There are also Victors in the great Quests of the world,the Argonauts, Helena in search of the Holy Rood, the Knights of the Holy Grail, the Pilgrim Fathers.

CHAPTER VI LISTER MEETS AN OLD ANTAGONIST The hotel Catalina, half-way between Las Palmas harbor and the town, was not crowded, and a number of the quests had gone to a ball at the neighboring Metropole.

For J.W. had come to a new zest for both of his quests.

By its perusal we gain an illuminating insight into that ill-directed religious enthusiasm which led men on frenzied quests for the destruction of the heretic in their own land and of the Saracen abroad, causing them to become at one and the same time unjust and heroic.

These 'roaring forties' seem all strangely devoid of animal lifeat least in a December north-east gale; not a whale did we seeonly a pair of porpoises; not a sea-bird, save a lonely little kittiwake or two, who swung round our stern in quest of food: but the seeming want of life was only owing to our want of eyes; each night the wake teemed more bright with flame-atomies.

The modern scientific discoverer and inventor oftentimes finds himself engaged in quests as strange as that of the Holy Grail of Round-Table fiction.

After that Sir Tristram and Sir Lamorack abode at the court of King Arthur for nigh a year, and during that time they went upon many quests and adventures of various sortssometimes alone, sometimes together.

So it was that Sir Percival fulfilled that quest, and set the Lady Blanchefleur free from duress; and may God grant that you also fulfil all your quests with as great honor and nobility as therein exhibited.

With vision unsealed, we watch the gropings of purblind mortals after happiness, and smile at their stumblings, their blunders, their futile quests, their misplaced exultations, their groundless panics.

We had been wandering all day, led by John, searching for hidden treasure at the rainbow's foot, climbing high hills to see if the world came to an end at the other side, or some equally fantastic quest.

Nevertheless, the voice alone had ensnared the connoisseur; it was, by the test of the pipe which he carried on all his quests, D in alt, and would thus complete the major chord of a chime which he had long been building up.

This (and this tore an ugly wound) was what came of helping people in their quests for happiness.

of fingers shivering with haste, of harum-scarum quests and searches, of groans, and piteous appeals to God.

The high-sounding names and quests which seem to us to give the play an air of unreality and romance were to the Elizabethans real and actual; things as strange and foreign were to be heard any day amongst the motley crowd in the Bankside outside the theatre door.

And tell my lady, when your quests are o'er, That I, away from her, my heart's desire, Yearn for the blissful hour when I shall pour Down at her feet a love surcharged with fire.

Alas that he should go on useless quests And seem to do despite unto the Grail!

O woe, if in his far-off quests for me He is ensnared by Klingsor's hateful arts!

we go on such quests no more"another race hath been and other palms are won.

Worn out by labours and quests beyond her strength she fell sick at Teheran in 1916 and returned to England to die.

As I lay so leisurely watching the sun, it occurred to me that there was no reason why man should not give up quests when he wanted tohe was not fixed in a definite course like the sun.

All our arts and sciences and institutions are but so many quests of perfection on the part of men; and when we see how diverse the types of excellence may be, how various the tests, how flexible the adaptations, we gain a richer sense of what the terms "better" and "worse" may signify in general.

Along the foreshore, questing as a wounded beast quests for lair, hurries a loaded steamer never built for speed.

" "To the 3d & 4th quests together: Whether a vitious pson foretelling some future event, or revealing of a secret, be a demonstration of familiarity with the devill?

No one was so clever on such quests as Mrs. Comyns Carr.

I would like to emphasise that it was in no way from any desire to interfere in other people's affairs that young Bohun undertook these Quests.