put to the question
Example Sentences
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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
What think you that your Syrian go-between will say when put to the question?
From Orrain A Romance by S. Levett-Yeats
So that the ghost-seer, though he had nearly occasioned the defendant to be put to the question, profited in the end nothing by his motion.
From Trial of Duncan Terig, alias Clerk, and Alexander Bane Macdonald for the Murder of Arthur Davis, Sergeant in General Guise's Regiment of Foot by Sir Walter Scott
The assembly had unanimously decided that Louis was guilty, when the appeal to the people was put to the question.
From History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 by M. (François-Auguste-Marie-Alexis) Mignet
It states that, after having been put to the question in various ways, he died, on—such a date, in his cell.”
From The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer by John Williamson
