"Interrogator" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... all subjects which touch upon the more delicate and personal chords of the heart. When they speak of themselves, we may almost always be certain that they keep some concealment in reserve, which assures them the advantage in intellect, or feeling. They suffer their interrogator to remain in ignorance of some circumstance, some mobile secret, through the unveiling of which they would be more admired, or less esteemed, and which they well know how to hide under the subtle smile of an almost imperceptible mockery. Delighting in ...
— Life of Chopin • Franz Liszt
... not deny that in good English it is absurd. This was a very disagreeable discovery: for now, if any one were to ask me whether I believed in the divinity of Christ, I saw it would be dishonest to say simply, Yes; for the interrogator means to ask, whether I hold Christ to be the eternal and underived Source of life; yet if I said No, he would care nothing for my professing to ...
— Phases of Faith - Passages from the History of My Creed • Francis William Newman
... had been cast on the ground while Mr. Grant was speaking. He now raised them, looked at his father, then at his interrogator, and said,— ...
— The Young Fur Traders • R.M. Ballantyne
... for a moment frozen into silence. When she did come to the surface, she set the captains of industry down where they belonged, retorted upon the get-rich-quick millionaire that he was no gentleman and she hoped he would inform the manager she said so and then raised her eyebrows at the interrogator who ...
— Officer 666 • Barton W. Currie
... all of his class at that time and in that province, was an enthusiastic Carlist, willingly supplied him with the razor and refreshment of which he stood in pressing need. His appearance somewhat improved, and his appetite satisfied, Paco in his turn became the interrogator, and the first answers he received caused him extreme surprise. The most triumphant success had waited on the Carlist arms during the period of his captivity. The Christino generals had been on all hands discomfited ...
— Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 • Various
... fault," said this great Law Lord, "Of demands for inspection, and similar pleas; Of expenses that neither side can afford, Commissions and interrogator-ees; Till Pelion's piled on Ossa—and hence Men shun ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100. February 21, 1891 • Various
... startling question for the unsophisticated London youth. He had never heard such an expression in his life; and although he might have puzzled his agricultural interrogator by a good many questions in return, yet that possibility was no ...
— The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit • Richard Harris
... and dulness. In vain Fleda answered him, that she was not very cold and would soon not be cold at all by that good fire;—the question came again, apparently in all its freshness, from the interrogator's mind,—"Are ...
— Queechy • Susan Warner
... knowing who her interrogator meant. "Leastways we always called her miss, for she is quite ...
— A Crooked Path - A Novel • Mrs. Alexander
... seem to surprise my interrogator, who now desired me to follow him. After proceeding for some distance through a luxuriant forest we came to what appeared to be the gates of a town. Two large perpendicular stones rose to the height ...
— Adventures in Southern Seas - A Tale of the Sixteenth Century • George Forbes
... to be so impatient, Louis," the one who had acted as interrogator said. "Anyone could see, with half an eye, that those two fellows were, as they said, old men-at-arms. There is a straightness and a stiffness about men who have been under the hands of the drill sergeant there is no mistaking; ...
— Saint Bartholomew's Eve - A Tale of the Huguenot WarS • G. A. Henty
... greasy, ill-conditioned Valencian, rubbed his eyes, muttered a coarse oath, and seemed half disposed, instead of replying, to pick a quarrel with his interrogator; but a glance at the athletic figure and resolute countenance of the latter, dissipated the inclination, and he answered ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. • Various
... Thy relation, our sister Magdalen, is a woman of excellent gifts, blessed with a zeal which neither doubt nor danger can quench; but yet it is not a zeal altogether according to knowledge; wherefore, my son, I would willingly be myself thy interrogator, and thy counsellor, in these days of ...
— The Abbot • Sir Walter Scott
... extraordinary, that she seldom troubled him. Miss Carmichael offered to do what she could to get Eppy a place, if she answered certain questions to her satisfaction. How she liked her catechizing I do not know, but she so far satisfied her interrogator that she did find her a place in Edinburgh. She wept sore at leaving Auchars, but there was no help: rumour had been more cruel than untrue, and besides there was no peace for her near the castle. Not once had lord Forgue sought her since he gave ...
— Donal Grant • George MacDonald
... you before, I'm comin' straight to the pint," replied the youth, giving the aforesaid bandana a more vigorous switch in the direction of his interrogator, then continued, "and, firstly (as them lecturin' fellers say) I allus thought I'd like mighty well to have a trial myself, and bring some un up to the scratch; and I've jest got my wish, and if it costs all dad's worth I'll ...
— Marguerite Verne • Agatha Armour
... of money do you have there?" inquired Another. There was no established currency in the country at that time, and his interrogator wanted to know what they ...
— The Printer Boy. - Or How Benjamin Franklin Made His Mark. An Example for Youth. • William M. Thayer
... seemed to satisfy my interrogator. I was afraid that he would inquire every moment whether I had heard the conversation going on within ...
— Dick Cheveley - His Adventures and Misadventures • W. H. G. Kingston
... spark of sensibility more than this woman possessed, could not have equivocated with such an interrogator, but her reply was, "She went in ...
— A Simple Story • Mrs. Inchbald
... aroused so much general interest that the series formed the subject of a question in Parliament and according to the Canadian Hansard—the official and verbatim record of Parliamentary proceedings—the Postmaster-General (Mr. Mulock) replied to his interrogator ...
— The Stamps of Canada • Bertram Poole
... quite reassured that the Indian would do him no harm, and boldly inquired who his interrogator might be. ...
— The War Chief of the Six Nations - A Chronicle of Joseph Brant - Volume 16 (of 32) in the series Chronicles of Canada • Louis Aubrey Wood
... their interrogator, then at one another, opened their mouths as to speak, and shut them hopelessly,—unable to put into words that which was struggling in their darkened brains,—and then with a laugh, a laugh that sounded woefully like a sob, ...
— What Answer? • Anna E. Dickinson
... his interrogator, and thought of the priests and the inquisition. "No, no," thought he, "that won't do; a name I must give, but it shall be one that you dare not meddle with. A midshipman you might get hold of, but it's more than the whole island dare to touch ...
— Mr. Midshipman Easy • Captain Frederick Marryat
... be master of his own fortunes. A black stranger in Baker County, Georgia, for instance, is liable to be stopped anywhere on the public highway and made to state his business to the satisfaction of any white interrogator. If he fails to give a suitable answer, or seems too independent or "sassy," he may be ...
— The Souls of Black Folk • W. E. B. Du Bois
... of the differential calculus, in a time now happily long past, when a pupil timidly inquired the reason for this or that, was wont to fix the interrogator with his eye and say, "Sir; it is so because the book says so!" Even in more recent days a well-known university teacher, accustomed to use his own text-book, used to say when a student had ventured to vary its classic phraseology, "It can ...
— A Librarian's Open Shelf • Arthur E. Bostwick
... bellowed Penrod, recovering his breath; and he hurled a fat ball—thoughtfully retained in hand throughout his agony—to such effect that his interrogator disappeared backward from the fence without having taken any initiative of his own in the matter. His comrade impulsively joined him upon the ground, and the ...
— Penrod and Sam • Booth Tarkington
... is verily the same the world over, and here, in the hotel at Nisch, I meet an individual who recalls a few of the sensible questions that have been asked me from time to time at different places on both continents. This Nisch interrogator is a Hebrew commercial traveller, who has a smattering of English, and who after ascertaining during a short conversation that, when a range of mountains or any other small obstruction is encountered, I get down and push the bicycle ...
— Around the World on a Bicycle V1 • Thomas Stevens
... I know any such thing, Signor Guideca-Avvocato," exclaimed Vito Viti, who literally translated what he understood to be the title of his interrogator, thereby converting him into a sort of ship-felucca—"how should I know any such thing? I do not keep company with corsairs, except when they come upon, our island and ...
— The Wing-and-Wing - Le Feu-Follet • J. Fenimore Cooper |
