"In question" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... nearly under the boathouse at the water end. The building in question belonged to the estate next to that from which the swimming contests had been conducted. This boathouse was closed, for the owners had not yet come to Gridley for the summer. The windows of the little green building were shuttered from the inside. Over the water the walls came ...
— The Grammar School Boys in Summer Athletics • H. Irving Hancock
... 1824" (Tranactions of the Jewish Historical Society, VIII. 128). But in view of the part which the correspondence of Savalette de Langes shows the Ba'al Shem of London to have played in the background of Freemasonry, it seems more probable that he was the Falk in question. At any rate, both were Jews ...
— Secret Societies And Subversive Movements • Nesta H. Webster
... much work as they can and getting as much for it as Providence and their owners shall please. To these things are added in time, if the brother be worthy, the power of glib speech that neither man nor woman can resist when a meal or a bed is in question, the eye of a horse-cope, the skill of a cook, the constitution of a bullock, the digestion of an ostrich, and an infinite adaptability to all circumstances. But many die before they attain to this degree, and the past-masters in the craft appear for the most part in dress- ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling
... the Royal African Corps. The conduct of these men was so notoriously bad, that Captain Owen apprehended their example would corrupt the black soldiers with whom they were associated. I cannot avoid again calling in question the policy of our Government in sending out condemned soldiers to the Colonial African Corps; for nothing tends more to degrade the general character of our country, in the opinion of the native Africans, who are too apt to form ...
— A Voyage Round the World, Vol. I (of ?) • James Holman
... always been considered one of the best players, but on the Monday in question he found himself ranged against no mean antagonist, and he was obliged to own ...
— Lover or Friend • Rosa Nouchette Carey
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