"Interrogatively" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sit down, Mr. Viner," he said. He dropped into a chair near a desk which stood in the centre of the room and looked interrogatively at his elder visitor. "Have you some business to discuss, Mr. Pawle?" ...
— The Middle of Things • J. S. Fletcher
... and looked interrogatively at his sister. Miss Graybrooke nodded her head responsively, and settled herself in her chair, as if summoning her attention in anticipation of a coming demand on it. To persons well acquainted with the brother and sister these proceedings were ominous ...
— Miss or Mrs.? • Wilkie Collins
... the outer room. Then a handle was roughly turned, and Laura saw before her a short, stout woman, with grey hair, and the most piercing black eyes. Intimidated by the eyes, and by the sudden pause of the newcomer on the threshold, Miss Fountain could only look at her interrogatively. ...
— Helbeck of Bannisdale, Vol. I. • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... the way 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
... She looked at him interrogatively and then quite suddenly she knew what he had come to say, and turned white to the lips. For the first time she ...
— The Rocks of Valpre • Ethel May Dell
... it!" she quietly concluded. And as they shook hands her gray-irised eyes gazed intently and interrogatively into his. ...
— Never-Fail Blake • Arthur Stringer
... 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
... 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 mind," ...
— The Woman's Way • Charles Garvice
... 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, ...
— The Precipice • Ivan Goncharov
... 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 and ...
— The Devil's Paw • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... Smith?" said the captain interrogatively, when we were shown into his room, and looked from one to another and back to the telegraph form which ...
— The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu • Sax Rohmer
... 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 stir uneasily, lift a head from under his deerskin, and remonstrate. Yagorsha, ...
— The Magnetic North • Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond)
... the other thing will go down. Rather a big price for Dick to pay, to make Tira safe, but he has paid and I fancy she's safe." He turned to her suddenly. "Milly's very nice to you," he asserted, half interrogatively. ...
— Old Crow • Alice Brown
... The danger hidden in the night gave no sign to awaken her terror, but the workings of a human soul, simple and violent, were laid bare before her and had the disturbing charm of an unheard-of experience. She was listening to a man who concealed nothing. She said, interrogatively: ...
— The Rescue • Joseph Conrad
... who opened to him looked him up and down interrogatively. "Miss Elliot is at home, but I don't know if she will ...
— The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell
... 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 ...
— Queed • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... 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 ...
— The Lilac Sunbonnet • S.R. Crockett
... 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 have taken more notice of his companion's ...
— The History of David Grieve • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... as 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
... of her slim finger along the sketch until it reached a tiny dormer window in the left-hand corner, half-hidden by an irregular chimney-stack. The curtains were closely drawn. Keeping her finger upon the spot, she said, interrogatively, ...
— Tales of Trail and Town • Bret Harte
... 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 big ...
— An Outcast of the Islands • Joseph Conrad
... 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 agreement with ...
— Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, v. 1 • Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
... 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
... many a time had he unhoused rabbits, and squirrels, and other creatures at that word of command, so, without a moment's delay, he commenced to dig down into the sand, every now, and then stopping for a moment and shoving in his nose, and snuffing interrogatively, as if he fully expected to find a buffalo at the bottom of it. Then he would resume again, one paw after another so fast that you could scarce see them going "hand over hand" as sailors would have called ...
— The Dog Crusoe and his Master • R.M. Ballantyne
... "Hard a-lee," and "All right," comprised Tehei's English vocabulary and led me to suspect that at some time he had been one of a Kanaka crew under an American captain. Between the puffs I made signs to him and repeatedly and interrogatively uttered the word SAILOR. Then I tried it in atrocious French. MARIN conveyed no meaning to him; nor did MATELOT. Either my French was bad, or else he was not up in it. I have since concluded that both conjectures were correct. Finally, I began naming over the adjacent islands. He nodded ...
— The Cruise of the Snark • Jack London
... then dropped into my chair again, still keeping the book in my hand. "Miss Grief?" I said interrogatively as I indicated a seat with ...
— Stories by American Authors (Volume 4) • Constance Fenimore Woolson
... here to-night, sir, I presume?" the servant said, interrogatively, as he prepared to quit the apartment. "Mrs. Parkyn thought it best to prepare these rooms for ...
— Henry Dunbar - A Novel • M. E. Braddon
... in da?" are the words spoken interrogatively; the question addressed generally to the group gathered in front of the house. "Yes: he's ...
— The Death Shot - A Story Retold • Mayne Reid
... 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 a ...
— The American Baron • James De Mille
... 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
... at length/How goes our reckoning?] [W: Hold good our] It is common enough, and the commentator knows it is common to propose interrogatively, that of which neither the speaker nor the hearer has any doubt. The present ...
— Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies • Samuel Johnson
... Mr. Lovel 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, child, I told you ...
— The Lovels of Arden • M. E. Braddon
... anyone so much as that old man who had turned up one evening to save him from an utter disaster,—from the conspiracy of the wretched sailors. He seemed to have fallen on board from the sky. His footsteps echoed on the empty steamer, and the strange deep-toned voice on deck repeating interrogatively the words, "Mr. Massy, Mr. Massy there?" had been startling like a wonder. And coming up from the depths of the cold engine-room, where he had been pottering dismally with a candle amongst the enormous shadows, thrown on all sides ...
— End of the Tether • Joseph Conrad
... 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 ...
— Birds in Town and Village • W. H. Hudson
... nice father, aint you?" interrogatively replied the gentleman addressed—a youth of eighteen, very tall, very thin, very dressy, and very dirty. "I should like to know why you brought me into ...
— Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 • Various
... a stranger in these parts?" she answered interrogatively, because she was a Scottish girl, and one question for another is ...
— Bog-Myrtle and Peat - Tales Chiefly Of Galloway Gathered From The Years 1889 To 1895 • S.R. Crockett
... at 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 ...
— In the Wilderness • Robert Hichens
... and clamor without its walls. Thompson walked down a hushed corridor over a 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 mentioned ...
— Burned Bridges • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... Sebastian pointed interrogatively to the open window, where the sound of the bells seemed to emphasize the sunlight and the freshness of ...
— Barlasch of the Guard • H. S. Merriman
... interrogatively. For the second time her face burned, and I saw in it shame and distress and fear. My lord was piling up a second account with me, and for humbling this proud beauty he should one day ...
— The Yeoman Adventurer • George W. Gough
... 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
... 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 ...
— New Faces • Myra Kelly
... Dindorf reads [Greek: ktypou e egaget'. ouchi]; interrogatively, thus: "Ye were making a noise. Will ye ...
— The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. • Euripides
... a fact," continued Cuchillo, interrogatively, "that with the exception of a hut which you have abandoned, a horse which has dropped dead between your legs, and the garments you carry on your back, that Arellanos and his widow have ...
— Wood Rangers - The Trappers of Sonora • Mayne Reid
... letting into the room a flood of light, and with the light three men who entered with levelled arms. The foremost, an officer girt with a huge tricolour scarf, stopped abruptly, his jaw dropping ludicrously as his eyes fell on the placid group before him. "Citizen Achille Mirande?" he said interrogatively. "Yes? I am empowered to arrest you in the name of the Committee of Safety; you, your daughter also present I think—and a guest. This I presume ...
— In Kings' Byways • Stanley J. Weyman
... white man you see me?" he grunted interrogatively, stepping close to her. He looked so wicked that she recoiled and ...
— Alice of Old Vincennes • Maurice Thompson
... 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
... down his spoon and smiled interrogatively. "Oh, facts—what are facts? Just the way a thing happens to look at a ...
— The Triumph Of Night - 1916 • Edith Wharton |
