"Interrogatively" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 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
... Boston, girls like that one are as thick as blackb'ries?" uncle Jerry said, jerking his head interrogatively in Rebecca's direction. ...
— Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... had consulted only his own inclination he would be here now, overseeing this job," remarked Harold, half interrogatively. ...
— Christmas with Grandma Elsie • Martha Finley
... 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
... this very moment. 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
... head to the other side interrogatively. He had been spoken to by Toomey in that voice of authority, but the words were new to him. He felt that he was expected to do something, but he knew not what. He liked the voice—it was something like Toomey's. ...
— Kings in Exile • Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
... so interrogatively that the mulatto began, in a strained, earnest voice, telling the constable precisely what had happened in regard ...
— Birthright - A Novel • T.S. Stribling
... advanced to the ropes. "Final of the Junior Officers' Light-weights!" he announced. "Midshipman Harcourt on the left—green; Midshipman Mordaunt on my right—red," and added the name of their ship. He looked from one to the other interrogatively, and they nodded in turn. Stepping back he resumed his seat amid ...
— The Long Trick • Lewis Anselm da Costa Ritchie
... watched her interrogatively the colour faded from her face. The relief of hearing that homespun plan had chilled her blood, and she was faint for an instant with the sickness of hearty youth that only knows it feels odd to itself and concludes the strangeness is of the ...
— The Prisoner • Alice Brown
... 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 given the ...
— The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake • Laura Lee Hope
... 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
... 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 ...
— The Lilac Sunbonnet • S.R. Crockett
... an immense 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 ...
— A Modern Telemachus • Charlotte M. Yonge
... him as he jumped down on to the deck; "Espagnoles, Capitaine; Poisson, Santander; grand tempete," and he motioned with his arms to signify that they had been blown offshore at Santander. Then he pointed in several directions towards the south, and looked interrogatively. ...
— Under Wellington's Command - A Tale of the Peninsular War • G. A. Henty
... eh?" said Simpson, interrogatively. "I would if I were you. You can't tell where you're going or whom you'll meet. Why, you can 'do' yourself if you object to ...
— Crowded Out! and Other Sketches • Susie F. Harrison
... suspicion that something might have betrayed him to her, he answered, interrogatively, 'My godfathers and my godmothers, ...
— Our Mutual Friend • Charles Dickens
... haven't been observing my directions," he rebukingly replied. "Stockings," another heedlessly ventured to answer. "Wrong again—worse than ever," wrathfully exclaimed the magister. "Well?" he continued interrogatively to a lad near him. "Please, sir," then he paused—perhaps he thought it might sound funny, but he felt it must be right, and ...
— Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories - A Book for Bairns and Big Folk • Robert Ford
... Tashtego stood in the bows. He was full of the fire of the hunt. He hated Pip for a poltroon. Snatching the boat-knife from its sheath, he suspended its sharp edge over the line, and turning towards Stubb, exclaimed interrogatively, cut? meantime pip's blue, choked face plainly looked, Do, for God's sake! All passed in a flash. In less than half a minute, this entire thing happened. Damn him, cut! roared Stubb; and so the whale was lost and Pip was saved. So soon as ...
— Moby-Dick • Melville
... 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 acquiescence, and ...
— Treasure Valley • Marian Keith
... 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
... 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 it. The news that she was staying at Dowlands, ...
— Evelyn Innes • George Moore
... interrogatively. No, Gervaise had never been; Madame Fauconnier neither, nor Boche, nor the others. Coupeau thought he had been one Sunday, but he was not sure. They hesitated, however, when Madame Lorilleux, greatly impressed by Monsieur Madinier's importance, thought the suggestion a very worthy and ...
— L'Assommoir • Emile Zola
... parting, so that it fell about his white collar behind, lankly. He wore gold-rimmed spectacles, which magnified his oblique eyes and lent him a terrifying beetle-like appearance. His mephistophelean eyebrows were raised interrogatively, and he was smiling so as to exhibit a ...
— The Yellow Claw • Sax Rohmer
... in a perfect tumult of suspense. "What he recites is long?" he said, interrogatively, with profound interest. "You have heard him say much more than this at times? The words he has just uttered are not those of the ...
— The Great Taboo • Grant Allen
... 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 he measured ...
— Aikenside • Mary J. Holmes
... to say that the day before there had been some confidential passages between us, which began by his expressing, interrogatively, the opinion that "mademoiselle was a young lady, he supposed." When mademoiselle had assured him, on the contrary, that she was a venerable matron, mother of a thriving family, then followed a little ...
— Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands V2 • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... still placidly burning in the hall, but its position had certainly been shifted by at least three feet. It was much nearer the portiere leading to the inner hall. Hugo listened intently. Not a sound! And he stared interrogatively at the candle as though the candle were a ...
— Hugo - A Fantasia on Modern Themes • Arnold Bennett
... 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, ...
— Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. • Erasmus
... unfortunate Englishman was to be seen. If he did not fall into the crevasse his body may be recovered in the spring—but hardly before. Yes, his pocket-book and his hat, monsieur." A sudden gleam came into the little innkeeper's eyes, and he spoke somewhat interrogatively—"Monsieur arrived ...
— Under False Pretences - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... 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
... 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
... 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 ...
— Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet • Captain Marryat
... 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 ...
— The Rocks of Valpre • Ethel May Dell
... all this means?" he said interrogatively, leaning forward as he spoke. "You remember ...
— Recalled to Life • Grant Allen
... by the sense of touch and the force of habit, for blinding tears intervened between his vision and the rusty old buckles and worn straps of leather. The animal seemed to understand that something was amiss, and now and then turned his head interrogatively. Somehow Birt was glad to feel that he left at least one friend in the tanyard, albeit the humblest, for he had always treated the beast with kindness, and he was sure the mule would ...
— Down the Ravine • Charles Egbert Craddock (real name: Murfree, Mary Noailles)
... anything 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 to ...
— Fire-Tongue • Sax Rohmer
... Mathers was not yet so hardened as to laugh and look back defiantly at his son. He, however, recovered his self-composure, tried to make himself believe that he was in his perfect right, and in a well-feigned voice—"Well?" he said interrogatively. ...
— The Silver Lining - A Guernsey Story • John Roussel
... eh? upon an honest frown of inquiry plucked an answer out of Willoughby that was meant to be humourously scornful, and soon became apologetic under the Doctor's interrogatively grasping gaze. ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... 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 in these days when locomotion was making such strides. She ...
— Major Vigoureux • A. T. Quiller-Couch
... Why try? Facts are just what they are. I will be all right here. I am learning to sing. Mr. Fortescue says that I have a voice. That's his name. He is a good man, you can be sure." "He loves you?" I interrupted. Zoe did not answer. "He wants to marry you?" I said, half interrogatively. "I don't believe I am made for marriage," said Zoe. "Where ...
— Children of the Market Place • Edgar Lee Masters
... your friend, your old partner," said the manager half sympathetically, half interrogatively. "There has been a drop out in everything the bank is carrying, and everybody is unloading. Two firms failed in 'Frisco yesterday that were carrying things for the bank, and have thrown everything back on it. There was an awful panic last night, and they say none of the big speculators ...
— The Three Partners • Bret Harte
... who 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 ...
— Clayhanger • Arnold Bennett
... 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
... 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
... 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
... "Yes, sir." But the captain, silent, leaned a little forward grasping the door handle. So he, Franklin, walked aft keeping his eyes on him. When he had come up quite close he said again, "Yes, sir?" interrogatively. Still silence. The mate didn't like to be stared at in that manner, a manner quite new in his captain, with a defiant and self-conscious stare, like a man who feels ill and dares you to notice it. Franklin ...
— Chance • Joseph Conrad
... his brows, interrogatively, McLean dropped one hand upon the boy's shoulder, a bit of pride ...
— Then I'll Come Back to You • Larry Evans
... and looked at him interrogatively. But seeing that Sir John did not intend to say more, ...
— The Companions of Jehu • Alexandre Dumas
... 239wish to distinguish yourself, I won't be the man to hinder you—it's few enough of 'em are like you here, I expect"; then, sotto voce, "wish t'other young monkey might be". "You hinted before dinner at some information I might be able to give you?" said I interrogatively. ...
— Frank Fairlegh - Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil • Frank E. Smedley
... is no instance so striking as this of the immense difference that sometimes lies in the mere accent given one monosyllable. Until Mrs. Siddons revealed the real Lady Macbeth, every actress had replied, "We fail?" interrogatively, and then encouragingly, "Screw your courage to the sticking-point and we'll not fail." Such the commonplace reciters. When genius touched the word it flashed and sparkled. Then came the prompt response. "We ...
— James Watt • Andrew Carnegie
... had 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 looking up. ...
— Tonio, Son of the Sierras - A Story of the Apache War • Charles King
... of the bank, not far from where Dacres and Mrs. 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 ...
— The American Baron • James De Mille
... thought I'd flushed a very 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
... whistle was blowing; the bell was ringing; Ann was whimpering; when a belated-looking 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
... ktypou e egaget'. ouchi]; interrogatively, thus: "Ye were making a noise. Will ye ...
— The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. • Euripides
... much fatigued?" the Frenchwoman said, interrogatively, with a look of intense sympathy, as she placed an arm-chair ...
— Lady Audley's Secret • Mary Elizabeth Braddon |
