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Sentences starting with pursued

Pursued by such thoughts, as if by the Furies, I paced restlessly to and fro. [10]

Sentences ending with pursued

The man who undertakes a garden is relentlessly pursued. [4]
A conscientious purpose to perform this duty is the key to all the measures of administration which have been and to all which will hereafter be pursued. [7]
By all the saints, we are pursued! [10]
More than once he had enabled Dolokhov to escape when pursued. [2]
The study he has proposed to himself does not grow easier the longer it is pursued. [6]
Its first period had passed: when the partisans themselves, amazed at their own boldness, feared every minute to be surrounded and captured by the French, and hid in the forests without unsaddling, hardly daring to dismount and always expecting to be pursued. [2]
I have always had one distinct object in life, and that I have pursued. [4]
What have I done, to be so pursued! [5]
The way to detraction has been pointed out, and will probably be pursued. [14]
Then I sped away in a guilty hurry, and even when I was a mile from the church I was still glancing back, every moment, to see if I was being pursued. [5]

Short sentences using pursued

But fatal ill-luck pursued him. [11]
Memories pursued him. [11]
We were pursued! [10]

Sentences containing pursued two or more times

Perhaps there is something wrong in ourselves when we hear the complaint so often that men are pursued by disaster instead of being pursued by happiness. [4]
Society had pursued her, fate had pursued her, and in a moment of delirium she had turned and defied fate and society. [5]

More example sentences with the word pursued in them

But this development, yet in its infancy, and pursued with much crudeness and misconception of the end, is not enough. [4]
Tarboe pursued his work at the mills successfully; Junia saw nothing of Carnac, but she had a letter from him, and it might have been written by a man to his friend, yet with an undercurrent of sadness that troubled her. [11]
Though Thyone might wonder that a man pursued by Nemesis could allow himself to be borne along so thoughtlessly by the stream of pleasure, Daphne certainly did not grudge him the festal season which, when it had passed, could never return to the blind artist. [10]
Gentlemen, do you wonder if this woman, thus pursued, lost her reason, was beside herself with fear, and that her wrongs preyed upon her mind until she was no longer responsible for her acts? [5]
After his conversation with the sovereign he had retired to his private room, to devote himself to the philological studies which he pursued during the greater portion of the day with equal zeal and success. [10]
Like every knight whose own home was not pleasant, he sometimes gambled; and when, yesterday, ill luck pursued him and he lost the estate of Tannenreuth, he sincerely regretted the disaster, but it could not be helped. [10]
The sculptor Soteles, who had followed his footsteps since the apprenticeship in Rhodes, was intrusted with the erection of the monument to Myrtilus in Tennis, and another highly gifted young sculptor, who pursued his former course, with the execution of the one to his mother. [10]
We pursued our way slowly, from time to time catching a glimpse of a dwelling almost hid in the distant foliage, until at length we came to a place a little more pretentious than those which we had seen. [9]
Busy as Henderson was, pursued by hourly telegrams and letters, we could not but be gratified that his attention to her was that of a lover. [4]
Her malicious triumph was past; nothing but painful thoughts and grewsome images haunted her while awake, and pursued her more persistently when she dozed. [10]
By nature he was insolent, but under the system of control pursued by the officers of the Ariadne, previous to the mutiny, he had not been able to do much. [11]
And yet there was a period during which he pursued his shrunken duties as though nothing had happened to him; as a man who has been struck in battle keeps on, loath to examine, to acknowledge the gravity of his wound; fearing to, perhaps. [9]
Laura pursued her usual course: she encouraged Mr. Buckstone by turns, and by turns she harassed him; she exalted him to the clouds at one time, and at another she dragged him down again. [5]
Her spirits had unaccountably fallen, the sense of homelessness that had pursued her all these months overtaken her once more. [9]
So we hired two sleighs to convey us to a village distant about an hour's ride, from which we were to send them back in one, while my friend and I pursued our journey in the other. [10]
At length Big Tom separated himself from his companions and took a course in accordance with his notion of that which would be pursued by a man lost in the clouds or the darkness. [4]
Every one wanted to watch the Spaniards, hurrying hither and thither like sheep pursued by a wolf. [10]
There was much to palliate the course which she had pursued in former days, and she had carefully planned the defence by which she hoped to influence his calm but not unjust nature. [10]
She gave way to her passion and demanded that the offending editor should be pursued with the utmost rigor of the law. [4]
When the day-laborer threw his hoe over his shoulder, the poor rascal was rid of toil and anxiety; but they pursued him everywhere, night and day. [10]
She fled as though she were pursued, her long dress hampering her steps, along by the temple wall, till her gaze, fixed on her left, fell on the spot which had been designated to her. [10]
There is always this danger when anything is passionately pursued as a fashion, that it will one day cease to be the fashion. [4]
But no matter, there was but one course for them to pursue, and they pursued it. [5]
The hunters pursued their way, swinging grandly along on their snow- shoes, as they made for the Wild Hawk Woods. [11]
The Indians pursued their warfare by hiding in the bushes and then scalping them. [5]
The sounds of their jests and laughter pursued us out of the house. [9]
The rest of the year life pursued its unbroken routine with its ordinary occupations, and its breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and suppers, provided out of the produce of the estate. [2]
I fled from the world to this mountain, and the world has pursued me and has flung its snares round my feet. [10]
The remainder of the summer I spent half with my mother, half with my aunt, and pursued the same course during the subsequent years, until from 1862 I remained longer in Berlin, engaged in study, and began my scientific journeys. [10]
Then, pursued by the reviling and hissing of the populace, she had been taken to prison. [10]
The fact of the pied birds being pursued and persecuted with much clamour by the other ravens of the island was the chief cause which led Brunnich to conclude that they were specifically distinct; but this is now known to be an error. [1]
On her return the knight had just followed Eva into the house, and Biberli pursued his master as far as the stairs. [10]
Instead of winning the credit and commendation he had expected, he now found himself pursued by claims of considerable proportions. [5]
Here is Helen, strong and lithe of limb, ox-eyed, courageous, but woman-hearted and love-inspiring, contended for by all the braves and daring moonshiners of Cut Laurel Gap, pursued by the gallants of two States, the prize of a border warfare of bowie knives and revolvers. [4]
It did not strike me--even after all my experience--that such a course as I now contemplated had a parallel in the one that I had pursued in regard to her when I was young. [9]
What was this strange, elusive happiness, that she had so pantingly pursued and never overtaken? [9]
Yet the foe still advanced, and the space which separated pursued and pursuers did not increase. [10]
He directed his steps thither sometimes hurriedly, as though pursued, as to a haven from a storm. [9]
Then a statement somewhat in detail of a course to be pursued seemed fitting and proper. [7]
But they made slow progress through the crowd, whose yells, hisses, and catcalls pursued them to the entrance of the neighbouring Town Hall. [10]
After a moment's silence, Ethel Wing pursued her own train of thought. [9]
Then, with a sigh of relief, he continued: "I pursued my way home like a drunken man. [10]
When the gaudy ship left the gardens of the Paneum and turned into the Canopic way, the crowd pursued it in a dense mass, hallooing and shouting. [10]
If you are satisfied the latter purpose is entertained, and is judiciously pursued, I am content. [7]
Daphne did the same, and he willingly obeyed her advice; for, loudly and recklessly as he pursued pleasure in social circles, he showed himself tenderly devoted to her when he found her alone in her father's house. [10]
They are the same battalions you broke at Hollabrunn and have pursued ever since to this place. [2]
Pithom was the sacred name of the temple precincts of the desert city of Thekut--[The biblical Suchot]--near Heroopolis, where the citizens lived and pursued their business. [10]
He set off running again, but the other pursued him, and kept close at his heels till he had passed all the houses and began to go up the mountain-path. [10]
However, my spirits returned, in installments, as we pursued our way down the river. [5]
He won a remarkable case for Appleton here, and he once said that the Judge would have sat on the Supreme Bench if he had not been pursued with such relentlessness by rascally politicians. [9]
She tried to read, but the few books she had brought from Delft were all familiar, and her thoughts, ere becoming fixed on the old volumes, pursued their own course. [10]
He has been pursued, day by day and year by year, by a most phenomenal and astonishing luckiness. [5]
Why had he pursued this course? [10]
Had the Cossacks pursued the French, without heeding what was behind and around them, they would have captured Murat and everything there. [2]
These melancholy things pursued me as I flew, till my wings drooped, and I felt that I must drop into the dull marsh far beneath, round which travelled a lonely mist. [11]
Honest Moses Hatch pursued his courting untroubled, and never knew that he had a rival. [9]
This plan was pursued for one month, during which not a case of the disease occurred in their practice. [3]
These conclusions were pursued at the expense of speech on my part. [11]
The story is pretty enough, but Mr. Jarves' excellent history says the Oahuans were intrenched in Nuuanu Valley; that Kamehameha ousted them, routed them, pursued them up the valley and drove them over the precipice. [5]
Kaid and Claridge Pasha pursued their course of civilisation in the Soudan, and who could tell what danger might not bring forth? [11]
But the war party being closely pursued, came up to the lodge. [5]
The spectators were once much disgusted when a lion and lioness, with the dog that pursued them, all ran into the den, and, like good friends, stood very peaceably together looking out at the people. [4]
She led the old man softly from the door, and they pursued their journey. [12]
The two pilgrims, often pressing each other's hands, or exchanging a smile or cheerful look, pursued their way in silence. [12]
Senator Dilworthy was offered a grand ovation by his friends at home, who said that their affection for him and their confidence in him were in no wise impaired by the persecutions that had pursued him, and that he was still good enough for them. [5]
I can think of no more expressive sentence in regard to her than the trite one that she pursued the even tenor of her way; and I found the very perfection of her wifehood exasperating. [9]
While under the obligation of this bond he could not have pursued any other employment. [5]
He pursued his notoriety, and got it. [11]
Nicholas was allowed no respite and no peace, and those who had seemed to pity the old man--the cause of their losses (if they were losses)--now remorselessly pursued the young heir who had voluntarily undertaken the debts and was obviously not guilty of contracting them. [2]
Though she had no knowledge of science, she instinctively doubted his earnestness even in this work, which certainly was not pursued for effect. [11]
Would it be no joy to you if I, through your influence, recast my life--remade my policy, renewed my youth--pursuing principle where I have pursued opportunity? [11]
As this was no business of Mr Swiveller's, the person not ringing the office bell, he pursued his diversion with perfect composure, notwithstanding that he rather thought there was nobody else in the house. [12]
The sounds and motions still pursued me in imagination. [6]
David saw his mood, and pursued the startled mind into the pit of confusion. [11]
She reflected a moment, then pursued the thought further: "But there must be bigness in him, as well as presence of mind and depth of heart--yes, I'm sure his nature is deep. [11]
You will remember Melchisedek, no doubt; he was the King who came out and levied a tribute on Abraham the time that he pursued Lot's captors to Dan, and took all their property from them. [5]
The charge is made that General Schofield, on purpose to protect the Lawrence murderers, would not allow them to be pursued into Missouri. [7]
The habit of listening to the revelations of the human heart had given him something of that clairvoyance which can only be pursued by the primitive mind, unvexed by complexity. [11]
But should the Lady Thyone speak of the Eumenides who pursued me, tell her that they had probably again extended their arms toward me, but when I return to-morrow from the palaestra I shall be freed from the terrible beings. [10]
We pursued our journey through the heat that shimmered up from the road, pausing now and again in the shade of a wayside tree. [9]
In any of its rich private libraries you find yourself in the age of Pope and Dryden, and the classics were pursued in the spirit of Oxford and Cambridge in the time of Johnson. [4]
His illness pursued its normal physical course, but what Natasha referred to when she said: "This suddenly happened," had occurred two days before Princess Mary arrived. [2]
The admiralty pursued its course of seizing men of the mercantile marine, taking them aboard ships, keeping them away for months from the harbours of the kingdom, and then, when their ships returned, denying them the right of visiting their homes. [11]
Among other things it says, "Whatever course your judgment may dictate as proper to be pursued, shall never be excepted to by me. [7]
It pursued her, it harassed her, it clung to her, and refused to be put away or ignored. [5]
He had concealed it even from his father and his brother Labaja, who was still keeping watch on the ships, for he had a reserved disposition, and though obliged to obey his father, wherever it was possible he pursued his own way. [10]
I feel persuaded it can be accomplished, if the course to be pursued be chosen with judgment. [5]
The several orders issued upon these occurrences were transmitted by private messengers, who pursued a circuitous way to the seaboard cities, inland across the States of Pennsylvania and Ohio and the northern lakes. [7]
He had darted into the house as though pursued by the watch, and, while trying to rush up the stairs--it was really only a ladder-he had made a misstep and fell. [10]
Later he voluntarily informed me how much he, who had pursued philological, archaeological, Sanscrit, and Germanistic studies, had been impeded in his youth by having neglected the Semitic languages, which are more nearly allied to the Egyptian. [10]
They were merely incidents of the social state into which she was born, and she pursued her way among them, having a tolerably clear conception of what her own life should be, with little recognition of their tendencies. [4]
It was only in the cities that Hadrian met his wife, for he pursued his journey by land and she hers by water. [10]
The horseman was in scarlet from head to foot; and with his coming the herd went faster, and ever faster, until they vanished into the mountain-side; and they who pursued drew in their trembling horses and stared at each other with wonder in their faces. [11]
It was as if we were pursued by the avenging spirits of the mountains for our intrusion. [4]
It was as if this one precious woman I had so desperately pursued had, in the capture, lost her identity, had mysteriously become just woman, in all her significance, yes, and helplessness. [9]
Please inform us, if possible, what has become of the force which pursued Banks yesterday; also any other information you have. [7]
He asked me if I pursued an original course, or whether I got my ideas from writers on the subject. [4]
In your place, I would have pursued a different course. [10]
In great uneasiness I pursued my way, my imagination summing up for Nick all kinds of adventures with disagreeable consequences. [9]
All that the hunter has to do is to seat himself by one of these runways, or sit in a boat on the lake, and wait the coming of the pursued deer. [4]

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