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"Cross-question" Quotes from Famous Books

... came, and began to cross-question her. She blushed as red as fire, and at last burst into such a paroxysm of weeping, that the old gentleman left her room and went down to the ...

— Tales of Two Countries • Alexander Kielland

... 'You cross-question me rather unfairly,' he replied, 'and I do not know why I answer you at all. Mrs Bold is a very beautiful woman, and as intelligent as beautiful. It is impossible to know her without ...

— Barchester Towers • Anthony Trollope

... that he had the ringleader, and that the rest would not move without him. "Now!" he exclaimed, when he had got him on the quarterdeck. "Confess who are your accomplices, and what you intended to do! Remember, no falsehood! I shall cross-question the others. If you are ...

— James Braithwaite, the Supercargo - The Story of his Adventures Ashore and Afloat • W.H.G. Kingston

... ticket, I think, my lady. Yes, just so. I found a nice old hag waiting to claim her five pounds reward; for, you see, the men at the police-office at Murford Haven contrived to keep her dancing attendance backward and forwards—call again in an hour, and so on—till I was there to cross-question her. A precious deep one she is, too; and a regular jail-bird, I'll wager. I soon reckoned her up; and I was pretty sure that whatever she knew she'd tell fast enough, if she was only paid her price. So, after a good deal of shilly-shally, ...

— Run to Earth - A Novel • M. E. Braddon

... are you getting at?" Fenn demanded hotly. "And what right have you to stand there and cross-question me?" ...

— The Devil's Paw • E. Phillips Oppenheim

Words linked to "Cross-question" : question, interrogative, cross-examination, cross question, interrogation, interrogative sentence