“Do,” said I, very glad to dismiss the topic, and especially glad to have baffled the sagacity of my cross-questioner — if, indeed, I had baffled it; for though his words now led away from the dangerous point, his eyes, keen and watchful, seemed still preoccupied with the former idea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference

He stared at the mass of files and papers before his cross-questioner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life] Reference

Once or twice Mrs. Pallant made me rather feel a cross-questioner, which.    From Wordnik.com.  [Louisa Pallant] Reference

They fear the intentions of the cross-questioner, and they hold themselves safest behind a crooked answer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1] Reference

His curiosity was insatiable; and as a cross-questioner, when fairly at work, for worming out a secret he had not his fellow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference

But old Tinker was not to be pumped by this little cross-questioner; and signifying to her that bed was a place for sleeping, not conversation, set up in her corner of the bed such a snore as only the nose of innocence can produce.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanity Fair] Reference

It's what I always do since I have begun to travel for improvement -- I got all the waiter knew out of him in a moment -- I ought to have been an Old Bailey barrister -- there ain't such a cross-questioner as I am in the whole profession. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference

"What a cross-questioner you are, Corona! but I will answer you.    From Wordnik.com.  [For Woman's Love] Reference

She would have made a famous cross-questioner.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Union Scout] Reference