I have been in some tough places, but this last was the worst."
"My God! it is awful--and to think that man Girty was once a white man," cried Col. "He came very near being a dead man," said Jonathan, with grim humor. "I got a long shot at him and killed his big white horse."
"It's a pity you missed him," said Silas Zane. "Here comes Wetzel. What will he say about the massacre?" remarked Major McColloch. Wetzel joined the group at that moment and shook hands with Jonathan. When interrogated about the failure of Col.英文原著 · 《Betty Zane》
It was just teatime, so I casually asked him to stay, and he did! Not for the pleasure of my society,--no, indeed,--but because Jane appeared at the moment with a plate of toasted muffins. He hadn't had any luncheon, it seems, and dinner was a long way ahead. Between muffins (he ate the whole plateful) he saw fit to interrogate me as to my preparedness for this position. Had I studied biology in college? How far had I gone in chemistry? What did I know of sociology? Had I visited that model institution at Hastings?英文原著 · 《Dear Enemy》
On being interrogated, she at length owned that she had sent these notes to Monsieur de Lamotte's lawyer, and that her husband had given them her in an envelope hidden in the soiled linen for which she had brought him clean in exchange.英文原著 · 《Derues》
On the thirteenth day following of the said month of the February before us, Hierome Cornille, et cetera, has been produced the Sister Clare above-mentioned, in order to be interrogated upon the facts and deeds to her imputed, and of them to be convicted.英文原著 · 《Droll Stories-2》
How to punish the traitor was another matter, for I could scarcely do so adequately without betraying my negligence. I determined to sleep on this, however, and, for the night, directed him to be locked into a chamber in the south-west turret, with a Swiss to guard the door; my intention being to interrogate him farther on the morrow. However, Henry sent for me so early that I was forced to postpone my examination; and, being detained by him until evening, I thought it best to tell him, before I left, what had happened.英文原著 · 《From the Memoirs of a Minister of France》
Curtis Raidler interrogated an enormous gold watch, and laid his hand on McGuire's shoulder.英文原著 · 《Heart of the West》