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"Do you think anybody would laugh at that?" Wakeham would pathetically enquire at the termination of his supremest effort. And honestly I would have to confess I did not think any living being would. "How far off do you think any one could hear that?" I would demand anxiously, on recovering sufficient breath to speak at all.
Prithee, corporal, said my uncle Toby, as soon as Trim had done it how often does Mrs. Bridget enquire after the wound on the cap of thy knee, which thou received'st at the battle of Landen? She never, an' please your honour, enquires after it at all.
Can't you see, Mark? I've been trying to make Mr. Lathrop keep watch enquire so that they wouldn't dare. I've told Gertrude that I know I've written to people I've done all I could. And this afternoon I felt I must go there and see for myself, what precautions had been taken and I met Mr. Lathrop "
A messenger had been sent on from the first frontier station to the king's camp to enquire by which road the princess, and her party should leave Megiddo.
"Orion!" repeated the younger girl, in a tone which implied that she alone had the right to enquire about him. "Yes, we came upstairs together; he went to see the wounded man. Have you anything to say to him?"
The colonel replied, "I believe, sir, I am well known to be responsible for a much larger sum than your demand on this gentleman; but, if your forms require two, I suppose the serjeant here will do for the other." "I don't know the serjeant nor you either, sir," cries Bondum; "and, if you propose yourselves bail for the gentleman, I must have time to enquire after you."
When Coleman went forth to enquire if anybody knew of the whereabouts of the Wainwright party he thought first of his fellow correspondents. He found most of them in a cafe where was to be had about the only food in the soldier-laden town. It was a slothful den where even an ordinary boiled egg could be made unpalatable.
Of the Pantomime subjects, whose origin we are going to enquire into, let us first commence with "Aladdin." According to the many versions of this popular story in Europe and Asia, it would seem that its origin originally was of Buddhist extraction.
That very day the Raja ordered messengers to follow up the banks of the stream and enquire in all the villages and question every one they met to find trace of the owner of the golden hair; so the messengers set out on both banks of the stream and followed it to its source but their search was vain and they returned without news; then holy mendicants were sent out to search and they also returned unsuccessful.
From the time of Edmund's departure, the fair Emma had many uneasy hours; she wished to enquire after him, but feared to shew any solicitude concerning him. The next day, when her brother William came into her apartment, she took courage to ask a question. "Pray, brother, can you give any guess what is become of Edmund?" "No," said he, with a sigh; "why do you ask me?"
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