All 23 Uses of
inquiry
in
Lord Jim
- The illustration was good: the questions were aiming at facts, and the official Inquiry was being held in the police court of an Eastern port.†
Chpt 4 *
- I attended the inquiry,' he would say, 'and to this day I haven't left off wondering why I went.†
Chpt 5
- Why, the inquiry thing, the yellow-dog thing—you wouldn't think a mangy, native tyke would be allowed to trip up people in the verandah of a magistrate's court, would you?†
Chpt 5
- 'My eyes met his for the first time at that inquiry.†
Chpt 5
- Their persons somehow fitted the tale that was public property, and was going to be the subject of an official inquiry.†
Chpt 5
- 'But it so happened that I had a man in the hospital at the time, and going there to see about him the day before the opening of the Inquiry, I saw in the white men's ward that little chap tossing on his back, with his arm in splints, and quite light-headed.†
Chpt 5
- "I say," he cried after me; "he can't attend that inquiry.†
Chpt 5
- The inquiry was not adjourned.†
Chpt 6
- However, an official inquiry could not be any other thing.†
Chpt 6
- As I looked at him, flanking on one side the unassuming pale-faced magistrate who presided at the inquiry, his self-satisfaction presented to me and to the world a surface as hard as granite.†
Chpt 6
- 'No wonder Jim's case bored him, and while I thought with something akin to fear of the immensity of his contempt for the young man under examination, he was probably holding silent inquiry into his own case.†
Chpt 6
- He jumped overboard at sea barely a week after the end of the inquiry, and less than three days after leaving port on his outward passage; as though on that exact spot in the midst of waters he had suddenly perceived the gates of the other world flung open wide for his reception.†
Chpt 6
- I spoke with him for the last time during the progress of the inquiry.†
Chpt 6
- "They caught me for that inquiry, you see," he began, and for a while enlarged complainingly upon the inconveniences of daily attendance in court.†
Chpt 6
- The tone of this last "but you" (poor Brierly couldn't help it), that seemed to imply I was no more noticeable than an insect, caused me to look at the proposal with indignation, and on account of that provocation, or for some other reason, I became positive in my mind that the inquiry was a severe punishment to that Jim, and that his facing it—practically of his own free will—was a redeeming feature in his abominable case.†
Chpt 6
- Very soon after that exchange of glances the inquiry was adjourned again to the next day.†
Chpt 6
- My mind floated in a sea of conjectures till the turn of the conversation enabled me, without being offensive, to remark that, upon the whole, this inquiry must have been pretty trying to him.†
Chpt 7
- I made no sound all the time he was wondering what he had better do after "that stupid inquiry was over."†
Chpt 7
- These were issues beyond the competency of a court of inquiry: it was a subtle and momentous quarrel as to the true essence of life, and did not want a judge.†
Chpt 8
- They were amongst the native batch of all sorts brought over from Aden to give evidence at the inquiry.†
Chpt 8
- I fancy there was not much wind after the first gust; and he himself had admitted at the inquiry that the sea never got up that night to any extent.†
Chpt 10
- I knew very well he was of those about whom there is no inquiry; I had seen better men go out, disappear, vanish utterly, without provoking a sound of curiosity or sorrow.†
Chpt 21
- Indeed the story of a fabulously large emerald is as old as the arrival of the first white men in the Archipelago; and the belief in it is so persistent that less than forty years ago there had been an official Dutch inquiry into the truth of it.†
Chpt 28
Definition:
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(inquiry) the act of asking a question or performing an investigation