| 1. | No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 2. | "Why, what is important" said Kitty, looking into her face with inquisitive wonder. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 3. | Edgar Linton, after an inquisitive stare, collected sufficient wit to recognise her. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 4. | Jim frowned from time to time when he caught the inquisitive glance of some stranger. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 5. | But in Clerval I saw the image of my former self he was inquisitive and anxious to gain experience and instruction. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 6. | An husband should not be inquisitive Of Godde's privity, nor of his wife. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 7. | She was the more aware of this from noticing in the inquisitive look Mihail Vassilievitch turned on her that he was, as it were, keeping watch on her. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 8. | Natasha looked at Sonya with wondering and inquisitive eyes, and said nothing. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 9. | They had scarcely been two minutes by themselves, before he began to speak of Edward for he, too, had heard of the living, and was very inquisitive on the subject. - from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen |