I askedaska page or two back , what is a gentleman ?
I was interested in this and anxious to see if I had understood , so I showedshowhim a red and blue pencil I carried , and askedaskagain .
I adjuredadjurehim to write by the first post and to agree with us for an early hearing ; then I askedaskhim if the experience in question had been his own .
And one day he had askedask: -- What is your name ?
Then Nasty Roche had askedask: -- Is he a magistrate ?
Some saidsayMarner must have been in a " fitfit" , a word which seemed to explain things otherwise incredible ; but the argumentative Mr. Macey , clerk of the parish , shookshakehis head , and askedaskif anybody was ever known to go off in a fit and not fall down .
He askedaskme what reasons , more than a mere wandering inclination , I had for leaving father ’s house and my native country , where I might be well introduced , and had a prospect of raising my fortune by application and industry , with a life of ease and pleasure .
When Gertrude got past the hair-ribbon age , and Halsey askedaskfor a scarf-pin and putputon long trousers -- and a wonderful help that was to the darning .
PART ONE -- The Old Buccaneer 1 The Old Sea-dog at the Admiral Benbow SQUIRE TRELAWNEY , Dr. Livesey , and the rest of these gentlemen having askedaskme to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island , from the beginning to the end , keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island , and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted , I taketakeup my pen in the year of grace 17 __ and gogoback to the time when my father kept the Admiral Benbow inn and the brown old seaman with the sabre cut first tooktakeup his lodging under our roof .
When I toldtellher that I must go at once , and that I was engaged on important business , she askedaskagain : " Do you know what day it is ? "
— You could have knelt down , damn it , Kinch , when your dying mother askedaskyou , Buck Mulligan saidsay.
They knew us well enough to askaskHelen to come and see them -- at least , I was askedasktoo , but Tibby 's illness preventedpreventme , so last Monday she wentgoalone .
askedaskthe man , who was a porter in the employ of a firm doing business on Spruce Street .
“ One of the children sick in there ? ” he askedask, noddingnodtoward the partition .
I askedaskher if she reckoned Tom Sawyer would go there , and she saidsaynot by a considerable sight .
I askedaskthe waiter , and he saidsayit was called " paprika hendl , " and that , as it was a national dish , I should be able to get it anywhere along the Carpathians .
When I askedaskhim if he knew Count Dracula , and could tell me anything of his castle , both he and his wife crossedcrossthemselves , and , sayingsaythat they knew nothing at all , simply refusedrefuseto speak further .
First reason : Because Sir Henry Curtis and Captain John Good askedaskme .
Sallie taking her afternoon walk as Judy would like to see her : I askaskyou again , have you both gone mad ?
All she now began by sayingsayto him nevertheless was that , having chanced to catchcatchhis enquiryenquiry, she was moved to askask, by his leave , if it were possibly a question of Mr. Waymarsh of Milrose Connecticut -- Mr. Waymarsh the American lawyer .
Katharine , as she shookshakehands with him , askedaskhim , in her own mind , “ Now , do you think we ’re enjoying ourselves enormously ? ”
Peter had askedaskhim , of course , for Matthew Cuthbert had never been known to volunteer information about anything in his whole life .