More than wonders

Usage examples of asks.

When he asks you a second time, tell him to seek the answer of me, and offer to consult the oracle also, in case my answer may be too obscure.

An officer of Hussars asks where I am running so fast, and my tongue, quicker than my thought, answers without any privity on my part, that I can render no account but to Prince Lobkowitz, commander-in-chief of the army, whose headquarters were at Rimini.

As a policeman, I know quite well what everyone thinks when a man asks for a girl, especially a very young girl.

The duke has sworn that any who asks to be returned to Earth will be returned there on the next available car and given clothing and money.

She seems resigned, and asks how I can thus set the storm at defiance.

One of the peasants, an elderly and reasonable-looking man, comes up to me and asks me in Italian why I have killed the sheep.

Bragadin Asks the Hand of That Young Person for Me--Her Father Refuses, and Sends Her to a Convent--De la Haye--I Lose All my Money at the Faso-table--My Partnership with Croce Replenishes My Purse--Various Incidents The happiness derived from my love had prevented me from attaching any importance to my losses, and being entirely engrossed with the thought of my sweetheart my mind did not seem to care for whatever did not relate to her.

The wife only sleeps in the closet when her husband asks her--an event which only occurs at certain periods, and the separation does not last for more than a few days.

I never refuse anyone who asks me for money, for I have a superstition that I should lose if I did.

I provoke him, the better he loves me, and I will make him pay dearly when he asks me to make it up.

I am so glad I have typewritten out my own journal, so that, in case he asks about Lucy, I can hand it to him.

When he comes forward and asks to see the girl, and the tunic is opened, he is, of course, already there and interested.

Meet him, Gaius Flavius, and agree to whatever he asks, be it rule over all Italy or a trip to the land of the Hyperboreans.

If I go back again and he asks me the same question again, I will give him the same answer!

The Ingeles asks lots of questions and volunteers nothing, Rodrigues thought.