Not aware of ever having seen the person before, he made an errand into the cook's department to see who the girl was. He, however, met her in the hall, as she was about going out. "Whom did you wish to see?" he inquired. "Miss Gertrude," was the reply. "What did you want to see her for?" he again asked. "My mistress told me to give her and Master Henry her compliments, and ask them to come over and spend the evening."
"Who is your mistress?" he eagerly inquired. Miller, sir," responded the girl. "And what's your name?" asked Henry, with a trembling voice.英文原著 · 《Clotelle》
She conceived, one day, as she listened to reading, that she heard an intimation that Jesus was married, and hastily inquired if Jesus had a wife. 'What!' said the reader, 'God have a wife?' 'Is Jesus God? ' inquired Isabella. 'Yes, to be sure he is,' was the answer returned. From this time, her conceptions of Jesus became more elevated and spiritual; and she sometimes spoke of him as God, in accordance with the teaching she had received.英文原著 · 《The Narrative of Sojourner Truth》
Never before had the lad been within four walls. "Eat," said Cameron when the ordered meal was placed before them. The lad was obviously ravenous and needed no further urging. "How long since you left the reserve?" inquired Cameron. The youth held up three fingers. "Good going," said Cameron, letting his eye run down the lines of the Indian's lithe figure. "Smoke?" inquired Cameron when the meal was finished. The lad's eye gleamed, but he shook his head.英文原著 · 《The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail》
She inquired about Mrs. Brindley and then about Stanley Baird. Finding that he was in Italy, she inquired: ``Do you happen to know his address?''英文原著 · 《The Price She Paid》
She pull-ed off her gown of green, And put on ragged attire, And to fair London she would go Her true love to inquire.英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
An elegant, irreproachable, high-minded model of dignity and reserve has just knocked and inquired what we will have for dinner. It is very embarrassing to give orders to a person who looks like a judge of the Supreme Court, but I said languidly, "What would you suggest?"英文原著 · 《A Cathedral Courtship》