put to the question
Example Sentences
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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
What think you that your Syrian go-between will say when put to the question?
From Orrain A Romance by Levett-Yeats, S.
He has been brought here to be put to the question, in the mediæval, and Chinese, sense!
From The Devil Doctor by Rohmer, Sax
On my return I was, as I had expected, put to the question, with lenience by Keller Bey, but with biting irony and something like personal dislike by the Procureur Raoux.
From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
One politely and simply said: He was put to the question.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896 by Various
