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I didn't ask about his family tree.
I didn't ask him that.
I just wanted to ask you a question.
You can ask that?
You must ask him about every small thing?
Oh, I was going to ask you.
It was a question she'd have to ask Cade.
It was like Mom not to ask for help.
I didn't ask that.
I've got to ask a question; are we from the same planet?
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I'll ask him for the phone number.
Ask him to let you see it.
Did he ask you out?
There was no need to ask who.
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I never instructed him to ask you anything.
If you were trying to ask me to marry you, why did you act that way after we...
I only ask that you do as much good for as many people for as long as you can.
Those are passages of which one would ask for more.
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Some argue, Be careful what you ask for.
I was too excited to notice anything, too frightened to ask questions.
At times, it may be best to just enjoy the meal and not ask too many questions.
We'd have to pay seven rubles a cartload to Dorogobuzh and I tell them they're not Christians to ask it!
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All right, I'll ask for a break.
Besides, he had no time to ask himself whether these people were sincere or not.
I told him he wouldn't be involved and I'd only ask general questions but he's adamant.
It can't hurt to ask.
You're the second person to ask me for my opinion on something.
What would happen, I ask many and many a time.
Howie doesn't want you to simply telephone Willard Humphries; he wants you to go down there and look him in the eye when you ask him.
I do need to ask you for something.
I told her to ask her father, and she said, "No--mother."
When she referred to our conversation again, it was to ask, "Why did not Jesus go away, so that His enemies could not find Him?"
They ask him to dinner.
I only wanted to ask because I fear the Guards won't be in action, he added as if in apology.
He's desperate to ask Martha about the details of Annie's death but she, Quinn and Claire haven't reported in.
She didn't want to ask but did.
So why did you do ask it?
He'd ask her outright.
I hoped you would ask.
Berg took the opportunity to ask, with great politeness, whether, as was rumored, the allowance of forage money to captains of companies would be doubled.
I'll ask leave to go to the front, this may be my only chance of seeing the Emperor.
Boris doesn't want to help me and I don't want to ask him.
For heaven's sake don't ask me anything now!
Pierre was about to ask, but seeing the stern expression of the adjutant who was also looking that way, he checked himself.
The count was not angry even when they told him that Natasha had countermanded an order of his, and the servants now came to her to ask whether a cart was sufficiently loaded, and whether it might be corded up.
Countess dear... an officer came to me to ask for a few carts for the wounded.
Occasionally Howard would ask her questions, but mostly he and Connie handled the plans by themselves.
Ask Len to go with you.
She hesitated, wanting to find a way home, but not wanting to ask any more favors of him.
I hate to ask you for another favor, but I wonder if I could pay you to drive me home.
Here, why don't you sit down on this chair while I look you over and ask a few questions.
That's when I decided to ask you to marry me.
Don't ask for opinions; just do what you feel is best.
I'd planned to ask Quinn and Martha to come in so I could tell them what I'd learned but the more I considered it, I decided a phone call was sufficient.
Yes and I can go back to asking questions I haven't been able to ask and I have sources to get answers.
I wanted to ask questions but a medic stuck a needle in my arm.
It ticked me that he'd ask that question.
Ask Martha when she lands.
I hate to ask, but it's really important.
I just ask one thing; will you take my word for one item and if you stop this vehicle you'll have more reward than you'll know what to do with.
Funny you should ask.
Thankfully, most times people react rather than ask questions.
Do you understand what I ask of you?
I'd like to ask a favor of you.
Boss, I was gonna ask if you needed an XO while Sasha is out, Toni ventured.
Someone's going to ask you a question tomorrow morning.
I don't ask twice.
You will have to ask him.
I was going to ask you to help me get home.
She wanted to ask more about them and what happened after Death claimed someone, but it was a lot to deal with.
Can I ask you something?
Let me ask you a question.
None of them had ever dared ask this question.
I was about to ask you the same question.
After he influenced her he would ask her to laugh again…and again.
Jackson wanted to ask her so many more personal questions.
He wanted to ask what she thought happened every time their eyes met.
He knew, as they walked to the door, she wouldn't ask him in.
Jackson had hoped to make plans with Elisabeth, but he couldn't very well ask her over and say, "Don't mind the steel shutters on all the windows."
He would not ask her to talk about Emily's death.
Was he working up the courage to ask?
And then when you said you didn't want to adopt children, I thought I didn't have a right to ask you.
He'd been about to ask a similar question.
What he wanted from her was a question she feared to ask.
I think Angel will just cry if you ask her anything.
Lana nodded, afraid to ask what happened if the plan didn't work.
Remind me never to ask your opinion on what I'm wearing.
Dan knew him well enough not to ask anything else, and they set off on foot.
I need to ask Lana about the keypad we found, too.
Her throat was too tight for her to ask.
You can ask in a little bit, after you eat.
Just please ask Mike to help me get across.
Did you ask her?
You can go see Death and ask her for Katie back.
Did you ask him, Toby?
Gabe, can I ask you something?
I'll ask you again.
What did the other me ask you?
What would you ask for?
At some point, we'll have to ask her to help us out of here.
Can I ask you something first?
Why don't we just ask the trees?
I mean, ask the trees.
Did you tell her off or ask nicely?
If you ask me, those Norfolk guys would be better off checking the airports than the bottom of the bay.
She looked at Dean as if to ask.
They're just things we have to ask.
Look, could I ask you something?
How long have you lied to me? she yearned to ask.
It is said that at least Bernardo del Nero would have been spared had Savonarola raised his voice, but, although refraining from any active part against the prisoners, the prior would not ask mercy for them.
There are three alternatives, which may be put as questions which every thinker must ask himself.
Berkeley thus diverted philosophy from its beaten track of discussion as to the meaning of matter, substance, cause, and preferred to ask first whether these have any significance apart from the conscious spirit.
Subsequently, Balbus became Caesar's private secretary, and Cicero was obliged to ask for his good offices with Caesar.
In 755 he was in hiding near Ceuta, and thence he sent an agent over to Spain to ask for the support of other clients of the family, descendants of the conquerors of Spain, who were numerous in the province of Elvira, the modern Granada.
Then, selecting some of the later and less virile scholastics as victims, they ask how men could be seriously interested in their trivialities.
Ask people in what way they hope the world will become better and you will certainly get replies about reducing poverty, disease, and hunger.
I am glad also to know, from the questions which you ask me, what you are thinking about.
If you do come, you will want to ask the kind people of Boston to help brighten Tommy's whole life.
I will ask Dr. Hale to lend me the letter, so that I can make a copy of it for you.
Indeed, I feel as if I had never seen anything until now, Helen finds so much to ask about along the way.
If it was natural for Helen to ask such questions, it was my duty to answer them.
One of the ministers wished me to ask Helen, "What do ministers do?"
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.
It may be vain to ask why the imagination will not be reconciled to flesh and fat.
I have long wanted to ask you, Andrew, why you have changed so to me?
Ask the count to come to me.
Mamma told me to ask you to join the dancers.
I ask an opportunity to atone for my fault and prove my devotion to His Majesty the Emperor and to Russia!
I only came round to ask Denisov about yesterday's order.
Ask Denisov whether it is not out of the question for a cadet to demand satisfaction of his regimental commander?
That is what I ask you.
I will ask her tomorrow in your presence; if she is willing, then he can stay on.
If he is not rich I will give her the means; I will ask my father and Andrew.
Boris inquired what news there might be on the staff, and what, without indiscretion, one might ask about our plans.
He would say a lot of pleasant things, ask you to dinner" ("That would not be bad as regards the unwritten code," thought Boris), "but nothing more would come of it.
If he weren't afraid of a battle why did he ask for that interview?
I'll take another turn and when I get back I'll go to the general and ask him.
May I ask to be attached to the first squadron?
Prince Andrew, who was a little behind looking at them, turned to an adjutant to ask him for a field glass.
They hardly gave one another time to ask questions and give replies concerning a thousand little matters which could not interest anyone but themselves.
But just at moments when such thoughts occurred to him, he would ask in a particularly calm and absent-minded way, which inspired the respect of the onlookers, Will it be long?
She did not venture to ask any questions, and shut the door again, now sitting down in her easy chair, now taking her prayer book, now kneeling before the icon stand.
The old prince, stepping on his heels, paced up and down his study and sent Tikhon to ask Mary Bogdanovna what news.--"Say only that 'the prince told me to ask,' and come and tell me her answer."
To say "tomorrow" and keep up a dignified tone was not difficult, but to go home alone, see his sisters, brother, mother, and father, confess and ask for money he had no right to after giving his word of honor, was terrible.
I come to ask you what to do, and you call it 'nonsense!'
Look then at thy inner self with the eyes of the spirit, and ask thyself whether thou art content with thyself.
Prince, I did not ask you here.
Twice the marauders even attack our headquarters, and the commander-in-chief has to ask for a battalion to disperse them.
He did not ask about the regiment, nor about the general state of affairs, and when Rostov spoke of these matters did not listen.
Just the same as now--I ask you, Count--who will be heads of the departments when everybody has to pass examinations?
I wished to ask the countess and you to do me the honor of coming to tea and to supper.
But don't be late, Count, if I may venture to ask; about ten minutes to eight, please.
Yes, but what did he ask me?
Or, turning to Mademoiselle Bourienne, he would ask her in Princess Mary's presence how she liked our village priests and icons and would joke about them.
You ask whether we shall spend next winter in Moscow.
Why do you ask me that? said Princess Mary, still thinking of that morning's conversation with her father.
Princess Mary went on to ask Natasha to fix a time when she could see her again.
Why doesn't he openly ask for your hand?
Only a couple of times a year--when he knew from their valets that they had money in hand--he would turn up of a morning quite sober and with a deep bow would ask them to help him.
Go to Matrena Matrevna and ask her for the sable cloak.
She did not understand how he could ask such a question.
If I were not myself, but the handsomest, cleverest, and best man in the world, and were free, I would this moment ask on my knees for your hand and your love!
Why ask me? said he.
His coachman did not even ask whether he was to wait.
But why do you ask me?
On the contrary, I ask you to go with all your belongings to our estate near Moscow, and I promise you I will see to it that there you shall want for nothing.
The princess ordered me to ask your regiment and your name.
I ask just one thing of you, cousin," she went on, "arrange for me to be taken to Petersburg.
Ah, I also wanted to ask you where our position is exactly? said Pierre.
Though this news was being concealed from the inhabitants, the officials--the heads of the various government departments--knew that Moscow would soon be in the enemy's hands, just as Count Rostopchin himself knew it, and to escape personal responsibility they had all come to the governor to ask how they were to deal with their various departments.
Whether that was a good or bad thing she couldn't guess, and she didn't have time to ask.
No, and I've never really cheated on Quinn, so don't bother to ask.
Why do you ask?
What makes you ask?
I didn't even bother to ask.
While she didn't ask directly, I sensed she hoped I'd talk to him.
I wouldn't ask but I think it's in your best interest to do so.
I can't help you through the authorities; they'll ask me why I'm inquiring and I don't have an answer.
Howie would never ask Quinn himself; as always seeking one of us as a go-between.
You'll have to ask him when you get there.
In a few moments I heard a gruff male voice ask, "Is this the swami?"
Either they forgot to ask or didn't bother.
I was anxious to hear about the meeting between the two women but I didn't want to ask in front of the child.
Cynthia didn't ask him to join her and he was more than happy to remain rocking a groove in the front porch decking.
I'll ask Fred to try and run down who owns that storage place.
I'll ask Billy Langstrom.
I wanted to ask Billy about teenage partying.
There wasn't time to ask her anything.
He'd ask me questions, and pay attention to my answers.
Or maybe it's just because daddy didn't ask their permission first.
What in God's name would make you ask a personal question like that?
Paul Dawkins wiped his face with his hand and looked at Dean as if to ask if he were serious.
Much as I'd like to, I won't ask her if her mother's maiden name was Plotke, nor will I tell her daddy's bones may be taking a motor home trip up the west coast—or that his pinkie is in your jewel case.
No. Just to ask questions.
Why did you ask him where he'd been—and earlier ask me if I'd seen him?
They ask friends just old enough to buy it for them.
I think so, but she began asking questions so quickly she didn't give me time to ask.
I came by your place to ask you a question—a favor.
He wanted to ask her about the bones but knew any such discussion would be the height of tastelessness for a long time to come.
First Jennifer Radisson called to ask about stopping by after dinner.
He changed the subject before Dean could ask more.
Martha didn't ask for details, nor did the Deans offer any beyond dire cautionary warnings of childhood dangers.
Finally, Lydia said, "I told your wife I was going to ask you," then added, "I really underestimated that woman."
She looked ready to ask him something else when the door opened again.
Wynn pitied her but wasn't about to ask any favors of the demon lord that didn't involve Wynn leaving Hell – and Deidre – behind.
Wynn wasn't about to ask why it was secret or spend too much time in Hell with the violent creature before him.
You had tens of thousands of millennia to ask!
He didn't ask questions, which Gabriel liked.
Zamon didn't say why he thought this would work, and I didn't ask.
I sent him to ask you a question.
A better person to ask might be Darkyn.
You could always ask her.
He'd thought to ask Darkyn about any debts owed but not about any future debts.
Maybe they came here to ask for permission to hunt.
Surely he would ask when he was ready to digest that information.
The expression on his face indicated he knew what she was going to ask.
You'll have to ask him.
I was thinking more along the lines that he can have no objection when I ask you to dinner, if he's out of the picture.
Ask Wynn to dinner.
Ask what you mean to ask, Wynn.
Someone his size with his specific skills didn't ask for favors or need to be polite.
Gabe wasn't going to ask what happened if he failed.
I already know what I'll ask for.
She added before he could ask.
I have to ask.
Deidre didn't want to ask about the part that disturbed her the most.
She groaned, aware of how many questions he could ask when he was interested in something.
She didn't know what to do about her car, and he didn't ask.
Normal kids didn't ask about the underworld or being human.
In any case, I went to visit you at your apartment recently to ask you something.
I ask myself that a few times a day.
She was afraid to ask if it was true what they'd said about him always loving her despite what past-Deidre did.
If you're here to ask where Deidre is, the answer is no.
Can I ask what you won?
She didn't ask for fear of discovering he was going to stop playing his keep-away game and offer her an arrangement she couldn't refuse.
She didn't ask how.
When they left Deidre's apartment, Andre was headed to ask his half-brother, Tamer, for help researching histories for more information.
You could've asked me for anything in the universe, and you ask me to babysit a human.
My lover is in pain, and you ask me why I'm here?
An hour is all I ask.
I didn't want to go to school today and stayed home but we're out of marshmallows and Gabriel doesn't have any money so I told him that we could ask you to pick up more marshmallows because we both really like them.
Kris's gaze flared again, and she assumed he'd expected her to ask for her freedom.
The girls wanted me to ask since they haven't met you yet.
Don't ask where I hide the bodies.
Hannah, dear, please instruct the servants that Rhyn and Katherine are given whatever they ask for.
You would ask this?
You.re lucky this is all I ask.
You must understand there is a reason behind what I ask of you that will not become clear for some time.
He didn.t have to ask what Sasha did to her when her pretty blue eyes flared with white rage and then filled with tears.
I didn.t ask for this!
I need to ask you something, and if you lie to me, we.re done.
I ask that, in the meantime, you refrain from attacking any Immortal traveling the road to the castle.
Disappointed, he wasn.t sure what else to ask.
I thought I.d ask before you sat down for breakfast.
Jade couldn.t bring himself to ask about the vial for fear of giving himself away.
I only ask one thing of you, Kris, in exchange for doing your dirty work.
He didn.t have to ask how.
But until they choose to remember that, they ask another favor of you, their last.
She briefly considered calling Evelyn to ask about her moving arrangements.
It stuck, but she forced herself not to ask why.
Can you wait here for a minute, so I can ask Romas where your room is?
All because she was too stubborn to ask Evelyn to leave.
There was too much wrong with the woman's words, but she dumped her confusion and wounded feelings to ask, "Where has he gone?"
She wished hard she could talk to Evelyn as she had in her dream last night and ask her what to do.
That she took enough interest in him to ask after his injury pleased him.
She wondered if he felt hurt at his best friend's betrayal but didn't have the nerve to ask.
I'll do what you ask, A'Ran, but isn't there another way?
She'd never allowed herself to ask why A'Ran didn't come for her.
I know it's a lot to ask after your … ordeal.
I ask for your attention one last time, as a personal favor to me.
You can ask the court for an order of restraint against your husband and stop him from coming anywhere near you if you're in fear of the man.
It's not imposing if I ask you.
When Dean didn't ask anything further, Martha continued.
I wouldn't ask, but I need— well, Donnie's father is here.
Dean was about to ask him if his nineteen-fifties sweater came from the same garage sale as the skis but he proceeded directly to the parlor.
If you have a problem, just wait a little while and ask Annie yourself.
Don't ask me how—I just knew.
Dean, crossing his fingers at being on a roll, decided to ask about the death of Shipton's son.
Did you ask your sister what happened?
Please, don't even ask me any questions.
Just don't ask me to be a pallbearer.
I'm the law and I've got to ask the questions.
Why don't you come on out and ask your questions while I'm getting something done?
He didn't tell her of his escalating concerns over the Shipton case, nor, surprisingly did she ask about it.
Aren't you supposed to ask him if he wants a lawyer?
Maybe we can all save some time if we skip the part where you ask the questions and I just go ahead and answer them.
Dean itched to ask her how she was so sure it wasn't Mr. David Dean who dropped her hubby into space but she began to sob anew, making any further conversation impossible.
I only ask this of you, my dearest Joshua; that you not tell my family how I lived, and that you mourn not my passing.
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.
Dean wanted to ask when she might return but was hesitant about appearing to hurry her from her mother's bedside.
Ain't you going to ask what I found on the net?
I don't want a gang of storm troopers invading my mother-in-law's house at midnight to ask my wife a few simple questions.
No, I don't have to ask.
Ain't you going to ask how I answered?
You'd have to ask them, but I'm sure they could.
I know you had to ask but I'll save you the next question, she added.
Dean didn't ask, "What stuff?" but instead climbed the stairs to the smaller of the two bedrooms, and in less than ten minutes was asleep.
Dean made a note to ask Cynthia Byrne about the incident.
Dean did not know Ethel's age and she wouldn't have told him if he had been interested enough to ask.
If you ask me," she said, "I'll bet he skipped off with his secretary or girlfriend."
No. It was just one of those unanswered details I picked up on and figured I'd ask.
Look, I don't ask their age.
He didn't even ask why I was crying.
But you know, I'm kinda glad he didn't ask.
Jonathan Winston was sure to ask.
Why don't you ask him?
But the old man, finally, with much reluctance, agreed to re-figure the amount stolen when Dean began to ask how frequently deposits were made and offered to check bank records.
No. We were sort of cut off before I could ask for one.
I thought he might want a refund on his unused rent, not that I'd have given it to him, but he didn't even ask.
Ask her where the envelope was postmarked.
And before you ask, the license plate wasn't the same.
Now, I've got a question to ask.
You could ask Arthur yourself if he were here, but he's out on Fire Island with his latest bimboy and all their little friends.
The boys were glad to earn 50 bucks and DeLeo was polite enough not to ask why a 74-year-old man was renting a one-way automobile.
There are some questions I have to ask you.
It seems kinda silly, if you ask me, but it's your call.
I can check without having to ask anyone—and tip him off.
Tell you what, you show me where this guy's gear is and maybe I'll leave a note for the fella asking him to ask Corbin when he sees him.
I might not be able to prove your involvement in this little charade but I bet I can ask some embarrassing questions.
I guess I wanted to ask you the classic question.
In fact, it would be unfair to ask him to do so.
Actually, Josh did ask her, but she had never answered.
Alex took me out this morning to ask if I really wanted to do this.
I don't think I'm the one you should ask about that, Josh.
Did you think I would ask you to put him down?
So he walked over here to ask me about horses when he had none.
Maybe he came to ask if you were happy with your decision.
He did ask how marriage was treating her.
If you wanted to know about our financial status, why didn't you just ask me?
What is there to ask about?
A few times he looked up at her, as if to ask what was on her mind.
Did you ever get up the nerve to ask that secretary out to supper?
You're just too kind hearted to tell anybody no when they ask for help.
You didn't even ask me how I felt before you made your decision.
Still, if she made it uncomfortable for him this time, maybe he'd be sure to ask her how she felt next time.
Alex never said anything about seeing the doctor, and she was reluctant to ask.
Except you were willing to ask and believe.
If you ever want to know something like that, ask me.
It's not something I'd ask of you otherwise.
If you can do it, I'll do as you ask and walk away.
If you stay as my guardian, I will pay you what gold you ask for, she said in a hushed voice.
You must serve me as I ask, and then go.
I want to ask you to agree to protect me.
Spare me this, and I swear, whatever it is you ask, I will grant you!
I do not ask your help for me, but for the people of Tiyan and Landis.
I would ask my fellow fool for a boon.
I ask you not to fight them.
I'll do as you ask.
It's not my place to ask.
I cannot speak, but I would tell him the evil I've done for the beast, and then ask him if he thought the curse was worth a wall we might have built ourselves!
She shivered, afraid to ask more.
You ask much of me, Taran.
Will I have some position of honor in your armies? he forced himself to ask.
My king, if I may ask, why did you kill all those who came with me from across the sea?
She said to ask you.
Ed kept looking back as if to ask how many more people they thought he could pull.
Alex was conscientious and he would never ask his employees to do anything he wouldn't do.
Jonathan said Alex had told him to ask her for permission.
Why didn't you ask him to go with you?
I didn't ask to be attacked by Rob yesterday.
He was going to ask for a divorce.
Why would Alex ask about Alondra specifically?
Carmen showered and donned a simple sheath dress and didn't ask Alex what they should wear.
There was no need to ask her to reconsider.
If this dog is what you want, it isn't important who gave it to you – and you don't need to ask me before you put another animal on this place.
She started to say no, but he didn't normally ask.
Maybe she should ask him if he sent the man.
More likely Clara wanted to ask questions, but if she said no it might be construed as unfriendly.
And yet, for someone who was bold enough to drive up and introduce himself, he was certainly having a hard time working up the courage to ask her to a movie.
She hated to ask for directions to another store.
You didn't ask for help, did you?
No. What made you ask that?
Why did he need to ask Clara?
Why not ask Dad - unless he was afraid Dad would get the wrong idea.
When I ask him if I can take you a message, he says no, to just wait until you come into town and have you call him.
She would like to ask, but she didn't want to force him to lie.
I'm so wrapped up in my ideas that I didn't even ask.
Don't you ask any questions about the people you hang out with?
He never offered any information, but then, I didn't ask either.
If you ask her, she might say differently.
You can't use our truce to ask for favors.
I guess to ask you another question, if you'll answer.
You're not supposed to ask me questions.
She didn't ask where they were going but took the subtle beast onto the highway and let it loose, weaving in and out of traffic to test its handling.
She started to ask if they were there for him when she realized they were all women.
Yes. I can ask for directions to bars and brothels in another ten.
She was terrified to ask, especially after his comment about GPS tracking her.
Xander can take him, but he shouldn't, because Jonny won't be alone when Xander faces him, and Xander can't face the creatures with Jonny without help, which he refuses to ask for, because he's a complete ass.
Hey, Xander, can I ask you something? she asked.
I'm afraid to ask if it worked.
Guided by the swan he reached Antwerp, and married the lady on condition that she should not ask his origin.
Once only do we find him taking an interest in the affairs of his neighbours, - to ask pardon from the government for a homicide.'
But I have just been at Leyden and Amsterdam to ask after Galileo's cosmical system as I imagined I had heard of its being printed last year in Italy.
To attach a clear and definite meaning to the Cartesian doctrine of God, to show how much of it comes from the Christian theology and how much from the logic of idealism, how far the conception of a personal being as creator and preserver mingles with the pantheistic conception of an infinite and perfect something which is all in all, would be to go beyond Descartes and to ask for a solution of difficulties of which he was 1 Ouvres, vi.
It remains, therefore, to ask whether any information can be had about the language of this primitive -COfolk, and whether they can be identified as the authors of any of the various archaeological strata now recognized on Italian soil.
At last Philip unwillingly gave way, and he secretly suggested to the cardinal that he should ask permission from the regent to visit his mother at Besancon.
On the other hand, Cromwell could justly boast "there is not a nation in Europe but is very willing to ask a good understanding with you."
Cromwell replied by requesting a brief delay to ask counsel of God and his own heart.
Then if the king or any of his servants do wrong and complaint is made to four of the twenty-five, they are to ask for redress.
Some recent connoisseurs, however, ask us to restrict to seven the number of his genuine extant engravings - which appears unreasonable.
He was appointed introducer of ambassadors on the 12th of October 1671, and it became notorious that whoever had a petition to present or a place to ask for must apply to him.
Thus, in any estimate of the influence of Babylonia upon the Old Testament, it is obviously necessary to ask whether certain features (a) are of true Babylonian origin, or (b) merely find parallels or analogies in its stores of literature; whether the indebtedness goes back to very early times or to the age of the Assyrian domination or to the exiles who now returned.
Ants invite one another to work, or ask for food from one another, by means of pats with the feelers; and they respond to the solicitations of their guest-beetles or mites, who ask for food by patting the ants with their feet.
But we may ask, as Pasteur did, Why does beer or milk become sour on exposure to ordinary air?
There are several quite distinct questions we can ask with regard to them.
To ask "What is man ?"
Similarly in Egypt at the present day the jinn are believed to swarm so thickly that it is necessary to ask their permission before pouring water on the ground, lest one should accidentally be soused and vent his anger on the offending human being.
Barely eight months after the restoration of the Bourbons in the autumn of 1875, Sagasta accepted the new state of things, and organized the Liberal dynastic party that confronted Canovas and the Conservatives for five years in the Cortes, until the Liberal leader used the influence of his military allies, Jovellar, Campos and others, to induce the king to ask him to form a Cabinet in 1881.
Yet the church might ask, with some justice, whether the means he had used were excused by the end which he had attained.
The Rhinedaughters appear to him, and ask him to give them the ring that is on his finger.
Compare the mere fairy-tale mystery of Lohengrin's command that Elsa shall never ask to know his name, with the profound fatalism of Isolde's love-potion.
Meanwhile Mahmud, realizing the impossibility of crushing the Greek revolt unaided, had bent his pride to ask the help of Mehemet Ali, who was to receive as his reward Crete, the Morea and the pashaliks of Syria and Damascus.
The arrival of the Spaniards at Constance necessitating the formation of a fifth nation, Pierre d'Ailly availed himself of the opportunity to ask either that the English nation might be merged in the German, or that each great nation might be allowed to divide itself into little groups each equivalent to the English nation.
The act was unquestionably one of odious tyranny, but it is impossible not to ask why she had put herself within reach of it when her fortune enabled her to reside anywhere and to publish what she pleased.
In later days when the children shall ask what this means it shall be said that this is the sacrifice of the Lord's Passover.
As a memorial of this you shall eat unleavened bread seven days, on the 14th day at eve until the 21st day at eve; when children shall ask what this service means, you shall say that it is the Passover of the Lord.
Others had been carried off into slavery, and a deputation of clergy which Patrick had sent to ask for their release had been subjected to ridicule.
These were huge digests of all that popes, councils, primitive fathers had decided on every kind of question pertaining to the confessional - what exactly is a sin, what kind of questions the priests must ask, under what conditions he could give absolution.
Again, we may ask, what is meant by the phrase " national honour "?
The new attitude which has been taken since Darwin's writings on this question is to ask for evidence of the asserted transmission of acquired characters.
His efforts in this capacity failed; but when the city was stormed (70) Titus granted him whatever boon he might ask.
But here it becomes necessary to ask what is the precise meaning which we are to assign to the phrases, " to David," " to Asaph," " to the sons of Korah."
If we want justice, we must be in a position to ask it with unsullied hands..
For the moment nothing more was heard of this boundary question by the public, but General Crespo instructed the Venezuelan minister in Washington to ask for the assistance of the United States in the event of any demand being made by the British Government for an indemnity.
They were privileged to ask alms throughout Scotland.
If we go back in imagination to the beginning of the Victorian era and ask what was then known of the history of Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and Asia Minor, we find ourselves confronted with a startling paucity of knowledge.
Wood was to ask, "if the French originals are found to tally with the Scots translations, will that be reckoned good evidence ?"
But he did not ask.
But the perusal of the piece obliges us to ask ourselves whether the author's radical conception of human nature was not false.
Why, he might ask, should he not select the simple form of Dollond's first type ?
The main instigator was Charles I., duke of Bourbon, who three years before had attempted a similar rising, and had been forced to ask pardon of the king.
The number of questions which Calvin failed to ask or eluded by absolutely irrational expedients frees him from any taint of modern rationalism.
To understand the philosophical theory that has come to be known under this title, we may ask (I) what in general it is and how it is differentiated from other theories of knowledge and reality, (2) how it has risen in the history of philosophy, (3) what position it occupies at present in the world of speculation.
On returning to his native place about the year 397 he was chosen to head an embassy from the cities of the Pentapolis to the imperial court to ask for remission of taxation and other relief.
They were chosen from among labouring men, who at the age of twentyfive might ask the body of ministers to be admitted as candidates.
After giving this account of themselves they ask for information about several points in a way which shows the exigencies of a rude and isolated society, and finally they say that they have been much disturbed by the Lutheran teaching about freewill and predestination, for they had held that men did good works through natural virtue stimulated by God's grace, and they thought of predestination in no other way than as a part of God's foreknowledge.
The student may naturally ask, Whence did the Israelites (a comparatively young people) obtain the original myth ?
Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a dream and offered to grant whatever he might ask.
The queen must say that she cannot view without alarm possible consequences of another year of agitation on the Irish Church, and she would ask the archbishop seriously to consider, in case the concessions to which the government may agree should not go so far as he may himself wish, whether the postponement of the settlement for another year may not be likely to result in worse rather than in better terms for the Church.
The Chinese had thoughts of pushing their conquests towards western Turkestan and Samarkand, the chiefs of which sent to ask assistance of the Afghan king Ahmed Shah.
The authority of the pulpit of any individual church is in the hands of the deacons; they ask the pastor to supply so many Sundays a year - from twelve to forty, as the case may be - and they then fill the remainder with any preacher they choose.
The momentous question was discussed at a meeting of the opponents of the Vatican decrees, and it was resolved to elect a bishop and ask the Dutch bishops to consecrate him.
If you ask me to define the amount more accurately, I say that it cannot be done.
In 1507 Matthew, or Matheus, an Armenian, had been sent as Abyssinian envoy to Portugal to ask aid against the Mussulmans, and in 1520 an embassy under Dom Rodrigo de Lima landed in Abyssinia.
In response to the demand for self-government, in September 1647 he and the council appointed - after the manner then followed in Holland - from eighteen representatives chosen by the people a board of nine to confer with him and the council whenever he thought it expedient to ask their advice; three of the nine, selected in rotation, were permitted to sit with the council during the trial of civil cases; and six were to retire each year, their successors to be chosen by the director and council from twelve candidates nominated by the board.
Elizabeth could hardly be expected to go out of her way and ask parliament to repeal its own acts for Mary's sake; probably it would have refused.
But Guidiccioni, on a careful study of the papers, changed his mind; it is supposed that the cause of this change was in large measure the strong interest in the new scheme exhibited by John III., king of Portugal, who instructed his ambassador to press it on the pope and to ask Ignatius to send some priests of his Society for mission work in Portugal and its Indian possessions.
It was also about this same period that the grave scandal of the Chinese and Malabar rites began to attract attention in Europe, and to make thinking men ask seriously whether the Jesuit missionaries in those parts taught anything which could fairly be called Christianity at all.
Then men began to ask themselves what it meant.
When the summit is reached, the traveller is tempted to ask, Where are the mountains?
The question of damages was reserved for further discussion, but either party was to be at liberty to submit any question of fact to the arbitrators, and to ask for a finding thereon.
Farmers are invited to visit these experimental farms, and a large correspondence is conducted with those interested in agriculture in all parts of the Dominion, who are encouraged to ask advice and information from the officers of the farms.
We have therefore to ask, first who was the author, and secondly what is the relation of the Rhetoric to Alexander to the Rhetoric, which nowadays alone passes for genuine.
Under the rules adopted, the examination of witnesses is conducted by the president in accordance with the system prevailing in most continental countries; members of the commission may only put questions to witnesses for the eliciting of further information; and they may not interrupt the witness when he is in course of making his statement, but they may ask the president to put any additional questions.
At the same time it soon appeared that they could not agree among themselves when they came to ask what it is, but in attempting to define it seem to have gone through the whole gamut of mind.
Bradley, however, having satisfied himself, like Spinoza, by an abuse of the word " independent," that " the finite is self-discrepant," goes on to ask what the one Real, the absolute, is; and, as he passed from Herbart to Spinoza, so now he passes from Spinoza to Kant.
He must ask what are known things, and especially what has been discovered in the sciences; in mechanics, in order to find the essence of bodies which is neglected by idealism; in mental science, in order to understand consciousness which is neglected by materialism.
Now this in Timothy's case, as far as we can trace his steps, was Ephesus; and it is natural to ask whether it will not suit all the conditions of the problem.
It was this sermon that determined his friend Thomas Bilney to go to Latimer's study, and ask him " for God's sake to hear his confession," the result being that " from that time forward he began to smell the word of God, and forsook the school doctors and such fooleries."
In the spring of 1583 she retained enough of this saintly resignation to ask for nothing but liberty, without a share in the government of Scotland; but Lord Burghley not unreasonably preferred, if feasible, to reconcile the alliance of her son with the detention of his mother.
Ask rather how the beasts have learned their arts.
When they had crossed the master desired the disciple to ask some parting blessing.
From the surfaces of all objects there are continually flowing thin filmy images exactly copying the solid body whence they originate; and these images by direct impact on the organism produce (we need not care to ask how) the phenomena of vision.
They came to inform him that a new edition of the English poets, from Cowley downwards, was in contemplation, and to ask him to furnish short biographical prefaces.
Yet several writers of his time sold their copyrights for sums such as he never ventured to ask.
African troops, entirely European and normally consisting of 606 officers time when it would have been impolitic to ask openly for more cavalry, they were little by little trained in real cavalry work, then combined in provisional regiments for disciplinary purposes and at last frankly classed as cavalry.
In 1890, while the Septennate had still three more years to run, Caprivi had to ask for an additional 20,000 men.
It was not clear that their action was deliberate, but none the less the chancellor himself came down to ask from the House permission to bring a charge of lse-majest against them, a request which was, of course, almost unanimously refused.
The mere credens could at best invoke the living saint, and ask him to pray for him.
In the West a new crusade to the Holy Land was in preparation, and the crusaders sent ambassadors, one of whom was Villehardouin, the historian of the expedition, to ask the Venetians to give them passage and means of transport (1201).
Having briefly spoken of the divine nature in the terms of Greek philosophy, Aristides proceeds to ask which of all the races of men have at all partaken of the truth about God.
From our present point of view we may therefore regard this work of Hellenism as one continuous process, initiated by the Macedonians and carried on under Roman protection, and ask in the first place what the institution of a Greek city implied.
In the Tell el-Amarna letters the friendly kings ask Pharaoh for much gold.
Little is known of his personal history, except that he lived at Emmaus, and that he went on an embassy to the emperor Heliogabalus to ask for the restoration of the town, which had fallen into ruins.
Chilperic, brother of Sigebert, and king of the west Frankish kingdom, jealous of the renown which this marriage brought to his elder brother, hastened to ask the hand of Galswintha, sister of Brunhilda; but at the instigation of his mistress Fredegond, he assassinated his wife.
It is said that Hera, having assumed the form of Semele's nurse, persuaded her rival to ask Zeus to show himself to her in all his glory.
A further distinction is important, especially in such subjects as mathematics or foreign languages, in which it is legitimate to ask what precise power on the part of a candidate the passing of an examination shall signify.
Who, then, he might well ask is this Jesus Christ who is lifted to this unexampled height?
At this moment a crowd came up to ask the fulfilment of his annual act of grace, the pardon of a prisoner at the Passover.
But the chief priests succeeded in making the people ask for Barabbas and demand the crucifixion of Jesus.
If we ask what must, on grounds of literary probability, have been added before the record was closed, we may content ourselves here with saying that some incident must certainly have been narrated which should have realized the twice-repeated promise that Jesus would be seen by His disciples in Galilee.
When His disciples, having watched Him at prayer, desired to be taught how to pray, they were bidden to address God as " Father "; to ask first for the hallowing of the Father's name, and the coming of His kingdom; then for their daily food, for the pardon of their sins and for freedom from temptation.
Is it probable, we ask, that our Lord should have neglected the sacred custom in accordance with which the pious Jew visited Jerusalem several times each year for the observance of the divinely appointed feasts ?
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.
It was to ask Bismarck officially to communicate a resolution in which a foreign parliament expressed an opinion in German affairs exactly opposed to that which the emperor at his advice had always followed.
In 754 Abu Moslim came to Irak to visit Abu`l-Abbas and to ask his permission to make the pilgrimage to Mecca.
When welcoming Tahir, Mamun bade him ask for any reward he might desire.
In the year 905 the Greek general Andronicus took Marash, and penetrated as far as Haleb (Aleppo), but the Moslems were successful at sea, and in 907 captured Iconium, whilst Andronicus went over to the caliph's side, so that the Byzantine emperor sent an embassy to Bagdad to ask for a truce and an exchange of prisoners.
By May 27 Conrad had been compelled to ask Falkenhayn to send to Italy a division of the Austrian XII.
In May 1894 a more important insurrectionary rising than usual led the king to ask armed aid from China.
One of the characteristics of Greek philosophers is their growing tendency, in investigating any subject, to turn round and ask themselves what should be the method of investigation.
What then is meant by principles when we ask in the closing chapter of his logic how they become known ?
Aspiring during the reign of her son to the same role which she had seen Blanche of Castile play, she induced, in 1263, the young Philip, heir to the throne, to promise to obey her in everything up to the age of thirty; and Saint Louis was obliged to ask for a bull from Urban IV.
To what local variety of Achaean Homeric Greek belonged it is idle to ask.
On his accession Frederick had communicated the news of his election to Pope Eugenius III., but neglected to ask for the papal confirmation.
Destined originally for the Church, he had preferred to become a knight, and in forty years of tournaments and fights he had won himself a considerable reputation, when in 1208 envoys came from the Holy Land to ask Philip Augustus, king of France, to select one of his barons as husband to the heiress, and ruler of the kingdom, of Jerusalem.