All 9 Uses of
inquire
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The Souls of Black Folk
- The stream of fugitives swelled to a flood, and anxious army officers kept inquiring: "What must be done with slaves, arriving almost daily?†
Chpt 2inquiring = asking about or looking into
- It made out four thousand pay-rolls a year, registered all freedmen, inquired into grievances and redressed them, laid and collected taxes, and established a system of public schools.†
Chpt 2 *inquired = asked about or looked into
- Yet after all they are but gates, and when turning our eyes from the temporary and the contingent in the Negro problem to the broader question of the permanent uplifting and civilization of black men in America, we have a right to inquire, as this enthusiasm for material advancement mounts to its height, if after all the industrial school is the final and sufficient answer in the training of the Negro race; and to ask gently, but in all sincerity, the ever-recurring query of the ages, Is not life more than meat, and the body more than raiment?†
Chpt 6inquire = ask about or look into something
- I inquired.†
Chpt 7inquired = asked about or looked into
- He stopped us to inquire after the black boy in Albany, whom it was said a policeman had shot and killed for loud talking on the sidewalk.†
Chpt 7inquire = ask about or look into something
- If, then, we inquire more carefully into these Negro homes, we find much that is unsatisfactory.†
Chpt 8
- Taking, then, the dissatisfied and shiftless field-hand as a starting-point, let us inquire how the black thousands of Dougherty have struggled from him up toward their ideal, and what that ideal is.†
Chpt 8
- I will not stop here to inquire whose duty it was—whether that of the white ex-master who had profited by unpaid toil, or the Northern philanthropist whose persistence brought on the crisis, or the National Government whose edict freed the bondmen;†
Chpt 9
- I remember, one cold winter, in Atlanta, when I refrained from contributing to a public relief fund lest Negroes should be discriminated against, I afterward inquired of a friend: "Were any black people receiving aid?"†
Chpt 9inquired = asked about or looked into
Definition:
to ask about or look into something