querists

There were weather-wise people, who smoked round the funnel all day, and prophesied foul winds every night; and pertinacious querists, who asked the captain every hour or two when we should reach Halifax.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

One of the querists had been at Boston, but guessed that “London must be a pretty considerable touch higher.”

The Englishwoman in America 2007

The querists, if they meet her, are referred to that lady herself, who, seeing his faults and wayward moods — seeing and owning that there are men better than he — loves him always with the most constant affection.

The History of Pendennis 2006

The querists usually left some offering upon a stone, at a distance from his dwelling; if it was money, or any article which did not suit him to accept, he either threw it away, or suffered it to remain where it was without making use of it.

The Black Dwarf 2004

I throw out these ideas for consideration, just as they arise; but neither wish to repress the curiosity of _querists_, nor to prescribe bounds to the communicative disposition of _respondents_.

Notes and Queries, Number 04, November 24, 1849 Various

Arabic numerals and cipher; as neither the querists nor respondents seem to have duly appreciated the immense importance of the step taken by introducing the use of a cipher.

Notes and Queries, Number 27, May 4, 1850 Various

To amazement and vexation of earnest seekers after truth, the twenty-six querists discovered that they were being bowled over faster than commonplace nine-pins.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 25, 1914 Various

A few minutes later the querists returned and asked the same question about English dramatists, and still later about German, Russian, Italian and Spanish writers of the drama.

A Librarian's Open Shelf Arthur E. Bostwick

This was almost too much; to be thus questioned before his own door was more than strange, and he felt ashamed to ask after his wife and children, or even of himself; but to get rid of his querists he mentioned the first name that occurred to him, "Kurt Steffen?"

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 346, December 13, 1828 Various

Mr. Bolton Corney reproved the querists for not consulting original sources.

Notes and Queries, Number 32, June 8, 1850 Various