inquirer

• “Nobody, but we two, knew that the inquirer was the Count de St. Alyre.”

  The Room in the Dragon Volant

• “The inquirer is a little man with a thin face, and a voice which might be disagreeable, were it not mellowed by good nature.”

  A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France

• “The inquirer was a Scotchman about thirty years of age; he wore dark glasses and was decently clad; he had been discharged from St. Bartholomew's”

  London's Underworld

• “Don't stop to ask questions, cast-iron head,' replied the long man, with great disgust, taking it for granted that the inquirer was a footman; 'but open the door.”

  The Pickwick papers

• “To declare the truth about matters of high interest which a man honors and loves, among wise men who love him, need occasion no fear or faltering in his mind; but to carry on an argument when you are yourself only a hesitating inquirer, which is my condition, is a dangerous and slippery thing; and the danger is not that I shall be laughed at (of which the fear would be childish), but that I shall miss the truth where I have most need to be sure of my footing, and drag my friends after me in my fall.”

  The Republic of Plato

• “Fifthly, that may perhaps be of some assistance to an inquirer which is the ruin and destruction of a believer; viz., a brief review, as in passage, of the opinions now received, with their varieties and sects, that they may touch and rouse the intellect and no more.”

  Preparative toward a Natural and Experimental History

• “One I recognised as an "inquirer" who had been brought to my rooms some time previously; the other was a lad I had not seen before.”

  In Bohemia with Du Maurier The First Of A Series Of Reminiscences

• “‘Don’t stop to ask questions, cast – iron head,’ replied the long man, with great disgust, taking it for granted that the inquirer was a footman; ‘but open the door.’”

  The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

• “Why not quote the "inquirer" after all, both do REAL credible reporting … I'm sure this passed the polit bureau in the Washington post but obviously no one thought to run this by a thinker … you know some one with a brain who uses it on a regular basis ….”

  Mother Earth News Latest 10 Articles

• “The ambition of the inquirer seemed to limit itself to the annihilation of those visions on which my interest in science was chiefly founded.”

  Chapter 3

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