He raised his eyes to her--his tired appealing eyes--and Elizabeth realised sharply how deep a hold such questionings take on such a man.
What a variety of most unanswerable questionings will you provoke!
She roused a little and tried to determine whose voice it was, it had a familiar sound, but she could not be sure, and she tried to go back to the useless questionings of her own heart; but she could not.
When first she was approached by timid, tentative questionings revealing this point of view, Betty felt hot and answered with unamiable curtness.
The uneasy questionings of the woman he let pass in silence; at first let drop a word as though by chance; hinted in passing at some mistake of his life; and then began to lie desperately and with inspiration.
He had neither time nor inclination to entertain those doubts, those questionings and apprehensions which had beset him in saner humour theretofore.
Need she fret herself with vain questionings of an inscrutable future, who had made such amazing progress in so short a time?
There is the good Duchess, who has perhaps been mingling with more serious discourse questionings of things in that dear distant France, which she never ceased while absent from it to regret.
At Trent the Council was sitting; and all travellers through a city so occupied were likely enough to be subjected to questionings that might lead known fugitives from religious persecution into trouble.
Is he not the High Priest of his brethren, to answer all the troubled questionings that arise in their dim humanity?
Could he by one word have set at rest all the questionings of philosophy as to the supreme good and the absolute truth, I venture to say that word he would not have uttered.
Nevertheless, amid all doubts and questionings his main purpose remained unwavering: he was here to ask Doris to marry him as soon as possible, so that he might rescue her and her father from the difficulties besetting them.
This meant questionings and reproaches from Mrs. Lancaster, for she and her daughter had what she deemed a most important social engagement; but the girl was firm, and eventually the mother went off alone in a sullen temper.
AN impulse inherent in primeval man turned his thoughts and questioningsbetimes towards the sources of natural phenomena.
For, mark you how progress has been made even while these dark questionings remained unsolved.
There are things before him which can be done and questionings which can be probably solved.
Most of the doubts and questionings which men have on the subject of religion are very old.
Jesus and the apostles did not attempt to answer these philosophical questionings which had been and would be raised by inquiring minds.
It would be useless to follow him through all the troubled thoughts and anxiousquestionings of the night.
He drew them on with sly questionings to see what idiots they were; and then drew them on with more sly questionings to perceive at least a few sound ethical truths.
That which stirred within me came to life when the news of the fatal illness of our late friend in Cardemin tore the first ardent prayer from my heart, without subtle questionings as to its reasonableness.
I have found some astonishing answers to myquestionings as to God and religion in his book.
The time will come when all the questionings of our intellects will be answered, and we shall know why God sends us these trials.
Have these questionings anything to do with the increasing Realism of women, and a consequent loss of ideals?
And at this same time the world is full of doubts and questionings as to whether marriage is a failure.
The questioningsof the intellect still pressed for a solution.
The questionings of to-day in Christian hearts respecting the doctrine of eternal punishment are a consequence of the elevating and spiritualizing power of the Gospel.
The conflict manifested itself in the period between Descartes and Kant only through the uneasy questionings of Locke and Berkeley.
The reader's questionings break vainly upon his invincible belief in the adequacy and finality of the classification yielded by the traditional logic.
Grace, longing for the time when questionings and controversies would be at an end.
These lines to my mind have not only the fault of breaking the story at a critical point and anticipating its issue, but challenge the mind to untimely questionings and reflections.
His questionings at last elicited the response that at the behest of the Regent he had been brought to the palace, where Ilaria herself had been tending to his comfort.
The monks, chiefly old men, who had long cast the vanities of the world behind them, met Francesco's eagerquestionings with mute shrugs.
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