All 23 Uses of
inquiry
in
The Mayor of Casterbridge
- The company had by this time decidedly degenerated, and the renewed inquiry was received with a laugh of appreciation.†
Chpt 1
- How could she become a woman of wider knowledge, higher repute—"better," as she termed it—this was her constant inquiry of her mother.†
Chpt 4
- But we must make private inquiries.†
Chpt 4
- "We might, perhaps, after all, make a few inquiries about—our relation Mr. Henchard," whispered Mrs. Newson who, since her entry into Casterbridge, had seemed strangely weak and agitated, "And this, I think, would be a good place for trying it—just to ask, you know, how he stands in the town—if he is here, as I think he must be.†
Chpt 5
- But the subject seemed to arrest him, and he whispered some inquiries of the other bystanders, and remained listening.†
Chpt 6
- Very little inquiry was necessary to guide her footsteps.†
Chpt 9
- Why, seeing that it was pre-eminently an airy, accessible, and sequestered spot for interviews, the cheerfullest form of those occurrences never took kindly to the soil of the ruin, would be a curious inquiry.†
Chpt 11
- He had learnt by personal inquiry at the time that it was to Donald Farfrae—that treacherous upstart—that she had thus humiliated herself.†
Chpt 20
- He was in this interested stage of the inquiry when he witnessed Elizabeth-Jane's departure the next day.†
Chpt 22
- At the interview, when she offered him tea, he made it a point to launch a cautious inquiry if she knew Mr. Farfrae.
Chpt 26 *inquiry = question
- One day he answered her inquiry for his health by saying that he could not endure Abel Whittle's pitying eyes upon him while they worked together in the yard.†
Chpt 33
- Arriving at Casterbridge Henchard went again to Farfrae's house to make inquiries.†
Chpt 40
- It was Henchard's, whose retiring to rest had proved itself a futility as soon as attempted; and he gave it up to go hither and thither, and make inquiries about the patient every now and then.†
Chpt 40
- To see her on each occasion of his inquiry at Lucetta's was a comfort to him.†
Chpt 40
- Henchard nodded, and looked inquiry.†
Chpt 41
- But surely they would come; Newson's departure could be but momentary; he would learn all by inquiries in the town; and return to curse him, and carry his last treasure away!†
Chpt 41
- He was a wanderer and a stranger, almost an alien; he had not seen his daughter for several years; his affection for her could not in the nature of things be keen; other interests would probably soon obscure his recollections of her, and prevent any such renewal of inquiry into the past as would lead to a discovery that she was still a creature of the present.†
Chpt 42
- "Yes—I've come from there, maister," he said, in answer to Henchard's inquiry.†
Chpt 44
- The cage was a plain and small one, the shop humble, and on inquiry he concluded he could afford the modest sum asked.†
Chpt 44
- He need have made no inquiries beforehand, for on drawing near Farfrae's residence it was plain to the least observant that festivity prevailed within, and that Donald himself shared it, his voice being distinctly audible in the street, giving strong expression to a song of his dear native country that he loved so well as never to have revisited it.†
Chpt 44
- In a few days Farfrae's inquiries elicited that Henchard had been seen by one who knew him walking steadily along the Melchester highway eastward, at twelve o'clock at night—in other words, retracing his steps on the road by which he had come.†
Chpt 45
- After driving along the highway for a few miles they made further inquiries, and learnt of a road-mender, who had been working thereabouts for weeks, that he had observed such a man at the time mentioned; he had left the Melchester coachroad at Weatherbury by a forking highway which skirted the north of Egdon Heath.†
Chpt 45
- The possibility led them to alight, and at least make an inquiry at the cottage.†
Chpt 45
Definition:
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(inquiry) the act of asking a question or performing an investigation