Answer Sentence Examples
He put her answer down in his note book.
Alex didn't answer and it went to his voice mail, so she left a message.
If she does not know the answer to a question, she guesses with mischievous assurance.
How will you answer him?
In order to answer her questions, I have been obliged to read a great deal about animals.
He said, but didn't answer my question.
True, but her answer left Carmen's stomach tied in a knot.
That wasn't going to be the answer, and he must know that by now.
You will answer for it, Captain.
There was only one answer, of course.
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The answer was as obvious as it was embarrassing.
Accountability must be at as low a level as possible, so that if government officials mess up, they answer to constituents in their locality.
He looked intently and inquiringly into his friend's eyes, evidently trying in vain to find the answer to some question.
Connie contemplated the answer and nodded.
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He did not know whom to answer, and for a few seconds collected his thoughts.
At first his mother tried to answer all his questions.
Martha jumped to answer it with Betsy following.
It puts to rest many questions which he would otherwise be taxed to answer; while the only new question which it puts is the hard but superfluous one, how to spend it.
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The girl's opened her mouth to answer.
He deserved an honest answer about her response.
They both knew the other obvious answer.
What was he waiting for - an answer to that questioning kiss?
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Kris didn't answer, not wanting to think of how that conversation would go with the deity. He tested his power again. Kiki was right; they had none.
That would answer a lot of questions.
The answer is yes.
And my system will come back with a single answer, something like, You should go to Tommaso's on Kearny Street.
You would be amused to see me hold a squealing pig in my arms, while Helen feels it all over, and asks countless questions--questions not easy to answer either.
Answer me these questions, and then perhaps I may look at your bawbles and find them ornamental.
And scarcely had she put that question than God gave her the answer in her own heart.
Pierre gave no answer, for he neither heard nor saw anything.
As if in answer to her question, he dug a tin from his shirt pocket and handed it to her.
Alex had the answer to a question that was important to him.
That was his 'final answer' look which dictated there should be no more discussion.
At least her answer wasn't no, and she had been thinking about it – researching.
Gabriel was too busy to answer.
She deserved it after last night, but still, why didn't he at least answer and tell her he was done with her?
The answer was mix of advanced medicine and magic.
But before Fred could answer, Cynthia patted him on the shoulder.
Dean paused half way through his pie, awaiting Fred's answer.
Dean didn't answer quick enough before Fred began eating his pie.
The boy looked at his mother for an answer.
She bit her lip but didn't answer, causing an uncomfortable silence.
As he rose to answer it, he couldn't help noticing Edith Shipton's alarmed reaction to the ring.
Neither Fred nor Cynthia had a ready answer.
The answer seemed to please Edith Shipton and she appeared to relax.
He turned and walked off before waiting for an answer.
Dean agreed and telephoned Janet O'Brien from the hall but there was no answer.
I know we'll probably never learn the answer, but I still can't fathom what could have happened back in Boston to make Annie Quincy desert a comfortable life.
She pulled away and growled her answer.
Dean was wondering about her answer, as the telephone rang.
Edith hesitated, as if pondering her answer.
But she wouldn't answer.
I don't want to answer any questions.
He prays for an answer and I cry for his pain.
When Weller didn't answer, Dean finally said, I was looking for Cynthia.
Weller rocked back and at first Dean didn't think he'd answer.
If you ain't here, Corday and the police can't ask you questions you might not want to answer, like what's Cynthia's Indiana address.
You weren't her answer.
His neck was red and for the first time since she had met him, he didn't have a quick answer.
But you didn't answer my question.
She woke and prayed fervently for an answer, and then fell asleep again - to the same nightmare.
I've been praying and praying, but I don't get an answer.
And he must know what her answer would be.
Brady waited, unusually interested in her answer.
He expected her to name off Tim and answer his unasked question about the relationship between the two of them.
He didn't realize how much he relied upon Angel's soothing voice until he heard her answer.
He burned to know the answers to Elise's questions, not even able to fathom what the answer could be.
She didn't answer but returned to the couch, perching on the edge.
His teeth were grinding loudly enough for her to hear, and his face was ashen and drawn in a look of pain. He couldn't answer – that much she discerned at the rippling muscles of his clenched jaw.
Katie didn't answer for a moment, pensive. Gabe glanced back at her then slowed, as if sensing she was growing tired.
Kiki didn't have a chance to answer before the wooden door to their prison creaked open. Rhyn's head spun as he was hauled up and dragged into a well-lit hallway. Light and shadows wreaked havoc on his sense of place and time until he hit the cool stone floor again.
Rhyn considered how he might use the demon, as he had once before. He didn't answer, pushing the door open to the cell block. Nearly all the cells were empty. "Where is everyone?" he asked.
Answer me, Kris. What is your deepest desire?
Toby didn't answer, unwilling to admit just how much Ully's words stung. He led them deeper into the jungle. The branches hurried to create a path for him, and he smiled at them. According to his angel memories, the trees were more than trees in Death's underworld. They were alive.
Mrs. Riley set down the phone and moved to the door to answer it.
Marian, it's too early for a definitive answer, but don't give away your old golf outfit just yet.
He returned to his rocker, sipped his beer and began to patiently answer the barrage of Fred's questions about his day's activities.
He ticked off the items he had learned about Jeffrey Byrne during the course of the day, as much for his own review as to answer Fred's rapid-fire questions.
Fred's answer came just as the music switched to a shrill voice pleading for her lover to come back to the hills.
They alternated discussing what was happening in their lives while the other nodded, injecting a polite one word answer occasionally, just to properly pretend interest.
Dean slowly unwound himself from behind the steering wheel and crossed to answer it.
Dean didn't answer, but held out his wallet to show his ID.
This guy's got the answer to every little kid's what-would-you-do-ifyou-had-a-million-bucks question.
They climbed the stairs but there was no sign of life and no answer to knocks.
Dean had no ready answer.
He could answer that one without any effort—he hadn't decided.
Dean didn't answer.
He wasn't sure how to answer.
The answer had frightening implications with Fred O'Connor at home alone.
There was no answer at Collingswood Avenue—not a good sign.
No, no, don't answer that either.
Dean started to answer but Randy continued.
While he knew he should report his suspicion of being bugged, he feared having to answer questions about his clandestine work in the Byrne matter.
The phone rang twice and Randy tripped as he dashed across the room to answer.
Once again, she didn't answer directly but described a well-known seafood restaurant on the New Jersey shore, at least two hours from Parkside.
He bent his head back on the seat and closed his eyes but he didn't answer.
He didn't answer and silence dragged on.
She asked point-blank if I thought her husband was alive and I wouldn't answer.
He took his time strolling down row after row of tents, pausing briefly to answer a young man's question about directions.
Dean didn't stop to answer as he broke into a jog with Fred hustling to keep up.
Even I know the answer.
I was concerned when you didn't answer your phone.
His lips were so soft and warm, seeking an answer to a primal question.
He swished the remaining coffee around in his cup and didn't answer immediately.
His answer was a monotone and a hug.
The doorbell rang and Katie went to answer it.
His startled look reminded her that the reverend was waiting for her answer.
He glanced at her in the mirror and stopped shaving long enough to answer.
Josh was watching her, waiting for an answer.
But why didn't you answer my call?
Jim and the buggy followed, the old cab-horse being driven by Zeb while the Wizard stood up on the seat and bowed his bald head right and left in answer to the cheers of the people, who crowded thick about him.
That is the beautiful answer which the Bible gives.
New experiences and events call forth new ideas and stir men to ask questions unthought of before, and seek a definite answer in the depths of human knowledge.
He waited a moment to see whether the cornet would answer, but he turned and went out of the corridor.
And as Princess Mary gave no answer, she left the room.
If you won't answer, I'll tell you...
There was no answer to any of these questions, except one, and that not a logical answer and not at all a reply to them.
To Pierre's inquiries as to what he must do and how he should answer, Willarski only replied that brothers more worthy than he would test him and that Pierre had only to tell the truth.
I shall answer for it and not you, and you'd better not buzz about here till you get hurt.
Pierre did not answer him and asked briefly whether his proposal would be accepted.
They did not answer but began to laugh.
After reading the letter Natasha sat down at the writing table to answer it.
Natasha did not answer her questions.
In answer to Toll, Paulucci suggested an advance and an attack, which, he urged, could alone extricate us from the present uncertainty and from the trap (as he called the Drissa camp) in which we were situated.
I don't know, I am very far from having military tastes, but in these times no one can answer for himself.
Timokhin looked about in confusion, not knowing what or how to answer such a question.
You must answer the chief.
Whatever the reason, she felt compelled to answer flippantly.
Wear this above your left ear if the answer is no - right if the answer is yes.
The answer came to her so quickly that it brought a smile to her lips.
He shook his head, declining to answer until he had swallowed the food in his mouth.
Part of me was hesitant to answer but something in the old man's voice gave me confidence he possessed no untoward ambitions.
Julie bit her lip but didn't answer.
I stumbled over my answer.
Why should she answer the door?
She turned toward the kitchen before I could answer.
He was looking for an answer.
I'm still undecided which one is my target but I'll soon have my answer and more!
His answer made 'once in a while' sound more like always.
All you have to do is pick up, and I'll answer.
Yet, he felt her death was not the answer.
I can't refuse to answer you.
I think I know the answer, but do we have any records that survived the Schism?
When he didn't answer, she continued.
The portals didn't answer her at all when she was upset.
Martha didn't answer but after a short time she asked to be excused.
Cynthia thought a second or two, careful with her answer.
Cynthia sighed, not quite sure how to answer.
I can't answer that for sure, but don't you think their sudden interest in the property and the discovery of the bones is quite a coincidence?
She was in before he could answer.
Dean didn't answer but they both knew he agreed.
I'm as curious by nature as the next person, probably even more so, but to answer your question; no.
I can answer no, without a doubt.
The answer came with her next thought.
I may answer it.
He lifted up a bit to see her feet and found the answer.
She rang the doorbell and we waited for someone to answer.
When Byrne failed to answer a wake-up call the following morning, a clerk finally opened his room.
Why would he skip, answer me that?
Mayer's telephone rang and he excused himself to answer it, leaving Dean at Jeffrey Byrne's grey steel desk.
Before Dean could answer, Mayer returned and Rudman beat a hasty retreat to his cubby hole.
But hurry up with an answer.
At first he wouldn't answer the door but I could hear his wife bawling so I kept knocking 'til he came.
Cece Baldwin didn't answer yet another call made from a corner payphone.
Dean surprised himself with the firmness of his answer.
You left work and came over here just because I didn't answer the phone?
It crossed her mind not to answer it at all, but maybe he had learned something from the last call and would get to the point.
With every step toward the phone she told herself she shouldn't answer it – shouldn't lose her temper.
When he didn't answer, she looked up to see why.
When he continued to wait for an answer, she sighed.
Without waiting for an answer, he headed for the kitchen, stopping briefly to turn on the stereo.
In answer, Carmen set her glass on the sill and stood.
Later that evening the phone in his office rang and he left the room to answer it.
That was a comforting answer, but I'm not sure it was accurate.
It was a question for which there was no answer.
Instantly the answer was clear.
She wasn't going to dignify that question with an answer.
The answer was obvious.
When he didn't answer, she dropped the mop in the bucket and looked at his face to see if he was angry.
She's been hounding me for an answer.
He was probably upset that she didn't answer her cell phone, but he had given her strict orders not to use it when she was driving.
Why didn't you answer mine?
It started out as a question, but the answer was obvious – so obvious that he didn't respond.
Before she could answer, he erupted.
The next morning at church, Carmen said something to Alex and he leaned down to hear her answer.
She lay in his arms, afraid to answer the desire pounding at the door of her heart — afraid he would discover she was no longer the woman he married.
Alex needed to give Social Services an answer tomorrow.
Breakfast was interrupted by the telephone, and Alex went to answer it.
She hesitated, aware she never should've told Damian, let alone allowed Xander to pry the answer out of her when they'd met.
It wasn't the answer he wanted.
Please answer the question.
You really need me to answer that question?
If that's not the answer, then you'll figure it out, Jenn, and you'll do it in two days.
I'll destroy every Guardian on this planet if you don't bring me the answer I want.
He wants to know the answer to a question.
I ask you a question, you answer with the honest truth.
She resisted the urge to reach for a knife, knowing this was a test without knowing what answer it was Darian wanted.
You have to answer.
One condition, and I'll answer your question.
She didn't answer, but Darian could feel her distress.
Her throat was too tight to answer, so she nodded her agreement.
Bianca heard her voice catch and couldn't answer.
The answer from her Watcher was far briefer than its normal exchanges.
He feared the answer, and he'd never let one of these creatures see him vulnerable.
But you will answer only to me, and only to my gold.
He sensed it was not the answer she sought.
The answer he wanted to give lingered at the forefront of his tongue.
You will answer to me, Taran.
Twenty years, and the answer was bound to his forearm!
She waited for more, her heart falling when he didn't expand on the simple answer.
She resisted a smile as the answer came to her instantly.
If her answer had been no, he would have again put her in a position where she would be to blame for Jonathan's state of unhappiness.
If you're wondering if I'm concerned about being up here alone with three strange men, the answer is no.
He didn't answer until he had it placed.
When his friend knocked on the door, he waited for Carmen to answer it and when Gerald made the introductions, Alex said nothing – not even when Rob made a comment that would normally have raised an eyebrow.
Aaron smiled, but was obviously waiting for a serious answer.
The stallion didn't answer.
He was waiting for an answer.
It crossed her mind that she might find the answer there when he was gone to work.
Obviously the answer she had given him in the beginning hadn't satisfied his need.
He was waiting for the answer she didn't want to give him.
He turned and stalked out of the barn without waiting for an answer.
He didn't call to say where he was and when she tried to call, he didn't answer his phone.
I can see why you didn't answer.
Carmen might be the only one in the room who was not surprised by his answer.
Her dark gaze searched Carmen's, and when she didn't get an answer, she sighed.
He opened his mouth to answer and then hesitated.
How could she answer that without hurting his feelings?
Her answer came swift and positive.
Why couldn't he accept no for an answer?
Just because you don't know the answer doesn't mean the conversation has degenerated.
Violence was no answer to a problem, but he had been inviting this for the last year.
Whatever Damian wants, the answer is no.
I guess to ask you another question, if you'll answer.
Not exactly the answer I sought.
Jessi sighed, uncertain how to answer.
You told me months ago I was in for a surprise that would answer a question I didn't know needed asking.
But I think I know the answer.
He still didn't understand the question Sofi wanted him to know, but the fact the woman capable of operating on stealth-mode was the answer did not set well with him.
He held her against his hard, thick frame, his gentle kiss a question she didn't want to answer truthfully.
He was dressed in dark jeans and a snug, dark t-shirt that made him look too sexy for her to answer for a moment.
I'll accept that as an answer.
No guarantees I'll answer.
You can't just answer the question for once?
I think you know that answer.
I hate that answer!
Xander understood the question Sofi wouldn't tell him, the one he had the answer to already.
Answer my question, and I'll do for her what I did for you.
Hoadly was shrewd enough not to answer the most brilliant, though comparatively unknown, of his antagonists, William Law.
The atomist has an easy answer; he says that the new body is made up by the juxtaposition of the atoms of iodine and mercury, which still exist in the red powder.
The British government obtained no satisfactory answer to its remonstrances, and Sir Robert Hart, finding himself placed in a subordinate position after his long service, retired in July 1907.
It is a sufficient answer to remark that on this theory the blue would reach its maximum development in the colour of the setting sun.
The declaration of war by England against Scotland, in answer to the recent Franco-Scottish negotiations, prevented his return.
But no answer could be extracted from the king, and after some delay Lord Salisbury took the seals.
The answer to that question is the method of Descartes.
Not satisfied with seed-sown grass or meadow turf, they experimented with seaside turf and found it answer admirably.
His strange title is given him in the chronicles on the strength of a story that he put two brothers of the name of Carvajal to death tyrannically, and was given a time, a plazo, by them in which to answer for his crime in the next world.
Suffice it to say that differences with Irala eventually led to his arrest, and to his being sent back to Spain to answer to the charges brought against him for maladministration.
Charles in the Answer to the Petition (June 13, 1642) speaks of cavaliers as a "word by what mistake soever it seemes much in disfavour."
In 1796 he published, in answer to Thomas Paine, an Apology for the Bible, perhaps the best known of his numerous writings.
The judges at Babylon seem to have formed a superior court to those of provincial towns, but a defendant might elect to answer the charge before the local court and refuse to plead at Babylon.
If we answer " Yes " to that question, we pass on from intuitionalism to idealism - an idealism not on the lines of Berkeley (matter does not exist) but of Plato (things A obey an ascertainable rational necessity).
And the other man does not know the way, as you can soon see; therefore I must ' - should we answer, `Lead on, I follow'?"
His Philosophy of Nature - one of the least admired parts of his system - is the answer from his point of view to Kant's assertion that a " perceptive understanding " is for us impossible.
Or at least he has rightly seen what are the assertions to aim at; it is difficult to accept the principle or method upon which his answer to the riddle proceeds, the dialectic method.
It is philosophy called into court to answer selected questions.
Leibnitz's philosophy has no answer for us.
Sir Edward Coke finds in Magna Carta a full and proper legal answer to every exaction of the Stuart kings, and a remedy for every evil suffered at the time.
His advocacy of an American episcopate, in connexion with which he wrote the Answer to Dr Mayhew's Observations on the Charter and Conduct of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (London 1764), raised considerable opposition in England and America.
The broad Pacific depression seems to answer to the broad elevation of the Old World - the narrow trough of the Atlantic to the narrow continent of America."
In answer to his petition for the dukedom, the king had, on the 6th of June 1644, given him a patent of the earldom of Norfolk, in order, as it would seem, to flatter him by suggesting that the title of Norfolk would at least be refused to any other family.
So far we have dealt with forms of address explicitly directed towards a power that, one might naturally conclude, has personality, since it is apparently expected to hear and answer.
Another source is mythologic fancy, which, in answer to childlike questions; "Who made the world?"
That the English peerage does not answer to the true idea of a nobility will be seen with a very little thought.
That union would answer rather to the union of the three patrician tribes of Rome.
The Spartans answer to the patricians, the 7reploLKOC to the plebs; the helots are below the position of plebs or demos.
Had they been able to establish and to maintain any kind of privilege, even that of mere honorary precedence, they would exactly answer to continental nobility.
In reply to the very natural question why the Moravians began their work in England, the answer given by history is that John Wesley, on his voyage to Georgia (1735) met some Moravian emigrants; that on his return he met Peter Boehler, who was on his way to North Carolina; that through Boehler's influence both John and Charles Wesley were "converted" (1738).
Whether the intelligence and efficiency of the officials charged by the state with the handling of its railway system will be sufficient to make them act in the interest of the public as fully as do the managers of private corporations, is a question whose answer can only be determined by actual experience in each case.
The French government had issued a manifesto preparatory to a declaration of war, and Gibbon was solicited by Chancellor Thurlow and Lord Weymouth, secretary of state, to answer it.
He seems to regard this body of literature as the answer to the charge that the Jews had contributed nothing useful for human life.
He came in answer to the summons - but attended by a bodyguard and protected by the word of Sextus.
Complaint was made to Vitellius, then legate of Syria, and Pilate was sent to Rome to answer for his shedding of innocent blood.
In spite of the admission of their co-religionists to high office in the government, the Mussulmans, it is true, still complained of continuous ill-treatment having for its object their expatriation; but these complaints were declared by Sir Edward Grey, in answer to a question in parliament, to be exaggerated.
In the substance of their answer to Hume, the two philosophers have therefore much in common.
Heracles sought him in vain, and the answer of Hylas to his thrice-repeated cry was lost in the depths of the water.
His Utilitarianism (published in Fraser's in 1861) was a closely-reasoned systematic attempt to answer objections to his ethical theory and remove misconceptions of it.
When the two brothers combined, Antiochus again invaded Egypt (168), but was compelled to retire by the Roman envoy C. Popillius Laenas (consul 172), after the historic scene in which the Roman drew a circle in the sand about the king and demanded his answer before he stepped out of it.
To answer this question we must collect the wages assessments sanctioned by the magistrates.
Bruce is reputed to have been one of the advisers who assisted in framing it; but a provision that his castle of Kildrummy was to be placed in charge of a person for whom he should answer shows that Edward, not without reason, suspected his fidelity.
What makes Origen's answer so instructive is that it shows how close an affinity existed between Celsus and himself in their fundamental philosophical and theological presuppositions.
They shall answer for it to all Europe."
After the disastrous defeat of Leipzig (r 7th-19th Dctober 1813), when French domination in Germany and Italy -vanished like an exhalation, the allies gave Napoleon another opportunity to come to terms. The overtures known as the Frankfcrt terms were ostensibly an answer to the request for information which Napoleon made at the field of Leipzig.
Camille sharply replied that he would answer with Rousseau, - "burning is not answering," and a bitter quarrel thereupon ensued.
He asked him for information about Thule, but Aungervyle, who promised information when he should once more be at home among his books, never sent any answer, in spite of repeated enquiries.
If the answer was in the affirmative, a day was fixed for the voting in the eighth prytany.
The problem is difficult, and no satisfactory answer has been given.
Nearly all the parishes in Argyll, Inverness, Ross, Cromarty, Sutherland, Caithness and Orkney and Shetland answer to this description.
Before we are prepared to answer this question we must be furnished with a precise conception of what is meant by " steadiness " in prices.
This congruity of the miracle with divine truth and grace is the answer to Matthew Arnold's taunt about turning a pen into a pen-wiper or Huxley's about a centaur trotting down Regent Street.
The same appeal was made, more than once, to Urban II.; and the answer was the First Crusade.
The answer is partly that men like St Louis did think that the Crusade was misplaced, and partly that Frederick was really attacked not as a revolted Christian, but as the would-be unifier of Italy, the enemy of the states of the church.
The struggle of papacy and empire paralysed Europe, and even in France itself there were few ready to answer the calls for help which St Louis sent home from Acre.
The one answer was the Shepherds' Crusade, or Crusade of the Pastoureaux - "a religious Jacquerie," as it has been called by Dean Milman.
Doubt was thrown on Charles's authorship in Milton's Eikonoklastes (1649), which was followed almost immediately by a royalist answer, The Princely Pelican.
He entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1682, and after ten years' residence obtained a fellowship. In 1699 he was made provost of the college, and in the same year published his Letter in answer to a Book entitled "Christianity not Mysterious," which was recognized as the ablest reply yet written to Toland.
Two words I wrote to Liszt; his answer was the news that preparations were being made for the performance of the work, on the grandest scale that the limited means of Weimar would permit.
Her greatest charm was, however, her pleasant behaviour; for she was "merry in company, ready and quick of answer."
When she lay painfully on her deathbed her son Joseph said to her, "You are not at ease," and her last words were the answer, "I am sufficiently at my ease to die."
But his great strength lay in metaphysical analysis, as was shown in his answer to the objections raised against the appointment of Sir John Leslie to the mathematical professorship (1805).
It was the only worthy answer to Burke that appeared.
So soon as the point of view is clear - that in the Gathas we have firm historical ground on which Zoroaster and his surroundings may rest, that here we have the beginnings of the Zoroastrian religion - then it becomes impossible to answer otherwise than affirmatively every general question as to the historical character of Zoroaster.
A plan which has been found to answer well is to arrange them in cardboard boxes, either with glass tops or in sliding covers, in drawers - the name being placed outside each box and the specimens gummed into the boxes.
Thomas Sherlock declared that " Mr Law was a writer so considerable that he knew but one good reason why his lordship did not answer him."
Law's Case of Reason (1732), in answer to Tindal's Christianity as old as the Creation is to a great extent an anticipation of Bishop Butler's famous argument in the Analogy.
Proposals made by the council for the modification and improvement of the existing laws and regulations which concerned it were to receive an answer from the government within six months; this provision has remained a dead letter.
Torgud was now summoned to Constantinople to answer for piracies committed on the friendly galleys of Venice; but he sailed instead to Morocco, and there for two years defied the sultan's authority.
The emissaries, who themselves did not know the correct answer, were to bring the replies of the oracles back to the king.
If it was natural for Helen to ask such questions, it was my duty to answer them.
After talking about the various things that carpenters make, she asked me, "Did carpenter make me?" and before I could answer, she spelled quickly, "No, no, photographer made me in Sheffield."
I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
What answer did Novosiltsev get?
Pierre, not knowing whom to answer, looked at them all and smiled.
Well, what answer am I to take?
Sonya tried to lift her head to answer but could not, and hid her face still deeper in the bed.
In answer to the count's inquiries she replied that things were all right and that she would tell about it next day.
Pierre did not answer and left Rostopchin's room more sullen and angry than he had ever before shown himself.
Again he replied that he could not answer it.
You're not going to answer me?
Grappling with the answer was almost as troubling as dealing with Jonny.
Without attempting to answer this question categorically, it may be pointed out that within the limits of the family (Ptychoderidae) which is especially characterized by their presence there are some species in Y art dY YY cts, posterior limit of collar.
It was produced on the 14th of December 1756 with overwhelming success, in spite of the opposition of the presbytery, who summoned Alexander Carlyle to answer for having attended its representation.
Thus neither a chlorate, which contains the ion C103, nor monochloracetic acid, shows the reactions of chlorine, though it is, of course, present in both substances; again, the sulphates do not answer to the usual tests which indicate the presence of sulphur as sulphide.
On the 17th of October, a joint letter of expostulation was sent in to Ibrahim Pasha, but was returned with the manifestly false answer that he had left Navarino, and that his officers did not know where he was.
This method is said to answer well with the latex of Castilloa, but it appears to be inapplicable to the latex of Hevea, which does not cream readily when centrifugalized.
No definite answer can be given to this question at the present time.
Baronius is best known by his Annales Ecclesiastici, undertaken by the order of St Philip as an answer to the Magdeburg Centuries.
One main purpose of his spectroscopic inquiries was to answer the question whether the sun contains oxygen or not.
The second part of the book is Yahweh's answer to the people's prayer.
The answer begins with a promise of deliverance from famine, and of fruitful seasons compensating for the ravages of the locusts.
Demetrius Chalcondyles published the editio princeps of Homer, Isocrates, and Suidas, and a Greek grammar (Erotemata) in the form of question and answer.
The answer depends on several considerations which can only be glanced at here.
Possibly in certain places the iron sulphate may have been nearly wanting, and then the salt would be white, and would answer, as Pliny says it did, for dyeing bright colours.
All modern theologians of the Roman Church answer these questions in the affirmative, but from the 8th to the beginning of the 13th century they were fiercely agitated with the utmost divergence of opinion and practice.
To all these requests no official answer was returned.
Sir George, being without definite instructions from England, could give no decisive answer, but he was friendly disposed to the Natal farmers.
The answer to the first question, in effect, depended on that given by events to the second; and this was not long in declaring itself.
If the answer to the question is X, we have either (a) I os.
Let the answer be X; then 24d.
Let the answer be x; then 24d.
Let the answer be X; then 125 c.dm.
Let the answer be x; then 125 =5 x, ..
Stops, each occupying one-eighth of the width, and with centres situated at the points of trisection, answer well the required purpose.
It appears indeed that the purely mathematical question has no definite answer.
It was in answer to these strictures that Zarlino published his Sopplementi.
He is also found confirming his old rival Arnulf in the see of Reims; summoning Adalbero or Azelmus of Laon to Rome to answer for his crimes; judging between the archbishop of Mainz and the bishop of Hildesheim; besieging the revolted town of Cesena; flinging the count of Angouleme into prison for an offence against a bishop; confirming the privileges of Fulda abbey; granting charters to bishoprics far away on the Spanish mark; and, on the eastern borders of the empire, erecting Prague as the seat of an archbishopric for the Sla y s.
It was never vouchsafed an answer.
I have stated plainly what our grievances are, and I shall answer with equal directness the question, What do we want?
To this question I shall expect from you an answer in plain terms according to your deliberate judgment.
The franchise, again, was an internal affair, in which the convention gave Great Britain no right to interfere, while if Great Britain relied on certain definite breaches of the convention, satisfaction for which was sought in the first place in such a guarantee of amendment as the Uitlander franchise would involve, the Boer answer was an offer of arbitration, a course which Great Britain could not accept without admitting the South African Republic to the position of an equal.
To these demands the Transvaal government required an answer within 48 hours.
The cult of the saints early met with opposition, in answer to which the Church Fathers had to defend its lawfulness and explain its nature.
The former scruple, however, was not confined to Paulicians, for it inspires the answer made by Eusebius, bishop of Thessalonica, to the emperor Maurice, when the latter asked to have relics sent to him of Demetrius the patron saint of that city.
When Matthew Arnold questioned his importance in conversation with Sainte-Beuve, the answer was, "He is important to us," and it was a true answer; but the limitation is obvious.
Probably he found in his calmness of temperament, even in his want of imagination, a sense of rest and of exemption from the disturbing influences of life; while in his physical philosophy he found both an answer to the questions which perplexed him and an inexhaustible stimulus to his intellectual curiosity.
In answer to this contention it may be said that, although the silence of the Chronicle is difficult to understand, it is almost impossible to believe that the very existence of the most important city in the country could suddenly cease and the inhabitants disappear without some special notice.
Cetywayo returned no answer, and in January 1879 a British force under General Thesiger (Lord Chelmsford) invaded Zululand.
These were attacked on the 23rd of September 1823 by the Burmese, and driven from their post with the loss of several lives; and to the repeated demands of the British for redress no answer was returned.
He and other leaders of the party were summoned to the palace to answer a charge of plotting against the state, to which he replied by collecting Soo armed followers.
Every one who had known or seen him was questioned and was eager to answer.
Not being able to answer on the spur of the moment, he was nicknamed 6 Kpovos (the God, equivalent to "slowcoach") by Ptolemy.
He cannot refuse to give evidence respecting the offence pardoned on the ground that his answer would tend to criminate him.
Their king Joseph, in answer to the inquiry of Hasdai Ibn Shaprut of Cordova (c. 958), stated that his people sprang from Thogarmah, grandson of Japhet, and the supposed ancestor of the other peoples of the Caucasus.
But if his captor held him fast the god at last returned to his proper shape, gave the wished-for answer, and then plunged into the sea.
Todd, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Walton (London, 1821), in 2 vols., of which the second contains a reprint of Walton's answer to Owen.
Her peculiarities excited suspicion, and charges seem to have been brought against her by some of the Dominicans to answer which she went to Florence in 1374, soon returning to Siena to tend the plague-stricken.
Nevertheless 3000 of them fell at the hands of the Levites who, in answer to the summons of Moses, declared themselves on the side of Yahweh.
The answer to this is that there are two series of works.
That is the question which Comte's first master-work professes to answer.
The answer is that all the other Decisive - parts of social existence are associated with, and drawn along by, the contemporary condition of intellec- intellectual development.
In recollection of its former services, the emperor Claudius remitted the heavy tribute which had been imposed on it; but the last remnant of its independence was taken away by Vespasian, who, in answer to a remonstrance from Apollonius of Tyana, taunted the inhabitants with having "forgotten to be free."
For example, the state has never made any distinction between law and equity, and it has always followed the Civil Law procedure by petition and answer.'
Ricci replied with the historical answer, Sint ut sunt, aut non sint; and after some further delay, during which much interest was exerted in their favour, the Jesuits were suppressed by an edict in November 1764, but suffered to remain on the footing of secular priests, a grace withdrawn in 1767, when they were expelled from the kingdom.
Fire was suspended by the Danes to allow of time to receive Sir Hyde Parker's answer.
When the ambassadors of the senate in treating for peace tried to terrify him with their hints of what the despairing citizens might accomplish, he gave with a laugh his celebrated answer, "The thicker the hay, the easier mowed!"
While hesitating with which party to ally his forces, and while on the point of making terms with the king, the army on the 24th of December restored the Rump, when he was deprived of his command and ordered to appear before parliament to answer for his conduct.
And the answer to the problem which was furnished by Locke is in effect that with which Hume started.
It remains to be seen how knowledge can be explained on such a basis; but, before proceeding to sketch Hume's answer to this question, it is necessary to draw attention, first, to the peculiar device invariably resorted to by him when any exception to his general principle that ideas are secondary copies of impressions presents itself, and, secondly, to the nature of the substitute offered by him for that perception of relations or synthesis which even in Locke's confused statements had appeared as the essence of cognition.
Beyond all question Hume, in endeavouring to answer this problem, is brought face to face with one of the difficulties inherent in his conception of conscious experience.
Finally an examination took place at the end of the year of office, when each archon had to answer for his actions with person and possessions; till then he could not leave the country, be adopted into another family, dispose of his property, nor receive any " crown of honour."
He was of a sanguine-choleric temperament, and when untroubled and unvexed a bright and cheerful gentleman, easy to get on with, and however many people happened to be in the same room with him, he was never at a loss for an answer to every one of them."
It is worthy of notice that this intercourse with Cromwell occurred when Baxter was summoned to London to assist in settling "the fundamentals of religion," and made the memorable declaration, in answer to the objection that what he had proposed as fundamental "might be subscribed by a Papist or Socinian," - "So much the better, and so much the fitter it is to be the matter of concord."
The last book (which is three-fourths of the whole work) is chiefly an answer to the famous Protestant work entitled Le Traite de l'Eglise by Du Plessis Mornay; and in the second edition (1595) there is an elaborate reply to an attack made on the third Verite by a Protestant writer.
In the words of Hallam, "the slow and gradual manner in which parochial churches became independent appears to be of itself a sufficient answer to those who ascribe a great antiquity to the universal payment of tithes."
This Answer was first published after Hobbes's death."
There, and there only, one seems to find a common and a satisfactory ground, supposing always that all men's feelings give the same answer.
Heaps of stones answer very well for stops in the conductor, particularly immediately below the points of junction with the feeders.
According to Mark, Peter, in answer to the question of Jesus, recognized that He was the Messiah, but protested against the prophecy of suffering which Jesus then added.
The papal answer was a bull excommunicating the German king, dethroning him and liberating his subjects from their oath of allegiance.
Four Zwinglian cities, Strassburg, Constance, Lindau and Memmingen, replied with a confession of their own and the Romanists also drew up an answer.
Frederick William, however, whose instincts were far from democratic, refused to pick up a crown out of the gutter; and the deputation which waited upon him was dismissed with the answer that he could not assume the imperial title without the full sanction of the princes and the free cities.
Religious instruction continued to be given to them in German, and when they refused to answer questions which they did not understand, they were kept in and flogged.
In 1878, when the Triple Alliance was concluded, Bismarck, in answer to the Guelphic demonstration at Copenhagen, arranged with Austria, the other party to the treaty of Prague, that the clause should lapse.
The decision of Germany would theoretically have to depend on the question which party was the aggressora question which notoriously is hardly ever capable of an answer.
In the session of 1901 Admiral von Tirpitz, the minister of marine, admitted in answer to a Socialist interpellation that the naval programme of 1900 would have to be enlarged.
Count Billow, in answer to his criticisms, declared that the German people desired, not a shadow, but an.
Wood was attacked by Bishop Burnet in a Letter to the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry (1693, 4to), and defended by his nephew Dr Thomas Wood, in a Vindication of the Historiographer, to which is added the Historiographer's Answer (1693), 4to, reproduced in the subsequent editions of the Athenae.
The far more memorable interference of Athens in Sicilian affairs in the year 415 was partly in answer to the cry of the exiles of Leontini, partly to a quite distinct appeal from the Elymian Segesta.
These disturbances were followed, early in 1906, by the recall of the governor, Herr von Puttkamer, who was called upon to answer charges of maladministration.
In Medina it called forth the admiration of the Faithful to observe how often God gave them the answer to a question whose settlement was urgently required at the moment.
In the Middle Kingdom these are gradually replaced by small models of the mummy itself, and the belief arose that when their owner was called upon to perform any distasteful work in the nether world, they would answer to his name and do the task for him.
We next hear that correspondence with Tirhaka was intercepted, and that Necho, together with Pekrflr of Psapt (at the entrance to the Wadi Tumilat) and the Assyrian governor of Pelusium, was taken to Nineveh in chains to answer the charge of treason.
He returned a mild answer; and, when a rejoinder came in.
On the 10th of October a deputation from the clergy and burgesses proceeded to the Council House where the Rigsraad were deliberating, to demand an answer to their propositions.
His most important polemical work is an answer (1528) to twelve questions on the religious question propounded by Gustavus I.
On the morning of the 7th of November Katte was beheaded before Frederick's window, after the crown prince had asked his pardon and received the answer that there was nothing to forgive.
He once defined himself as "l'avocat du pauvre," and few things gave him more pleasure than the famous answer of the miller whose windmill stood on ground which was wanted for the king's garden.
He returned answer that, much as he loved the duke, he would rather see him hanged at Tyburn than own him for his legitimate son.
In the paper which he left signed, and to which he referred in answer to the questions wherewith the busy bishops plied him, he expressed his sorrow for having assumed the royal style, and at the last moment confessed that Charles had denied to him privately, as he had publicly, that he was ever married to Lucy Walters.
His great treatise, in seven books, Adversus Gentes (or Nationes), on account of which he takes rank as a Christian apologist, appears to have been occasioned by a desire to answer the complaint then brought against the Christians, that the prevalent calamities and disasters were due to their impiety and had come upon men since the establishment of their religion.
To test it is to try to distinguish between truth and falsity, and to answer the question - What renders the claim of a judgment to be true, really true?
The answer to this question must start from the reason annexed to the fourth commandment, which is different in Deuteronomy.
Napoleon's answer was to refuse to ratify the convention of the 4th of January, and to announce his engagement to the archduchess Marie Louise in such a way as to lead Alexander to suppose that the two marriage treaties had been negotiated simultaneously.
Alexander returned no answer to these " fanfaronnades."
His terse and pertinent letter to Origen, impugning the authority of the apocryphal book of Susanna, and Origen's wordy and uncritical answer, are both extant.
With this answer they left the assembly, and the sultan's apology overtook them before they had passed the palace gate.'
When this is put to the mufti, the answer will be simply "Yes," and from this decision there is no appeal, so that the mufti is supreme judge in his own district.
In answer to this question a recent writer, Yamanouchi, states in a preliminary communication that he has found that in Polysiphonia violacea the germinating carpospores exhibit forty chromosomes, and the germinating tetraspores twenty chromosomes.
The vesicles of Fucaceae and Laminariaceae prevent the sinking of the bulkier forms. But why certain Fucaceae favour certain zones in the littoral region, why certain epiphytes are confined to certain hosts, why Red and Brown Algae are not better represented in fresh water or Green Algae in salt, - these are problems to which it is difficult to find a ready answer.
During the critical years of Mr Chamberlain's crusade (1903-1906) he made himself the chief spokesman of the Liberal party, delivering a series of speeches in answer to those of the tariff-reform leader; and his persistent following and answering of Mr Chamberlain had undoubted effect.
They are the answer to the poet of the nobles who represented the king as having submitted to take a degrading oath at the hands of Ruy Diaz of Bivar (the Cid), in the church of Santa Gadea at Burgos, and as having then persecuted the brave man who defied him.
The Italian government demanded that the lynchers should be punished, entered claims for indemnity in the case of the three Sicilians who had been Italian subjects, and, failing to secure as prompt an answer as it desired, withdrew its ambassador from Washington.
Scraps may be unearthed as mediocre as the Answer to Curat Caddel's Satyre upon the Whigs, which attempts to revive the mere vulgarity of the Scots " flyting."
Pilgrimages were conceived as means to ensure an answer to particular prayers.
They were not intended, however, to answer the questionings of a 20thcentury European questioner, and are liable now to be misunderstood.
The percentage (27.7) of loss sustained by the British is sufficient evidence of the intensity of the conflict, and provides a convincing answer to certain writers who have represented the battle as chiefly a French affair.
In 153 2, nevertheless, he excited some displeasure in the king by the part he took in the preparation of the famous "Answer of the Ordinaries" to the complaints brought against them in the House of Commons.
He was also employed to answer the pope's brief threatening to deprive Henry of his kingdom.
In written examinations the candidates are, as a rule, supplied with a number of printed questions, of which they must answer all, or a certain proportion, within a given time, Written.
An examiner may have underestimated the time required to answer the questions which he has set; this will be obvious if with a large number of candidates (say 300 or 400) none approaches the maximum mark.
When they refused to answer His question as to the authority of John the Baptist He in turn refused to tell them His own.
If we ask what is the special contribution to history, apart from theology, which St John's Gosepl makes, the answer would seem to be this - that beside the Galilean ministry reported by St Mark there was a ministry to " Jews " (Judaeans) in Jerusalem, not continuous, but occasional, taken up from time to time as the great feasts came round; that its teaching was widely different from that which was given to Galileans, and that the situation created was wholly unlike that which arose out of the Galilean ministry.
In the early middle ages the term was applied to representatives of a count administering justice for him in the country or small towns and dealing with unimportant cases, levying taxes, &c. Monasteries and religious houses often employed a vicar to answer to their feudal lords for those of their lands which did not pass into mortmain.
The answer to this charge is partly that such a law seems unattainable, and partly that the idealistic content of the present which philosophy extracts is always an advance upon actual fact, and so does throw a light into the future.
Granted that rationality taken in the sense of inner coherence and self-consistency is the ultimate standard of truth and reality, does self-consciousness itself answer to the demands of this criterion?
In answer to his entreaties that they would spare his life, they insisted that he should either die by his own hand on shipboard or cast himself into the sea.
This decree deprived the outlying islands of their usual means of communication, and, in answer to a protest by the inhabitants, its operation was postponed.
On his return to Wittenberg he began an answer to his opponents.
The reformer had been expecting it ever since the Disputation at Leipzig, and had resolved to answer it by one striking act which would impress the imagination of every man.
He asked time to prepare an answer to the second question.
It was resolved that the Word of God should be preached without disturbance, that indemnity should be given for past offences against the edict of Worms, and that meanwhile each state should live religiously as it hoped to answer for its conduct to God and the emperor.
The priests and people besought Heliodorus to leave this sacred treasure untouched, but he persisted and - in answer to their prayers - was overthrown by a horse with a terrible rider and scourged by two youths.
The history, therefore, falls into recurring cycles, each of which begins with religious corruption, followed by chastisement, which continues until Yahweh, in answer to the groans of his oppressed people, raises up a "judge" to deliver Israel, and recall them to the true faith.
In answer to his appeals for quarter and promises to pay ransom, he was told by Richard, the bastard son of King John, that he was a traitor who would not be allowed to deceive more men.
It was well received, and led to the publication in 1788 of Proposals for Printing, with a specimen, and in 1790 of a General Answer to Queries, Counsels and Criticisms. The first volume of the translation itself, which was entitled The Holy Bible.
Continental Congress, taking with him fresh credentials of radicalism in the shape of Virginia's answer, which he had drafted, to Lord North's conciliatory propositions.
In answer to those odious measures Jefferson and Madison prepared and procured the passage of the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions.
To this question there is no simple answer, yes or no.
They received the answer that by the "third fruit" the "third generation" was meant, and that the "narrow passage" was not the isthmus of Corinth, but the straits of Rhium.
The promises made to them during the war against the Omayyads had not been fulfilled, and the new Mandi did not answer at all to their ideal.
In reply to the common criticism that Cadorna ought to have inspected the lines earlier, the answer is that he was fully occupied from Oct.
In answer to these, Madison, who had become a member of the Virginia legislature in the autumn of 1799, wrote for the committee to which they were referred a report elaborating and sustaining in every point the phraseology of the Virginia resolutions.'
In order to answer this question we must remember that there are many degrees of probability, and that induction, and therefore deduction, draw conclusions more or less probable, and rise to the point at which probability becomes moral certainty, or that high degree of probability which is sufficient to guide our lives, and even condemn murderers to death.
The answer to Hegel is that being and not-being are at most similarly indeterminate, and to Bradley that each animal has its own different lungs, whereby they are only similar.
To reply that this universal judgment is not expressed, or that its expression is cumbrous, is no answer, because, whether expressed or not, it is required for the thought.
In seeking for a single material principle underlying the multiplicity of phenomena, the first nature-philosophers, Thales and the rest, did indeed raise the problem of the one and the many, the endeavour to answer which must at last lead to logic. But it is only from a point of view won by later speculation that it can be said that they sought to determine the predicates of the single subject-reality, or to establish the permanent subject of varied and varying predicates.'
From the subjectivist point of view, which is manifestly fundamental through most of this, such arguments suasory of the Pyrrhonist suspense of judgment (i ro X i i) are indeed hard to answer.
With much that suggests an affirmative answer, Leibnitz gives the negative.
It is of course a newer type of psychological logic that is in question, one that is aware of Kant's " answer to Hume."
When Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France appeared, in 1790, Paine at once wrote his answer, The Rights of Man first part appeared on the r3th of March 1791, and had an enormous circulation before the government took alarm and endeavoured to suppress it, thereby exciting intense curiosity to see it, even at the risk of heavy penalties.
He had acquired such a mastery of the Greek language that, when he presided over the courts in Asia, he was able to answer each suitor in ordinary Greek or any of the dialects in use.
From a point still known as King's Cross he crossed over to Carrick, in answer to the signal which warned him that the moment for the supreme effort for his country was come.
The answer is given in the Nicene formula, which is characteristically Greek.
For a thousand years the answer was " to the devil."
As an answer Yahweh "appoints" a small quickly-growing tree with large leaves (the castor-oil plant) to come up over the angry prophet and shelter him from the sun.
This arrangement held good until 1905, when, in answer to the frequently and strongly expressed desire of the colonists, Labuan was removed from the jurisdiction of the company and attached to the colony of the Straits Settlements.
In her anger she had told the queen she wished for no answer, and she was now met by a stony and exasperating silence, broken only by the words constantly repeated, "You desired no answer and you shall have none."
Humphrey Henchman, bishop of London, employed him to write a vindication of Laud's answer to John Fisher, the Jesuit.
Hence the Tubingen school did its chief work in putting the needful question, not in returning the correct answer.
And to qualify for registration after 1904 one must have paid all state poll taxes assessed against him for the three years immediately preceding his application, unless he is a veteran of the Civil War; and unless physically unable he must "make application in his own handwriting, without aid, suggestion or memorandum, in the presence of the registration officers, stating therein his name, age, date and place of birth, residence and occupation at the time and for two years next preceding, whether he has previously voted, and, if so, the state, county and precinct in which he voted last"; and must answer questions relating to his qualifications.
Let B/C be the velocity ratio required, reduced to its least terms, and let B be greater than C. If B/C is not greater than 6, and C lies between the prescribed minimum number of teeth (which may be called t) and its double 2t, then one pair of wheels will answer the purpose, and B and C will themselves be the numbers required.
When any stranger comes and asks who is the sweetest singer, they are to answer with one voice, the " blind man that dwells in rocky Chios; his songs deserve the prize for all time to come."
Romer 1 this is exactly the variation which a poet would introduce to relieve the primitive ballad-like sameness of question and answer; and moreover it forms the transition to the lines about the Dioscuri by which the scene is so touchingly brought to a close.
In these works, almost invariably composed in the form of a colloquy, Siva, as a rule, in answer to questions asked by his consort Parvati, unfolds the mysteries of this occult creed.
To the first problem there is one obvious and conclusive answer, namely that matter in itself is inherently unthinkable and comes within the vision of the mind only as an intellectual presentation.
The first edition of Bentley's Dissertation on Phalaris appeared in 1697, and the second edition, replying to the answer which Boyle published in 1698, came out in 1699.
Astonished by the sight of their long hair and extraordinary costume, he inquired what religion they professed, and getting no satisfactory answer threatened to exterminate them, unless by the time of his return from the war they should have embraced either Islam or one of the creeds tolerated in the Koran.
Deem this a sufficient answer to your question and deem yourself on the way to be blessed, if you have not been scandalized in me."
Two acts at once passed through the legislature in answer to the claims put forward by the church.
She edited Sex and Education (1874), an answer to Education (1873) by Edward Hammond Clarke (1820-1877); and wrote several books of travel, Modern Society (1880) and Is Polite Society Polite ?
It is an answer to Hobbes's famous doctrine that moral distinctions are created by the state, an answer from the standpoint of Platonism.
He animadverted strongly upon the puerile nature of the defence, and in answer to a remark by Essex, that if he had wished to stir up a rebellion he would have had a larger company with him, pointed out that his dependence was upon the people of London, and compared his attempt to that of the duke of Guise at Paris.
In answer, he appears to have received a distinct promise of the reversion of the office; but, as Ellesmere recovered, the matter stood over for a time.
A list of twenty-eight charges was then sent him, to which an answer by letter was required.
To this the true answer seems to be that Bacon owes his position not only to the general spirit of his philosophy, but to the manner in which he worked into a con- (1860); Liebig, Ober Francis Bacon von Verulam, &c. (1863).
He was once in Ste Pelagie, and several times before the tribunal to answer for his journal.