"Ask in" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Noble?" And in spite of herself, Julia spoke in the tone of one who controls herself to ask in calmness: "Is my name on ...
— Gentle Julia • Booth Tarkington
... ask in life except his love?" she said to herself. "Of all the pleasures and triumphs which girls of my age enjoy, is there one that I ever envied? No, I only sighed for his love. To live in a lodging-house parlour with him, to sit by and watch him at his work, to drudge for ...
— Birds of Prey • M. E. Braddon
... It is not property anywhere else. If the Constitution of the United States gives any other and further character than this to slave property, let us acknowledge it fairly and end all strife about it. If it does not, I ask in all candor, that men on the other side shall say so, and let this point be settled. What is the point we are to inquire into? It is this: does the Constitution of the United States make slaves property beyond the jurisdiction ...
— American Eloquence, Volume III. (of 4) - Studies In American Political History (1897) • Various
... sports the Frenchman spends upon his womankind. Even the bourgeoisie, who hold their money with clenched fists like that," he gesticulated, striking the table, "for their women they spend, spend freely. They do all this, and the great thing which they ask in return is that they are amused. After all, monsieur," he continued, "they are logical. What a man wants most in life, in the intervals between his work, is amusement. It is amusement that keeps him young, keeps him in health. It is his ...
— The Lost Ambassador - The Search For The Missing Delora • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... even to-day we hear people ask in surprise: What is the use of these voyages of exploration? What good do they do us? Little brains, I always answer to myself, have only room for thoughts of bread ...
— The South Pole, Volumes 1 and 2 • Roald Amundsen
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