Which preposition to use with quest
Soon afterwards, we again sallied forth in quest of adventures, and bent our course towards the suburbs.
In my noonday quest for food, if the day is fine, it is my habit to shun the nearer places of refreshment.
He looked out into the storm, his eyes questing in all directions.
Tennyson introduces Sir Galahad as a knight whose strength is as the strength of ten because his heart is pure, undertaking "the far-quest after the divine."
To the west "But sorrow not," said Finn, when all dismay'd They hastened on a drear and bootless quest With weary steps they turned to their stockade, "To-morrow will we hunt towards the east To high Dunskaith, and then make gladsome feast By night when we return.
So Sir Clamadius said: "Certes, this must be a champion of no small prowess who hath undertaken single-handed such a dangerous quest as this, and hath thus entered into the castle, for they appear to make great rejoicings at his coming.
Now, as you say, you are a very young knight unused to arms, and as I am in the same degree a knight well seasoned in deeds of arms, it is more fitting that I should undertake this quest than you.
But let us not be too critical on the tradition, which has led us into a quest through which I have been able to supply what I hope will be found to be a pleasant insight into that little world of action and passion,with its people, its pursuits, and its gossips,that, more than one hundred and seventy years ago, inhabited the beautiful banks of St. Mary's River, and wove the web of our early Maryland history.
This too yeares I have quested to his howse, And knwe all this most certeine.
But Merry wouldn't consent to let Dick go on the dangerous quest without her.
Then breed thou after thy kind, the kind that does not kill; but come not on such quest among the Tana-naw.
That man, of all men I ever met, saw the Quest at once, and followed it, at the risk of his own life, as far at least as he was concerned with it:ay, even when he pretended to see nothing.
" But Gurnemanz with gloomy looks replied: "That were a quest beyond her, beyond all That lies within the guarded will of God.
"Don't let's be hampered in the beginning of our quest by social littleness.
Then she went questing into the spruce woods, feeling but not understanding some subtle excitement in the air that was not there before, and only the two Indian children were left keeping watch over the great wild hillside.
But Robert knew the blue eyes, lofty and questing like those of the eagle, and he was sure that the reddish beard had grown on a face other than the one it now adorned.
When he tells of the long summer day spent in swimming, basking in the sun, and questing over the hills; or of the winter night when, on his skates, he chased the reflection of a star in the black ice; or of his exploring the lake in a boat, and getting suddenly frightened when the world grew big and strange,in all this he is simply recalling a multitude of our own vague, happy memories of childhood.
They quested along it for several inches.