source)
  • But everyone here, including some former students, knew of Clarence's famously elliptical queries, his winding citations of Scripture, his penchant for answering a simple question with a more complex one.†   (source)
  • She did not expect him to understand it, he had never seemed to understand much simpler queries-and she shook her head, struggling to recapture the reality of the present.†   (source)
  • In the time since, however, Charles had managed to lose nearly all of it through bad investments, and then kept silent about what had happened, refusing to answer John Quincy's queries, in the hope that, with a little more time, he might somehow recover at least part of the money.†   (source)
  • Eragon queried Rhunon as to the identity of the elves when she paused to allow his body a brief rest.†   (source)
  • Miss Session's striving to build up an imitation lady on the sincere foundation Johnnie offered appealed less to the girl, and had therefore less effect; but she immediately responded to Stoddard's methods, tucking in to the books she returned written queries or records of perplexity, which gradually expanded into notes, expressions of her own awakened thought, and even fancies, which held from the first a quaint charm and individuality.†   (source)
  • Wes ran to the gourmet grocery where Delia was owed a favor, and Kristy and I just kept walking through with more appetizers, deflecting all queries about when dinner was being served with a bat of the eyelashes and a smile (her idea, of course).†   (source)
  • Roran queried.†   (source)
  • Memphis reported when her Delta took off for home at twenty knots after being on station for five days, and then Gallery queried Queenfish.†   (source)
  • However, if they didn't and shots were fired, much less loss of Glatun life, there would be questions asked in Parliament, AI queries, and of course the press would simply go wild.†   (source)
  • The desire was not directed at the unknown thug who had sent a bullet through the boy's body, or at the looting bureaucrats who had hired the thug to do it, but at the boy's teachers who had delivered him, disarmed, to the thug's gun-at the soft, safe assassins of college classrooms who, incompetent to answer the queries of a quest for reason, took pleasure in crippling the young minds entrusted to their care.†   (source)
  • He would evade awkward queries in a manner that was a pleasure to behold, and then, quite unexpectedly, would become positively confiding.†   (source)
  • 'I've got a query about your course aims,' said Hermione.†   (source)
  • In answer to her unemphatic query Leon said, "It's just a letter.†   (source)
  • Query: "Which direction would you like to deviate?"†   (source)
  • Please proceed with the important query you said you had for us.†   (source)
  • You accessed the seedship computer with a query about the Shrike's nature and origins.†   (source)
  • Her fourth client was the first to notice that it was Mae, Transparent Mae, handling her query.†   (source)
  • When you get the query, you figure out the answer, you write them back.†   (source)
  • The week's workload was heavy, but while thinking of Kalden, every query was some glorious aria.†   (source)
  • She took another customer query, and then nodded.†   (source)
  • She took the next query, which came from a pet grooming chain based in Atlanta.†   (source)
  • In the event that she was stumped, she could bounce the query to his own queue, and he'd take it.†   (source)
  • Mae directed the newbie to the right folder, then returned to the query in front of her.†   (source)
  • A few of the men recognized this query, but shook their heads.†   (source)
  • Then he became the questioner—one quick query.†   (source)
  • Why do I sense a finality with that query?†   (source)
  • Heavy hair in a bun, dark eyes arched in a perpetual query about other people's manners.†   (source)
  • ] But Trey's next query, about "availability," elicits an "Oh, duh" moment.†   (source)
  • I considered the query a sign that I had briefly crossed a divide.†   (source)
  • But getting back to your query, the consensus here is to let this thing play out a bit.†   (source)
  • Eragon sensed that it would be an awkward query, however, and merely nodded as he listened.†   (source)
  • Sort of like a very detailed and intuitive query system.†   (source)
  • But I was aware too why the animals had emerged again, and of all the possible layers behind Tommy's apparently casual query.†   (source)
  • If an unaware person is told a part of the truth (it is imperative that the answer embody truth), he is satisfied that his query has been answered.†   (source)
  • In their coded exchanges they had drawn close, but how artificial that closeness seemed now as they embarked on their small talk, their helpless catechism of polite query and response.†   (source)
  • Taking the envelope in hand, the Count could tell that it was empty; but in place of an address, the query Three o'clock? was written in a willowy script.†   (source)
  • Why, that was a matter of leaning back in one's chair, sipping one's wine, and responding to a query with the very first thought that has popped into one's head.†   (source)
  • She ignored his query.†   (source)
  • After their initial question and invitation at our first encounter, none of them originated a single query or comment my way.†   (source)
  • Mae checked her clock; she'd been on the Orlando query for eight minutes, far surpassing the new guideline per query, which was 2.†   (source)
  • Mae then took the next query, and was in the process of an easy boilerplate conversion, when another message came from Nanci.†   (source)
  • They downloaded another customer query, and Mae scrolled through the boilerplates, found the appropriate answer, personalized it, and sent it back.†   (source)
  • Mae finished her next query, got a 98, and was following up on that one, when she got another message from Nanci.†   (source)
  • She took another query, this one from Bangalore, and was in the middle of amending the boilerplate to the query when another message came through from Edward.†   (source)
  • Her name was Janice, and she couldn't get over the fact she could watch Mae typing the answer to her query in real-time, on her screen, right next to where she was receiving Mae's typed answer.†   (source)
  • Before the third screen, there had always been a lull, maybe ten or twelve seconds, between when she'd answered a query and when she knew whether or not the answer had been satisfying; she'd used the time to memorize the boilerplates and do a few follow-ups, every so often to check her phone.†   (source)
  • In minutes she had helped with a query from a small jewelry maker in Prague, had checked out the maker's website, had found the work intriguing and wonderful and had said so, aloud and in a zing, which produced an astronomical Conversion Rate and a Retail Raw, in ten minutes, of 52,098 euros.†   (source)
  • She helped a sustain-ably sourced furniture wholesaler in North Carolina, Design for Life, and after answering their query, they wanted her to fill out a customer survey, which was especially important given her age and income bracket—they needed more information about the preferences of customers in her demographic.†   (source)
  • They began to watch everything he did and query him about his training practices, from feed to workouts.†   (source)
  • How much is that, I want to know, but before I can query, Robyn drops a sparkling rock into her pipe.†   (source)
  • Eragon repeated the query.†   (source)
  • For the orbital position then, from query through reply and then to command-received is under four seconds…. and you can rely on me not to waste microseconds.†   (source)
  • It was a fascinating query in light of the manager's size and sheer raw power, both combined with a far-above-average intellect.†   (source)
  • "He can't breathe on his own, and there are no pupillary or other reflexes," he said in response to my silent query.†   (source)
  • So whatever your query, however big or small, please call in for Rebecca Bloomwood's advice, on 0333 4567."†   (source)
  • Dr. Jones was now recalled, and following the preliminaries that had accompanied his original appearance, Fleming put to him the crucial query: "From your conversations and examination of Perry Edward Smith, do you have an opinion as to whether he knew right from wrong at the time of the offense involved in this action?"†   (source)
  • "No," Mianaai continued, in answer to Lieutenant Awn's inarticulate query, "it hasn't turned up on public channels.†   (source)
  • When one singer questioned another about a run in this theater, the query was, 'For how long did you clear the air?" meaning for how many minutes in his aria was he able to rid the sky of the paper airplanes that crossed and collided over the orchestra in a traffic unlike any that had ever been seen on earth.†   (source)
  • So it finds the safest route within my preferences by using a very advanced and partially intuitive query I don't even really set up.†   (source)
  • She looked over her shoulder with a query in her dark eyes, and his stomach clenched as he tried to find a way to voice his thoughts.†   (source)
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