I have
sought you through the world, and found you at last.
Her, then, Glaucus sought to win by Athena's advising, and he drove oxen (5) for her.
....fair Atalanta, swift of foot, the daughter of Schoeneus, who had the beaming eyes of the Graces, though she was ripe for wedlock rejected the company of her equals and sought to avoid marriage with men who eat bread.'
So he
sought out the idle, wilful bees, whom he had first made discontented, bidding them follow him, and win the honey the Queen had stored up for the winter.
Should kings and nations from thy mouth consult, Thy counsel would be as the oracle Urim and Thummim, those oraculous gems On Aaron's breast, or tongue of Seers old Infallible; or, wert thou
sought to deeds That might require the array of war, thy skill Of conduct would be such that all the world Could not sustain thy prowess, or subsist In battle, though against thy few in arms.
Meanwhile, the captain asked the headman of the kraal if he knew anything of such a youth as him for whom they
sought. The headman told the captain of Galazi the Wolf, but the captain said that this could not be the lad, for Galazi had dwelt many moons upon the Ghost Mountain.
But when, after hard journeying, she reached the village where her brother dwelt, and saw that he had a wife and was happy, and when she, too, was
sought by a young brave, then she also forgot the boy alone in the forest, and thought only of her husband.
The eldest brother set out, and
sought for the pearls the whole day: but the evening came, and he had not found the first hundred: so he was turned into stone as the tablet had foretold.
Now know I well what people
sought formerly above all else when they
sought teachers of virtue.
And so, Hester, I drew thee into my heart, into its innermost chamber, and
sought to warm thee by the warmth which thy presence made there!"
The final impression I received was of a prodigious effort to express some state of the soul, and in this effort, I fancied, must be
sought the explanation of what so utterly perplexed me.
For two weeks past he had
sought her society eagerly and persistently.