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- adverb in a
quizzing manner
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Examples
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She looked at me quizzingly, and with a little tilt of her head, she leaned in toward me and asked, "why?"
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“Just behold the flower — the only one in the world,” said Lina quizzingly; “and, mistress! just look at the splendid plants!”
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The Duchess, imparting to her tired features the radiant expression that the Princesse des Laumes used to assume when Swann, in years past, paid her compliments, looked, with tears of merriment in her eyes, quizzingly, questioningly and delightedly at
The Captive 2003
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Always he would beg of us to pay attention to our lessons, on the plea that Petinka was a good son, an exemplary son, a son who was in twofold measure a man of learning; after which he would wink at us so quizzingly with his left eye, and twist himself about in such amusing fashion, that we were forced to burst out laughing.
Poor Folk 2003
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“In walnuts, I suppose?” retorted the chief guest quizzingly.
Balzac 2003
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He looked quizzingly at me, and I was almost ashamed to admit that I had been in a maze for the greater part of the morning.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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"Not a bit, cousin," said the Marquis, looking quizzingly at me.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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"Dandies of the first water, oh yes," replied Fritz quizzingly.
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I asked quizzingly, when he at last gave over the search.
The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough
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"And of one reel you danced," said he, quizzingly, "not more than two months gone in a town that was called Inneraora?"
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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