put to the question
Example Sentences
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And if the suffrage being taken, the major vote be in the non-sincere, the cause shall be reheard upon the next juridicial day following, and put to the question in the same manner.
From The Commonwealth of Oceana by James Harrington
Ford would, if put to the question, have maintained quite sincerely that he was perfectly indifferent to Josephine, but that she did have remarkable eyelashes, and a man couldn't help looking at them.
From The Uphill Climb by B. M. Bower
Robert Kirk, on being put to the question, admits the fact, but says that it was his wife put them there to be near her hand.
From International Short Stories English by Various
Sir John Eliot moved that it be put to the question, “because they that would have it, do urge us to that point.”
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli
The story is, that it was put to the question whether Timocreon should be banished for siding with the Persians, and Themistocles gave his vote against him.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough
