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 |
|---|---|
| 40270 | Here we find the huge old anchor shown in our sketch, and the question naturally arises, How did the anchor get there? |
| 3535 | Do you want to make your son sick of soldiering? 3535 To what cause are we to attribute this unhoped for success? 3535 To what cause then are we to attribute the distance which the accomplishment of it appears at? 3535 What was to be attempted? 27113 Where is the star that blazed upon his breast, or the coronet that glittered round his temples?" |
| 27113 | On my arrival at the gang- way, the usual questions were asked me, whether I had been that way before? |
| 27113 | Where is the star that blazed upon the breast, or the glittered sceptre? |
| 27113 | what is he? |
| 27113 | what ship is that? |
| 12668 | ''Quis talia fando, temperet a lachrymis?'' |
| 12668 | About three hundred acres of open ground, called by Mr. Hayes King George''s Plains( could this have been in derision?) |
| 12668 | Self- preservation was their plea; but was there not a method left within their reach, which might have preserved the whole? |
| 12668 | Was it possible that his own bite could have been the cause? |
| 12668 | What interest, what motive could drive these wretches to such an action? |
| 27014 | And for what, does the reader suppose? |
| 27014 | European shipmasters used to complain bitterly of the roguery practised upon them by the native dealers; but who taught the native his roguish tricks? |
| 27014 | I have often heard the question raised in Australia, Whence proceed the hot winds? |
| 27014 | Ship after ship arrived from the manufacturing districts, with full cargoes; and the universal cry was,"What is to be done with all these goods?" |
| 27014 | Suppose I no want ask any thing, what for I go?" |
| 27014 | Supposing the route should prove practicable simply as a mail line, is the Colony at present in circumstances to bear the expense of keeping it up? |
| 27014 | These winds invariably blow from the north- west; but the question is, Whence do they derive the heat they are charged with? |
| 27014 | What better conduct, however, can be expected from men, nine- tenths of whom either are or have been convicts? |
| 27014 | What more can be said of any community? |
| 27014 | What was it that carried off so many of the Cameronians and Royal Irish stationed in Chusan during the first expedition to the North? |
| 27014 | What was to be done? |
| 27014 | What would my fair countrywomen say to the"black- fellow''s"mode of taking unto himself a wife? |
| 27014 | Who introduced false weights? |
| 27014 | Who is there possessed of authority to hand me and my countrymen, like so many cattle, over to the Dutch or to any other power? |
| 27014 | higher than when all the cry was,"What is to become of these goods?" |
| 12565 | Could it then be wondered at, if little had been done since our establishment? |
| 12565 | Diam o waw? |
| 12565 | Do you mean this? |
| 12565 | From this place why should they move? |
| 12565 | Gnalm Chiara, gnahn? |
| 12565 | Go- ro- da He snores Gna- na le- ma She or he breathes Al- lo- wan He lives or remains Al- lo- wah Stay here, or sit down Wal- loo- me- yen- wal- loo? |
| 12565 | Ha ya- ha What is this? |
| 12565 | He hesitated; did they come from any island? |
| 12565 | How many? |
| 12565 | How much greater claim to the appellation of savages had the wretches who were the cause of this, than the native who was the sufferer? |
| 12565 | I then asked him where the black men( or Eora) came from? |
| 12565 | Is it not shocking then to think that the prelude to love in this country should be violence? |
| 12565 | Ko- ai Who is this? |
| 12565 | Pat- td- baw- me, You will eat, or will you eat? |
| 12565 | War- re- me- war- re Where have you been? |
| 12565 | Was this a ration for a labouring man? |
| 12565 | What is your name? |
| 12565 | Where are you going? |
| 12565 | Where are you? |
| 12565 | Will you sleep? |
| 12565 | and must it not rather excite admiration to see how much had been done? |
| 3534 | And what did you do then? |
| 3534 | Are Russia and Turkey at peace? |
| 3534 | Are,said I,"your 500 men still complete?" |
| 3534 | Did you anchor? |
| 3534 | Did you find any water on the island? |
| 3534 | Did you make any observations on the soil? |
| 3534 | Did you see any animals? |
| 3534 | Did you see any natives, or any marks of them? |
| 3534 | Did you see any other harbour or bay in the island? |
| 3534 | Do you judge the productions which you saw on the island to be similar to those around Port Jackson? |
| 3534 | Does the channel between the island and the main appear to afford good shelter for shipping? |
| 3534 | For heaven''s sake, why did you not bring out a bundle of newspapers? 3534 Have the French settled their government?" |
| 3534 | Have these people any religion: any knowledge of, or belief in a deity?--any conception of the immortality of the soul? |
| 3534 | Have you brought any hatchets with you? |
| 3534 | How much is each labourer''s daily task? |
| 3534 | In 42 degrees 15 minutes south by observation, and in 148 1/2 east by reckoning"Is it on the mainland or is it an island? |
| 3534 | In what latitude and longitude does it lie? |
| 3534 | Of what size does the island appear to be? |
| 3534 | What name did you give to your discovery? |
| 3534 | When did you make your discovery? |
| 3534 | Which of them is your old favourite, Barangaroo, of whom you used to speak so often? |
| 3534 | --Where is Colbee to- day? |
| 3534 | And is the intermediate country a good one, or does it lead to one which appearances indicate to be good? |
| 3534 | Are not these, I say, links, subordinate ones indeed, of the same golden chain? |
| 3534 | Are these the sentiments of a tyrant, of a sanguinary and perfidious man?" |
| 3534 | Did the French ships under Monsieur de Peyrouse introduce it? |
| 3534 | Did we give it birth here? |
| 3534 | Had it travelled across the continent from its western shore, where Dampier and other European voyagers had formerly landed? |
| 3534 | How did you get that?" |
| 3534 | I asked by what means he had been able to accomplish so much? |
| 3534 | I can, therefore, only propose queries for the ingenuity of others to exercise itself upon: is it a disease indigenous to the country? |
| 3534 | Let for example the following question be put:''Waw Colbee yagoono?'' |
| 3534 | That a living intellectual principle exists, capable of comprehending their petition and of either granting or denying it? |
| 3534 | The principal question then remaining is, what is the distance between the head of Botany Bay and the part of the Hawkesbury nearest to it? |
| 3534 | Their demand of hatchets being re- iterated, notwithstanding our refusal, they were asked why they had not brought with them some of their own? |
| 3534 | These comparisons constantly ended with the question of"Where''s Rose Hill? |
| 3534 | To descend; is not even the ridiculous superstition of Colbee related in one of our journies to the Hawkesbury? |
| 3534 | Was it introduced by Mr. Cook? |
| 3534 | We observed that they were thoroughly sick of the journey, and wished heartily for its conclusion: the exclamation of"Where''s Rose Hill, where?" |
| 3534 | When we arrived at Richmond Hill it became necessary to cross the river; but the question was, how this should be effected? |
| 3534 | Whence can arise this superabundance of females? |
| 3534 | Where?" |
| 3534 | You might have procured a file at any coffee house, which would have amused you, and instructed us?" |
| 3534 | [** As they often eat to satiety, even to produce sickness, may not this be the effect of an overloaded stomach: the nightmare?] |
| 15602 | And can the pursuits of industry quietly proceed under the harassing dread which this constant liability to outrage and depredation must inspire? |
| 15602 | And have not the measure and duration of their punishments been apportioned to their respective offences? |
| 15602 | And shall I be deterred from following so just and salutary an example? |
| 15602 | And where to this insecurity of person and property are superadded the greatest impediments to the extension of industry? |
| 15602 | And who would build their own and their families''prosperity on the ruins of the social edifice, on the misery and degradation of thousands? |
| 15602 | Are they calculated to supply that regular equal stream of security and confidence which has been found essential to the progress of improvement? |
| 15602 | Are they on their arrival in these remote shores, to meet with no one of the institutions, which they have been taught to cherish and to reverence? |
| 15602 | But were the case otherwise, what right has one portion of the empire to look for aggrandisement at the expense of another? |
| 15602 | But what mighty ravages will not a blood- thirsty and overwhelming despotism effect? |
| 15602 | But why should I despair of success, when I have every support that ought to ensure it? |
| 15602 | Has not a jury of impartial freemen solemnly investigated the case of every individual who has been transported to this colony? |
| 15602 | Has then the colony in any one point of view realized this comprehensive and philanthropic scheme of morality and regeneration? |
| 15602 | Have not all impartial biographers and historians acted on this principle? |
| 15602 | How can they reconcile them with that universal charity and good will inculcated in their religion? |
| 15602 | How can they themselves expect pardon of their God, who would thus withhold oblivion from their repentant fellow creatures? |
| 15602 | How many ever afterwards deplore their errors in sackcloth and ashes, and conduct themselves in the most correct and unexceptionable manner? |
| 15602 | How many hundreds of their own vessels, that shared the same fate, would have still belonged to their merchants? |
| 15602 | How many of this description have been detected in their first offence, in their very offset in the career of criminality? |
| 15602 | How then is this great philanthropic end to be best attained? |
| 15602 | How then, it may be asked, can prosperity be expected to flow from sources so precarious and inconstant? |
| 15602 | In this extremity what could he do to rescue himself from their gripe? |
| 15602 | Is it by holding out no inducements to good conduct, no distinction between repentant vice and incorrigible enormity? |
| 15602 | Is it in this country, situated at sixteen thousand miles from the seat of his injustice and oppression? |
| 15602 | Is it within the possibility of belief that people should become more honest as they become more necessitous? |
| 15602 | Is not the most formidable on the list of her enemies, a nation, which might have this day been the most attached and faithful of her friends? |
| 15602 | Is not the whole land before us? |
| 15602 | May they not by these means acquire independence long before the epoch when they would have obtained it by their own force and maturity? |
| 15602 | Of what avail would whole armies prove in these terrible defiles, which only five or six men could approach abreast? |
| 15602 | Or at least may they not place themselves under the government of more just and considerate rulers? |
| 15602 | Or has she yet to learn that the reign of injustice and tyranny involves in its very constitution the germ of its duration and punishment? |
| 15602 | Or will it not be the crisis that will sever it for ever? |
| 15602 | Ought not oppression in every community, whether great or small, to be discouraged by every possible means? |
| 15602 | Ought the welfare and happiness of twenty thousand persons to be sacrificed, in order to promote the views of a few interested individuals? |
| 15602 | Shall the finger of scorn and derision be pointed at him wherever he betake himself? |
| 15602 | Shall the_ novice_ in crime and the_ veteran_ be placed on the same footing and held in equal estimation? |
| 15602 | To commence in the order in which I have noticed them, what can be more improper than the constitution of the criminal court? |
| 15602 | To what end do they profess themselves to be Christians who can maintain such infernal doctrines? |
| 15602 | Was not this a refinement of cruelty worthy the most atrocious monster of antiquity?] |
| 15602 | What are they to the Danube, the Nile, the Ganges, the Mississippi, or the Amazon? |
| 15602 | What else, indeed, could be expected from a system which is every day enlarging the circle of poverty and distress? |
| 15602 | What health and vigor can belong to that body politic which is forced to inhale the nauseous effluvia of tyranny? |
| 15602 | What inducement, in fact, exists for any person to remain there who has the power of quitting it? |
| 15602 | What plea can be urged for encouraging excesses in our possessions abroad, that would be visited with condign punishment in our courts at home? |
| 15602 | What solid basis on which the capital and industry, which they might be calculated to elicit, could repose in security? |
| 15602 | What then must be the result of this inability in a felon population, long habituated to theft, and naturally predisposed to criminality? |
| 15602 | What was the reason why Egypt was for so many centuries the seat of affluence and power, but the Nile? |
| 15602 | What would be the effect of artillery on advancing columns crowded into so narrow a compass? |
| 15602 | While it should be in the power of any individual to suspend or annul them, what guarantee, in fact, would exist for their permanence and durability? |
| 15602 | Who would voluntarily become an inhabitant of a country where he has no rights, no possessions, that are sacred and inviolable? |
| 15602 | Will not this dear bought experience teach her wisdom? |
| 15602 | Will this terrible lesson have no influence on the regulation of her future conduct? |
| 15602 | Will this, the painful result of so many years''injustice and oppression, tend to strengthen the bond of union between the colony and this country? |
| 15602 | Would not the enormities of the Dionysii, of Caligula, and of Nero, have been long since forgotten? |
| 15602 | that India is still rich and populous, but the Indus and Ganges? |
| 45712 | ''Madam,''I said,''do I really look over two hundred years old?'' |
| 45712 | And how do you know all this? |
| 45712 | Be you on business or pleasure, I wonder? |
| 45712 | Ca n''t you guess? |
| 45712 | Could I see the house? |
| 45712 | Did you record it in the Log? |
| 45712 | Does any one know how that saying originated? |
| 45712 | Does it not to- day? |
| 45712 | Good gracious,exclaimed the squire,"do you think I am going to take a chair and sit out- of- doors and look at my house? |
| 45712 | How are you going to catch the bat? |
| 45712 | How is that? |
| 45712 | However do you manage to remember people and their names? |
| 45712 | I did not ask the way to the church,I responded;"why did you point it out?" |
| 45712 | I was admiring it too,I said;"do you know anything about it and how it came there?" |
| 45712 | In what line do you travel? |
| 45712 | Surely you have made a mistake? |
| 45712 | Talking of lightning,he went on,"do you know it is a fact that lightning never strikes a moving object?" |
| 45712 | The next parson,I exclaimed in astonishment;"whatever do you mean? |
| 45712 | What do you mean? |
| 45712 | What pond? 45712 What pond?" |
| 45712 | What reply did you make? |
| 45712 | What''s in a name? |
| 45712 | Where be you bound for? |
| 45712 | Where is his tomb? |
| 45712 | Which wood? |
| 45712 | Would you care to come into the garden and see what a fine view I''ve from it? |
| 45712 | A skeleton only, buried in cement in a coffin, not in a churchyard-- that is surely suggestive of mystery? |
| 45712 | After all, may it not be that the term"gentle craft"came from the fact of the use of gentles as baits? |
| 45712 | After this who shall say that old houses have not their romances, recorded or unrecorded? |
| 45712 | All the servants and the guests were accounted for, and"If the figure were not a ghost, what could it have been?" |
| 45712 | Are unsought- for"sollicitations to a 2nd marriage"likely to shorten life? |
| 45712 | As the horseman drew near, what, think you, must have been her feelings when with bowed head he clattered onwards without a sign? |
| 45712 | As the stone is not now there, has not been there, except in bits, for long years, why do they still mark it on the map? |
| 45712 | Better this, surely, than to lead an aimless, lazy existence? |
| 45712 | But another maid, who had overheard the conversation, graciously came up to me and explained:"We''re having an open- air bazaar; will you come to it? |
| 45712 | But how could the poor porter tell that, if the man looked not the part? |
| 45712 | But to return to the vestry of Tong church, said the clerk to me,"Have you heard of the Great Bell of Tong?" |
| 45712 | Could I tell a lie? |
| 45712 | Do I talk too much of inns? |
| 45712 | Does not Alonzo of Aragon say that the recommendations of age are"old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read"? |
| 45712 | Does not even cosmopolitan Kipling pronounce his preference for"Sussex by the sea"over all the world? |
| 45712 | Does the brass being dateless point to anything? |
| 45712 | Grieved indeed am I that it should be so, for as a child I dearly loved the merry bickering windmill-- what child does not? |
| 45712 | Had"The Sheffield Arms"a tale to tell? |
| 45712 | How came it there, I wonder, and who presented it to that famous highwayman? |
| 45712 | How came so modest an inn to possess such a beautiful specimen of ancient carving? |
| 45712 | How came that figure seated there? |
| 45712 | How did the abbey come by its name? |
| 45712 | How is a man like that to be dealt with? |
| 45712 | How many are there, I wonder? |
| 45712 | How many churchyards boast of having the biggest and oldest yew- tree in the land? |
| 45712 | How many of those who pass daily close by have discovered that charmed spot, I wonder? |
| 45712 | How, then, came this big upon little? |
| 45712 | I am inclined to favour the former view; but when learned antiquaries disagree, how shall a mere layman decide? |
| 45712 | I could not account for it, unless all its inhabitants were away making holiday, but where were the dogs and the fowls? |
| 45712 | I knew not their names, but what mattered that? |
| 45712 | I should like to unearth the story of the"Feathers,"for it looks like an inn with a storied past, else why those stately chambers? |
| 45712 | I was neither hungry nor thirsty, so what need had I of an inn? |
| 45712 | I will wager that no one grew prematurely old from overwork in it: why should he? |
| 45712 | I wonder how many extra pennies good folk were induced to part with for the glory of being in the latter category? |
| 45712 | I wonder how the medieval carver got his inspiration? |
| 45712 | I wonder if either one is true? |
| 45712 | I wonder whether our descendants in the far future will ever look back longingly and lovingly to"the good old motoring days"? |
| 45712 | I wonder who he could have been? |
| 45712 | If an inn you rest at has only a pleasant garden to moon in, what matters the town? |
| 45712 | If not, what was it? |
| 45712 | If"the finest landscape is improved by a good hotel in the foreground,"how much the more so in comparison is a commonplace town? |
| 45712 | Is it not recorded that Cromwell once exclaimed to his troopers whilst crossing a river,"Trust in God,"followed quickly by"but keep your powder dry"? |
| 45712 | Is supper ready?... |
| 45712 | Is there not an old saying that at"Stow- on- the- Wold, the wind always blows cold"? |
| 45712 | It balances itself naturally enough, but what tossed it up? |
| 45712 | Need more be said? |
| 45712 | Not but that Pure water is the best of gifts That man to man can bring; But what am I that I should have The best of everything? |
| 45712 | Now if a philosopher can act so, how is an ordinary mortal to be blamed for the same failing to be responsive? |
| 45712 | Now what is ten minutes to twenty years''long study?" |
| 45712 | Pleasant surroundings surely, to a certain extent, influence the temperament of man? |
| 45712 | Quite a plausible explanation it seems to me; then wherefore seek for a more improbable one? |
| 45712 | Small wonder that a little girl who had been reading similar eulogies asked her father,"Where are all the bad people buried?" |
| 45712 | So I put myself under his guidance, for who should take a more intelligent interest in, or know more about, a church than its parson? |
| 45712 | Some shouted to us,"Why do n''t you blow your horn?" |
| 45712 | Still, what traveller would be so cruelly critical as to doubt every legend he hears? |
| 45712 | Strange that watching the restless waters should have given me a feeling of rest, but so it did; and do not some people find rest by the restless sea? |
| 45712 | Surely Coleridge''s muse was quaint enough-- who else but he could have composed_ The Ancient Mariner_? |
| 45712 | Surely the Devil does not go to church?" |
| 45712 | That describes our road in two short but sufficient lines, and what need is there of more? |
| 45712 | The ale was good, and brought to mind the poet''s query: Say, for what were hop- yards meant, Or why was Burton built on Trent? |
| 45712 | The fowls were not over- plump, not being especially fattened-- or crammed, is it? |
| 45712 | The post was railed round for protection, so I thought there might possibly be some story connected with it, otherwise why so protected? |
| 45712 | Then the clerk asked if I knew that"the good Archbishop Leighton is buried here?" |
| 45712 | There is no soul behind the modern workman''s tool: how can we expect it when for long years we have been making a human machine of him? |
| 45712 | These inns give you their best, and who but the surliest could grumble at that when good is the best? |
| 45712 | To be a genius is not always to reap a reward, for fame, as in poor Jefferies''case, frequently comes too late-- for what profit is fame to the dead? |
| 45712 | To my surprise she replied,"We often have motoring parties for the night, and sometimes they stay a day or two; would you like to see our rooms?" |
| 45712 | Was it written in Fleet Street, I wonder? |
| 45712 | We left Machynlleth on a blustery morning when the wild west wind was out for a rampage across country, and who could say it nay? |
| 45712 | We pay the novelist to romance for us; why should not we do our own romancing at times? |
| 45712 | What can you make of a gathering of consonants, with only a stray vowel here and there amongst the lot? |
| 45712 | What child would now"ride a cock- horse to Banbury Cross"? |
| 45712 | What lifted up the big? |
| 45712 | What matters it? |
| 45712 | What more could the traveller desire? |
| 45712 | What was gorse or heather or their rich colours to him? |
| 45712 | What was the horn dance? |
| 45712 | What was the import of this? |
| 45712 | What was the strange story he had to tell, I wondered, that he should so hesitate to tell it? |
| 45712 | What would one of Cromwell''s stern Puritans, could he come to life again and see that church, think of it, I wonder? |
| 45712 | What, I wonder, in olden times would the master of his house have said to a sanitary inspector who demanded admission thereto? |
| 45712 | When I come to think of it, it was an idiotic thing to say that I was sampling scenery; still, was I not? |
| 45712 | Who loves not the"caw, caw, caw"of the rook? |
| 45712 | Who was this Petrus Denot, I wondered? |
| 45712 | Who would ever then have dreamt of the resurrection of the road that the motor- car has brought about? |
| 45712 | Who would have expected such a thing in a remote farmhouse? |
| 45712 | Who would have expected to come upon history there? |
| 45712 | Who would have thought it? |
| 45712 | Why all this rage about nothing? |
| 45712 | Why always of yesterday and not of to- day? |
| 45712 | Why should it? |
| 45712 | Why was it? |
| 45712 | Why were ye not awake? |
| 45712 | Why will people always pose so"to be took,"with no expectation of seeing"their pictures"? |
| 45712 | Why will they not build such useful and eye- pleasing structures to- day? |
| 45712 | Why will"things"appear to others and not to me? |
| 45712 | Why, then? |
| 45712 | Would Dr. Johnson care to"walk down"his beloved Fleet Street to- day, I wonder, with all the twentieth- century bustle of it? |
| 45712 | Would you care to take a glance inside?" |
| 45712 | Yet distance is but a gay deceiver; where we may be at any moment, is not that the delectable distance to others far away? |
| 45712 | You are a stranger here, I expect?" |
| 45712 | and when we did others shouted,"Why do you keep blowing your horn; do you want all the road to yourself?" |
| 45712 | thought I, and as I was thinking it out the clerk suddenly exclaimed,"Do you know who wrote that book?" |
| 45712 | to where had it disappeared? |
| 45712 | you can hear it; and how can one romance to the sound of a railway train and the locomotive''s blatant whistle? |