He also mercilesslyquizzed Boswell, the biographer of Johnson.
This strange jumble was well quizzed by Sheridan, and Mr. Scott appears to have found out that rhetorical embellishment was not his line; for his subsequent speeches are less ornate.
Office-boys, minor clerks, head clerks, managers; they quizzed and buffeted him hither and thither.
Vanderbilt covered this committee with undisguised scorn; it provoked his wrath to be quizzed by a committee of a body many of whose members had accepted his bribes.
Footnote: The very police captain, one Williams, who commanded the police at the Tompkins Square gathering was quizzed by the "Lexow Committee" in 1893 as to where he got his great wealth.
She often used exaggerated language, and when I quizzed her by exaggerating what she had said, how clearly can I now see the little toss of the head, and exclamation of 'Oh, papa what a shame of you!
Later, the airline head reported that Intelligence officers had quizzed the pilots for hours.
But that was before they quizzed the others who saw it.
Commanders were frequently quizzedon the probable effects of the imposition of off-limits sanctions or base closings.
Often quizzedon the subject, the commanders told the committee that they enjoyed very fine community relationships.
I shall be nicelyquizzed and laughed at," said Fred Lamb.
But Eames, though he drank the porter, and quizzed FitzHoward, and gibed at Kissing, did not seat himself in his new arm-chair without some serious thoughts.
While some were well satisfied that Pièrre had well established his merits as the conqueror of "Grandrengs," others quizzed him about the heroism of lying hid in a well, and owing all his glory to a skin of parchment.
He quizzed Charles Wood unmercifully, and showed up a good many of the blunders and really stupid things which the Government did in the course of the session.
He quizzed Bankes unmercifully, he expressed ultra-Liberal sentiments to please the Radicals, and he gathered shouts of laughter and applause as he dashed and rattled along.
Only on two or three occasions did Maria, for instance, advance any of the ideas about how the world was to be made better, and then only because I had quizzed her point-blank.
He looked me over carefully, quizzed me rather minutely about my last job and my travels, and finally told me to make myself comfortable near the fire until quitting time, when he promised to have another talk with me.
First hequizzed all the girls to find out, if by chance, they knew of anything that would indicate that Nan was mistaken.
Riggs let him in, quizzed him to find out what he knew, excused himself, and then called me to tell me that the time was up, that I'd better shoot the yarn right through if I wanted to scoop the rest of the dailies.
Now, I can't stand the way I shall bequizzed about it at all.
Well then, when a young gentleman, whose exclusive leanings were even a little quizzed here--there, no impatience!
He was quizzedand bespattered and made a fool of, just as though, or rather than if, he had been a constant enemy instead of a constant friend.
He laid aside his usual melancholy manner, and brought forth little quiet jokes from the utmost mirth of his heart; he poked fun at the archdeacon about Mr Slope's marriage, and quizzed him for his improper love for Mrs Proudie.
Dan Dyce nodded; he never quizzed his sister Ailie when it was her heart that spoke and her eyes were sparkling.
One evening Mr. Dyce came in from his office andquizzed her in the lobby.
While some were well satisfied that Pierre had well established his merits as the conqueror of 'Grandrengs,' others quizzed him about the heroism of lying hid in a well, and owing all his glory to a skin of parchment.
Then after his saving Maurice, he is to be given up, because he quizzed the Polysyllable?
I fear you will be quizzed for it by some of your friends as too exaggerated.
He wished he had brought Mattie; only last time she had been so satirical, and had quizzed the poor little thing unmercifully; not that Mattie had found out that she was being quizzed.
Of course Nan said she would like some, just to show her appreciation of his thoughtfulness; and then Dick said he should like some too, and his father quizzed him a little as he rang the bell.
Miss Lucas laughed at her, and quizzed her so on her allowing a man to interfere in such sacred things as dress and cosmetics, that she came back irritated with her husband, and gave him a short answer or two.
She quizzed Chicken Little carefully as to what studies Sherm would take.
It was all right to tell me--I quizzed you anyhow.
They laughed heartily at my artistic trick, and now quizzed the more both Hummel and Pixis, who with all their skill could make nothing musical out of their names.
I now called together those who had previously quizzed me for my unmusical name and shewed them, (for naturally they had not heard it) the famous thema formed out of my name.
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