querist

The querist was a gaunt, forlorn-looking man, stoop-shouldered, and slow in his movements

In the Tennessee mountains, pseud. Charles Egbert Craddock 1885

“Are you of noble birth?” demanded the same querist.

Quentin Durward 2008

The old man started, as if from a trance, and before answering, surveyed the querist with a keen penetrating glance, which seemed to say,

Redgauntlet 2008

“Butler,” answered the person to whom this abrupt question was addressed, surprised into answering it by the sudden and fierce manner of the querist — “Reuben Butler, a preacher of the gospel.”

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

I considered myself quite fortunate to have fallen in with such a querist, for the Americans are usually too much taken up with their own business to trouble themselves about yours, beyond such questions as, “Are you bound west, stranger?” or,

The Englishwoman in America 2007

Presently he finds that imputations are cast upon them; a troublesome querist comes and asks,

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

My dear and excellent querist, whom does the schoolmaster flog so resolutely as his own son?

The Book of Snobs 2006

Dougal looked in every direction except at the querist, and began to answer, “She canna just be sure about that.”

Rob Roy 2005

And the last querist enquired what was the last robbery or murder he had done.

Ralph Rashleigh 2004

But this not satisfying the querist, the voice again repeated the demand, to which he answered louder than before; and now the door was opened by an old woman with cautious reluctance.

The Life of Oliver Goldsmith 2004