But here it seemed to Levin that just as they were close upon the real point of the matter, they were again retreating, and he made up his mind to put a
question to the professor.
Gradgrind, 'it is difficult to answer your
question - '
As to the second
question, "What is the exact distance which separates the earth from its satellite?"
It is but a superficial mode of examining into this
question to begin with the place and the people; for it may happen that these may be divided from that, or that some one of them may live in one place, and some in another (but this
question may be regarded as no very knotty one; for, as a city may acquire that appellation on many accounts, it may be solved many ways); and in like manner, when men inhabit one common place, when shall we say that they inhabit the same city, or that the city is the same?
"Now, I have asked you a
question, my friend," said Mr.
As to the
question of the name, I saw it now in the light in which I ought to have seen it from the first.
On my arrival at New York the
question was at its height.
I shall return to the
question of appropriateness later; for the present it is accuracy that I wish to consider.
This prophecy pleased Pierre very much and he often asked himself what would put an end to the power of the beast, that is, of Napoleon, and tried by the same system of using letters as numbers and adding them up, to find an answer to the
question that engrossed him.
Graham's" remarkable
question, addressed to the landlady, had related to legal business, and to the discovery of a trust-worthy person capable of transacting it for her.
Then, after a moment's pause, during which he studied closely his companion's imperturbable face, he added the
question which forced its way to his lips.
It was only a
question of hurrying again, for a few preparations, to the house which the attendance at church of so many of the servants would practically have left unoccupied.