Occasionally he put sharp queries that were promptly answered.

Climbing in the other side, he snapped her trance with the sharp query: "Now - what was it you saw up on the slope?"

Witherby's sharp query came when they had reached the hall.

To her sharp query, he had uttered something about "Dutch courage."

The sharp query slipped out before Inspector Neele could control it.

More whispering, including someone's inadvertently sharp query, "What's that?"

The sharp query was the last thing Chris heard properly as blackness washed down over her.

Smiling, he came forward to greet her, and she couldn't help making a sharp query about his chat with the maid.

Devin saw him glance over at Erlein, a sharp query in his face.

He made sharp queries; his fierce gaze forced answers from the dying assassin's lips.