"Interrogatively" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... answer was given by the promisor. "Do you promise that you will deliver me such and such a slave, at such and such a place, on such and such a day?" "I do promise." Now, if we reflect for a moment, we shall see that this obligation to put the promise interrogatively inverts the natural position of the parties, and, by effectually breaking the tenor of the conversation, prevents the attention from gliding over a dangerous pledge. With us, a verbal promise is, generally speaking, to ...
— Ancient Law - Its Connection to the History of Early Society • Sir Henry James Sumner Maine
... month of March last, was signed by you?" said the grand inquisitor interrogatively, as he displayed a ...
— Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf • George W. M. Reynolds
... young man with a book and paper under his arm came up the stairs hurriedly and looked around with anxiety. As soon as his eye fell on us, he looked relieved, and walked directly up to me, and called me by name, interrogatively. ...
— Richard Vandermarck • Miriam Coles Harris
... why, good heavens, Doctor, I should never have known you in a month of Bank holidays! What's afoot, then?"—and he turned to Weymouth, eyebrows raised interrogatively. ...
— The Hand Of Fu-Manchu - Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor • Sax Rohmer
... The Bishop turned interrogatively towards Bright, who once more leaned over Julian with the tube in his hand. Again the little mist, the pungent odour. Julian rose to his feet ...
— The Devil's Paw • E. Phillips Oppenheim
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