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Use asking in a sentence

Sentences starting with asking

Asking that you will join me, I give you his memory. [5]
Asking about the Russian prisoners with that detachment, Dolokhov said: "A horrid business dragging these corpses about with one! [2]
Asking ourselves these questions, we enter the Plaster Cove tavern. [4]

Sentences ending with asking

I will tell them the truth, and you shall have the post for the asking. [9]
She sat up straight, with pride in her eyes, for was it not a great prince, as she thought, asking? [11]
Is it Irish, or--do you mind my asking? [11]
What's the good of asking? [11]
And you do not know what you are asking. [9]
She turned upon me and replied, "Ah, monsieur, I hoped you would--without my asking. [11]
You'll die and know all, or cease asking. [2]
She could have induced him to study the making of Latin verse by the mere asking. [9]
He said if I warn't so ignorant, but had read a book called Don Quixote, I would know without asking. [5]
I am asking, Hugh, asking. [9]

Short sentences using asking

He wrote asking for relief. [5]

Sentences containing asking two or more times

What is the difference between asking me for the worth of a shirt and asking me for the shirt itself? [5]

More example sentences with the word asking in them

I am not your inquisitor, but your bishop and your friend, and I am asking for your confidence. [9]
I'm not asking you to do that. [9]
I'm merely asking you to be friendly with him. [9]
I'm not asking you to be a detective,--I only want you to give me warning if we are to have a strike. [9]
Pray, what set you to asking me this? [6]
And they say you put up a notice sudden like, without asking them, that there'd be two long shifts instead of three eight-hour ones. [9]
I am asking you if the colonel is here. [2]
Now why are you asking silly questions about the Fire Brigade? [2]
His mother had written him, asking why he stayed so long in an unimportant city, he who had been so active a traveler hitherto. [4]
I knowed he would see I was wet, and then he would be asking questions. [5]
I knew it without asking, but I wanted to hear you say it. [5]
I don't hold with the unions--you know it well, sir, or you wouldn't be asking me advice. [9]
Sketching the outlines with a few hasty strokes, he seized the brush, and while hurriedly guiding it and mixing the colors, he saw in fancy Costa standing before him, asking him to paint his portrait. [10]
At this the widow held Mary's ankles more tightly, asking, while she wiped the drops from her brow: "What is going on? [10]
The old count, who noticed her blanched face, released her, asking sympathisingly what troubled her, but Els did not hear him. [10]
But for a whim, perhaps, she had come at last without asking, and as a consequence Luc returned to the world, a mere bundle of bones. [11]
In the hall, which was lighted up, Dorothea came hastily to meet him, asking, "No news yet of Polykarp? [10]
On my asking where the model came from, he said it was taken direct from the arm of a deformed person, who had employed one of the Italian moulders to make the cast. [6]
On asking him what was the number of his room, he answered, that it was forty-'leven, sky-parlor floor, but that I shouldn't find it, if he did n't go ahead to show me the way. [6]
He comes asking what has become of Emerson's "wasted power" and lamenting his lack of "fruitage," and lo! [6]
The telegraph wires were thrilling almost hourly with messages of death, and the long pine boxes came by almost every train,--no need of asking what they held. [6]
Six days ago--it was that raw day which provoked so much comment--my daughter was on her way up from New York, and at noon she telegraphed me from New Haven asking that I meet her with a cloak at Portsmouth. [5]
Just as I was leaving here I got a telegram from London asking for the speech for a New York paper. [5]
Now the time was come for asking whether she would permit him to beg her father's leave to woo her. [10]
Presently, indeed, it was beyond my power, and I could only smile feebly at my Lord when I heard Dolly asking him that the hostlers might be more quiet. [9]
Yet--" His mind was asking itself if this was a door opening, which he had no right to shut with his own hand. [11]
There was nothing very surprising, therefore, in his asking a question not very closely related to what had gone before. [6]
He received them very kindly, and at once showed an interest in Nell; asking her name, and age, her birthplace, the circumstances which had led her there, and so forth. [12]
There is no use, let me say here, in addressing to me letters marked "personal," "private," "confidential," and so forth, asking me how I came to know what happened in certain conversations of which I shall give a partial account. [6]
The pirate, unconfused, undismayed, with his wide blue asking eyes, came forward and dropped upon his knees. [11]
I believe I turned over a despatch to you from some persons there, asking a suspension, so as for them to be heard, or something of the sort. [7]
To tell the truth, Mr. Crewe returned the feeling of his companions warmly, and he had even entertained the idea of asking them both to dine with him that evening. [9]
These did not trouble Maude, who often annoyed me by asking naive questions herself. [9]
He thought she took pleasure in having him push her wheel-chair up and down the piazza at least she rewarded him by grateful looks, and complimented him by asking his advice about reading and about being useful to others. [4]
He forthwith decided to write, asking Dyck to send him outline of his scheme against the rebels. [11]
One of them, to whom she had partially explained the situation, ended by asking her, "Are you going to contest the will? [4]
A maid came to the door to say that Alpatych was asking for orders about their departure. [2]
Later he decided to stop asking for the floor, and to confer it upon himself. [5]
So he wrote to Shiz, asking a cessation of hostilities, and offering to give up his kingdom to save his people. [5]
When he returned to Moscow Pierre was handed a letter from Marya Dmitrievna asking him to come and see her on a matter of great importance relating to Andrew Bolkonski and his betrothed. [2]
They were trying to keep from asking, "Is--is he dead? [5]
Pierre went up to his friend and, asking whether they were talking secrets, sat down beside them. [2]
There had come to him, without the asking even, that which Joel Mazarine, had he been as rich as any man alive or dead, could not have bought. [11]
On Mark's return to Hartford, Wood received a letter asking if he would do Mark a great favor by printing something he had written, which he did not care to entrust to the ordinary printer. [5]
So he prepared to go in search of the cart, but the landlord of The Pike met him at the door, and, angrily asking what ailed him that day, ordered him to fetch the Erbach, more of which was wanted inside. [10]
Toll read them to Ermolov, asking him to attend to the further arrangements. [2]
He had nothing to do in Moscow, but he had noticed that everyone in the army was asking for leave to visit Moscow and had something to do there. [2]
He had come to confide his troubles to her, and she kindly lightened the task for him by asking why he had not gone to breakfast with the Pelusinians. [10]
He wrote asking to come and see me, but I went to him in Dalton Street the day I returned. [9]
Then he wrote to Chicago and St. Louis newspapers asking for a situation as "paragrapher"--enclosing a taste of his quality in the shape of two stanzas of "humorous rhymes. [5]
He was used to being neglected by the people who ran after his younger colleague; and the attention paid him in asking him to be present on an important occasion, as he understood this to be, pleased him greatly. [6]
They are asking to attack and making plans of all kinds, but as soon as one gets to business nothing is ready, and the enemy, forewarned, takes measures accordingly. [2]
Then Papias grew tired and cross and kept asking where Agne was, till at last he began to cry. [10]
He was scarcely three years older than herself; he was eighteen--but in spite of his youth and simplicity he was not unmanly; and there was something in him--something that compelled her to be constantly thinking of him and asking herself what that something was. [10]
She had no thought of consulting the man again, of asking his permission. [9]
Who has ever thought of asking what compulsion led me to shed blood, or how much it cost me to do it? [10]
He had not thought of asking its value; indeed, only a connoisseur would have perceived it; and as the circlet was not showy and well became her beautiful arm, Barine liked to wear it. [10]
I hear of those remarkable things you have done--even in New York the other day a man was asking me if I knew Mr. Paret, and spoke of you as one of the coming men. [9]
At the sound they turned and ran toward me, asking how I felt. [9]
He kept asking them to get him the book and put it under him. [2]
The soldiers in the yard, hearing the shot, came into the passage asking what had happened, and expressed their readiness to punish the culprits, but the officer sternly checked them. [2]
For instance, on the twenty-eighth it is suggested to him to cross to the Kaluga road, but just then an adjutant gallops up from Miloradovich asking whether he is to engage the French or retire. [2]
Henderson was under the spell of this evening when the next, in response to a note asking him to call for a moment on business, he was shown into the Eschelle drawing-room. [4]
Presently Michael Clones, the servant of Dyck Calhoun, came also to say that the Vincent was the ship bringing Calhoun's hounds from Cuba, and asking permit for delivery. [11]
On the 15th the particulars of the Vienna revolution and Metternich's flight reached Berlin; and we, too, learned the news, and heard our mother and her friends asking anxiously, "How will this end? [10]
The ribbon of the order is a different matter...." When everybody rose to go, Helene who had spoken very little all the evening again turned to Boris, asking him in a tone of caressing significant command to come to her on Tuesday. [2]
Banks brought me the news that Lord Comyn was sitting up, and had been asking for me that day; that he was recovering beyond belief. [9]
And suddenly, in the most casual tone, which made him feel ashamed of himself, he said, as if merely asking his father to let him have the carriage to drive to town: "Papa, I have come on a matter of business. [2]
Daily they told the morning lie, and confessed their sin in prayer; not asking forgiveness, as not being worthy of it, but only wishing to make record that they realized their wickedness and were not desiring to hide it or excuse it. [5]
It sits in the midst of a vast dead-level, and one is obliged to imagine that land may be had for the asking, and no taxes to pay, so lavishly do they use it. [5]
After these rebuffs, the editor delivered him over to the manager, who could turn Beaton's contrary-mindedness to account by asking the reverse of what he really wanted done. [8]
She talked about the dogs, about the caves, the valley, about how hungry she was, till Venters silenced her, asking her to put off further talk till another time. [13]
The soldier--it was the centurion Martialis, who had been banished to the Pontus--still accompanied them, but Melissa's aching head pained her so much that she did not think of asking who he was or why he was with them. [10]
I remained behind the barn a good while, asking myself how I would feel if my braver, stronger, truer comrades should catch me in my degradation. [5]
You mustn't think that, in asking you, I am unfair to him in any way--or that I doubt his sincerity. [9]
Thus it was that she wrote to Queen Elizabeth, asking that "this arrant foe of France, this churl, conspirator, and reviler of the Sacraments, be rendered unto our hands for well-deserved punishment as warning to all such evil-doers. [11]
It was plain that it would not do to pass that drugstore again, though --we might go on asking directions, but we must cease from following finger-pointings if we hoped to check the suspicions of the disaffected member. [5]
What was it that compelled their talk about themselves, that made them refrain from asking those questions about Boston, and why she had come back? [9]
Among the invitations that came was one from General O. O. Howard asking him to preside at a meeting to raise an endowment fund for a Lincoln Memorial University at Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. [5]
And we know that America stands ready to welcome all other oppressed peoples and offer her abundance to all that come, without asking what their nationality is, or their creed or color. [5]
The eight or ten thousand pounds necessary was not, however, easy to get for the start, and he hadn't the least notion of discounting the future, by asking the admiral's help. [11]
He had forborne telling her of her son; and she, whenever she had seen him, had contented herself with asking general questions, dreading in her heart that Jock had died a dreadful or shameful death, or else this gentleman would, voluntarily, say more. [11]
His name was Tarautas, and he was known throughout the empire as the most brutal of gladiators, for he had also earned the further privilege of never fighting but for life or death, and never under any circumstances either granting or asking quarter. [10]
They did not talk seriously to him; when reporting to him or asking for his sanction they appeared to be fulfilling a regrettable formality, but they winked behind his back and tried to mislead him at every turn. [2]
I would therefore take the liberty of asking whether you are the author of said article, or any other over the same signature which has appeared in any of the late numbers of that paper. [7]
One day she surprised Miss McDonald by asking her if she didn't think that rich people were the only ones not free to do as they pleased? [4]
He had rushed straight forward, without asking himself whither; now he reached a busy street and checked his career. [10]
It's the same story we all have to tell,--said he, when I had done reading.---We are all asking questions nowadays. [6]
I remember Thackeray's story of his asking some simple question of a royal or semi-royal personage whom he met in the courtyard of an hotel, which question his Highness did not answer, but called a subordinate to answer for him. [6]
Suddenly Prince Hippolyte started up making signs to everyone to attend, and asking them all to be seated began: "I was told a charming Moscow story today and must treat you to it. [2]
First let me speak; and then open the door, and if I want to fly let me go without saying or asking me another word.--Give me that chair; I must sit down. [10]
Well, I've fancied so myself, and I've had an idea of some time asking him; Fulkerson strikes one as truly domesticable, conjugable at heart; but I've waited for him to speak. [8]
A week or so after the election I received a letter from George Hutchins asking me to come to Elkington. [9]
He was so smiling and happy after that, that I could not refrain from asking him how he could possibly be so comfortable with a crushed foot. [5]
You were asking, sir, Sally told me, about our lodger. [12]
I made the sign of the Knights of the East and of Jerusalem, and he responded in the same manner, asking me with a mild smile what I had learned and gained in the Prussian and Scottish lodges. [2]
We are very shy of asking questions of those who know enough to destroy with one word the hopes we live on. [6]
It was thus she would have chosen to sleep, and not to have wronged her humble devotion in life by asking to lie at the side of those whom she had served so long and faithfully. [6]
Every leisure hour she had thought of her lost playfellow, every day she had talked to his father about him, asking whether he would rather see him return as a famous artist, a skilful smith, or commander of a splendid ship. [10]
In some respects she certainly is not my equal; but in her natural right to eat the bread she earns with her own hands, without asking leave of any one else, she is my equal and the equal of all others. [7]

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