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  • It had been Alex Munoz, a former Rowan student who had become an inquisitor for the Enemy.†   (source)
  • Jean Louise turned to her inquisitor, a young woman with a small hat, small features, and small sharp teeth.†   (source)
  • I remember how the nuns got upset when I called the Spanish inquisitors Nazis.†   (source)
  • Really, you'd think she'd want to be forewarned, in case the International Inquisitor got hold of it.†   (source)
  • He was sharply retrieved by his inquisitor.†   (source)
  • The proper inquisitors are the representatives of the nation.†   (source)
  • I left that room feeling an excruciating shame for having willingly embraced my role as an inquisitor representing the cadre.†   (source)
  • In this he differed from professional interrogators who set store by initiative, by the evocation of atmosphere and the exploitation of that psychological dependency of a prisoner upon his inquisitor.†   (source)
  • I leave that to the inquisitors.†   (source)
  • Senator Walsh, the Senate's most famed and feared inquisitor, warned him he was risking the fate of Oilman Harry Sinclair, who went to prison for contempt of the Senate.   (source)
  • 15th century inquisitors were on the lookout for witches.
    inquisitors = a questioner who is excessively harsh
  • Naturally all the glory belonged to the victim and all the shame to the Inquisitor who burned him.   (source)
    inquisitor = harsh questioner
  • The scientist of today is either a mixture of psychologist and inquisitor, studying with real ordinary minuteness the meaning of facial expressions, gestures, and tones of voice, and testing the truth-producing effects of drugs, shock therapy, hypnosis, and physical torture; or he is chemist, physicist, or biologist concerned only with such branches of his special subject as are relevant to the taking of life.   (source)
  • From "The Grand Inquisitor", The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky (1880)†   (source)
  • Senior Undersecretary to the Minister for Magic and Headmistress and High Inquisitor of Hogwarts!†   (source)
  • THE Hoc WARTS HIGH INQUISITOR 'What was it like?'†   (source)
  • '— and Hogwarts High Inquisitor,' said Umbridge, giving no sign that she had heard him.†   (source)
  • As High Inquisitor you have every right to dismiss my teachers.†   (source)
  • Permission to re-form may be sought from the High Inquisitor (Professor Umbridge).†   (source)
  • CHAPTER FIFTEEN — The Hogwarts High Inquisitor†   (source)
  • Did you know your dad put his name in for the Inquisitor position?†   (source)
  • For a moment she regretted her words, remembering that Robert Lightwood was the new Inquisitor.†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor showed us his bones, the charred bones of his family.†   (source)
  • He met Aldertree's eyes across the crowd; the Inquisitor's face was white and twitching.†   (source)
  • "You know the children of the Inquisitor," he said.†   (source)
  • The Grand Inquisitor was carnivorous and full of murder.†   (source)
  • Why on earth did the Inquisitor throw him in prison?†   (source)
  • Every Inquisitor we've had has been corrupt.†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor cocked his head to the side.†   (source)
  • So that was the Inquisitor, Clary realized.†   (source)
  • He can't run the Institute and be the Inquisitor.†   (source)
  • The Consul's house is just down the street from the Inquisitor's.†   (source)
  • How the Grand Inquisitor gnaws at my bones.†   (source)
  • When the Inquisitor was killed in the Uprising, Imogen was offered his job.†   (source)
  • When Clam knocked on the door of the Inquisitor's house, it was opened by Robert Lightwood.†   (source)
  • About Dad putting his name in for the Inquisitor position.†   (source)
  • Like the way the Inquisitor watched me when I went to see Valentine on the ship.†   (source)
  • Maryse moved as if she meant to go to Jace, but the Inquisitor held her back.†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor fell silent the moment Alec and the chief officer were out of earshot.†   (source)
  • She was perched on the windowsill of her room in the Inquisitor's house.†   (source)
  • You act as if he tried to escape from the Silent City— "Well," the Inquisitor said.†   (source)
  • Another night down here in prison, while the Inquisitor waited for him to "remember."†   (source)
  • "Our father's the Inquisitor; of course we know," said Alec.†   (source)
  • She didn't want to forget Max or Madeleine, or Hodge, or the Inquisitor, or even Sebastian.†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor could put Jace in prison.†   (source)
  • You will be expected there, Consul, as will you, Inquisitor.†   (source)
  • If you want the trial, you can stay here until the Inquisitor comes.†   (source)
  • What's to say this Inquisitor isn't a nut job too?†   (source)
  • If you want me to talk to the Inquisitor for you, you're going to have to give me blood.†   (source)
  • But the Inquisitor said the opposite is true—that everything's been quiet.†   (source)
  • He had no fond memories of the Gard himself, having been imprisoned there by the last Inquisitor.†   (source)
  • I'm the Inquisitor—the new Inquisitor.†   (source)
  • The Consul, the Inquisitor, the Downworlder representatives.†   (source)
  • Clary kept seeing Valentine in her head, reaching into the Inquisitor and ripping his heart out.†   (source)
  • That's enough from you," said the Inquisitor.†   (source)
  • "You and the Inquisitor threw my friend Simon into prison—" Malachi sneered.†   (source)
  • You mean, about talking to the Inquisitor for him?†   (source)
  • He needs doctors, he needs— "The Silent Brothers are dead," said the Inquisitor.†   (source)
  • He had stopped in front of the Inquisitor's residence.†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor didn't seem to notice the insult.†   (source)
  • I thought that was the Inquisitor— And Malachi was the one who appointed her.†   (source)
  • Breath hissed through the Inquisitor's teeth.†   (source)
  • "Aldertree—" The Consul moved to restrain him, but the Inquisitor was too quick.†   (source)
  • Simon—" Simon crashed into the fence around the Inquisitor's house with a loud rattling noise.†   (source)
  • To Valentine, the Inquisitor represents the old, hidebound Clave he hates so much.†   (source)
  • "A bit of a Portal in mirror form," said the Inquisitor.†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor and the Clave are one and the same.†   (source)
  • So he was the Inquisitor's grandson," Alec said.†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor's trying to starve me into talking.†   (source)
  • "The Cup has an immediate use," said the Inquisitor.†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor stank of something bitter and strong as coffee, but much more unpleasant.†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor stared at him as if he were a talking cockroach.†   (source)
  • The only one who can use it is the Inquisitor.†   (source)
  • "She was my mother-in-law" What was it Luke had told Clary about the Inquisitor?†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor gave a single cry and dropped like a stone.†   (source)
  • Clary's faint hope that the Inquisitor hadn't noticed or recognized her vanished.†   (source)
  • Mistakes were made, by the previous Inquisitor and others—perhaps it's better not to dwell.†   (source)
  • Will you tell him to cooperate with the Inquisitor?†   (source)
  • And whether it was possible or not, could he tell the Inquisitor what Jace had done?†   (source)
  • On the other hand, if Maryse looked angry, the Inquisitor looked positively demented.†   (source)
  • I take it you didn't give the Inquisitor what he wants?†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor's colorless lashes grazed her cheeks as she narrowed her eyes, her gaze speculative.†   (source)
  • I bet the Inquisitor took it on a joyride around Hoboken.†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor's a Shadowhunter, and Luke—Luke's a Downworlder.†   (source)
  • "Will be just fine," the Inquisitor assured him.†   (source)
  • There's a hierarchy of command and the Inquisitor is near the top.†   (source)
  • Has there ever been an Inquisitor who didn't die a horrible death?" he wondered aloud.†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor did die for you, didn't she, Jonathan?†   (source)
  • They made her the Inquisitor not long after that.†   (source)
  • Oh, you're not going to the Council," the Inquisitor said.†   (source)
  • "The Inquisitor thought the faerie murder was a diversion," she said quickly.†   (source)
  • No, I haven't—but I haven't seen the Inquisitor, either, or the Consul.†   (source)
  • Now if the Inquisitor had gone with two, I might— "DACE," Alec said, losing patience.†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor knows that, and that is what he is trying to exploit.†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor moved toward Jace like drifting gray smoke.†   (source)
  • I'm surprised that Valentine went after the Inquisitor instead of Luke.†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor said nothing, just stared at the phone, one hand over her mouth.†   (source)
  • After what happened with the Inquisitor?†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor flinched, her mouth half-open, as if she were still about to say something.†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor hurried along, his witchlight bouncing brightly off the walls.†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor was starting to remind Alec of a robot whose circuits were shorting out.†   (source)
  • Now the Inquisitor is looking for someone to blame everything on.†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor moved toward him, her coat swirling around her like drifting smoke.†   (source)
  • Suddenly he remembered the Malachi Configuration the Inquisitor had trapped him in.†   (source)
  • Although, admittedly, the Inquisitor didn't know that.†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor looked as if she wanted to roll her eyes but had forgotten how.†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor's thin, worried voice rose like a balloon.†   (source)
  • And as for you," the Inquisitor added, and turned on Clary, much to Clary's surprise.†   (source)
  • He reached into the Inquisitor and he twisted ....†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor turned her icicle gaze on Robert.†   (source)
  • And Jace decided to stay there and deal with this Inquisitor person?†   (source)
  • Pretty soon the Inquisitor will start wondering if you've starved to death yet.†   (source)
  • I'd be careful what you say, Isabelle Lightwood," said the Inquisitor.†   (source)
  • Telling them to go bring the vampire upstairs because the Inquisitor wanted to speak to him again.†   (source)
  • But you see, the very authority of the Clave, of the Consul and the Inquisitor, is under question.†   (source)
  • Maryse shoved the phone on the desk toward the Inquisitor, hard.†   (source)
  • You told the Inquisitor about Valentine and his plans, didn't you?†   (source)
  • They dragged me in front of the Inquisitor, and I was interrogated for days.†   (source)
  • "The Inquisitor," she said reluctantly, "is already on her way"Maryse."†   (source)
  • It's where the Law is made, and where the Consul and Inquisitor reside.†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor regarded him with something close to boredom.†   (source)
  • She wondered if anyone had cleaned up the Inquisitor's blood yet.†   (source)
  • All decisions are made through the Inquisitor now, all inquiries and requests routed through her.†   (source)
  • He said the Inquisitor was sniffing around after my family, after me.†   (source)
  • Did you ....tell the Inquisitor that I let you drink my blood?†   (source)
  • There was a note of uncertainty in the Inquisitor's voice.†   (source)
  • "He will return to Idris with me tomorrow," said the Inquisitor.†   (source)
  • "I am the Inquisitor, do you understand, the Inquisitor!" he shouted.†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor's going to starve me to death.†   (source)
  • You two are staying here and dealing with the Inquisitor for me.†   (source)
  • Simon wiggled his fingers in a wave at the Inquisitor, which Aldertree ignored.†   (source)
  • "That you saw," repeated the Inquisitor, her eyes like hard, glittering beads.†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor drooped like an unwatered flower.†   (source)
  • "I bet the Inquisitor thinks I did that, too," said Jace.†   (source)
  • Up until now the Inquisitor had barely seemed to notice she was alive.†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor hadn't said his name, but Simon knew face would pay along with the rest of them.†   (source)
  • Maybe it's the Inquisitor," Clary said, feeling suddenly cold.†   (source)
  • Yeah, the Inquisitor died; now there's a new one.†   (source)
  • Imogen— The Inquisitor's face contorted.†   (source)
  • If Stephen was my father, then the Inquisitor—Imogen—was my grandmother.†   (source)
  • "Oh, crap, that's the Inquisitor," Simon muttered in Clary's ear, pointing.†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor is the way she is for many reasons.†   (source)
  • That wasn't your failure," the Inquisitor said.†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor was still struggling in Malachi's grasp.†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor straightened, looking pleased with herself.†   (source)
  • Everyone's either unconscious or apparently delirious," said the Inquisitor.†   (source)
  • For most of his life the Inquisitor had been a distant half-mythical figure to Jace.†   (source)
  • So the Inquisitor hadn't been exaggerating.†   (source)
  • He has to learn to look out for himself, and that includes cooperating with the Inquisitor.†   (source)
  • But no, the Inquisitor wasn't that sloppy.†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor's hands fluttered around her face.†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor's going to freak when she finds out you're not there anymore.†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor's got this place locked up tighter than a pentagram.†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor's voice dripped acid sarcasm.†   (source)
  • "Then the Inquisitor must be insane," said Clary.†   (source)
  • "Hounding is what I do, Downworlder," said the Inquisitor.†   (source)
  • Jace demanded, staring at the Inquisitor in disbelief.†   (source)
  • You don't want to be here by yourself when the Inquisitor gets back.†   (source)
  • "Imogen," Valentine said, his dark eyes grazing the Inquisitor with a look of satisfied amusement.†   (source)
  • "He probably had demonic help," said the Inquisitor.†   (source)
  • There was something in her voice—an urgency—that made even the Inquisitor turn and look.†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor had taken four long strips of metal from the gray pouch that hung at her waist.†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor shot Isabelle and Alec a venomous glare between her slitted eyelids.†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor snatched it out of his hand.†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor's smile was like a grinning skull's.†   (source)
  • Tersely, Jace outlined the Inquisitor's plan.†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor deserved to die for this—this is all her fault.†   (source)
  • She turned away as the Inquisitor looked at Alec blankly.†   (source)
  • Maryse crossed the room to the Inquisitor and looked down at her.†   (source)
  • I don't want to go looking for it in case the Inquisitor's around.†   (source)
  • They're not warriors, they don't carry battle Marks— Don't be naive, Maryse," said the Inquisitor.†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor hurried after him, her face pulled tight with fear.†   (source)
  • I may respect the Law, but what the Inquisitor has been doing to you has nothing to do with the Law.†   (source)
  • You said the Inquisitor threw Jace in jail.†   (source)
  • Even the Inquisitor's eyebrows shot up when Magnus strode through the gate.†   (source)
  • Instead, he turned to Luke and demanded, with surprising abruptness, "Did the Inquisitor's son die?†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor went with them," Alec explained.†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor's chilly gaze slid around the room.†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor, though, looked hungry, as if she were feeding off the suspense in the room.†   (source)
  • Luke must hate me by now The Inquisitor wants me dead.†   (source)
  • It must be the Inquisitor, back to sneer at him some more.†   (source)
  • "I know your name, Magnus Bane," said the Inquisitor.†   (source)
  • "Save your sophistry Lucian," said the Inquisitor.†   (source)
  • Like it or not, the Inquisitor is the Law's right hand.†   (source)
  • The Silent Brothers couldn't do anything, but Magnus .... It's ridiculous," said the Inquisitor.†   (source)
  • Then the Clave— The Inquisitor won't do anything," Jace said.†   (source)
  • Don't defend your father to me," the Inquisitor said.†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor's voice cut through his reverie.†   (source)
  • Out loud he said only, "Luke said something about the Inquisitor having a son named Stephen.†   (source)
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