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During the passage, Captain Robinson took occasion to examine and cross-question the man, whose name was Christian Cruise, and compare his verbal with his written testimony.

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"You know what the police are—how they question and cross-question people."

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Also, for reasons best known to himself, he did not cross-question the liftman about those singular marks, or report the matter to the police.

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The typical Athenian, Euripides, was so much deeper-dyed in skepticism than any one since that day, that really no one has ever lived who could cross-question him—let alone expound the meanings of his plays.

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For the sake of the lesson, Hogg should have been there to learn to cross-question.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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