All 28 Uses of
inquire
in
The Mayor of Casterbridge
- Though he examined and inquired, and walked hither and thither day after day, no such characters as those he described had anywhere been seen since the evening of the fair.†
Chpt 2
- "It is not much use inquiring here for anybody, I should think," the daughter observed, as she gazed round about.†
Chpt 3
- The sight reminded Mrs. Henchard-Newson and her daughter that they had an appetite; and they inquired of the woman for the nearest baker's.†
Chpt 4
- Another elderly man, hearing this discourse, now joined in by inquiring, "How much longer have he got to suffer from it, Solomon Longways?"†
Chpt 5
- "But what are you going to do to repay us for the past?" inquired the man who had before spoken, and who seemed to be a baker or miller.†
Chpt 5
- The latter, who remained as fixed in the arm-chair as if she had been melted into it when in a liquid state, and could not now be unstuck, looked the girl up and down inquiringly, with her hands on the chair-arms.†
Chpt 7
- "What did ye come away from yer own country for, young maister, if ye be so wownded about it?" inquired Christopher Coney, from the background, with the tone of a man who preferred the original subject.†
Chpt 8
- "Can you turn a strain to the ladies, sir?" inquired a fat woman with a figured purple apron, the waiststring of which was overhung so far by her sides as to be invisible.†
Chpt 8
- "And do ye carry your flock bed, and your quilt, and your crock, and your bit of chiney? or do ye go in bare bones, as I may say?" inquired Christopher Coney.†
Chpt 8
- "And if he say yes?" inquired the more sanguine one.†
Chpt 9
- She wandered about this place, uncomfortably conscious of the impending interview, till she was quite weary of searching; she ventured to inquire of a boy in what quarter Mr. Henchard could be found.†
Chpt 9
- It was with a gentle delicacy of manner, surprising to Elizabeth, that he showed her out of the office and through the outer room, where Donald Farfrae was overhauling bins and samples with the inquiring inspection of a beginner in charge.†
Chpt 10
- "You are anxious to get back to Scotland, I suppose, Mr. Farfrae?" she inquired.†
Chpt 14
- But Henchard continued moody and silent, and when one of the men inquired of him if some oats should be hoisted to an upper floor or not, he said shortly, "Ask Mr. Farfrae.†
Chpt 15
- Donald inquired.†
Chpt 15
- Elizabeth looked up at her as if inquiring of herself whether there should be confidence.†
Chpt 20
- He had gone on thence into the court, and inquired of a man whom he saw unpacking china from a crate if Miss Le Sueur was living there.†
Chpt 22
- Henchard had come up, accidentally encountering the young man, whose face seemed to inquire, "Do we speak to each other?"
Chpt 22 *inquire = ask
- I came and I inquired for Miss Henchard, and they showed me up here, and in no case would I have caught ye so unmannerly if I had known!†
Chpt 23
- He then inquired into the circumstances; and seeing the state of his waggon and its load began hotly rating Farfrae's man.†
Chpt 27
- "She has gone on with Mr. Henchard, you say?" he inquired at last.†
Chpt 29
- He could hardly discern her till, glancing inquiringly, he said, "What—Miss Henchard—and are ye up so airly?"†
Chpt 34
- Without directly inquiring why she let her eyes linger solicitously on his face.†
Chpt 34
- He threw a sovereign on the table and returned to the landlady at the door, of whom, having inquired the way into the town, he took his leave.†
Chpt 36
- "Which way be they going now?" inquired the first with interest.†
Chpt 39
- Have you," he inquired, addressing the nearing shape of Jopp, "have you seen any gang of fellows making a devil of a noise—skimmington riding, or something of the sort?"†
Chpt 39
- "Where is she buried?" the traveller inquired.†
Chpt 41
- He might, for that matter, write and inquire of Elizabeth; but his instinct for sequestration had made the course difficult.†
Chpt 44
Definition:
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(inquire) to ask about or look into something