It seemed like a very great responsibility for her to bear by herself; but as there was no real reason why she should ask Christopher to put off his excursion she said nothing about it.
If you choose to go off with a strange boy, how can I ask you?
Mother was always at home to welcome her, and to ask about her lessons, quite as much interested in everything that had happened as if she, too, were a little girl.
He watched his grandfather off and rode on the step of the carriage as far as the gate, but he did not ask permission to go all the way to Hammersmith, for the sake of the ride, as grandfather and Joshua had both expected him to do.
And I’ll ask grandmother about getting you a place,” said Jane confidentially to Letty, with a little air of importance.
That one or more agents be appointed to raise the money, and that we earnestly ask the co-operation of all the ministers of the Virginia and North Carolina Conferences.
Now, jist before I took my pail into the passage I though it would be pre'aps jest as well if I was to come up 'ere an' ask you what sort of soap you was wishful that I should use on them boards.
If you keep with me,' said George, 'nobody will ask for passports or what you do.
I--I askyou to come now because--because I thought you would take away all the memories I want to forget.
If you will ask the young lady to wait, sir," the man said again with a sort of agitation.
He isn't to come or even to write unless--unless I askhim to.
I shall ask Mr. Kettering not to tell Horace--if I ever see him again," she said agitatedly.
Look here, Jimmy," she said with sudden brusqueness, "if she comes back here again without you it will be the last time you need ask me for help.
We must ask him to dinner one night while we are in London.
I ask again, For nothing can be ill if she be well.
How can you ask the cause, dear aunt, when we have just parted from so many friends, whose absence, and probable danger, cannot but leave us anxious and dejected!
She would ask Harold to lend her the money, and to keep the secret until she should be gone.
I wouldn't askyou to swallow the stuff they sell here; but this'll do you nothing but good.
By the time the elderly woman had finished speaking, May said-- "Oh, ask him to come in.
The reply to her communications was a hurried scrawl, haughtily regretting that Mr. Owen Rivers had not thought proper to wait upon him and ask his consent to the marriage, which he totally disapproved of!
Now, I ask you, Mr. Rivers, is it likely that May Cheffington would think of marrying Theodore?
Thy maiden whose blood is like snow will ask thee for it ere long.
They knew naught save that they were alive and that they wished to love each other and that they sought and shunned each other at the same moment--but they did not ask each other why.
And they ask them to perform a miracle as artlessly as a condemned man implores his pardon from the head of the State.
And that you may soon see them so, little one, is the blessing I ask for you, as the cures of your chapels say, where they take us in for pity.
I didn't know where "home" was, but I never ask what I am not meant to know.
Ten thousand pardons, your Excellency, for my most unbecoming tone, but may I ask how you became possessed of this information?
Hester, not being of an inquisitive turn of mind, did not ask the name of the phaeton's purchaser, and her husband preferred to withhold it.
Hester rose from her chair, folded her hands, and said in a restrained voice: "I must ask you to excuse me!
I was once introduced to him at the Club, so I should like you to ask him to dinner with Cheveril, and, of course, a regulation number of picked guests.
I shall ask him for the last time-- KARL, voice from the studio Heinrich!
Much as I would like to see you, Doctor, I cannot ask you to sacrifice anything for our sake.
OLGA And if, in the presence of my husband, I ask you not to come?
I don't ask you out of politeness, but because I want to set you right in this matter--and it is much easier for me to set you right when you sit down and I stand up.
My dear, won't you please ask the Doctor to try and arrange to come to our house this evening?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ask" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
