interrogent

Updated: May 24, 2025

Ils nous interrogent de son manger. Ils demeurent les heures entieres, et quelquesfois plusieurs, afin de la pouuoir ouyr parler." "What does the Captain say?" was the frequent question; for by this title of honor they designated the clock. "When he strikes twelve times, he says, 'Hang on the kettle'; and when he strikes four times, he says, 'Get up, and go home."

Francis Parkman - The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century