Citations:question

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1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
Well, if you will, we will fall to it now; and since you left it with me to state the question, let it be this: How doth the saving grace of God discover itself when it is in the heart of man?

My brethren, we are, as you see, going all on pilgrimage; and, for our better diversion from things that are bad, give me leave to propound unto you this question: —

His desire of a greater benefice is lawful, (this cannot be contradicted), since it is set before him by Providence; so then, he may get it, if he can, making no question for conscience' sake.

1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
Scrooge asked the question, because he didn't know whether a ghost so transparent might find himself in a condition to take a chair; and felt that in the event of its being impossible, it might involve the necessity of an embarrassing explanation.

At every fresh question that was put to him, this nephew burst into a fresh roar of laughter; and was so inexpressibly tickled, that he was obliged to get up off the sofa and stamp.

2014, Joan Ganhaire, Un tant doç fogier, 2017, IEO Edicions/novelum - IEO, Toulouse/Périgueux, page 50.
« Monsur Raspienjas, setz pas sens saber qu'un murtre es estat comés questa nuech-lai, e seriam plan urós de rencontrar queu monsur per li pausar quauquas questions. Nom, pitit nom, adreça, si vos platz. »

1995, Florian Vernet, On't a passat ma planeta ?, Toulouse: IEO Edicions, published 2014, →ISBN, page 7:
Ne siáu totjorn a me pausar aquelei questions metafisicas sus l'èstre e lo paréisser que Sbòing, Crac, Bom, Wzzz, Pataflòu, me pausi.
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