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.

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37614Would the sahib like to see the library?
37614Had my week of scrutiny brought me any closer to the real intimacies of evolution?
37614It was all as good- natured as it sounded, for, after all, had we not already found the birds themselves and obtained our notes and photographs?
37614Must go and show nest, eh?"
37614Or-- evading these questions for the time-- was there nothing I could do in the few precious moments left?
37614Then a ghostly goatsucker called eerily,"Who- are- you?"
37614Then, still out of sight, came a voice on the stairway:"Salaam, sahib, will sahib come see dance and see wedding?"
37614Was it the first-- or the last-- to appear above the waters?
37614Was there any clearing up of the mystery of the jungle?
37614Was there any stranger life in the world?
37614Were we two not all alone?
37614What had I learned after all?
37614Who was I not to be bound in chivalry by the accredited customs of his race?
37614_ Wh-- y?_ and after a little time,_ Wh-- y?_ I looked about me despairingly.
37614_ Wh-- y?_ and after a little time,_ Wh-- y?_ I looked about me despairingly.
25888Mon,he would say to a shirking, shrinking coolie second- story man,"mon, do you t''ink dis the time to sleep?
25888And what is it they have gained-- what pledge of success in food, in safety, in propagation?
25888Did she once look behind her, did she turn aside for a second, just to feel the cool silk of petals?
25888Was it sheer lack of something to do?
25888What could have raised the ire of such stolid neuters against one another?
25888What crime of ancestors are they expiating?
25888What toughts have you in your bosom, dat you delay de Professor''s household?"
25888each time the dipteron passed?
37732Are all my days to be spent,I ejaculated,"in hopes that delight me only to make me more miserable?"
37732But what right have I, a poor, short- sighted mortal,I then exclaimed,"to seek for the motives that actuate an all- wise Deity?
37732Has God,I involuntarily exclaimed,"made all his creatures that they may devour each other?
37732How so?
37732If not,said I,"why tolerate them, and why not apply to the Great and Good Spirits themselves for help?"
37732What good,he asked,"could arise from allowing one to take all, and giving nothing to the other?"
37732You lost her, then, did you?
37732Do you, then, really believe that these pretenders to superior knowledge are esteemed, or that any in the place have faith in their arts?"
37732How were the sparks to be collected?
37732Might they not be savages, and take my life?
37732Notwithstanding, he asked me whether I had not food enough to eat, and what it was the Evil Spirit had made me do that troubled me so much?
37732Or might they not lead me into captivity, and make a slave of me?
37732Pecoe heard me out with great patience, then shook his head, and enquired how it came that my father should know better than his?
37732The owl opened and then shut his eyes, as if at first unconscious of the meaning of the attack, and asking,"Can it be me you mean?"
37732They are winging their way to the business of the day, and why should I neglect mine?
37732What divides their fate?
37732When I informed the officer that I had been lost when a boy, he replied--"Then you are now found; but have you a knowledge of this river?"
37732Who hath not found, be his errors what they might, that there was one gentle spirit to turn to, ever ready to pardon, protect, and solace?
37732Who of us has not felt the depth and purity of a mother''s love?
37732Who-- who are you?"
37732meaning to ask, ironically, if we took the birds for soldiers?
37732these between, How thin the barrier?
43051And what on earth is a''ka- ni- a- mer''?
43051Annoyed?
43051Are we to open a five and ten cent store for the native Indians up there?
43051Are you game to try it out with me? 43051 Can we start to- morrow?"
43051Does it get so cold at night that we have to wrap up like that?
43051How about tigers?
43051How come, buck man?
43051How did you sleep last night?
43051How far?
43051How long will it take to get there?
43051How long?
43051Is it a vampire down your neck or a crocodile up your trousers leg?
43051Me walkee with you, savvy? 43051 What does it mean?"
43051What does that mean?
43051What''s got you?
43051What''s the big idea?
43051What''s wrong?
43051Why?
43051Will it be all right to go home with them?
43051Will they do it? 43051 But did they carry their baskets? 43051 CONTENTS PAGE CHAPTER IARE YOU GAME TO TRY IT?"
43051How can shoot um me no see?"
43051How go for catch if no see?"
43051It means a combination of''How do you do?''
43051What did each man have a wife for if not to do his work?
43051What use is a silver or gold coin to a native back hundreds of miles in the jungle?
43051Where had he gone?
43051Will they come and find us?"
8159Is anything amiss?
8159What is the matter, sir?
8159What means all this? 8159 What''s the matter?"
8159About midnight, as I was lying awake and in great pain, I heard the Indian say,"Massa, massa, you no hear tiger?"
8159But whither am I going?
8159Could they not then be persuaded to protect the white- headed eagle, and allow it to glide in safety over its own native forests?
8159Destroy the compass, and will the vessel find her far- distant port?
8159Did no forward person cause offence?
8159Here it might be asked, are all the ingredients just mentioned necessary in order to produce the wourali poison?
8159How could you win my virgin heart, Yet leave that heart to break?
8159How would Canova''s Venus look in a mob- cap?
8159I may be asked, was it all good- fellowship and civility during my stay in the United States?
8159Indeed, when good King Arthur reappears to claim his crown, he will find things strangely altered here; and may we not look for his coming?
8159Is the crest to be erect?
8159Is then the life of the snake proof against its own poison?
8159Now this being the case, will not America at large wish most devoutly for the day to come when Europe shall have no more dominion over her?
8159Now when the Indian has caught plenty of fish, and killed game enough to last him for a week, what need has he to range the forest?
8159Now with St. Domingo as an example before them, how long will it be before they try to raise themselves into independent states?
8159See Sangre- do- buey._ Waracaba,_ the trumpeter._ Whip- poor- will,_ one of the goat- suckers._ Who- are- you?
8159They might have asked Government, who so able to instruct our youth as those whose knowledge is proverbial?
8159Was it the weapon or the strength of the poison that brought on immediate dissolution in this case?
8159Was it_ fanatical_ to preach salvation to innumerable wild hordes of Americans?
8159Was there no exhibition of drunkenness or swearing or rudeness?
8159Why do you hunt me up and down to death for an imaginary offence?
8159Will it recover?
8159Will the flock keep together, and escape the wolves, after the shepherds are all slain?
8159Will they be of benefit to these grand and extensive colonies?
8159Will they raise or lower it in the scale of estimation at the Court of St. James''s?
8159or display of conduct which disgraces civilised man in other countries?
8159to aid the dying Christian?
8159to clothe the naked?
8159to encourage the repenting sinner?
8159who so fit as those who enjoy our entire confidence?
8159who so worthy as those whose lives are irreproachable?