"Interrogatively" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... eyebrows interrogatively. Captain Poindexter was a legal friend of her husband, and had dined there frequently; nevertheless she asked, "Did you tell him Mr. ...
— Frontier Stories • Bret Harte
... were many natives with them. 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 were somewhere in ...
— By Sheer Pluck - A Tale of the Ashanti War • G. A. Henty
... 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 ...
— McTeague • Frank Norris
... he's got himself to think about, and 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
... and impressive silence while the Inspector deliberately read the note. Then he looked interrogatively ...
— The Yellow Streak • Williams, Valentine
... "No?" said I 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 when I entered. I would give Stagers a scare anyhow; charge him with theft,—anything ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 • Various
... on it!" she quietly concluded. And as they shook hands her gray-irised eyes gazed intently and interrogatively into his. ...
— Never-Fail Blake • Arthur Stringer
... travellers gazed at this sepulchral-looking personage, then at each other interrogatively, and began to feel very uncomfortable. The magpie, perched upon the hanging shelf, suddenly flapped his wings, and repeated, in his ...
— A Woodland Queen, Complete • Andre Theuriet
... and 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 ...
— Imaginary Interviews • W. D. Howells
... cakestand in three storeys. And Leonora, manoeuvring her bangles, commenced the ritual of refection with Harry as acolyte. 'If he doesn't come—well, he doesn't come,' she thought of her husband, as she smiled interrogatively at Arthur Twemlow, holding a lump of sugar aloft ...
— Leonora • Arnold Bennett
... Brother Seabright cheerfully, "nothing of consequence! The danger is over! Yet, but for the courage and presence of mind of Sister Appleby a serious evil might have been done." He paused, and with another voice turned half-interrogatively towards her. "Some children, or a passing tramp, had carelessly thrown matches in the underbrush, and they were ignited beside the chapel. Sister Appleby, ...
— A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories • Bret Harte
... Charley, interrogatively, to Cass. Before he could reply Miss Porter's voice came from ...
— Frontier Stories • Bret Harte
... resources are large he may have sufficient reason for such an act," ventured the General interrogatively. ...
— Lady Rosamond's Secret - A Romance of Fredericton • Rebecca Agatha Armour
... do men think it a fine thing to appear careless of money. So I, very narrowly watching him out of half-closed eyes, held up my five fingers interrogatively, and said, 'Cinquante?' meaning ...
— The Path to Rome • Hilaire Belloc
... escape?" Teddy replied interrogatively. "Five against a hundred won't be able to stand ...
— The Search for the Silver City - A Tale of Adventure in Yucatan • James Otis
... 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 in these days when locomotion was making such ...
— Major Vigoureux • A. T. Quiller-Couch
... 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 ...
— Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories • Ambrose Bierce
... the girl, the guests beg in eating but in silence; but soon a signal is given by the mothers, each guest rises, preparatory to retiring. At that moment, the two lovers cross their hands, and the husband speaks for the first time, interrogatively:—"Faithful to the lodge, faithful to the father, faithful to his children?" She answers softly "Faithful, ever faithful, in joy and in sorrow, in life and in death"—"Penir, penir-asha, sartir nu cohta, lebeck nu tanim." It is the last formula,—the ceremony is ...
— Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet • Captain Marryat
... 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 the world ...
— Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 • Various
... the room, saying that she must change her dress, and Mr. Innes looked at Ulick interrogatively. He seemed a little confused, and hoped he had not hurt her feelings, and Ulick assured him that to-morrow she would tell the incident in the theatre, that she would be the first to see the humour of ...
— Evelyn Innes • George Moore
... 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, "And you ...
— Tales of Trail and Town • Bret Harte
... Daisy Shaw, otherwise Mrs. Sumner Shaw, who was of the tense, nervous type, had remarked it uneasily when they first started. She had rapped vigorously upon the front window, and a misty, rather beautiful blue eye had rolled interrogatively ...
— The Butterfly House • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... glow told that 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
... the hotel 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
... white man you see me?" he grunted interrogatively, stepping close to her. He looked so wicked that she recoiled and lifted ...
— Alice of Old Vincennes • Maurice Thompson
... conviction interrogatively, and Wade said heartily, "Why, of course. It's the only thing," and Matt went away with a face which was cheerful with good-will, if not the hope ...
— The Quality of Mercy • W. D. Howells
... Rome, of course, they could not be"; then, after a moment, he added, interrogatively, "And rivers, too,—have you ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 31, May, 1860 • Various
... said interrogatively. 'Well, as you will understand, it is tolerably difficult to summarise such a mass at a moment's notice. But I can give you the lines of my last volumes, if it would interest you ...
— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... 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 ...
— Clayhanger • Arnold Bennett
... Arabic. It was a tongue unknown to them all and they chose to consider it Italian. Moreover, one Ashton Hanks, a member of the Chicago board of trade, at the hotel for the season, had said to the menagerie, jerking his thumb interrogatively at me, as I was busied in the background with the camel, 'Italiano? Italiano?' To which Baldissano replied, 'Si, signor,' meaning 'yes,' thinking of course that Hanks meant him. 'Boss? Padrone?' said Hanks again, and again the answer ...
— The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton • Wardon Allan Curtis
... said 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 ...
— Aikenside • Mary J. Holmes
... 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
... of the kind," replied the physician, and his deep voice was gloomily in keeping with his personality. "I had observed a certain breathlessness at times, however. No doubt it is one of those cases of unsuspected endocarditis. Acute. I take it," raising his shaggy brows interrogatively, "that nothing had occurred ...
— Fire-Tongue • Sax Rohmer
... round interrogatively. TAMMAS eyed him with one of his keen glances. Then he worked his mouth round and round to clear ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 99, November 15, 1890 • Various
... groaned. "My God! How am I to tell her? To crush her in the very hour of her deliverance with such news as this! Was ever irony so cruel?" He turned, and stepped heavily to the door. There he paused. "You will remain by him to the end?" he bade the surgeon interrogatively. ...
— The Sea-Hawk • Raphael Sabatini
... country. This is just the season of the year to enjoy the bracing air. We have a little horse in the stable that would delight you, if you are a judge of equine flesh. Its very name indicates what it is—Black Beauty. You ride, of course?"—this interrogatively. ...
— Pretty Madcap Dorothy - How She Won a Lover • Laura Jean Libbey
... come," I say more affirmatively than interrogatively, for I have no doubt on the subject. "Why did not the groom wait for ...
— Nancy - A Novel • Rhoda Broughton
... bewilderment at his conduct, her old longing to comprehend it, reviving with something of the old force. 'Could it have been...? Could it have been...?' And an old guess, an old theory, one she had never spoken to anybody, but had pondered much in silence, again presented itself interrogatively to ...
— Grey Roses • Henry Harland
... clasped his 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 known to laugh), and with a look ...
— Hide and Seek • Wilkie Collins
... you 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 ...
— Tonio, Son of the Sierras - A Story of the Apache War • Charles King
... on my ship as she would be in my house. I suppose what made me feel easier about it, and took the queerness off some, was my having my own girls along last voyage. To be sure, it ain't quite the same thing," said the captain, interrogatively. ...
— The Lady of the Aroostook • W. D. Howells
... made him a noticeable lad, even in the great city school, where he had only been one of scores of well-dressed, well-trained boys. Allie studied him for a moment in silence; then she gave a little contented nod to herself, as she said interrogatively,— ...
— In Blue Creek Canon • Anna Chapin Ray
... at 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
... 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
... something I wanted especially to see you about." The face grew cloudy. "What do you think? You know I was sixteen my last birthday, just a week ago?" She paused and looked at Zephyr interrogatively. "I want to know where you are all the time now. It's awfully important. I may want to elope with you at a moment's notice!" She looked ...
— Blue Goose • Frank Lewis Nason
... 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 ...
— Queed • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... to sing the praises of his sire. But, for the first time since man and boy had met, Jeff's face assumed a hard, professional look. Bud eyed him interrogatively. ...
— Bunch Grass - A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch • Horace Annesley Vachell
... hardly to be expected," he answered—at which she raised her eyebrows interrogatively. "Calumnies which attach themselves to a name in a moment take a lifetime to remove, because such a large majority of people prefer to think the worst of each other. The Clarences will have to live down their own little difficulty. And ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand
... we have chang'd Adverbs into Nouns, and Nouns sometimes into one Part of Speech, and 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 us take ...
— Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. • Erasmus
... who opened to him looked him up and down interrogatively. "Miss Elliot is at home, but I don't know if she will see ...
— The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell
... "Stinks?" said Stalky interrogatively. Then his face grew luminous with delight. "By gum! I've got it. Horrid stinks! Turkey!" He leaped at the Irishman. "This afternoon—just after Beetle went away! She's the ...
— Stalky & Co. • Rudyard Kipling
... very interrogatively at John. Then he waved his hands, and murmured vaguely. "Sacrifices," he said. "We ...
— The Foolish Lovers • St. John G. Ervine
... not write us a word about your coming?" said Aunt Betsey, interrogatively, when the bonnet had been laid off, the dust brushed away, and the second ...
— Shoulder-Straps - A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 • Henry Morford
... fanatic. He hated no man. That indeed was the 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
... forward, caught it on the point of his lance ere it touched the ground. He drew up his horse and made a movement as though to extend the handkerchief toward the lady, who was blushing profusely at the attention she had attracted by her carelessness. The rider hesitated a moment, glanced interrogatively at Warwick, and receiving a smile in return, tied the handkerchief around the middle of his lance and quickly rejoined his comrades at the head ...
— The House Behind the Cedars • Charles W. Chesnutt
... fit for it. So there wasn't no comfort in it one way or another; an' I made up my mind I'd tell you, an' you can tell Mr. Rutherford; an' anyhow I'll come out fair an' even chances with Theodore. Mr. Rutherford will maybe think this is worse than fightin' an' blowin' out?" interrogatively and wistfully. ...
— Uncle Rutherford's Nieces - A Story for Girls • Joanna H. Mathews
... 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 ...
— Birds in Town and Village • W. H. Hudson
... upon this 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 outside and salmon-coloured inside, ...
— The Beth Book - Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius • Sarah Grand
... said interrogatively, again laughing, and then calmly and seriously sat back in his chair. Anna Pavlovna waited for him to go on, but as he seemed quite decided to say no more she began to tell of how at Potsdam the impious Bonaparte had stolen the sword of ...
— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy
... 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, without a ...
— The Dream Doctor • Arthur B. Reeve
... 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
... call upon you, explicitly, to moderate your tone and pay proper deference to my authority." With this the commissary pulled out a drawer, extracted a tricolour sash and slowly buckled it round his waist, then once more turned interrogatively ...
— The Passenger from Calais • Arthur Griffiths
... this window?" he said, interrogatively, when they had shaken hands and exchanged a ...
— Brooke's Daughter - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... 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 ...
— Tommy and Grizel • J.M. Barrie
... you can be of some use in the house, as a kind of overlooker of the other servants, eh, Nancy—to prevent waste, and gadding out of doors, and so on?" said Mr. Sheldon, interrogatively. ...
— Birds of Prey • M. E. Braddon
... Walton (?)" interrogatively this—"might not follow the Italian so easily, and I ...
— The Seaboard Parish Vol. 2 • George MacDonald
... 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 agreement with the Hebrew original; ...
— Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, v. 1 • Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
... he laughed 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
... 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 big tree of ...
— An Outcast of the Islands • Joseph Conrad
... laid down his spoon and smiled interrogatively. "Oh, facts—what are facts! Just the way a thing happens to ...
— Short Stories for English Courses • Various (Rosa M. R. Mikels ed.)
... be at Abbotsmead, since Mr. Laurence Fairfax gives his countenance?" Lady Latimer suggested interrogatively. ...
— The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax • Harriet Parr
... an imaginary particle of dust off his sleeve with the greatest care, and then lifted his eyes and said, interrogatively: "Well?" ...
— Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter • Lawrence L. Lynch
... detective, interrogatively. Then he went upstairs to the dressing-room. "I think I should like to be alone in here, my lord, if ...
— The Woman's Way • Charles Garvice
... certainly very enticing; what do you think?" said Prince Shadursky interrogatively, folding ...
— The Most Interesting Stories of All Nations • Julian Hawthorne
... 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
... Mrs. Rolleston glanced interrogatively at Cecil as they met on the stairs. I don't know what answer her countenance conveyed, but they made simultaneously the same suggestion,—"Let us get Miss Prosody to dine down." They both knew that without the addition ...
— Bluebell - A Novel • Mrs. George Croft Huddleston
... interrogatively. "I thought perhaps you had an order. I met Mr. Shepson rubbing his hands on ...
— The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories • Edith Wharton
... 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. ...
— Burned Bridges • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... "the stranger within our gates" in his regular supplications. When the hour for retiring came, Seth, with a candle in his hand, preceded his wife up the staircase, but stopped before the door of their guest's room. "I reckon," he said interrogatively to Mrs. Rivers, "I oughter see ef he's ...
— Trent's Trust and Other Stories • Bret Harte
... magnificent pheasant with blue-and-white stripes, and I was afraid it was going to fly away before I got a good look at it. Now, then—"He slowly finished buckling the runners to his feet and looked up interrogatively. "What are your ...
— The Winds of Chance • Rex Beach
... indeed?" repeated Vernon interrogatively. "Can it be all for the best to have a whole batch of poems I've been racking my brains about for the last year and a half—and which even you yourself, hard as you are to please, admitted were worthy of praise—to have all these, not only rejected by every publisher I offered ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 • Various
... any harm in giving your message,' she said, half interrogatively, her timidity throwing itself upon ...
— Demos • George Gissing
... (in faint outline) on the large vacant space of Mrs. Wragge's countenance. "Oh?" she said, interrogatively. "Oh, indeed? Please, miss, will you sit down? I'm sorry—no, I don't mean I'm sorry; I mean I'm glad—" she stopped, and consulted her husband by ...
— No Name • Wilkie Collins
... "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
... 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
... my unreadiness has not marred my enjoyment of these divergent points of view. Perhaps the captain was a professional malcontent; for, looking at a Parrott rifled hundred-pounder gun which we carried on the quarter-deck, he said, interrogatively, "Not breech-loading?" "No," I answered, "breech-loading is not in favor with us at present." "And very right you are," he rejoined. I think they then (1863) still had the Armstrong breech-loading system. This incident may deserve a place in the palaeontology of gun-making. There are now, I ...
— From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life • Captain A. T. Mahan
... I drew the palace, and herself standing at the portal between the pillars: and now great was her satisfaction, for she pointed to the sketched figure, and to herself, interrogatively: and when I nodded 'yes,' she went cooing her fond murmurous laugh, with pressed and mincing lips: and it is clear that, in spite of my beatings, she is in no way ...
— The Purple Cloud • M.P. Shiel
... ring at the front door, and informed him in a whisper that Sir Philip and Miss Heredith were in the drawing-room. Thither they bent their steps, and found Musard awaiting them near the door. He nodded to Sergeant Lumbe, whom he knew, and glanced interrogatively at Caldew. ...
— The Hand in the Dark • Arthur J. Rees
... 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: ...
— Sir Dominick Ferrand • Henry James
... Capitulation of Struppen. Nothing articulate in it about the one now interesting point,—and in regard to that, I can only fancy Rutowski might interject, interrogatively, perhaps at some length: "Our soldiers to be Prisoners of War, then?" "Prisoners; yes, clearly,—unless they choose to volunteer, and have a better fate! Prisoners can volunteer. They are at discretion; they would die, if we did NOT lift our finger!" thus I suppose Winterfeld would rejoin, ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XVII. (of XXI.) - Frederick The Great—The Seven-Years War: First Campaign—1756-1757. • Thomas Carlyle
... little while. "Langhetti was fond of you?" he repeated, interrogatively, and in a ...
— Cord and Creese • James de Mille
... something of the happiness you bring!" The strength of the handshake was so much akin to that which I had noticed in the driver, whose face I had not seen, that for a moment I doubted if it were not the same person to whom I was speaking. So to make sure, I said interrogatively, "Count Dracula?" ...
— Dracula • Bram Stoker
... this peaceful scene burst the twins, flushed, tempestuous, in spite of their seventeen years. Their hurry to speak had rendered them incapable of speech, so they stood in the doorway panting breathlessly for a moment, while Fairy and her aunt, withdrawn thus rudely from dreamland, looked at them interrogatively. ...
— Prudence Says So • Ethel Hueston
... 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
... she said, interrogatively; and, as she waited for an explanation of the American's presence, surprise gave way to a look of great sternness and severity, almost of dislike. Nay more, Madame de Lera's attitude was instinct with protest—the protest ...
— The Uttermost Farthing • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... Caroline drove away from Gwynne Street, Janetta was left by the tumble-down iron gate with her father, in whose hand she had laid both her own. He looked at her interrogatively, smiled a little and said—"Well, my dear?" with a softening of his whole face which made him ...
— A True Friend - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... lady, interrogatively, with a furtive smile which was perhaps occasioned by the incongruity between the priest's sacred garb ...
— A Castle in Spain - A Novel • James De Mille
... said interrogatively. 'I have a letter for Mademoiselle. Du medecin,' she added, ...
— Missing • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... 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 |
