He asks to see their mansions, and by special grace is allowed to view the holy city from without.
Next the poet asks whence her beauty comes, and what her office is.
At this blow, Roland looks at him, and asks gently, "My comrade, did you purpose to do this?
He, in turn, asks for the glove and staff; but Charles commands him to sit down, and not say another word.
Everybody asks how much money has the bride, what is the standing of the bridegroom, what are the settlements, etc.
When she reaches heaven, she knocks at the gate, and humbly asks my lord S.
In his poem "Consolation in Forgetfulness" he asks whether the nightingale, hidden among the trees, seeks out first some attentive human ear into which to pour its ravishing strains?
No one asks you to weep, but to talk reasonably and drop that tone of persiflage that becomes you so ill.
Several phalansterians claim that they already have a little tail that asks nothing better than to grow longer, if only God gives them length of days.
When she reaches the gallery she gives a loud scream, and when Johannes anxiously asks what ails her, she says she only felt she must give vent to her feelings.
She points to a tablet hanging above the door, and asks in an anxious whisper: "What does that signify?
But Martin at once notices the treacherous twitching of their mouths; he threatens them smilingly with his finger, though he asks no further questions.
Johannes asks softly, laying his hand on his brother's shoulder.
He folds his hands in emotion and asks "Who has done all this?
Then she hooks her arm in Martin's, and asks to be taken to her tent.
He so loved His poor fallen world that He gave His only begotten Son to be incarnate for it, and now all He asks from His children in return is their love and that they should show it by dwelling with Him.
He Who did always the things which pleased His Father, asks us to try to do the same.
He tabernacled among us, and what His Father asks is that we should not shun Him and live far away from Him, but that we should dwell with Him.
A little Child holds the Standard, a little Child leads, and all He asks is that we should follow Him and do as He does.
A young man who has "put 9 years at sea as steward" nonchalantly asks "What have you?
This gentleman asks my friend if he has ever been arrested on a criminal charge, if he is opposed to capital punishment, and if he has any prejudice against Episcopalians.
She has confidence in nobody else, and she asks him only for everything she wants.
Due reference must always be had to the individual who asks it, and wise counsel would not be possible unless every consideration of the physical condition and health of the wife were allowed their proper place in the solution of the question.
Grannis "These facts ought to be judiciously brought to the intelligence of every child whenever it asks questions concerning its own origin.
If thou didst murder him-- His spirit ever at the throne of God Asks mercy for thee: prays for mercy for thee, With tears in Heaven!
Thou'st made thyself suspected E'en where suspicion reigns, and asks no proof But its own fears!
My Lord Ordonio, this Moresco woman (Alhadra is her name) asksaudience of you.
A certain person, Whom the king flatters with his confidence, Tells you, his royal friend asks startling questions!
If thou didst murder him-- His spirit ever at the throne of God Asks mercy for thee: prays for mercy for thee, 70 With tears in Heaven!
This luckless morning I have been so haunted 270 With my own fancies, starting up like omens, That I feel like one, who waking from a dream Both asks and answers wildly.
If to be the chieftain asks All that is great in nature, let it be 55 Likewise his privilege to move and act In all the correspondencies of greatness.
He tells the unseemly tale, and asks why the Earth goddess became a mare?
And yet he askswhere there is any difference between his system and Mannhardt's.
How, asks Mr. Lefebure, did men come to attribute this vis vivida to persons and things?
Mr. Max Muller asks if 'any Egyptologists have adopted' the totem theory.
If Apollo was of solar origin,' asks the author (ii.
THE FIRE-WALK The Method of Psychical Research As a rule, mythologyasks for no aid from Psychical Research.
He then asks Brahmá to find an abode for the people who had accompanied him from devotion to his person, and Brahmá appoints them a celestial residence accordingly.
But all the fair one asks beside Be with unsparing hand supplied: As though ’twere I that asked, withhold No pearls or dress or gems or gold.
Under this influence heasks that he may receive the boon of sleeping for many years, which is granted.
He tells her that such an austere life is unsuited to her youth and attractions, and asks who she is and why she is leading an ascetic existence.
Vibhishaṇa asks as his boon that even amid the greatest calamities he may think only of righteousness, and that the weapon of Brahmá may appear to him unlearnt, etc.
The virgin who asks for a husband shall obtain a husband suited to her mind, and shall meet again her dear kinsfolk who are far away.
He therefore asks who was their ancestor, and what fault they had committed that they were chased away by Vishṇu.
He then asks that he may be indestructible by all creatures more powerful than men; which boon is accorded by Brahmá together with the recovery of all the heads he had sacrificed and the power of assuming any shape he pleased.
Her desire is that she may never grow to look any older than she does at this moment, and she asks me if this gland-operation will hold her at the point she has now reached.
When a man writes me he also asks his family physician, who very quickly informs him "there is nothing to it; it's all bunk!
The intention in this little book is to cover particularly that phase of human longing which asks that the clock be turned back, and that old age be deferred.
What are you going to say to him if he asks for you?
A man loves you truly, andasks nothing better than to work for you.
Did Havelock, one asks oneself, know that this was his last fight also?
No doubt the custom of the Constitution asks either complete acceptance of common responsibility from individual Ministers or their immediate resignation.
He steps up to a wall, and asks permission to see John Milton.
All that it asks of him, and all that he has to give, is the surplus of himself.
The old actor, worse sot than ever, asks the Tartar to pray for him, goes out to the yard, and hangs himself.
Hauptmann conveys all this and more through the half-scared utterances of Hannele, who refuses to respond to the pertinacious questionings of Magistrate Berger, and only speaks when Gottwald asks her to.
He asks his wife how she proposes to escape the hateful marriage tie.
She becomes morbidly interested in his doings and asksimprudent questions which the man rightfully construes as evidences of desire for the life he describes.
Removed from her cramping environments Hedda would have developed along more normal lines; and herein lies the beauty of Ibsen's problem, Ibsen who always asks questions--like Rembrandt in his Night Watch with its mystic daylight.
Grant, Tragedy, thy poet time's least tittle: Thy labour ever lasts; sheasks but little.
The mare asks not the horse, the cow the bull, Nor the mild ewe gifts from the ram doth pull.
And don't talk of me, but say that a friend asks how she is, and hopes--the best things you can say for me.
The sowing asks for persistency; but the reaping demands skill and absolute truthfulness.
These may be gross and carnal considerations; but Faith asksher daily bread, and Fancy must be fed.
Nobody asks for any abolition of domestic labor for women, any more than of outdoor labor for men.
The eagle is not checked in soaring by any consciousness of sex, nor asks the sex of the timid hare, its quarry.
He asks for further time for investigation, and promises that no more such atrocities shall be perpetrated upon American prisoners, which was our chief motive for reprisal.
Duty to country is first, of course; but sometimes when the heart is torn with anguish over the sacrifice of a loved one it doth seem that duty asks too much of us.
Ingalls, heasks interview, 621; proposes truce, she declines, refuses to go to Conn.
John Boyd Thacher asks his father's record; Philip Schuyler objects to his stepmother's statue in company with Miss Anthony's; Justice Rufus W.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "asks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
