I could only ask you in words if you let me think of you as a man.

Thick-headed Yellow cannot understand the eye; comes up mumbling, to ask in words: seen of the Village!

Rosalind asked in words.

She asked earnestly, in words: 'Why did he say you must kill Rosalind and me?'

The same questions the rooster-headed taheen had asked, in other words.

I ask you in plain words," she went on, "do you acknowledge that you have been deceived by an adventuress who has personated me?

I ask you in plain words, knowing that if you cannot do as I ask you willingly, you will not do it.

You are asking me, in other words to act as executioner and merely on suspicion!

She asked it mildly enough, implying nothing by it other than genuine curiosity; Del isn't one to purposely ask for hostilities, in words or with weapons.

"I should know not to ask a mathematical question in words."