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Inquired in sentence

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I have retained Serjeant Snubbin.''Is he a good man?' inquired Mr. Pickwick.
'Is the Serjeant in his room, Mr. Mallard?' inquired Perker, offering his box with all imaginable courtesy.
'Have you read the papers, Mr. Phunky?' inquired the Serjeant.
'How long has it been running?' inquired Mr. Ben Allen.
Rather a good accident brought into the casualty ward.''What was that, sir?' inquired Mr. Pickwick.
'Only a man fallen out of a four pair of stairs' window; but it's a very fair case indeed.''Do you mean that the patient is in a fair way to recover?' inquired Mr. Pickwick.
'And I should be very sorry, Sawyer, to create any disturbance in the street in which you reside,' said Mr. Gunter, 'but I'm afraid I shall be under the necessity of alarming the neighbours by throwing the person who has just spoken, out o' window.''What do you mean by that, sir?' inquired Mr. Noddy.
'Why not, Sir?' inquired Mr. Noddy.
They are very violent people, the people of the house.''Shall I step upstairs, and pitch into the landlord?' inquired Hopkins, 'or keep on ringing the bell, or go and groan on the staircase?
Sam had solaced himself with a most agreeable little dinner, and was waiting at the bar for the glass of warm mixture in which Mr. Pickwick had requested him to drown the fatigues of his morning's walks, when a young boy of about three feet high, or thereabouts, in a hairy cap and fustian overalls, whose garb bespoke a laudable ambition to attain in time the elevation of an hostler, entered the passage of the George and Vulture, and looked first up the stairs, and then along the passage, and then into the bar, as if in search of somebody to whom he bore a commission; whereupon the barmaid, conceiving it not improbable that the said commission might be directed to the tea or table spoons of the establishment, accosted the boy with--'Now, young man, what do you want?''Is there anybody here, named Sam?' inquired the youth, in a loud voice of treble quality.
'What old gen'l'm'n?' inquired Sam, with deep disdain.
Rightly conjecturing that this was the Blue Boar himself, he stepped into the house, and inquired concerning his parent.
'No better yet?' inquired Sam.
'Wot'll be a trial?' inquired Sam.
'Why don't you look at it, then?' inquired Mr. Weller.
'But don't you think it means more?' inquired Sam.
That's all,' said Sam.'That's rather a Sudden pull-up, ain't it, Sammy?' inquired Mr. Weller.
Finding that it was of no use to discuss the matter further, Sam changed the subject, and inquired what the second topic was, on which his revered parent wished to consult him.
'This here Stiggins--''Red-nosed man?' inquired Sam.
'Wot does he mean by the soft sex, Sammy?' inquired Mr. Weller, in a whisper.
'And wot are you a-goin' to do, the while?' inquired Sam.
'Why so?' inquired Mr. Pickwick.
'Anybody with you, Brother Snubbin?' inquired the court.
'There is no date to that, is there?' inquired a juror.
He inquired within--he took the lodgings; and on the very next day he entered into possession of them.
'What were you doing in the back room, ma'am?' inquired the little judge.
'What's your Christian name, Sir?' angrily inquired the little judge.
'Nathaniel, Sir.''Daniel--any other name?''Nathaniel, sir--my Lord, I mean.''Nathaniel Daniel, or Daniel Nathaniel?''No, my Lord, only Nathaniel--not Daniel at all.''What did you tell me it was Daniel for, then, sir?' inquired the judge.
'What's your name, sir?' inquired the judge.
'Do you spell it with a "V" or a "W"?' inquired the judge.
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