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  • From the floor, she turned and looked up at the bathrobed woman and made an inquiry.†   (source)
  • Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani called for an inquiry and made a statement saying the flogging of the girl was against the teachings of Islam.†   (source)
  • Up to that point, our encounter could have been interpreted as a respectful inquiry, one man asking for the whereabouts of another man.†   (source)
  • Of course, like all interrogation of the universe, this line of inquiry inevitably reduces us to asking what it means to be human and whether—to borrow a phrase from the angst-encumbered sixteen-year-olds you no doubt revile—there is a point to it all.†   (source)
  • The man said that someone whose name he was not at liberty to disclose had called his office recommending an inquiry into conditions at 93 Little Hobart Street, where it was possible that dependent children might be living in a state of neglect.†   (source)
  • The result of this meandering inquiry is the book now before you.†   (source)
  • Jake Wexler had given up his private practice (both private practices) now that he had been appointed consultant to the governor's inquiry panel for a state lottery (thanks to a recommendation by Judge Ford).†   (source)
  • As Audrius refilled the glasses, the ever-attentive tender at bar noted the Count's look of inquiry and replied with a nod of confirmation.†   (source)
  • Now, to move on to your inquiry.†   (source)
  • After a bit of inquiry, the landlord placed the home on the rental market with a severe discount to account for the sensational circumstances of the prior tenant's eviction.†   (source)
  • Marsha didn't trust the woman and was evasive when she made inquiries.†   (source)
  • And finally, I must make the most grave of inquiries.†   (source)
  • I shall make inquiries.†   (source)
  • Yesterday I thought they had been prying with all their inquiries, but I was wrong.†   (source)
  • Ishmael never saw Ernest Testaverde get hit; later he found out, on making inquiries, that Ernest had been found with a hole in his head roughly the size of a man's fist.†   (source)
  • She made an inquiry to tech and found he'd been trying to take it down.†   (source)
  • I'm certain that his rearranging of my mother's body in its repose had been the only time he had ever touched her; both the memory of that, and of Police Chief Pike's inquiries regarding the "instrument of death," the "murder weapon," had clearly rattled Mr. Chickering, who wept openly at the funeral, as if he were mourning the death of baseball itself.†   (source)
  • I promised Cat I would help you in your inquiries, and so I have.†   (source)
  • I heard him say the word "inquiry" to them, and something about "the country demands...." "What is all this hot air?"†   (source)
  • After a cursory greeting and inquiry after the course and her health, he passed on information picked up from a colleague and confirmed by the family: Paul Marshall and Lola Quincey were to be married a week Saturday in the Church of the Holy Trinity, Clapham Common.†   (source)
  • He looked round in inquiry to make sure that everyone understood and the other boys nodded at him.†   (source)
  • The inquiry will be in the morning.†   (source)
  • There had been a mixture of disappointment, doubt, and inquiry in her eyes.†   (source)
  • Sometimes they would cast a look back in his direction—an inquiry.†   (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)
  • He was long gone before the agents had flipped their badges or begun inquiries.†   (source)
  • I didn't care for this avenue of inquiry.†   (source)
  • That night he wrote in his diary: "After careful inquiry, I must conclude that there has been no sexual intercourse in our family for the last three generations!"†   (source)
  • The inquiry was over.†   (source)
  • Eragon constantly interrupted to ask questions, and Brom seemed pleased by the inquiries.†   (source)
  • There was an inquiry, of course, and a week-long air search, and for a time the Tra Bong compound went crazy with MP and CID types.†   (source)
  • I think we might establish a Commission of Inquiry into the matter and, in the meantime, arrange for an increase in food rations.†   (source)
  • The constant questioning, inquiries which entertained but also had something daring — or foolish — in the asking, failed to materialize.†   (source)
  • She and Baby Suggs had agreed without saying so that it was unspeakable; to Denver's inquiries Sethe gave short replies or rambling incomplete reveries.†   (source)
  • There was the briefest of formal inquiries.†   (source)
  • Even as I continued to make halfhearted inquiries about finding Marley a new home, I began working with him in earnest.†   (source)
  • Instead she spends her time charming men in the hopes that one of them will eventually make an inquiry with the mistress of the teahouse about her.†   (source)
  • Carlisle ignored the assumption behind the inquiry.†   (source)
  • Their inquiries had filled her with a cold dread.†   (source)
  • And by slow, careful degrees, beginning with an observation on the heat and the cloudless sky, progressing through inquiries about Lieutenant Awn's health to mild local gossip, she finally came around to hinting at her reason for coming.†   (source)
  • As time wore on and the inquiries dwindled, Holmes modified the story a bit.†   (source)
  • "This is not a matter for inquiry," Madam said.†   (source)
  • Mr. Smit disentangled himself gently from Father's genealogical inquiries and followed me upstairs.†   (source)
  • She said she was definitely going to participate in a school program and had in fact already made inquiries about it.†   (source)
  • She came near a stroke recently because of the agony she's gone through regarding inquiries into her mother's death and those cells.†   (source)
  • There was a short piece on the Telegraph website that said that "a man in his thirties is helping police with their inquiries."†   (source)
  • No inquiries of any kind directed at CARDINAL.†   (source)
  • Our commune officials made repeated inquiries to the police but all investigations had failed.†   (source)
  • The man who is the object of our inquiry is horizontally diversified.†   (source)
  • If Misery Chastain had been a real person, he knew he might very well have been called upon 'to aid the police in their inquiries', as the euphemism went.†   (source)
  • By way of a series of discreet inquiries, they managed to obtain her earthly address and arrived at her door with decks of cards impregnated with beneficent liquids, several sets of geometrical figures and mysterious tools of their own invention for unmasking fake parapsychologists, and a tray of ordinary pastries as a gift for Clara.†   (source)
  • All day long we had been wondering precisely who he was, but our inquiries had yielded little save that the chief was a true veteran of the teams who had seen combat in overseas deployment four times, including the Gulf War.†   (source)
  • If Jordan assumed Chime was a recently arrived refugee, this inquiry might have startled him.†   (source)
  • As he carried on his investigation, he learned about other events he had not known of or into which he had made no inquiries, including the death of Lorenzo Daza in the Cantabrian village where he had been born.†   (source)
  • Hidden in all such inquiries were traps that could lead to scandal and create legal problems for Milton Security.†   (source)
  • Dan clicked on the folder, catching a subject line that read "RE: Your inquiry regarding patient 361"—but then his in-box minimized and an error message popped up midscreen.†   (source)
  • I thanked him for his thoughtfulness but when I made inquiries as to payment, I found that he, too, would hear none of it.†   (source)
  • I wanted to say that he would learn to regard all such catastrophic findings with equanimity as he matured, grew out of his confining literalism, developed a spirit of informed and skeptical inquiry, advanced in wisdom and rounded judgment, got old, declined, died.†   (source)
  • But before I go off half-cocked, let me make some further inquiries and then get back to you.†   (source)
  • In response to inquiries from Vegetarian Journal, however, McDonald's did acknowledge that its fries derive some of their characteristic flavor from "animal products."†   (source)
  • Be good, my undesirable, my illegitimate children, be obedient, be servile, above all don't send me any letters of inquiry about your homes, while I stand on guard (over your property) in the true north strong, though you are not free.†   (source)
  • As a result, the foreign ministries made inquiries of the national police agencies.†   (source)
  • No one ever brought it up to him because the other Stone, the one who rarely drank, would have been hurt and insulted by such inquiry or accusation.†   (source)
  • The magus answered with another question, which Ambiades answered patiently, obviously used to this response to his inquiries.†   (source)
  • Briskly I reach for the phone and dial Flagstaff's number—only to be told by the switchboard operator that all press inquiries are dealt with out of house.†   (source)
  • We're attached to the San Francisco police, and we've just received an inquiry from Kansas concerning your brother, Perry Edward Smith.†   (source)
  • Before I stole this boat we're in, I made many inquiries as to what was the fastest ship on all of Florin Channel and everyone agreed it was this one.†   (source)
  • This full sentence, an inquiry to boot, seemed to me on par with Helen Keller finally signing W-A-T-E-R. I mean, really.†   (source)
  • His uniform response, for years now, has been to withdraw, to shun media inquiries and most invitations for social events and speaking engagements.†   (source)
  • "Clary," Raphael said, answering his own inquiry, "of course.†   (source)
  • The man of the house looked worried and he leaned to John Grady and made a whispered inquiry.†   (source)
  • He began some carefully worded inquiries as to her experience in the mill and her opinion of the work.†   (source)
  • He said he would make "discreet inquiries."†   (source)
  • And you are to make inquiry if any such goods be secreted in stores, and you are to seize all such.†   (source)
  • Undoubtedly such inquiries are essential in the initial stage of any study, for lower minds.†   (source)
  • Any obvious inquiries as to the rightful ownership of the land could alert the state and they would surely push through a law prohibiting the sale.†   (source)
  • That matter is still under inquiry.†   (source)
  • He mumbled vaguely about looking for work, but his idea of job-hunting was to send one of his nephews out to make inquiries about the status of his physician's license.†   (source)
  • He believed in rational thinking and scientific inquiry, which was why he never won an argument with his mother, who believed in people doing what she told them, and believed it with a rock-hard certainty that dismissed all opposition.†   (source)
  • The church ladies were about to burst with all manner of inquiries: "How'd he do it?" and "Did he leave a note?" and "Who gets the money?" and "Any chance of foul play?"†   (source)
  • His reply to all inquiries was simply this: 'Mr.†   (source)
  • I was told that this inquiry was being made, and my reaction was the same as when I tried to join the Girl Scouts.†   (source)
  • But if you could assist me, your motives for the inquiry?†   (source)
  • I suspect he had an inventory of these preemptive phrases to deflect inquiries while not offending.†   (source)
  • As is required, three elders have called for an inquiry before the people as is allowed by law.†   (source)
  • After exchanging pleasantries and inquiries about friends and family, Yakub's voice shook as he asked the question he knew he must: "What is that for, Dr. Greg, Sahib, sir?"†   (source)
  • As Wells had expected, the Chancellor had known nothing about the experiments and had immediately launched an inquiry.†   (source)
  • Just the same, I didn't make any more inquiries, but instead tried to focus my attention on Zach and how well he'd run his races today.†   (source)
  • Draw upon it and it serves you with ease —Looked at but cannot be seen — listened to but cannot be heard — grasped at but cannot be touched — these three elude all our inquiries and hence blend and become one.†   (source)
  • They'll make inquiries; they'll call the Zurich police.†   (source)
  • The only recent inquiry had been made by the management company for the house rental—no surprise there—but what struck her was that none of the records seemed to make much sense.†   (source)
  • He makes discreet inquiries among the younger girls, turning it into a sort of game to see if any of them have heard or seen some clue, however small.†   (source)
  • Mr. Baldwin, the disposition of your clients' condition will comprise a substantial part of this tribunal's inquiry.†   (source)
  • As for Goll, he claimed later at the official inquiry into the fire that he had waited for Lee to leave and then turned in the alarm.†   (source)
  • There was no inquiry or investigation; that was reserved for white civil servants.†   (source)
  • The INQUIRY sign blipped up on the board.†   (source)
  • Sometimes a man doesn't have it defined but, under Socratic inquiry, knows where he stands and why.†   (source)
  • Serious inquiries only.†   (source)
  • The Kagame administration was accused not of having started this ongoing catastrophe, but of escalating it — and also, by a UN panel of inquiry, of having joined various other governments in plundering the Congo's mineral wealth.†   (source)
  • Perhaps in five or ten years inquiries would arrive in the Austrian Foreign Ministry and this might be discussed.†   (source)
  • Rearden felt contempt for groups of that kind and saw no reason for a closer inquiry into their nature.†   (source)
  • Her pale skin had turned as green as I imagined mine to be, but her eyes were filled with frank inquiry.†   (source)
  • He'd made some inquiries and suggested the Watchung Hills Children's Home, in New Jersey.†   (source)
  • It's part of the inspector's job to keep watch and call an inquiry if the information he gets seems to warrant it.'†   (source)
  • If the structures group was still sifting the wreckage eight months after the crash...then you didn't stay to oversee the entire inquiry, even though you were the original IIC on it.†   (source)
  • Media inquiries yet?†   (source)
  • Isn't this like condemning Socrates because his unswerving commitment to truth and his philosophical inquiries precipitated the act by the misguided populace in which they made him drink hemlock?†   (source)
  • There is a point to Lincoln's inviting Grant to this meeting, as evidenced by this new line of inquiry.†   (source)
  • His ink blackens; and in the end he can't be kept from making a few discreet inquiries, among friends.†   (source)
  • Our inquiry covers four topics: The reasons for having a federal government.†   (source)
  • If I met him today, I'm not sure what I would say to him except to offer the standard greetings and inquiries about his work and spouse and family.†   (source)
  • When the police arrived and found no lion, no broken wall, and no convicts, and the Head behaving like a lunatic, there was an inquiry into the whole thing.†   (source)
  • The ISIS recruiter had made inquiries of his own and had convinced Qassam to remain in suburban Washington.†   (source)
  • But first, I want to make an inquiry of you.†   (source)
  • the name Rocinante painted on the side of my truck in sixteenth-century Spanish script would cause curiosity and inquiry in some places.†   (source)
  • After making some inquiries at the reception desk, he returned to Ashe's flat and sat on the camp bed looking at his clasped hands.†   (source)
  • Quite early in my inquiry I was asked by an old trapper if, since I was a wolf enthusiast, I would like some wolf-juice.†   (source)
  • The prince decided to venture an inquiry.†   (source)
  • He tells how he sent desperate inquiries by mail and private courier to Brunswick, offering at any price to buy the boy back, but at that time of course communication was both slow and unsure, and in many cases impossible, and Artiste was never found.†   (source)
  • He would pretend to be my business associate, my equal, might make inquiries about sales and prices.†   (source)
  • Jan puzzled over this for a moment, but knew it was useless to follow this line of inquiry.†   (source)
  • He'd actually marched himself round the hospital, making inquiries about my wife.†   (source)
  • His wife began to be worried, and to make inquiries, at first locally, in Yuriatin, then by mail in Moscow and at his old field address.†   (source)
  • By midnight the State Highway Police will be making inquiries.†   (source)
  • Catherine turned her head in courteous inquiry.†   (source)
  • The intellect of the Puritan—of John Quincy Adams and his forebears—was, as George Frisbie Hoar has said: fit for exact ethical discussion, clear in seeing general truths, active, unresting, fond of inquiry and debate, but penetrated and restrained by a shrewd common sense...He had a tenacity of purpose, a lofty and inflexible courage, an unbending will, which never qualified or flinched before human antagonist, or before exile, torture, or death.†   (source)
  • In response to your inquiry...
  • It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry...   (source)
  • I am staying there while I conduct the inquiry.   (source)
    inquiry = investigation
  • Van Helsing and I tried to make inquiry at the back of the house.   (source)
    inquiry = questioning or investigating
  • That he scatter his money in making quick inquiry as to what ship sails for the Black Sea and for where.   (source)
  • We know from the inquiry of Jonathan that from the castle to Whitby came fifty boxes of earth, all of which were delivered at Carfax, we also know that at least some of these boxes have been removed.   (source)
  • (ENTERED IN HER JOURNAL)
    Ground of inquiry.--Count Dracula's problem is to get back to his own place.
    (a) He must be brought back by some one.  This is evident; for...   (source)
  • When he ask if there be any wrong, for that so, he can telegraph and have inquiry made at Varna, we say 'no,' for what is to be done is not for police or of the customs.   (source)
  • It was only for a moment, for, as Lord Godalming said, "I thought I saw a face, but it was only the shadows," and resumed his inquiry, I turned my lamp in the direction, and stepped into the passage.   (source)
  • When I received Mr. Billington's courteous message that he would give me any information in his power I thought it best to go down to Whitby and make, on the spot, such inquiries as I wanted.   (source)
    inquiries = questions or investigations
  • After many inquiries and almost as many refusals, and perpetually using the words 'PALL MALL GAZETTE' as a sort of talisman, I managed to find the keeper of the section of the Zoological Gardens in which the wolf department is included.   (source)
  • I found that my landlord had got a letter from the Count, directing him to secure the best place on the coach for me; but on making inquiries as to details he seemed somewhat reticent, and pretended that he could not understand my German.   (source)
  • At the interview, when she offered him tea, he made it a point to launch a cautious inquiry if she knew Mr. Farfrae.   (source)
    inquiry = question
  • She needed no time for deliberation or inquiry.   (source)
    inquiry = questioning or investigating
  • ...he was on inquiry satisfied; for he had early in the evening taken pains to know who her partner was, and had been assured of Mr. Tilney's being a clergyman, and of a very respectable family in Gloucestershire.   (source)
    inquiry = investigation
  • Within forty-eight hours, Amanda terminated all surveillance of the subject in question, which later, during the inevitable inquiry, she would describe as mere coincidence.†   (source)
    inquiry = questioning or investigating
  • The earnestness in Vittoria's voice was even more disarming than the inquiry.†   (source)
  • There's going to be an inquiry, actually...†   (source)
  • Afraid to pester the elf with further inquiries, Eragon concentrated on his food.†   (source)
  • He summoned Vayon Poole again and sent him to the docks to make inquiries, quietly but quickly.†   (source)
  • A discreet inquiry was made by the Count of a certain actress with certain connections.†   (source)
  • So you do want to make some inquiries about your family?†   (source)
  • There were inquiries from family and friends.†   (source)
  • He made some inquiries and applied to join the Party.†   (source)
  • Neville nodded nervously, but Moody made no further inquiries.†   (source)
  • I preferred my own inquiries, reading everything I could when I needed to.†   (source)
  • We made an inquiry about the possibility of the Minister becoming your danna.†   (source)
  • Media inquiries were never routed to Kohler's office, so the incoming calls could only be one thing.†   (source)
  • I had considered this morning's inquiry merely a formality.†   (source)
  • Articles and reviews published in Der Spiegel, Critical Inquiry.†   (source)
  • The Count leaned back to give his hostess's inquiry a more appropriate consideration.†   (source)
  • After a few inquiries he learned that it was owned by a woman in New York.†   (source)
  • A meeting was immediately called in which the police responded to inquiries about the incident.†   (source)
  • But then her eyebrows rose in inquiry when she noted the expression on his face.†   (source)
  • And with that simple inquiry, their friendship had commenced.†   (source)
  • Thus came an inquiry from behind the Count's back.†   (source)
  • As a result, only the most discreet inquiries were made.†   (source)
  • Which in turn led to additional inquiries regarding Idlehour, the Countess, and Helena.†   (source)
  • If you wish, I can make inquiries after them when I return home.†   (source)
  • Or to escape inquiry into the fuzzy area between autobiography and fiction.†   (source)
  • And how is your war progressing?" he asked, declining to be sidetracked by scholarly inquiry.†   (source)
  • —I'll make some more inquiries, Alan said.†   (source)
  • Ross's chest immediately deflated, for he clearly hadn't expected that inquiry.†   (source)
  • All decisions are made through the Inquisitor now, all inquiries and requests routed through her.†   (source)
  • It was about initiating a logical sequence of inquiries.†   (source)
  • We're investigating several lines of inquiry.†   (source)
  • He was not a man who encouraged, shall we say, inquiries.†   (source)
  • Let me make inquiries first thing tomorrow morning.†   (source)
  • Would there be an inquiry, a referral to higher authority?†   (source)
  • He raised his eyebrows in a wordless inquiry: what is it?†   (source)
  • His inquiries were always discreet, hopeful.†   (source)
  • To receive an answer from an inquiry to Philadelphia could take six months.†   (source)
  • "Okaaay," said Max weakly, regretting this last inquiry.†   (source)
  • You see, then, why we have all but abandoned that line of inquiry.†   (source)
  • 'A Ming's Parking Palace responded to our inquiry.†   (source)
  • If it does come to an inquiry we ought to be able to bluff it out by acting simple, as we decided.†   (source)
  • It was burned in his mind: "RE: Your inquiry regarding patient 361."†   (source)
  • There was a tentative knock and a deep, rumbling inquiry.†   (source)
  • It cannot start a new inquiry concerning the fact.†   (source)
  • Well, I'll just say that 'Governmental scientific inquiry' is a contradiction in terms.†   (source)
  • Both men, in the course of their inquiries, had picked up "promising leads."†   (source)
  • This became the popular opinion despite the findings of the inquiry.†   (source)
  • You said local inquiries ...what about that world outside?†   (source)
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