All 3 Uses of
inquiry
in
The Gold-Bug
- After some inquiries respecting his health, I asked him, not knowing what better to say, if he had yet obtained the scarabaeus from Lieutenant G ——.†
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- "It left me also in the dark," replied Legrand, "for a few days; during which I made diligent inquiry, in the neighborhood of Sullivan's Island, for any building which went by the name of the 'Bishop's Hotel;' for, of course, I dropped the obsolete word 'hostel.'†
- I accordingly went over to the plantation, and re-instituted my inquiries among the older negroes of the place.†
Definition:
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(inquiry) the act of asking a question or performing an investigation