20412 examples of seek in sentences

In vain do I seek for her when some innocent dream has happily deceived me, and placed me near her in the fields when I have seized her hand and covered it with kisses.

I was quite overcome, and bending down, pronounced this vow to myself, "Beautiful lips, which angels guard, never will I seek to profane your purity with a kiss."

There we found him, gashed and gory, Stretch'd upon the cumbered plain, As he told us where to seek him, In the thickest of the slain.

Winding-sheet we cannot give him Seek no mantle for the dead, Save the cold and spotless covering Showered from heaven upon his head.

Then I'll seek thee where thou sleepest, And I'll veil my weary head, Praying for a place beside thee, Dearer than my bridal-bed:

Wealth or social position he did not need to seek, for he was born to both.

"If you choose to open that door," said the verger, pointing to one at the lower end of the chamber, "you will find him you seek.

"I have been greatly to blame, dear mother," returned Amabel, bursting into tears; "and I shall neither seek to exculpate myself, nor conceal what I have done.

"But why?" began Katherine, then stopped short, remembering that she did not want to ask questions, nor to seek information.

" Mr. Selincourt promptly flattened himself into a small space between a bag of meal and a barrel of molasses, while Katherine dived into a recess by the bean bin, and then they waited, holding their breath as children do when playing hide-and-seek.

But I make it a rule, in all cases, to proceed on the strictly classical lines of inductive inquirycollect facts, make hypotheses, test them and seek for verification.

But if Rush would go in with him they need seek no further.

GothsVandalsno, it is unfair to seek such names for the Germans.

And I had made a great resolution that, if I could do aught to prevent it, no man of Scotland who had served in this war should ever have to seek a livelihood in such a manner.

If one must work, one might at least seek work a little to one's taste.

So abominable and accursed did this become to me, such a plague and a hissing, vague as was the offence, that I began to shun rather than seek the ships, and also I now dropped my twelve, whom I had kept to be my companions all the way from the Far North, one by one, into the sea: for now I had definitely passed into a zone of settled warmth.

No man hath been able to seek out His likeness; He is hidden, from gods and men, and He is a mystery unto His creatures.

"I didn't seek it," he said, after hesitating a moment; "they'vethey've thrust it on me."

If I were mortified with the coldness, the ruggedness, and the cruel mistake of principles with which the village inhabitants repelled my enquiries, the mortification I suffered, only drove me more impetuously to seek the cure of my griefs from this object of my admiration.

Eloquence may seek to confound it; but it shall be my care to avoid its deceptive influence.

Seek not the best, the best is better hidden.

" Being perfectly aware what a "glass house" of corruption we ourselves are living in, I do not quote the foregoing by way of "throwing a stone," but insert it merely as a warning of the direction in which we should not seek for an advance in purification.

You might seek in vain to parallel such a case throughout the whole Republic.

"Do you, then, as well, entertain a strong hope that you will be restored; for you have not been expelled on account of wrong doing, and the very ones who drove you forth will, as I take it, seek for you, while all will miss you.

"Scripture, you know, exhorts us to it; Bids us to 'seek peace, and ensue it.

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