put to the question
Example Sentences
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Nature, poetically says Dr. Reid, is put to the question by a thousand observations and experiments, and forced to confess her secrets.
From A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning by Holyoake, George Jacob
If Constance had betrayed him, assuredly May also must have been put to the question, and with what result?
From Our Friend the Charlatan by Gissing, George
In filling blanks the largest sum and the longest time proposed shall be first put to the question.
From Robert's Rules of Order Pocket Manual of Rules of Order for Deliberative Assemblies by Robert, Henry M.
Just because being found intolerable it was faced and put to the question.
From Progress and History by Marvin, Francis Sydney
What think you that your Syrian go-between will say when put to the question?
From Orrain A Romance by Levett-Yeats, S.
