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Example sentences for "when questioned"

  • Behold the fate Of those who deal in Witchcrafts, and, when questioned, Refuse to plead their guilt or innocence, And stubbornly drag death upon themselves.

  • If you are contumacious to the Court, And if, when questioned, you refuse to answer, Then by the Statute you will be condemned To the peine forte et dure!

  • The dead are dead, And their oracles dumb, when questioned Of the new diseases that human life Evolves in its progress, rank and rife.

  • When questioned he said-- "A good man took it off my back and went away with it.

  • When questioned, she looked at the questioner rather intently, and was apt to breathe a little more rapidly, and made some ineffectual lip motions but no reply.

  • When questioned as to her motive for these acts, she would flush, look perplexed and apparently be unable to explain them.

  • Her face was usually dull, vacant and immobile, but sometimes, when questioned or when something obtrusive happened, a little puzzled.

  • When questioned, she begged piteously not to be forced to reveal the secret of the man’s identity.

  • When questioned as to the motives of his crime, his answers were clear and logical, except that he was fanatically hostile to certain doctrines, and especially to that of the celibacy of the clergy.

  • Troppmann, when questioned, freely admitted these facts, and it was soon plainly seen that he bore the marks of a recent struggle with some enraged female.

  • When questioned of her old home her answers were vague.

  • Oh, yes," the landlord said, when questioned.

  • She always says, when questioned about it, 'I don't remember, and it makes my head ache to try.

  • Mickel's wife, when questioned, said that her husband had been sowing rye and had asked her how he could get some meat for a feast.

  • When questioned, however, he boasts he is more powerful than any potentate in the world, and tries to entice Sir Guyon to enter into his service by promising him much gold.

  • When questioned, the trees one after another declare they are unfit for ship-building, until the oak proffers its strong trunk.


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