4604 examples of pursuit in sentences

When even the professional photographer has not enough light to get through his orders, how can the amateur get the needed daylight if photography be only the pursuit in spare time?

" Some years ago an incident occurred in connection with his scientific excursions in Colorado that is quite characteristic, showing his obliviousness to self and everything else save the object of his scientific pursuit, and a fertility in overcoming danger when it meets him face to face.

People who talk glibly of the fearless pursuit of truth may here see a real example of a life given to itan example all the more solemn and impressive if they think that the pursuit was in vain.

People who talk glibly of the fearless pursuit of truth may here see a real example of a life given to itan example all the more solemn and impressive if they think that the pursuit was in vain.

JOUVENAL, MARTHA GELLHORN DE. What mad pursuit, by Martha Gellhorn.

The pursuit of knowledge.

The pursuit of knowledge.

"Nothing is more certain," writes M'Lean (135), "than that the enamoured Esquimau will risk life and limb in the pursuit of his object."

The storm would put a stop to all idea of pursuit.

His lordship had met the duke in the hall, some distance from that nobleman's room, and, without observing Barminster's apparent confusion, commanded him to join in the pursuit.

And in pursuit of this flying craze of hers, she may easily miss both.

Almost at once I started in pursuit.

The same thing is true of the Massachusetts Bill of Rights and in the Federal Fifth Amendment, though it is significant that the Declaration of Independence omits the word property, and only mentions among unalienable rights, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happinesswhich some courts have held to include private property.

He holds that under "the pursuit of happiness" comes the acquisition, possession, and enjoyment of property, and that they are matters which even government cannot forbid nor destroy.

He who was ever lying in waitever watchingever ready to apprehend the smallest evidence of ill health, was, on this morning, as insensible to the alteration which had taken place in the darling object of his solicitude, as though he had no eyes to see, or object to behold; so easy is it for a too anxious diligence in a pursuit to overshoot and miss the point at which it aims.

But, as you have explained to me, you heard the explosion, you heard the outcry of pursuit, and you acted for my welfare.

CHAPTER XXVII TOIL AND PURSUIT

But that which I thought I saw horrible in this vessel had the same effect upon me as that which I thought I had seen agreeable in the other, namely, to animate and to invigorate me in my pursuit.

While, however, I was forwarding this, I was not inattentive to the other object of my pursuit, which was that of waiting upon members personally.

When I left Teston to begin the pursuit as an object of my life, I promised my friend Mr. Ramsay a weekly account of my progress.

It was this, which gave him alacrity and courage in his pursuit.

When, therefore, I entered the city, I entered it with an undaunted spirit, determining that no labour should make me shrink, nor danger, nor even persecution, deter me from my pursuit.

But while I was in pursuit of this one object, I was not unmindful of the others which I had marked out for myself.

The ships' boats also were manned, and joined in the pursuit.

I lived in hope that every day's labour would furnish me with that knowledge, which would bring this evil nearer to its end; and I worked on, under these feelings, regarding neither trouble nor danger in the pursuit.

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