cross-questioner

But old Tinker was not to be pumped by this little cross-questioner; and signifying to her that bed was a place for sleeping, not conversation, set up in her corner of the bed such a snore as only the nose of innocence can produce.

Vanity Fair 2006

“Do,” said I, very glad to dismiss the topic, and especially glad to have baffled the sagacity of my cross-questioner — if, indeed, I had baffled it; for though his words now led away from the dangerous point, his eyes, keen and watchful, seemed still preoccupied with the former idea.

The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte 2006

They fear the intentions of the cross-questioner, and they hold themselves safest behind a crooked answer.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

But old Tinker was not to be pumped by this little cross-questioner; and signifying to her that bed was a place for sleeping, not conversation, set up in her corner of the bed such a snore as only the nose of innocence can produce.

VII. Crawley of Queen’s Crawley 1917

He stared at the mass of files and papers before his cross-questioner.

Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life Stuart Oliver Henry 1906

Why those tears came I knew not; and to a strict cross-questioner I would probably have given some explanation having nothing to do with the _Gayatri_.

My Reminiscences Rabindranath Tagore 1901

Once or twice Mrs. Pallant made me rather feel a cross-questioner, which

Louisa Pallant Henry James 1879

They fear the intentions of the cross-questioner, and they hold themselves safest behind a crooked answer.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855

But old Tinker was not to be pumped by this little cross-questioner; and signifying to her that bed was a place for sleeping, not conversation, set up in her corner of the bed such a snore as only the nose of innocence can produce.

Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

His curiosity was insatiable; and as a cross-questioner, when fairly at work, for worming out a secret he had not his fellow.

Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) John Roby 1821