All 16 Uses
inquire
in
The House of the Seven Gables
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- No less than five persons, during the forenoon, inquired for ginger-beer, or root-beer, or any drink of a similar brewage, and, obtaining nothing of the kind, went off in an exceedingly bad humor.†
Chpt 3inquired = asked about or looked into
- "Was it the same harpsichord that you showed me?" inquired Phoebe.†
Chpt 5 *
- Soon, with a deep sigh, she put aside the savory volume, and inquired of Phoebe whether old Speckle, as she called one of the hens, had laid an egg the preceding day.†
Chpt 7
- "You quite puzzle me, sir," replied Phoebe, gazing inquiringly at the Judge.†
Chpt 8inquiringly = in a manner that seeks information
- She possessed the gift of song, and that, too, so naturally, that you would as little think of inquiring whence she had caught it, or what master had taught her, as of asking the same questions about a bird, in whose small strain of music we recognize the voice of the Creator as distinctly as in the loudest accents of his thunder.†
Chpt 9inquiring = asking about or looking into
- Looking aside at Clifford's face, and seeing the dim, unsatisfactory elegance and the intellect almost quenched, she would try to inquire what had been his life.†
Chpt 9inquire = ask about or look into something
- He never failed to inquire what flowers had bloomed since yesterday.†
Chpt 10
- "How disturbed?" inquired Holgrave.†
Chpt 12inquired = asked about or looked into
- At length, something was said by Holgrave that made it apposite for Phoebe to inquire what had first brought him acquainted with her cousin Hepzibah, and why he now chose to lodge in the desolate old Pyncheon House.†
Chpt 12inquire = ask about or look into something
- "Do you write for the magazines?" inquired Phoebe.†
Chpt 12inquired = asked about or looked into
- At last, however, with a strange kind of laugh, he inquired whether Mr. Pyncheon would make over to him the old wizard's homestead-ground, together with the House of the Seven Gables, now standing on it, in requital of the documentary evidence so urgently required.†
Chpt 13
- "And you have never felt it before?" inquired the artist, looking earnestly at the girl through the twilight.†
Chpt 14
- "And what if he should refuse?" inquired Hepzibah.†
Chpt 15
- Unaccustomed to action or responsibility,—full of horror at what she had seen, and afraid to inquire, or almost to imagine, how it had come to pass,—affrighted at the fatality which seemed to pursue her brother,—stupefied by the dim, thick, stifling atmosphere of dread which filled the house as with a death-smell, and obliterated all definiteness of thought,—she yielded without a question, and on the instant, to the will which Clifford expressed.†
Chpt 16inquire = ask about or look into something
- "At what hour?" inquired Holgrave.†
Chpt 19inquired = asked about or looked into
- "Why have you not thrown open the doors, and called in witnesses?" inquired she with a painful shudder.†
Chpt 20
Definitions:
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(1)
(inquire) to ask about or look into something
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)