Does not regard putting the Count to the torture as the right mode of Eliciting the truth: because he may be innocent.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
She essentially resembled Socrates in her manner of Eliciting whatsoever capacity for thought might be latent in the people she came in contact with: were it only a shoemaker or day-labourer, she would never rest till she had found out in what points that particular man differed from other men of his class.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
I did not do that, he laughed, as some of the crowd behind wantonly or accidentally jogged his elbow, causing the blade of the assegai to pierce the chest of Kazimbi, Eliciting from that unfortunate a startled shriek, for the wound was a deep one, and the blood spurted forth in a warm jet.
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford