It is a safe order; the patronne knows from past experience that she can serve the half-pint without anxiety: Hogshead Geoffroy rapidly drains it, and then holds out a huge and hairy hand to the visitor and enquires, "Well, what is it?"
"Fantômas"
Pierre Souvestre Marcel Allain
The first question which we must attempt to answer enquires whether the glowing matter which forms the globe is a solid mass, or, if not solid, which is it, liquid or gaseous?
"The Story of the Heavens"
Robert Stawell Ball
The curious thing is that when one enquires "what religion is it that has exerted this beneficent influence?"
"A Grammar of Freethought"
Chapman Cohen