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  • Pitty and Revengefulness, Optative: but of the Desire to know, there is a peculiar expression called Interrogative; as, What Is It,

    Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633

  • "Naiad acknowledges, sir," reported Foreman, and then, after ten seconds 'wait "Naiad to Hotspur, sir' Interrogative '. "

    Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962

  • Interrogative,” SecondGen White-Blue said as he bobbed gently on his antigravs.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010

  • The author has invented a style of speech for the Martians that the Earth humans have to try and get the hang of, full of stuff like 'Explicative-Interrogative?' and 'Parareproductive intromission activity', etc.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: In the Courts Of the Crimson Kings - S. M. Stirling Blue Tyson 2008

  • Interrogative,” SecondGen White-Blue said as he bobbed gently on his antigravs.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010

  • Interrogative,” SecondGen White-Blue said as he bobbed gently on his antigravs.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010

  • But a whole lot of people were walking towards me, giving me an Interrogative Look*, and I couldn't bring myself to give the real explanation.

    Foiled StyleyGeek 2006

  • But a whole lot of people were walking towards me, giving me an Interrogative Look*, and I couldn't bring myself to give the real explanation.

    Archive 2006-11-01 StyleyGeek 2006

  • Interrogative and relative pronouns are not easily distinguished from each other, and so on.

    Engaging in Bodhisattva Behavior - Shantideva ��� Introductory Note on the Translation Shantideva 2005

  • In The Questioning Presence: Wordsworth, Keats, and the Interrogative Mode in Romantic Poetry, Wolfson identifies the interrogative mode as an essential dimension of Keats's style and describes

    Teaching Like an Urn 2003

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