263 collocations for locate

Had they abandoned their search, confused by the fog; or were they still stealthily seeking to locate our position?

He continued to call to the German, and while he received an answer each time, he could not locate the man.

It will be character that locates our place in another world, if there is one, just as it is our character that fixes our place here.

They had located a claim and they had gone to town together to celebrate.

It was only during moments of gayety when she abandoned herself to the play of an imagination always laughing and fertile, that she repeated the sacrilegious wish of the pious king of Aragon, who wished that he had been present at the moment of creation, when, among the suggestions he could have given Providence, he would have advised him to put the wrinkles of old age where the gods of Pagandom had located the feeble spot in Achilles.

The efforts of two drivers failed to locate the trouble, and everything removable was taken off the General's car and put into ours, and with the heavier load we started off again for Junction Station.

"By the time you've located your camp, your wagons shall be there," said I. "All right, Cody, I'll leave it to you, as you seem to want to be boss," replied he pleasantly.

Many efforts were made to locate these particular guns, but I am not confident that any of them were successful.

It is only within the last two years that our American agents knew where our pearls came from, yet they could not locate the island if they tried.

"If you can locate land, and show us how to get there across these piles of ice with a disabled submarine, you shall have a medal from the National Geographic Society.

They show themselves everywhere and they ride until they are fired upon, keeping this up until they have located the enemy.

He took great pains to circulate in our town the story that the railroad company would locate their round-houses and machine shops at Hays City, and that it was to be the town and a splendid business center.

And indeed there was something gruesome about that little company offered for the slaughter, simply for the purpose of locating the German batteries.

At the report the bear jumped sideways, unable to locate the sound, and my next bullet struck just above his tail and ranged forward into the lungs.

When we had made camp, Leith had sent Soma on ahead with the ostensible purpose of locating the easiest route to the base of the cliffs, and an hour afterward Kaipi managed to attract my attention, and he indicated by signs that he had information to impart.

garrison, crew; population; people &c (mankind) 372; colony, settlement; household; mir^. V. inhabit &c (be present) 186; endenizen &c (locate oneself)

While we were encamped on the banks of the Colorado River, in the hot month of July, 1854, we concluded to locate a town-site on the slip of land opposite Fort Yuma, and as we were well provided with treaties, maps, surveying instruments, and stationery, there was not much difficulty in making the location.

I tried to locate as accurately as possible the direction of these guns and reported them by telephone to our Brigade Headquarters.

There is no way we can detect an asteroid he's made invisible to radar!" "Dr. Nolan," responded the President, "we believe that we have a method which will allow us to locate the asteroid that Zimbardo has directed toward Earth.

Thus, the eagerness of the monkey to locate the right box was increased and, as a matter of observation, his deliberateness and care in choice increased correspondingly.

He looked about him, trying to locate the source of the flood of light on the cavern floor.

So I may locate property in Philadelphia, trade there, and ride on its railroads, though I know government will, without my consent, thereby enrich itself.

This would in effect be giving congress power to locate the capital of a state.

The fog gave us no glimpse of the surrounding water, and not another sound enabled us to locate the approaching boat.

From the inside of the house he could locate Ruth's room again, but from the outside it was impossible for him to do it.

263 collocations for  locate