Straker replied that she had better inquire at the Home Office, the scene of Furnival's industry.
She would then inquire gaily of Mr. Tarbuck whether he was in command of this expedition or was she?
He then began to inquire what Randal thought of the rumours that had reached himself as to the probable defeat of the Government, and how far Audley's spirits were affected by such risks.
Egerton stayed to inquireno more; thus he heard nothing of the infant that had been put out to nurse.
He promised toinquire into the matter, and to see what could be done with old Thornhill.
I inquire for Helen,--she is ill, and cannot see me.
But the police came to inquire if the student Haldin ever received any correspondence at the University and took them away.
It would be idle to inquire why Mr. Razumov has left this record behind him.
We mustinquire in the shop," Miss Haldin directed me.
For, as soon as we inquire into the meaning of this "all," we find that it is only a negation of everything we can know or be.
Whether this principle receives adequate expression from the poet, we shall inquire in the next chapter.
Now, whether love is the highest principle or not, I shall not inquire at present.
This is what makes Browning think it impossible to re-establish faith in God, except by turning his back on knowledge; but whether it is possible for him to appeal to the moral consciousness, we shall inquire in the next chapter.
Whether it is always possible, and whether it is at any time fair to a poet to define the idea which inspires him, I shall not inquire at present.
I do not stay here to inquire whether sure knowledge would really have this disastrous effect of destroying morality, or whether its failure does not rather imply the impossibility of a moral life.
This same Committee had also been instructed to inquire into the propriety of a Constitutional provision prohibiting persons of color from settling within the State.
She did not go beyond the turn of the road, nor would she start home, for then her father would go into the cottage to inquire for her and he might be met by reproaches and impertinence.
She came to the house some days ago to inquire and went on to her brother's.
Let us discover Where we have come, for strangers must inquire Of denizens, and do as they are bid.
The orderly below directed the two young men how to proceed to the main entrance of Bancroft Hall, there to turn to their left and inquire again their way to the commandant's office.
Mr. Darrin, you will inquire of the orderly downstairs your way to the office of the commandant of midshipmen.
Edwin viewed everything with great attention, and was often impatient to inquire of his father the meaning of what he saw; but Mr. Ambrose would not suffer him to disturb any of the congregations even by a whisper.
In such a Parliament let us suppose attempts made to inquire into his conduct or to relieve the nation from the distress he has brought upon it.
Whitbread, efforts to inquireinto troubles in Ireland, iii.
It is quite true that Chesterfield recommended in his speech that the Irish Parliament should inquire into the working of the Penal Laws in order to find out if they needed any {252} improvement.
The serious people throughout the land were awakened by these intimations of divine displeasure to inquire into the causes and matters of the controversie.
An unlucky female, who has ventured her all, and even risked the means and belongings of others on the chance of winning a prize, has come to inquire her fate.
We have now to turn our attention to the other prop of the system and to inquire whether natural selection can play and does play the part which Darwin and his school assign to it in the economy of nature.
It is first of all necessary to inquire more closely into the composition of the chromatin, and to study the special phenomena of cell-growth in connexion with conjugation, where new and extraordinary features come to light.
This satisfied me in part, but I found means after this to inquire whose particular troop it was that the gentlemen that were here belonged to; and with that I heard they would all be at Paris the week after.
The next morning he sent a footman to inquire how I did; and I let him know I had a violent cold, and was very ill with it.
If those be thy thoughts, thou may'st inquire in the house; so thou hast no more business with me.
You see they might come out and inquire for you, and you wouldn't be on the spot.
Prince," asked Nina Alexandrovna, "I wanted to inquire whether you have known my son long?
He soon heard that a messenger from the Epanchins' had already been to inquire after him.
Nastasia immediately went across to Hippolyte's to inquire more accurately, and returned immensely relieved and comforted.
By the way, do you know that the monster comes every day to inquire after your health?
Is it not worthy the attention of genuine philanthropists to inquire whether cotton cannot be profitably cultivated by free labor?
What led me more particularly to inquire into these facts was, that I received by mail, while in London, an account containing some of these stories, which had been industriously circulated in America.
But we are not here to inquirewhether our black brethren will become Shakspeares or Herschels.
I learned from most reliable authority, that he had hardly arrived at the Tuileries, when he condescended to inquire of M.
The majority did not inquire too curiously into such points of doctrine, but received it in a vague sense as a comfortable addition to their convictions.
Censors inquire into men's capacities, assign tasks to the unemployed, and if man be found fit for nothing but the consumption of food he is banished from the city.
They came about him while he was at work in the engine-house toinquire if it was really true that he was “goin to fight Nelson?
From the bank-head where he worked his brake he could see the chimney smoking at the High Pit; and as the men were passing to and from their work, he would call out and inquire “if they had gotten to the bottom yet?
But rightly to understand progress, we must inquirewhat is the nature of these changes, considered apart from our interests.
If men would labour to walk in that light they have attained, rather than curiously inquire after what they cannot know by inquiry, they should sooner attain more true light.
Now, my beloved, with what face can ye seek more knowledge of God, or inquire for more light into his mind, when you do not prove that known and perfect will of his?
It is a second creation must do it, and O that you would look upon your hearts to inquire if it be framed in you!
Predestination is a mystery, indeed, into which we should not curiously and boldly inquire beyond what is revealed, for then a soul must needs lose itself in that depth of wisdom, and perish in the search of unsearchableness.
I say, not to inquire curiously into the particulars of them, but to profit by them.
This only I have found profitable to men: and as the entry and preparation to that blessedness I inquire for,—to have the true discovery of our misery.
Of creatures we mustinquire a quare after a quid,—a why, after we know what their will is.
You use to inquire what sin hath such a man done, when so terrible judgments come on?
John the Baptist sent some of his disciples, because of their own unbelief, to inquire at Jesus, “Art thou he, or look we for another?
Yet the foolish minds of men will not be satisfied with the believing ignorance of such a mystery, but will needsinquire into those depths, that they may find satisfaction for their reason.
And there is value in ill counsel: prudence deceives: nor does fortune inquire into causes, nor aid the most deserving, but turns hither and thither without discrimination.
Tis the price of the blade that you inquire into, not of the scabbard: you would not peradventure bid a farthing for him, if you saw him stripped.
