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INQUIRING

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inquiring adjectiv

scrutător,iscoditor, cercetător; curios;

an inquiring glance o privire scrutătoare;

an inquiring look o privire întrebătoare;

ours is an inquiring age secolul nostru este un secol iscoditor;

he is of an inquiring disposition e curios din fire, are un spirit iscoditor.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

I cannot say—I really cannot say—that I was glad to see Mr. Micawber there; but I was glad to see him too, and shook hands with him, heartily, inquiring how Mrs. Micawber was.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

And so she began inquiring after her directly, saying, 'I know you cannot have heard from Jane lately, because it is not her time for writing;' and when I immediately said, 'But indeed we have, we had a letter this very morning,'

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

She retreated from the window, fearful of being seen; and as she walked up and down the room, endeavouring to compose herself, saw such looks of inquiring surprise in her uncle and aunt as made everything worse.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

Catherine was not so much engaged at the theatre that evening, in returning the nods and smiles of Miss Thorpe, though they certainly claimed much of her leisure, as to forget to look with an inquiring eye for Mr. Tilney in every box which her eye could reach; but she looked in vain.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

Oh! yes—Mr. Elton, I understand—certainly as to dancing—Mrs. Cole was telling me that dancing at the rooms at Bath was—Mrs. Cole was so kind as to sit some time with us, talking of Jane; for as soon as she came in, she began inquiring after her, Jane is so very great a favourite there.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

The bride and her mother could neither of them talk fast enough; and Wickham, who happened to sit near Elizabeth, began inquiring after his acquaintance in that neighbourhood, with a good humoured ease which she felt very unable to equal in her replies.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

I slept in a room on the same floor with my aunt's, and was a little disturbed in the course of the night by her knocking at my door as often as she was agitated by a distant sound of hackney-coaches or market-carts, and inquiring, if I heard the engines?

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I would beg to be allowed a start of five minutes by the clock; and then to receive the present company, inquiring for Miss Wickfield, at the office of Wickfield and Heep, whose Stipendiary I am.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

A man, sitting in a pigeon-hole-place, looked out of the fog, and took money from somebody, inquiring if I was one of the gentlemen paid for, and appearing rather doubtful (as I remember in the glimpse I had of him) whether to take the money for me or not.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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