All 7 Uses of
inquiry
in
The Mill on the Floss
- I've a notion, when I've made a bit more inquiry, as I shall perhaps start Tom here with a bit of a nest-egg,—he'll pay me int'rest, you know,—an' if you've got some little sums lyin' idle twisted up in a stockin' toe, or that——†
Chpt 5.2inquiry = questioning or investigating
- Salt—that eminently "briny chap"—having been discovered in a cloud of tobacco-smoke at the Anchor Tavern, Mr. Glegg commenced inquiries which turned out satisfactorily enough to warrant the advance of the "nest-egg," to which aunt Glegg contributed twenty pounds; and in this modest beginning you see the ground of a fact which might otherwise surprise you; namely, Tom's accumulation of a fund, unknown to his father, that promised in no very long time to meet the more tardy process of saving, and quite cover the deficit.†
Chpt 5.2inquiries = questions or investigations
- There was a moment's silence, in which Philip darted a look of inquiry at Maggie's face.†
Chpt 5.5 *inquiry = questioning or investigating
- A slight electric shock seemed to pass through Mr. Tulliver, and he kept his eyes fixed on Tom with a look of eager inquiry, while Maggie, unable to restrain herself, rushed to her father's side and knelt down by him.†
Chpt 5.6
- It was too late for Maggie to speak now; the drawingroom door was opening, and Minny was already growling in a small way at the entrance of a tall gentleman, who went up to Lucy and took her hand with a half-polite, half-tender glance and tone of inquiry, which seemed to indicate that he was unconscious of any other presence.†
Chpt 6.2
- Lucy had not been deaf to the signal, and after an interval long enough for a few solicitous but not hurried inquiries, she herself ushered Stephen in.†
Chpt 6.7inquiries = questions or investigations
- But it soon appeared that the gentlemen's dressing-gowns, which were among her commodities, were objects of such general attention and inquiry, and excited so troublesome a curiosity as to their lining and comparative merits, together with a determination to test them by trying on, as to make her post a very conspicuous one.†
Chpt 6.9inquiry = questioning or investigating
Definition:
a question or investigation -- especially one meant to gather information or find out the truth