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 Levett-Yeats, S.

If I were put to the question and were forced to say in what its supreme grandeur and beauty lay, I should perhaps say in its most ample simplicity.

From Seven English Cities by Howells, William Dean

The case, well put, found strength in the contention that the last move had not been made, since the three most important characters in the play had not been put to the question.

From The Art of Disappearing by Smith, John Talbot

But now as we were about to march I was dragged before the committee of colonels and put to the question.

From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Lynde, Francis