"Interrogatively" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the millionaire interrogatively, and then pausing thoughtfully, he continued: 'And you would think right—you would think right; ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various
... Sebastian pointed interrogatively to the open window, where the sound of the bells seemed to emphasize the sunlight and ...
— Barlasch of the Guard • H. S. Merriman
... you have been studying, with a view to license, the last chapter of the Proverbs of Solomon?" said Gilbert Welsh, interrogatively, bending his shaggy brows and pouting his underlip at ...
— The Lilac Sunbonnet • S.R. Crockett
... to Kollomietzev's talk, but glanced interrogatively at Nejdanov once or twice; he flicked one of his little bread pills, which just missed the ...
— Virgin Soil • Ivan S. Turgenev
... he said this, looked across at Mrs. Fossell interrogatively. He was really expecting her to lead trumps, but she mistook him to be asking her assent to his theory. To keep the ball rolling, she opined that what had happened once need not necessarily happen again, especially ...
— Major Vigoureux • A. T. Quiller-Couch
... There was a different expression on his face. There was buoyancy in his step. There was a visible determination in his eye. He took the seat beside her and Linda started the car. She looked at him interrogatively. ...
— Her Father's Daughter • Gene Stratton-Porter
... going to skip," said Maria. She left hurriedly, passing the dentist in the hall just outside the door. "Well?" said Trina interrogatively as her husband entered. McTeague did not answer. He hung his hat on the hook behind the door and dropped heavily into ...
— McTeague • Frank Norris
... reminded himself that his full name, "John Coxeter," was painted on his portmanteau. Also that Mrs. Archdale had called him "Mr. Coxeter" at least once, when discussing that life-saving toy. Still, sharp, observant fellows, Jews! One should always be on one's guard with them. "Yes?" he said interrogatively. ...
— Studies in love and in terror • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... say that the day before there had been some confidential passages between us, which began by his expressing, interrogatively, the opinion that "mademoiselle was a young lady, he supposed." When mademoiselle had assured him, on the contrary, that she was a venerable matron, mother of a thriving family, then followed a little comparison ...
— Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands V2 • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... and the entrance of two men, offered a momentary excitement. He recognized in the strangers two prominent citizens of Cottonwood; and their manner bespoke business. One of them proceeded to the desk, wrote a despatch, and handed it to the other interrogatively. ...
— The Twins of Table Mountain and Other Stories • Bret Harte
... feet?" The answer came immediately, "Boots." "Wrong; you haven't been observing my directions," he rebukingly replied. "Stockings," another heedlessly ventured to answer. "Wrong again—worse than ever," wrathfully exclaimed the magister. "Well?" he continued interrogatively to a lad near him. "Please, sir," then he paused—perhaps he thought it might sound funny, but he felt it must be right, and so ...
— Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories - A Book for Bairns and Big Folk • Robert Ford
... arm through Lady Kingswood's and hurried her away. Don Aloysius was puzzled by her words,—and, as Rivardi came up to him raised his eyebrows interrogatively. The Marchese answered the unspoken query by ...
— The Secret Power • Marie Corelli
... month of March last, was signed by you?" said the grand inquisitor interrogatively, as he displayed a paper ...
— Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf • George W. M. Reynolds
... interrogatively, when the mistress of Hale Castle had driven off, in the lightest and daintiest of phaetons, with a model groom and a pair of chestnut cobs, which seemed perfection, even in Yorkshire, where every man is a connoisseur in horseflesh. "Well, ...
— The Lovels of Arden • M. E. Braddon
... not come," I say more affirmatively than interrogatively, for I have no doubt on the subject. "Why did not the groom wait ...
— Nancy - A Novel • Rhoda Broughton
... passed. Mr. Reardon glanced interrogatively at Michael J. Murphy. "I think the divils are suspicious," he whispered. "We should have had another be now. Have a care now, Michael. Whin they come they ...
— Cappy Ricks Retires • Peter B. Kyne
... the doorway of his state-room. Franklin said, "Yes, sir." But the captain, silent, leaned a little forward grasping the door handle. So he, Franklin, walked aft keeping his eyes on him. When he had come up quite close he said again, "Yes, sir?" interrogatively. Still silence. The mate didn't like to be stared at in that manner, a manner quite new in his captain, with a defiant and self-conscious stare, like a man who feels ill and dares you to notice it. Franklin gazed at his captain, felt that there was something ...
— Chance • Joseph Conrad
... half interrogatively, as they moved along. "We can talk here charmingly, unless Mr. Vancouver comes after us again. But you do skate beautifully, you know. I had ...
— An American Politician • F. Marion Crawford
... on the great granite pier when he touched on this matter, and she sat down at the end while the breeze, warmed by the sunshine, ruffled the purple sea. She coloured a little and looked troubled, and after an instant she repeated interrogatively: "The next moment?" ...
— Sir Dominick Ferrand • Henry James
... Ivan Ivanovich," she said, while he looked at her interrogatively. "I can neither write a word to him, nor see him; yet I must give him an answer. He will wait there in the arbour, or if I leave him without an answer he will come here, and I can ...
— The Precipice • Ivan Goncharov
... your friend, your old partner," said the manager half sympathetically, half interrogatively. "There has been a drop out in everything the bank is carrying, and everybody is unloading. Two firms failed in 'Frisco yesterday that were carrying things for the bank, and have thrown everything back on it. ...
— The Three Partners • Bret Harte
... Dion interrogatively. He looked at her, understanding, he believed, the inquiry in her eyes. Before he could say anything the kind and careful voice of Mr. Darlington was ...
— In the Wilderness • Robert Hichens
... on. But, having heard it, it was not to be wondered at that he put a false interpretation on Sally's last words. They seemed to acknowledge the divorce story. He felt very unsafe, and could only repeat them half interrogatively, "As if Mrs. Nightingale was a real widow?" But with the effect that Sally immediately saw clean through him, and knew what was passing in ...
— Somehow Good • William de Morgan
... an uncurtained east window. On a low stool by the hearthside, the only article of furniture in the place, sat his mother, staring into a fireplace strewn with blackened embers and cold ashes. He spoke to her—tenderly, interrogatively, and with hesitation, but she neither answered, nor moved, nor seemed in any way surprised. True, there had been time for her husband to apprise her of their guilty son's return. He moved nearer and was about to lay his hand upon her arm, when his ...
— Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories • Ambrose Bierce
... of his reflection, the horseman did not hesitate any longer, but spurring his horse forward to the edge of the fire, lifted his hat courteously from his head, and saluted him on the ground, at the same time saying interrogatively:— ...
— Wood Rangers - The Trappers of Sonora • Mayne Reid
... the lady, interrogatively, with a furtive smile which was perhaps occasioned by the incongruity between the priest's sacred garb and ...
— A Castle in Spain - A Novel • James De Mille
... lord?" responded the detective, interrogatively. Then he went upstairs to the dressing-room. "I think I should like to be alone in here, my lord, if you don't ...
— The Woman's Way • Charles Garvice
... "No?" said I interrogatively, wondering what the harmless clove, which forms such an important unit in the "sugar and spice and all things nice" combination of culinary seasoning, could possibly have to do with the slave-trade ...
— The Penang Pirate - and, The Lost Pinnace • John Conroy Hutcheson
... Charley, interrogatively, to Cass. Before he could reply Miss Porter's voice came from ...
— Frontier Stories • Bret Harte
... man you see me?" he grunted interrogatively, stepping close to her. He looked so wicked that she recoiled ...
— Alice of Old Vincennes • Maurice Thompson
... one of the women, affirmatively, not interrogatively; but the doctor shook his head, and holding in one hand his watch he counted the faint pulse beats as with his eye he measured ...
— Aikenside • Mary J. Holmes
... strain, and said, interrogatively, "After all what did it amount to? The cargo was not such a great matter so long as the ship was safe? What signified all the niggers had cost? What they might fetch was another matter; but a man could not call that a loss which he had never had; and, therefore, all the loss the skipper should ...
— Ran Away to Sea • Mayne Reid
... way to the morning-room. As they reached the door a young lady, carrying a book and walking very languidly, came out. Hewitt stepped aside to let her pass, and afterward said interrogatively: "Miss Norris, ...
— Martin Hewitt, Investigator • Arthur Morrison
... placidly burning in the hall, but its position had certainly been shifted by at least three feet. It was much nearer the portiere leading to the inner hall. Hugo listened intently. Not a sound! And he stared interrogatively at the candle as though the ...
— Hugo - A Fantasia on Modern Themes • Arnold Bennett
... Hugh, "she'll be the—" He let Gilmore speak the name interrogatively and merely ...
— Gideon's Band - A Tale of the Mississippi • George W. Cable
... his round after leaving the station, he paused at the seat occupied by the two doctors, glanced interrogatively at Miller, and then spoke to Dr. Burns, who sat in the end of the seat ...
— The Marrow of Tradition • Charles W. Chesnutt
... gently Lingard's sleeve, and when the old seaman had lifted up his head interrogatively, he stretched out an arm and a pointing forefinger towards Willems' house, now plainly visible to the right and beyond the ...
— An Outcast of the Islands • Joseph Conrad
... hinder you—it's few enough of 'em are like you here, I expect"; then, sotto voce, "wish t'other young monkey might be". "You hinted before dinner at some information I might be able to give you?" said I interrogatively. ...
— Frank Fairlegh - Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil • Frank E. Smedley
... experienced the throes of dissolution. Who was Smithers? What could old Tutt be driving at? But Smithers—evidently the Reverend Sanctimonious Smithers—was already placidly seated in the witness chair, his limp hands folded across his stomach and his thin nose looking interrogatively toward Mr. Tutt. ...
— By Advice of Counsel • Arthur Train
... hands in front of him. On the wall opposite hung several lithographed portraits of distinguished preachers, in and out of the Establishment—mostly represented as very sturdily-constructed men with bristly hair, fronting the spectator interrogatively and holding thick books in their hands. Upon one of these portraits—the name of the original of which was stated at the foot of the print to be the Reverend Aaron Yollop—Mr. Thorpe now fixed his eyes, with a faint approach to a smile on his face (he never was ...
— Hide and Seek • Wilkie Collins
... And he looked interrogatively at Reuben. Reuben, however, said nothing. They were toiling up the steep road from Clough End to the high farms under the Scout, a road which tried the minister's infirm limb severely; otherwise he would ...
— The History of David Grieve • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... point upon which I am accustomed to lay great stress. In these days, with schismatics on all hands to contend against, it behoves all members of the true Church to show a bold and united front." He leaned his head on one side and looked at her interrogatively. "Do you ...
— Shining Ferry • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... good-naturedly. "I see. I've keel-hauled your Romeo stunt, eh? Want the stuff?" He kicked the supplies interrogatively. ...
— The Eternal Maiden • T. Everett Harre
... interrogatively toward the sky. Hawkins started; then settled into deep reflection; finally shook his head sorrowfully and ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... Phillis, interrogatively. She was inclined to be short with him this morning. She had kept her word, and put herself into this annoying position; but there must be no hesitation, no beating about the bush, no loss of precious ...
— Not Like Other Girls • Rosa N. Carey
... down and drew a wallet from his pocket. He began to count the bills, and, as if by common consent, the Four followed suit. It was a task which occupied some minutes, and when completed my client produced a morocco note-book and a pencil. He glanced interrogatively at the man ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... much fatigued?" the Frenchwoman said, interrogatively, with a look of intense sympathy, as she placed an arm-chair ...
— Lady Audley's Secret • Mary Elizabeth Braddon
... "Yes?" said Miss Wodehouse, interrogatively. Her heart began to beat quicker, but perhaps he was only going to tell her about the new work he had undertaken; and then she was a woman, and had some knowledge, which came by nature, how to conduct herself on an occasion such ...
— The Perpetual Curate • Mrs [Margaret] Oliphant
... out his hand for the envelope. He started slightly as he looked at the neat, clear handwriting. Something was evidently wrong here, Mark thought. The Colonel was a man of courage, as he very well knew, and yet his fingers trembled as he glanced interrogatively at Beatrice before he drew the letter from ...
— The Slave of Silence • Fred M. White
... Amy had found the storage battery switch, for the red and green lights now gleamed. Again the on-coming steamer whistled, sharply— interrogatively. Betty answered, but she was not sure she had ...
— The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake • Laura Lee Hope
... is one of my patients," he admitted interrogatively. Then, as if considering that Kennedy's manner was not to be mollified by anything short of a show of confidence, he added: "She came to me several months ago. I have had her under treatment for nervous trouble since then, ...
— The Dream Doctor • Arthur B. Reeve
... This was said interrogatively to the old custodian, but the latter, who understood the drift of his speech, though perhaps not appreciating to the full the niceties of dialect and imagery, shook his head. His protest was, however, only ...
— Dracula's Guest • Bram Stoker
... is no instance so striking as this of the immense difference that sometimes lies in the mere accent given one monosyllable. Until Mrs. Siddons revealed the real Lady Macbeth, every actress had replied, "We fail?" interrogatively, and then encouragingly, "Screw your courage to the sticking-point and we'll not fail." Such the commonplace reciters. When genius touched the word it flashed and sparkled. Then came the prompt response. "We fail." She was of such stuff as meets failure without ...
— James Watt • Andrew Carnegie
... looked at Laura Glyde, whose eyes were interrogatively fixed on Mrs. Leveret. The fact of being deferred to was so new to the latter that it filled her with an insane temerity. "Why, Xingu, ...
— The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part 2 (of 10) • Edith Wharton
... he doesn't understand English?" began Mangles, looking interrogatively at Deulin, beneath ...
— The Vultures • Henry Seton Merriman
... and, as he kept on looking at me interrogatively, I enlarged a little, confessing that I had spent a little time on the way in the Mediterranean and in the West Indies. I did not want to present myself to the British Merchant Service in an altogether green state. It was no use telling him that ...
— A Personal Record • Joseph Conrad
... very enticing; what do you think?" said Prince Shadursky interrogatively, folding ...
— The Most Interesting Stories of All Nations • Julian Hawthorne
... out by this time if you'd only quit fretting," was the gruff reply. "Well, I suppose Willett's glad of a chance to join his chief?" he said interrogatively, though never looking up. ...
— Tonio, Son of the Sierras - A Story of the Apache War • Charles King
... said she, interrogatively, raising her eyes to the young man's face with a somewhat gratuitous formality of manner, and holding a piece of sugar suspended over ...
— Bressant • Julian Hawthorne
... up at her interrogatively through his circular glasses, as though she ought to be able to tell him if anybody could. Then a thought very much like that took definite shape in his mind. He himself had no time to give to mysterious problems and will-o'-the-wisp pursuits; his book and posterity claimed it all. This ...
— Queed • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... Maurice; and Albinia blushed. Whereupon he said interrogatively, 'Hem?' which made her laugh so consciously that he added, 'Don't you go and be romantic about either of your young ladies, or there will be a general burning ...
— The Young Step-Mother • Charlotte M. Yonge
... they had campaigned against Indians in Texas, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico long before I had seen a more savage redman than the indolent, basket-making descendants of the Passamaquoddies and Penobscots. Accordingly, without appearing to notice their remarks, I approached the chief, and said, interrogatively: ...
— Captured by the Navajos • Charles A. Curtis
... Doxology for a parachute. His shepherd's crook is one long note of interrogation, with which he tries to hook down the heavens to the understanding of his hearers, and his hearers up to an understanding of himself. All his arguments are put interrogatively, and few of them are worth answering. Well, well, I shall be all the freer for your visit when you come next Sunday, and any Sunday after that you will: and he shall come in to tea if you like and talk to you in quite a cultured and agreeable ...
— An Englishwoman's Love-Letters • Anonymous
... birth of the Messiah, calls it by no means small, inasmuch as, by that birth, that town was in a wonderful manner adorned and exalted"), that we need not dwell upon it. We only remark, that the supposition of Paulus, that the members of the Sanhedrim understood the verse interrogatively—"Art thou, perhaps, too small," etc.—receives no confirmation from the passage in Pirke Eliezer, c. 3, which he quotes in favour of it, but which he saw only in the Latin translation of Wetzstein; for, in the original text, the verse is quoted in literal ...
— Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, v. 1 • Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
... not far from where Dacres and Mrs. Willoughby had made their appearance, the Baron caught sight of a tall, lank, slim figure, clothed in rusty black, whose thin and leathery face, rising above a white neck-tie, peered solemnly yet interrogatively through the bushes; while just behind him the Baron caught a glimpse of the flutter of ...
— The American Baron • James De Mille
... noted here that adverbs are used interrogatively; as, How, when, and where is this to be done? and that they may add to the office of the adverb that of the conjunction; as, I go ...
— Higher Lessons in English • Alonzo Reed and Brainerd Kellogg
... each other interrogatively. Should they make a clean breast of their plight and enlist the doctor's help, or would it be quite safe? Davy nodded ...
— Treasure Valley • Marian Keith
... interrogatively, and as coolly as I could, contriving at the same time to move towards the window. It was summer, the sashes were up, the shutters drawn in, and a policeman whom I knew was lounging opposite, as I had noticed ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 • Various
... reads [Greek: ktypou e egaget'. ouchi]; interrogatively, thus: "Ye were making a noise. Will ye not ...
— The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. • Euripides
... would come here with any tidings I did not believe agreeable?" he said, interrogatively. "You know I care too much for—for both ...
— A Black Adonis • Linn Boyd Porter
... her pretty eyebrows interrogatively. Captain Poindexter was a legal friend of her husband, and had dined there frequently; nevertheless she asked, "Did you tell him Mr. Tucker was ...
— Frontier Stories • Bret Harte
... to Lindsay, who was looking interrogatively at the door, impatient as he was for ...
— CELEBRATED CRIMES, COMPLETE - MARY STUART—1587 • ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE
... velvet carpet that muffled his footfalls and so came at last to the proper door, where he pressed a black button in the center of a brass plate. The door opened almost upon the instant. A maid eyed him interrogatively. He ...
— Burned Bridges • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... or father?" he repeated interrogatively. "Wha—what the devil can they have to do with this affair? I guess they're askin' a lot of questions ...
— The Daughter of Anderson Crow • George Barr McCutcheon
... the pen when he had signed his name and chuckled quietly to himself. "You don't think, dear boy, that a foolish paper like that would be worth anything in a court of law?" he said, interrogatively. ...
— The Argosy - Vol. 51, No. 6, June, 1891 • Various
... his ear interrogatively. "I beg your pardon, but I didn't quite understand. You think you ...
— Jane Field - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... who had stood waiting for a definite command during this brief conflict of wills, glanced interrogatively at Mrs Orgreave and, perceiving no clear prohibition in her face, departed with a smile to get the wine. She was a servant of sound prestige, and had the inexpressible privilege of smiling on duty. In her time she had fought lively battles of repartee with all the children from Charlie downwards. ...
— Clayhanger • Arnold Bennett
... eyes fell upon the implement in a half-frightened way, and then lifted themselves interrogatively ...
— A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready • Bret Harte
... for a little, then she asked, "Do you know which I like best? Hot primroses." Captain Caldwell raised his eyebrows interrogatively. "When you pick them in the sun, and put them against your cheek, they're all warm, you know," Beth explained; "and then they are good! And fuchsias are good too, but it isn't the same good. You know that one in the sitting-room window, white ...
— The Beth Book - Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius • Sarah Grand
... embarrassment in inquiries about himself, he shuffled past; and when he had gone a little further, turned to take another look at her, and found, startled, that she too was looking at him. There, at opposite ends of the long corridor, father and daughter stood interrogatively at gaze, each feeling a little guilty, each wondering what, at the denouement, the other would say. Then the charming Charlotte blew him a kiss from her hand, and his Majesty did likewise; and, off to the fulfilment of her destiny ...
— King John of Jingalo - The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties • Laurence Housman
... an immense amount of deafening shrieking and gesticulating among the Arabs. Hassan was responding, and finally turned to Lanty, when the anxious watchers could perceive signs as if of paying down coin made interrogatively. 'Promise them anything, everything,' cried Hebert; 'M. le Comte would give his last sou—so would Madame la Marquise—to ...
— A Modern Telemachus • Charlotte M. Yonge
... bound manuscript book, in which his sermon was written, but he seldom looked at it. His action was dignified, his delivery fluent and graceful, and not without majesty. His hearers hung upon his lips with earnest and increasing interest. Much of what he said was put interrogatively, a mode of address which is very acceptable among the Tongans. It was affecting to see this dignified man stretching out his hand over his people, and to observe that one of his little fingers had been cut off: this was formerly ...
— Captain Cook - His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries • W.H.G. Kingston
... do nothing of the kind!" cried Edith, and as Mrs. Sedyard looked interrogatively from one to another of her children, her daughter swept on. "John must be crazy, I saw him come in with a—a person—who never ought to be in ...
— New Faces • Myra Kelly
... him," he said in a moment; "he was imprisoned at Wisbeach six or seven years ago. But I do not think he has been in trouble since. You wish, you wish——?" he went on interrogatively. ...
— By What Authority? • Robert Hugh Benson
... truth. But he hated the theories and the doings of so many men, that the difference between him and the mere revolutionary was hard to seize. He had a smooth and ruddy face, in which the eyebrows seemed to be always rising interrogatively; longish hair; stooping shoulders, and an amiable, lazy, mocking look that belied a nature of singular passion, always occupied with the most tremendous problems of life, and afraid ...
— The Mating of Lydia • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... we interrogatively supplied the word, "Equals? There are always difficulties between unequals. But try this, some day, and see what a real gratitude you will get from the waiter. It isn't infallible, but the chances are he will feel that you have treated him like a man, and ...
— Imaginary Interviews • W. D. Howells
... Then he took aim, with an imaginary gun, up at the roof of the hut, and said "Bang" very loud, and a chorus of approving laughter from the negroes showed that he was understood. Then one of them pointed towards the various points of the compass, and looked interrogatively at Frank. The sun was streaming in through the doorway, and he was thus able to judge of the direction in which the camp must lie. He made a sweep with his hand towards the northwest, signifying that they ...
— By Sheer Pluck - A Tale of the Ashanti War • G. A. Henty
... that it fell about his white collar behind, lankly. He wore gold-rimmed spectacles, which magnified his oblique eyes and lent him a terrifying beetle-like appearance. His mephistophelean eyebrows were raised interrogatively, and he was smiling so as to exhibit a row ...
— The Yellow Claw • Sax Rohmer
... the angelic blue Morpho, and the broad-winged Ornithoptera, that caused an illustrious traveller to swoon with joy at the sight of its supreme loveliness. Du Maurier has a drawing of a little girl in a garden gazing at two earwigs racing along a stem. "I suppose," she remarks interrogatively to her mamma, "that these are Mr. and Mrs. Earwig?" and on being answered affirmatively, exclaims, "What could they have seen in each other?" What they saw was blue blood, or something in insectology corresponding to it. The earwig's lustre is that of antiquity. He existed on earth before colour ...
— Birds in Town and Village • W. H. Hudson
... a long and impressive silence while the Inspector deliberately read the note. Then he looked interrogatively at the girl. ...
— The Yellow Streak • Williams, Valentine
... put the picture a shade interrogatively, but this was as nothing to the note of free inquiry in Lord John's reply. "You mean that our lovely young widows—to say nothing of lovely young wives—ought by this time to have made out, in predicaments, ...
— The Outcry • Henry James
... to me," he said, "that it is a great pity." He looked up interrogatively at the other man, but Mr. Caruthers met his glance without any returning show of interest. "I say," repeated Van Bibber—"I say it seems a pity that a child like that should be allowed to go on in that business. A grown woman can go into it with her eyes open, or a girl who has had decent training ...
— Van Bibber and Others • Richard Harding Davis
... verse 5, whether its first and last clauses be taken interrogatively or negatively, in its central part bases the assurance of the coming of the king on God's covenant (2 Samuel vii.), which is glorified as being everlasting, provided with all requisites for its realisation, and therefore 'sure,' or perhaps 'preserved,' as if guarded by God's inviolable ...
— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren
... Saxham, with his square jaw set. His man spilt the coffee and hot milk over the cloth in trying to fill his master's cup. "You are nervous, Tait. You had better go downstairs, I think, unless——" Saxham looked interrogatively at the burly, officially-clad ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
... sent to the hospital?" Stoddard urged, half interrogatively. "Look in there. Listen to the noise. This is no fit place for a man with a possible fracture of ...
— The Power and the Glory • Grace MacGowan Cooke
... wedding will be at Abbotsmead, since Mr. Laurence Fairfax gives his countenance?" Lady Latimer suggested interrogatively. ...
— The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax • Harriet Parr
... the clerk handed me a telegram. "There's been a pretty big shake all over the country," he said eagerly. "Everybody is getting news and inquiries from their friends. Anything fresh?" He paused interrogatively as I tore open the envelope. The dispatch had been redirected from the office of the "Daily Excelsior." It was dated, "Salvatierra Rancho," and contained a single line: "Come and see ...
— Stories in Light and Shadow • Bret Harte
... it had shaped during dinner, and Tommy would have acted wisely had he now gone out to cool his head. "If you moved me?" she repeated interrogatively; but, with the best intentions, he continued ...
— Tommy and Grizel • J.M. Barrie
... sometimes into another; then we may speak by contraries. 7. We may either change affirmative Sentences into negative, or the contrary. 8. Or, at least, what we have spoken indicatively, we may speak interrogatively. Now for Example Sake, let ...
— Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. • Erasmus
... at the Inner Temple gate, and then inferred that you were retained in the case. That was a circumstance that had not been fully provided for. May I offer you gentlemen a glass of sherry?" As he spoke he placed on the table a decanter and a tray of glasses, and looked at us interrogatively with his hand ...
— The Vanishing Man • R. Austin Freeman
... during this last term, I hope, Miss Pew?' he said, interrogatively, but rather as if the question were needless, as he walked ...
— The Golden Calf • M. E. Braddon
... down his spoon and smiled interrogatively. "Oh, facts—what are facts! Just the way a thing happens to look ...
— Short Stories for English Courses • Various (Rosa M. R. Mikels ed.)
... interrogatively the colour faded from her face. The relief of hearing that homespun plan had chilled her blood, and she was faint for an instant with the sickness of hearty youth that only knows it feels odd to itself and concludes the strangeness is of the soul. But she did not answer, for Anne ...
— The Prisoner • Alice Brown
... he said then, detaching himself for an instant from his treasure. "Oh, I infer you like to sit on fences?" Weldon said interrogatively. ...
— On the Firing Line • Anna Chapin Ray and Hamilton Brock Fuller
... of Goodness espieth all things—so that before the corporal had well got through the first five words of his story, had my uncle Toby twice touch'd his Montero-cap with the end of his cane, interrogatively—as much as to say, Why don't you put it on, Trim? Trim took it up with the most respectful slowness, and casting a glance of humiliation as he did it, upon the embroidery of the fore-part, which being dismally tarnish'd and fray'd moreover ...
— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman • Laurence Sterne
... lamp till the Boy longed to throw the dish of smouldering oil at his head. But strangely enough, when, through sheer fatigue, his voice failed and his chin fell on his broad chest, a lad of fourteen or so, who had also had difficulty to keep awake, would jog Yagorsha's arm, repeating interrogatively the last phrase used, whereon the old Story-Teller would rouse himself and begin afresh, with an iteration of the previous statement. If the lad failed to keep him going, one or other of the natives would ...
— The Magnetic North • Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond)
... a ray of light, but he was not sure that he did not prefer darkness. "Oh—a governess?" he repeated, interrogatively. ...
— A Bachelor's Dream • Mrs. Hungerford
... Boston, girls like that one are as thick as blackb'ries?" uncle Jerry said, jerking his head interrogatively in ...
— Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm • Kate Douglas Wiggin |
