Questions

This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.

identifier	question
1436	Peter Leon, having stood by some time, asked whether the King had but one ear?
8815	And you, Flad, what do you say?
8815	But were you not also one of the party?
8815	Did not I tell you so?
8815	I?
8815	Nothing,replied Samuel;"are you not the master?"
8815	Of what use is it,they said,"fighting against your people?
8815	What is it?
8815	You donkey, why did you call me the son of a poor woman? 8815 A few days before his death he introduced him to Mr. Rassam, saying,Alamayou, why do you not bow to your father?"
8815	After we had been told to sit down, Theodore called his workmen before him, and asked them if he ought to get"kassa?"
8815	Are not my ancestors greater than his?
8815	Are you a consul?"
8815	Are you to dictate to me what I am to do?
8815	As soon as they arrived he asked,"Do you hear this wailing?
8815	At last he said to Samuel, who was interpreting,"What have you to say if I chain your friends?"
8815	But since then( to use his own words),"having heard that they have calumniated and hated me with the Turks, I said to myself, Can this be true?
8815	But what should be done?
8815	But what was it?
8815	But within, are they always words of love that fill the echoes of the dome?
8815	Did I ever show any desire to follow your creed?"
8815	Did not Mr. Rosenthal say that the English Government had laughed at his letter?"
8815	Did not the Hakeem keep his head uncovered?
8815	Did the English fight with the Ashantees?
8815	Did they conquer them?
8815	Did we know?
8815	Did you not come with a friendly letter from the Queen of England?
8815	Did you not see me?
8815	Do I not look after my wife?
8815	Do you believe that I would not have gone to meet your people, and asked them what they came into my country for?
8815	Do you want me to kill these white men, and cover Abyssinia with blood?"
8815	Does it mean that the English will help me to subdue my enemies, or does, it mean honourable treatment as a prisoner?"
8815	Fourthly,"Did he not give a letter to Consul Cameron for him to deliver to the Queen of England, and did not the Consul return without an answer?
8815	Had Theodore again changed his mind?
8815	Had we been imprudent enough openly to take his part, what would have become of us?
8815	Have I not bought you with money?
8815	He asked them,"Why did you wish to leave my country before you took leave of me?"
8815	He then addressed one of his chiefs, saying,"Can you watch these people in the tent?"
8815	He then asked Mr. Rassam whether he knew or not that Jerusalem belonged to him, and that the Abyssinian convent there had been seized by the Turks?
8815	He then asked me,"Do you know Arabic?"
8815	He then said,"Why did you not ask Mr. Rassam to bring you to me, and be reconciled before you left?"
8815	He was, it is true, still far away; but who could say?
8815	How many soldiers had they?
8815	How many were killed?
8815	I know you love but me; what is it if you stoop now and then to pick up some flowers, to beautify them by your breath?"
8815	I told you to reconcile me with them; why did you not do so?"
8815	If God made him great, can he not make me also great?"
8815	If we could directly run away we did so; but if perceived, we had to put on our blandest smile, bow to the rude inquiry,"How art thou?
8815	Imbued with a few European notions, he longed to obtain some of the advantages he had heard of: but how?
8815	In conclusion, his Majesty said, addressing himself to us"Do you want to be my masters?
8815	Is it like this?
8815	Is peace the only sound that issues from its walls?
8815	Is their country unhealthy?
8815	Is there anything concerning us?"
8815	It was twice translated, and at the conclusion of the second reading he asked, in a deliberate manner,"What does honourable treatment mean?
8815	Mr. Stern he said, smiling all the while,"O Kokab( Star), why have you plaited your hair?"
8815	Mr. Stern, and asked him,"Was it as a Christian, a heathen, or a Jew, that you abused me?
8815	Need I say that the expedition failed utterly?
8815	On our way to Kourata we had been asked indirectly by his servants whether we knew anything about boat- making?
8815	One day she said to her fickle lord, who felt rather astonished at her forbearance,"Why should I be jealous?
8815	Ras Engeddah said to him,"Are you a woman, to cry?
8815	Shortly after Cameron''s arrival Theodore sent several messages, asking,"Where is the answer to the letter I gave you?
8815	Shortly afterwards one of his servants brought us the following message:--"Who is that woman who sends her soldiers to fight against a king?
8815	So near liberty, were we again doomed to captivity or death?
8815	Some of the questions asked by his Majesty were, to say the least, childish:"Where are the prisoners?
8815	Tell me where you find in the Bible that a Christian ought to abuse?
8815	The following day, during the march, Theodore sent Samuel backwards and forwards with questions,--such as:"Is the American war over?
8815	The third question was,"Is it not true that the Egyptian railway was built by the English?"
8815	Then addressing the two I had met on the road, he said,"You are proud, are you?
8815	Theodore then ordered every one to retire, and having told Flad to sit down, asked him,"Have you seen the Queen?"
8815	Theodore then took the letter, and, tearing it to pieces, said:--"Who is that Napoleon?
8815	Theodore told him,"Why did not you know that I would be a father to your child?
8815	Theodore turned towards some of the Europeans that stood near him and said,"Did I ever inquire of you about your religion?
8815	Theodore was calm, asked them why they were so ungrateful, and why they wanted to run away?
8815	Theodore was coming--_qu''importe_?
8815	Theodore, who was reposing after indulging in deep potations, asked his attendant,"What is it?"
8815	Those who abused me to you, were they my enemies or yours?
8815	Was it not their joyous shouts that had scared away the rebel?
8815	Was not Merewether there?
8815	What do you know about such matters?"
8815	What does a beggar like you know about my affairs?
8815	What had occurred?
8815	What have I done, said I, that they should hate me, and treat me with animosity?
8815	What if two of his servants had run away?
8815	What is his religion?"
8815	What possible business can about 500 brokers have?
8815	What shall I do?
8815	What will it be when the whole English army comes?
8815	When you wrote your book, by whose authority did you do it?
8815	Who are you that you dare call yourselves''lords?''
8815	Who was it told you evil things against me?"
8815	Why are your people so slow?"
8815	Why did the King of Dahomey kill so many of his subjects?
8815	Why did they not defend me?
8815	Why did they not take a better road?
8815	Why did you abase me?"
8815	Why did you go to my enemies the Turks?
8815	Why do you not kill me?
8815	Why have you given them fire- arms?
8815	Why have you not brought them to me?
8815	Why have you sent letters to the coast?"
8815	With such men as a Napier, a Staveley at the head of British troops, who could feel but contempt for petty vexations?
8815	Would they advance him a year''s tribute?
8815	but how can I?
8815	could they not provide more liberally for the wants of his army?
8815	have I not killed enough these two last days?
8815	they were unfaithful, and he was only too glad that they had left his amba; as for the arms lost, what did it matter?
8815	what have you come for?''
8815	why did you not on reaching me shout out''Miserach''( good tidings)?
8815	why had not Damash and his men come back?
39615	''What do you do here?'' 39615 And do they allow you to kiss their hands?"
39615	And how long have you been travelling about?
39615	And if you behave ill,said Bruce,"what do you think you will deserve?"
39615	And was it sport, sir,said Bruce,"when you said you would send me the flesh of elephants to eat?
39615	Are the women handsome in your country?
39615	Are you really sincere in what you say,said I,"and will you have no after excuses?"
39615	But do you know,said Sittina,"that no man ever kissed my hand but you?"
39615	Christian,said he, taking him by the hand,"what dost thou at such a time in such a country?"
39615	Confound Sidi Ali el Genowi,said Bruce,"you beast, can not you give me a rational answer?"
39615	Do you think I shall read all these letters? 39615 Have you companions,"says the soldier,"from such a country?"
39615	I apprehend, sir,said Bruce, with great firmness, and at the same time drawing away his hand,"you do not know me?"
39615	Sir,said Bruce( who had a very important object which he was desirous to gain),"may I beg leave to say two words to you?
39615	This being so,said the bey, with great looks of complacency,"what is it in my power to do for you?
39615	What are the monks?
39615	''And so you know Sacala and Geesh?''
39615	''And why did you say this?''
39615	''Are those before us Ababdé?''
39615	''Are you wanting a passage to India?''
39615	''How is it, then,''says she,''that you do not believe in miracles?''
39615	''I believe so,''says she, smiling;''but is there any harm in believing too much, and is not there great danger in believing too little?''
39615	''Sir,''says he,''are you an Englishman?''
39615	''Tell me first,''said I,''who is that you have before?''
39615	''What is the matter?''
39615	''You surely are sick, you should be in your bed; have you been long sick?''
39615	( How do you do, merchant?)
39615	After he had taken two whiffs of his pipe, and when the slave had left the room,"Are you prepared?"
39615	Again the bey asked,"Whether Constantinople would be burned or taken?"
39615	Again, if anything was to befall you, what should I answer to the king and the iteghe?
39615	And who is Waragna Fasil?
39615	Are you not afraid, so thinly attended, to venture upon these long and dangerous voyages?"
39615	But how has it fared with the body, that frail companion of the mind, during this weary journey?
39615	But who are you?''
39615	But you want payment, do you?"
39615	Did you ever know a Christian eat any sort of flesh that a Mohammedan killed?"
39615	Does your highness imagine it difficult for a party to reach the Nile( Niger) through the dominions of your friend the King of Bornou?
39615	From whence is he come?''
39615	He asked,''How?''
39615	He had time, wind, water, a vessel, and provisions, and what could he have asked for more?
39615	He laughed, and said,''Ay, why not?
39615	He looked steadfastly at me, saying, half under his breath,''Endet nawi?
39615	He offered them the salute of"Salum Alicum,"with which at first they were offended, asking him what, as a Turk, he had to do there?
39615	How can that be?"
39615	How does the Nimmer?
39615	However, I pricked up courage, and, putting on the best appearance I could, said to them steadily, without trepidation,''What men are these before?''
39615	I answered,''Is this the order in which your majesty means to engage?''
39615	I ask you, where is Ibrahim, your sheikh''s son?''
39615	I was perfectly silent when he cried,''Well, what do you say to us now, Yagoube?''
39615	In a most violent passion, the man threw away his pipe, and, seizing a stick, exclaimed,"Who am I, then?
39615	In short, had not human curiosity been pushed too far, and had it made any other discovery than of its own weakness?
39615	Is there anything surprising in all this?"
39615	Now a question naturally arises, Which of these two rivers is the principal stream?
39615	Now, pray, shum, tell me what is your business with me; and why have you followed me beyond your government, which is bounded by that river?''
39615	Should we fight?"
39615	Tell me how my cruisers are to know all these different writings and seals?"
39615	The answer, after some pause, was,''They are men;''and they looked very queerly, as if they meant to ask each other''What sort of spark is this?''
39615	The first question which the naybe asked Bruce was,"What the comet meant, and why it had appeared?"
39615	The king asked him, in a condoling tone,"What ailed him?"
39615	They answered me, two or three of them at once,''that it was all very well; what should they do?
39615	Upon my coming near them, the eldest put her hand to her mouth, and kissed it, saying, at the same time, in very vulgar Arabic,''Kifhalek howaja?''
39615	What have you to do with the comet?"
39615	When he was asked,"What could he do against so many?"
39615	When will you see this tried?''
39615	When will you set out?
39615	Where are your piastres?"
39615	Where is Ibrahim?''
39615	Who are those of my people that have authority to murder and take prisoners while I am here?
39615	Who commands you here?
39615	Who is that?
39615	Who knows, at this moment, if the king is in safety, or how long I shall be so?
39615	Whose heart has ne''er within him burn''d, As HOME his footsteps he has turn''d, From wandering on a foreign strand?"
39615	Why, then, should"a Briton"insist on carrying his fleecy hosiery to the Line?
39615	Will Metical call this safety?
39615	Will he not be subject to much troublesome inquiry on that head?
39615	Will you come to see me?
39615	Will your highness grant protection to a party wishing to proceed that way?
39615	You are a stranger now where I command; you are my father''s stranger likewise, and this is a double obligation upon me: what shall I do?"
39615	You are come hither by a thousand miracles, and after this, will you tempt God and go back?
39615	You did not learn that language in Habesh?''
39615	a girl, a woman, a pagan dog, like yourselves?
39615	are you not his slaves?
39615	are you raving?''
39615	are you very well?''
39615	bogo nawi?''
39615	did I not tell you this would happen for murdering the aga?''"
39615	do you imagine that I came this journey alone?"
39615	exclaimed Bruce,"I can not speak for surprise; what is the meaning of your having left Gondar to come into this wilderness?"
39615	exclaimed he, with a pretended surprise;''do you know what you are saying?
39615	exclaimed one of the company, putting his hand to his knife,"if the naybe wished to murder you, could he not do it here this minute?"
39615	he said;"have you brought the money along with you?"
39615	repeats he again:''are you to get there, do you think, in a twelvemonth, or more, or when?''
39615	said I;''are they from Sheikh Amner?''
39615	said the king;''you will not persuade me that with a tallow candle you can kill a man or a horse?''
39615	said they,''are you Yagoube, our physician and our friend?
39615	should they give themselves up to the Bishareen, and be murdered?
39615	this in the king''s presence?''
39615	to- morrow?"
39615	was there any other way of escaping?''
39615	where is that to be found?
39615	which, in Amharic, is,''How do you do?
35369	A fish,quoth the man of Hurrur,"what is that?"
35369	A head is ahead, is it not, all the world over?
35369	Am I then a dog,he continued, in the highest indignation,"and not worth the trouble of propitiating?
35369	And sheep and goats?
35369	And their Negoos, does he carry_ debaboch_[ Umbrellas of state], and make great_ zumachas_[ Military expeditions] with warriors like these?
35369	Are my children well?--have they entered in safety? 35369 Are these people pagans?"
35369	Are they Islams?
35369	Are you all well? 35369 Call you this English gold?"
35369	Do all of your nation thus burn their meat?
35369	Do n''t you know that the hole has been burnt, and therefore that it_ must_ be repaired with another colour?
35369	Have all my children arrived in safety?
35369	Have you a better house than this in your country?
35369	Have you any such in your country?
35369	Have you mashela, and daboo, and tullah in your country?
35369	How are you? 35369 How could that be?"
35369	How did I know? 35369 How do you do?"
35369	How have you passed the night? 35369 Is he dead?
35369	Let his friendship go into the sea,quoth His Majesty, who had overheard this appalling announcement--"Is not he an accursed Moslem?
35369	Manina teni_?
35369	My children,he returned deliberately,"how can this be?
35369	Sahela Selassie ye moot?
35369	Shall I leave my children in the day of their distress,he exclaimed,"and the seat of my fathers to be polluted by the accursed touch of the rebel?
35369	Then what are they?
35369	Was Subagadis not slain on the appearance of one, and did another not bring defeat to Ras Ali?
35369	What can you expect from that besotted old man?
35369	What do you know about the Hawash?
35369	What fault have you to find with her performance?
35369	What have you gained by this battle?
35369	What need is there now of this?
35369	What think you of my Galla ditch?
35369	What''s that, what do you say?
35369	Whence comes this_ maskal_?
35369	Where did the commander learn to throw a spear?
35369	Where is the man who was to supply water on the road?
35369	Where is the road?
35369	Where is thy brother?
35369	Where now is your friend Ali Mohammad?
35369	Who are the foxes,they invariably inquire,"but the kings and the governors of the land, who seek only after worldly vanities?
35369	Who gave_ that man_ tobacco?
35369	Who has seen the Eesah, who has heard the Eesah?
35369	Who has seen the Eesah, who has heard the Eesah?
35369	Who is the King of Shoa, that he should trample upon men braver than himself? 35369 Whose dog is Hajji Abdallah Kurmani?"
35369	Why do n''t you grow taller as well as sharper?
35369	Why do not my children ask for what they want? 35369 Why do you do that?"
35369	Why not?
35369	Why tarried ye in the tent? 35369 You are a tall man,"quoth Aboo Bekr drolly,"suppose we shorten you by the legs?"
35369	_ Fein tero_? 35369 what is his father?"
35369	whither are you going?
35369	--"How, no mules?"
35369	And what nation is better qualified to confer such inestimable gifts, or more likely to profit by them, when judiciously bestowed, than Great Britain?
35369	Are they Moslems, or Pagans, or even the enemies of the kingdom?
35369	Are you able to build boats?"
35369	Are you all well?
35369	Are you in perfect health?"
35369	Are you not well?"
35369	Are you perfectly well?
35369	Are you quite well?
35369	Are you quite well?"
35369	Are you very well?
35369	Are you well?
35369	Are you well?
35369	Are you well?
35369	Are you well?
35369	Are you well?
35369	Are your wives and all your children happy, and are your houses prosperous?
35369	At all events he must contrive to make it appear so, otherwise what would become of his primary thesis, that the Embassy"fell into such disrepute?"
35369	Before Dr Krapf quitted Massowah?
35369	But how is this proved?
35369	But how on these points did he happen to remain so much in the dark?
35369	But where is the Abyssinian who is proof against bribery and corruption?
35369	But who knows?
35369	Ca n''t you keep the road?
35369	Dahena karamoon?
35369	Dahena sanabatachoon?
35369	Do the Woema to this hour not pay tribute to Zeyla in acknowledgment of the assistance rendered?
35369	Do you conceive that I can always consent to receive the paltry pittance of rice with which I have hitherto been put off?
35369	Do you see?"
35369	Ejegoon dahena natchoon_?"
35369	Ejegoon dahenaderachoon?
35369	Had he not all the great Abyssinian authorities at his elbow?
35369	Has the spirit of the foul hare entered into the breast of the warrior?
35369	Have I not always told you that my people are bad?
35369	Have my children had a good journey?
35369	Have they cattle?"
35369	Have they entered in safety?
35369	Have you been quite well since our last interview?
35369	Have you been quite well since our last interview?
35369	Have you no medicine to drive it from myself?"
35369	Have you no medicine to drive them away?"
35369	Have you rested very well?
35369	Have your flocks and your herds multiplied, and are your fields and your pastures covered with plenty?"
35369	Hereat the Negoos waxing wroth, exclaimed,"Am I then the vassal of Ras Ali, that he thus interrogates me?"
35369	His Majesty inquired, with well- feigned simplicity,"Of what use should my children''s letters be to me, who understand not their language?"
35369	How can I reply to this?
35369	How do ye do?
35369	How happens it that his oracles grew suddenly dumb when he consulted them on the subject of dates?
35369	How have you passed your time?
35369	How have you spent the rainy season?
35369	However, supposing I had here been wrong, would it therefore have been fair to infer that on every other point I must be wrong also?
35369	In the name of the three kaliphs where are you going to?"
35369	Is he dead?"
35369	Is not Birkenich my daughter?"
35369	Is the commander a babe that he thus trifles with the safety of the caravan?
35369	Is the land of his ancestors invaded?
35369	Is the shield no longer to clash, nor the broad spear to glitter in the valley of Gobaad?
35369	Is this the scene Where the old earthquake''s demon taught her young Ruin?
35369	Kayf halut, how fares it with your health?"
35369	Must I reprint all the works which had been previously published, and point out the additions I have made?
35369	My control extends not to these disturbed districts; and if blows should be struck, what account shall I render unto the king my lord?"
35369	My petition was accompanied by the enquiry,"how I should be able to represent his proceedings to the Government by which I had been sent?"
35369	Now is this animal found in your country, and how do they call its name?"
35369	Now, what say you?
35369	On presenting himself before the judgment- seat, it will be asked"what he would have?"
35369	Repeated interrogatories of"_ Fein toro_?"
35369	Shall I on the second point enlighten the critic, or shall I not?
35369	The Mohammadans, again, he says, never drink blood; and why?
35369	The slumberer is started from sleep by the dinning"How do ye do?"
35369	They observe no fast, and wear no_ mateb_ as a badge of their religion Is there any grass in their country?"
35369	They will demolish you; and what answer am I then to give?
35369	Upon the remarks on"mafeesh,"I scarcely know what to say; but if he were to ask me,--is there any point or sense in them?
35369	Was the ox whose blood was employed killed in the name of the holy Trinity?"
35369	Were these their toys?--or did a sea Of fire envelope once this dismal cape?"
35369	Were they not all, whilst there, legally subject to his caprice, and was it not prudent to endeavour to emancipate them from that caprice?
35369	What answer should I give if my children were to be demolished by buffaloes in the kingdom of Shoa?
35369	What does it signify, that practically Sahela Selassie had in many instances permitted Europeans to enter his country?
35369	What have I to give in return for such wealth?
35369	What is your advice in this matter?
35369	What then becomes of his prodigious influence, since it did not suffice for his own protection?
35369	What then is to be said of the Abyssinian fiddle, whose squeaking voice presided at this festive board?
35369	What true believer in the fair province of Kurman would ever have suspected Hajji Abdallah of bringing his beard to so vile a market?"
35369	What was it?
35369	When was the house ever destitute of_ quanta_ or of_ qualima_?
35369	Where shall I find her equal?
35369	Where was his_ fidus Achates_, the"Arqueem Nobba?"
35369	Where was the erudite individual who weighed my classical attainments in the balance, and found them wanting?
35369	Who could prepare_ shiro_, and_ wotz_, and_ dilli_, like Etagainya?
35369	Why dost thou cast us down?"
35369	Will he, therefore, argue, that there is no such thing as a Mohammadan thief?
35369	Wokao?
35369	Would the Woema meanwhile destroy the seat of learning and of religion?
35369	Would the sons brandish the gory spear where their fathers were wo nt to fall prostrate in prayer?
35369	[ Note 1] and who ever asked for_ tullah_ or for_ tedj_, that she did not reply,`_ Malto_,''There is abundance?
35369	` Ali''s to be sure,''growled a sleepy voice;` what do you want with it?''
35369	` And this head in the scuppers, pray whose is it?''
35369	` And whose knees are these?''
35369	and whether in his present state he held dominion over the angels?
35369	and who the birds but the priests and bishops, who in hymns and hallelujahs thus fly upwards, and build their nests in heaven?"
35369	and"_ Wogerri maani_?"
35369	are you quite well?
35369	are you well?
35369	he exclaimed reproachfully:"do not I know that you would administer to Sahela Selassie nothing that could do him mischief?
35369	he exclaimed with a sneer to one of his charge, who was so amusing himself within hearing;"what are you whistling for?
35369	how could the sacred volume experience any better fate at the hand of infidels?"
35369	inquired the sporting monarch on one of these occasions, adjuring the informant by his own illustrious life;"are they well surrounded?"
35369	repeated the dragoman who interpreted His Majesty''s salutations.--"How have you passed your time?
35369	was the unvarying reply.--"How are you, and how have you been?