quizzing

• John accused him of quizzing, but he answered that he really thought them excellent.” —  The Life of John Ruskin
• And sarcastic quizzing (especially if it be truth too), on certain female topics, what Improper Female, Czarina of All the Russias, could stand it? —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
• He carried a jaunty sort of a stick, with a large pair of rusty tassels to it; and a quizzing-glass hung outside his coat, - for ornament, I afterwards found, as he very seldom looked through it, and couldn't see anything when he did. —  David Copperfield
• -- as Friedrich now affects to do; obliquely quizzing, in the Friedrich manner. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
• "Here his whole conversation consisted in quizzing (TURLUPINER) whatever he saw; and repeating to me, above a hundred times over, the words 'little Prince,' 'little Court.' —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia

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