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Sentences ending with pursuit

He invaded Canada without resistance, and he outvaded it without pursuit. [7]
Then a sudden turn of the road brought us in sight of that fire--it was a large manor-house, and little or nothing was left of it--and everywhere men were flying and other men raging after them in pursuit. [5]
He was at this time a victim to a fresh attack, and had therefore sent his confidential steward into the town to tell Heron that he approved of his son's choice, and that he would protect Alexander from pursuit. [10]
The bread in the saddle-bag would feed her for a few days, and now it lay with her to escape pursuit. [10]
But their owner suddenly sprang from a ditch near by, and he barely escaped his pursuit. [10]
He crossed a small "branch" two or three times, because of a prevailing juvenile superstition that to cross water baffled pursuit. [5]
All day he rode slowly and cautiously up the Pass, taking time to peer around corners, to pick out hard ground and grassy patches, and to make sure there was no one in pursuit. [13]
A tiger, a panther, a buffalo or a hog rouses your utmost energies for its destruction--you even risk your lives in its pursuit. [5]
He had roughed out a block of marble for that impersonation; sculpture was a delight to him, though secondary to his main pursuit. [6]
I gave Derketaeus orders to send all his men in pursuit. [10]

Short sentences using pursuit

The pursuit of happiness! [4]

Sentences containing pursuit two or more times

And whenever he had a holiday, he used to expend an amount of labor and ingenuity in the pursuit of woodchucks that would have made his for tune in any useful pursuit. [4]

More example sentences with the word pursuit in them

I disagree with your beliefs, but I do not think that your pursuit of them has not been sincere, and justified by your conscience. [9]
The elixir made you happy, my father, because you are good and pure, and because the beautiful, to the pursuit of which you have dedicated your life, ennobles everyone and makes every thing harmonious that comes from you. [10]
But he was writing to her often, he was talking to her freely about his perplexities, about leaving the office and trusting himself to the pursuit of literature in some way. [4]
Lord Delaware remained with the colony less than a year; his health failing, he went in pursuit of it, in March, 1611, to the West Indies. [4]
A delicate nature will not commonly choose a pursuit which implies the habitual infliction of suffering, so readily as some gentler office. [6]
We started out, when we turned our backs on the Old World, with the declaration that all men are free, and entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of an agreeable climate. [4]
But I am well satisfied that it is not the thing itself, but the pursuit, that is an illusion. [4]
Terror and grief weighed on thousands of hearts, while some tried to make a profit out of the prevailing anxiety, and others--many others--went forth, as light-hearted as ever, in pursuit of pleasure and amusement. [10]
How at dawn we found them gone, and Kenton and Harrod and brave Captain Montgomery set out in pursuit, with Cowan and Tom and Ray. [9]
A brave pursuit was made, but Bucklaw went uncaptured. [11]
Again the monster was in pursuit, and fast overtaking them. [5]
Besides, his case was hopeless unless the knight obtained a pardon for him from the Emperor Rudolph, for his persecutors would not cease their pursuit of him, and he could not endure the torture a second time. [10]
The little man was always in pursuit of information, in his guide-book or from his fellow-passengers, and whenever he obtained any he invariably repeated it to his wife, who said "Fancy! [4]
I do not want a costly apparatus to give pomp to my pursuit or to disguise its inutility. [6]
They defined with tolerable distinctness in what they did consider all men created equal,--equal in certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. [7]
They defined with tolerable distinctness in what respects they did consider all men created equal--equal with "certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. [7]
The conspiracy was to raid his cattle, to lure him to pursuit, to ambush him, and kill him. [11]
But the right to make a pursuit of happiness, given in a fundamental bill of rights, had quite a different aspect. [4]
We have yet to learn, it seems, that we can indulge in that pursuit best on our own continent. [4]
Hermon, too, ought to evade the pursuit of the incensed King as quickly as possible. [10]
I have been through as many hardships as Ulysses, in the pursuit of my histrionic vocation. [6]
With reference to those new countries, those maxims as to the right of a people to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" were the just rules to be constantly referred to. [7]
So absorbed were they in the pursuit of wealth, of distraction, so satisfied with the current philosophy, so intent on surrounding themselves with beautiful things and thus shutting out the sterner view, that they had grown heedless of the divine message. [9]
I can understand these alternations of feeling in a young person who has been long absorbed in a single pursuit, and in whom the human instincts which have been long silent are now beginning to find expression. [6]
The countess watched the things being packed, was dissatisfied with everything, was constantly in pursuit of Petya who was always running away from her, and was jealous of Natasha with whom he spent all his time. [2]
In pursuit of the terrier she drove madly through Leith, which, as everybody knows, is a famous colony of rich summer residents. [9]
And even when the scholar is lavish of his knowledge in helping an ignorant world, he may find that if he has made his studies as a pursuit of happiness he has missed his object. [4]
The rapidity of the Russian pursuit was just as destructive to our army as the flight of the French was to theirs. [2]
The pursuit of the Russian army, about which Napoleon was so concerned, produced an unheard-of result. [2]
Many times in the pursuit of my affairs I journeyed over that country which I had known when it belonged to the Indian and the deer and the elk and the wolf and the buffalo. [9]
Nevertheless he continued the pursuit and entered the little garden with the dog, but the thief had fled. [10]
It was like the patient fellah, when the Arabs, in pursuit of Wyndham and his Gippies, suddenly cut in between him and the house, to deliver himself over to the conqueror, with his hand upon his head in sign of obedience. [11]
But Didymus knew the old philosopher, who, a recluse from the world like himself, was devoting the remainder of his life and strength to the pursuit of science. [10]
He listened to the mules galloping, till the sounds had died into the distance, but he saw now that his captor had heard too, and that the pursuit would be desperate. [11]
When Nahoum left the great salon, he directed his steps towards the quarters of the Chief Eunuch, thinking of David, with a vague desire for pursuit and conflict. [11]
It lies before the goal; the pursuit is at an end. [12]
When alone with the field marshal the Emperor expressed his dissatisfaction at the slowness of the pursuit and at the mistakes made at Krasnoe and the Berezina, and informed him of his intentions for a future campaign abroad. [2]
Perhaps they liked the experience of change; perhaps both captain and pilot liked the pursuit of the ideal. [5]
On or about the 1st day of September, 1813, the Creek war being then in progress in Florida, the crops, herds, and houses of Mr. George Fisher, a citizen, were destroyed, either by the Indians or by the United States troops in pursuit of them. [5]
He told us that a man named Maisonville, with a party of Indians, was in pursuit of him, and the next piece of news he had was in the way of raising our despair a little. [9]
And this is shown even in the excessive refinement and elaboration of trifles, the minutia of reflection, the keenness of analysis, the unrelenting pursuit of every social topic into subtleties untouched by the older essayists. [4]
If Great Britain shall choose to recognize them as lawful belligerents, and give them shelter from our pursuit and punishment, the laws of nations afford an adequate and proper remedy [and we shall avail ourselves of it. [7]
I did not say this in these very words, but I gave him to understand, without being too hard upon him, that he had better not desert his honest toil in pursuit of the poet's bays. [6]
If you saw rightly, he is no doubt in pursuit of Zeno's daughter, but most likely not to pay court to her, but for some other season. [10]
But the inalienable right to the pursuit of happiness has never been questioned since it was proclaimed as a new gospel for the New World. [4]
Then came the retreat of Lee and the instant pursuit of Grant, and --Richmond. [9]
A pursuit only resulted in a vain fight with the Indians. [4]
At the bishop's request the Vekeel had despatched a troop of horse in pursuit of the nuns, with orders to bring the fugitives back to Memphis and take their escort prisoners. [10]
Owing to the rapidity of the French flight and the Russian pursuit and the consequent exhaustion of the horses, the chief means of approximately ascertaining the enemy's position--by cavalry scouting--was not available. [2]
She is in pursuit of some special point of knowledge, I feel sure, and I cannot doubt what direction she is working in, but her wonderful way of dealing with books amazes me. [6]
Why add the pursuit of happiness to our other inalienable worries? [4]
In almost every pursuit he valued, he had nothing in common with his people. [10]
Here was a political sanction of a pursuit that everybody acknowledged to be of a good thing. [4]
One of these pieces satisfies a beggar when it drops into his hat; and then it detains him long enough in the examination of it, so that your carriage has time to get so far away that his renewed pursuit is usually unavailing. [4]
After hours of persistent pursuit and persecution, the little prince was at last deserted by the rabble and left to himself. [5]
The Son of Pango Dooni had drawn pursuit after himself, for it is the law of the hills that a hillsman shall give his life or all that he has for a brother-in-blood. [11]
They are not our equal in color; but I suppose that it does mean to declare that all men are equal in some respects; they are equal in their right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. [7]
If he could only know what pain it caused her to see him suffer, he would surely command Zminis to abandon the pursuit of her brother. [10]
A hunter, and one of the noblest of them all, risked his life in the pursuit of your love. [10]
Will he go on writing such poems to her as "The Rose and the Fern" or "I Like You and I Love You," and be content with the pursuit of that which he never can attain? [6]
Busby was leaning on it with both hands, and staring at Rawley like some animal jaded and beaten from pursuit. [11]
The clear surface of the perfumed water mirrored statues of nymphs fleeing from the pursuit of satyrs, and reflected the shimmering light of numbers of lamps suspended from the ceiling. [10]
But the corner-stone of the government, so to speak, was the declaration that "all men are created equal," and all entitled to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. [7]
Move the remainder of the force down the Potomac, choosing a new base at Fortress Monroe or anywhere between here and there, or, at all events, move such remainder of the army at once in pursuit of the enemy by some route. [7]
With my turn of mind, and with the preposterous habits which I had been daily acquiring, I could not fail to make as gross mistakes in the pursuit of this as of other branches of knowledge. [6]
The third day of his devotion to this pursuit found him still hard at work, and little disposed to stir abroad. [12]
Had he thought of him and foreseen that his father's dwelling would be first attacked, he would never have headed the mob in their pursuit of vengeance; nay, he bitterly repented having forgotten the deliberate judgment which befitted his years. [10]
Suppose he should now, even though it were necessary to delay obeying the oracle's command, search, traverse, sail through the world in pursuit of Myrtilus, even, if it must be, to the uttermost Thule? [10]
Buell's old troops, now in pursuit of Bragg, have done more hard marching recently; and, in fact, if you include marching and fighting, there are scarcely any old troops east or west of the mountains that have not done as hard service. [7]
But it is not aside from our subject, rather right in its path, to take heed of what the philosophers say of the effect in other respects of the pursuit of wealth. [4]
The guide had never been through the pass before; although he was familiar with the region, and had ascended Nipple Top in the winter in pursuit of the sable. [4]
And which is most in earnest in his pursuit of the fair one: He who lies sleeping in her arms, or he who is consumed by his passion for her? [10]
In five minutes more she heard the sharp, exultant yelp of discovery, and then the deep-mouthed howl of pursuit. [4]
This was the more difficult to bear because he was deprived of the possibility of providing for the pursuit of the fugitive. [10]
Whether she had missed the old man in the night, and knowing or conjecturing whither he had bent his steps, had gone in pursuit, or whether they had left the house together, they had no means of determining. [12]
The woman-hunter had met with rare game in his pursuit of the fairest, and while he continued his conversation with Cleopatra her father sometimes joined in, and his deep laughter was often heard. [10]
Perhaps the most melancholy spectacle offered to us in our short sojourn in this pilgrimage, where the roads are so dusty and the caravansaries so ill provided, is the credulity of this pursuit. [4]
Herr Ernst had made this concession after the magistrate's representation that Sir Heinz Schorlin had been subjected to an experience which had stirred the inmost depths of his soul, and soon after had been unexpectedly sent in pursuit of the Siebenburgs. [10]
Given a heart-aching longing in every human being for happiness, here was high warrant for going in pursuit of it. [4]
Without considering how long a time had passed since he first tried to bring the culprit into the clutches of the law, he had resumed the pursuit where it was interrupted. [10]
It was not likely that I should overtake the object of my pursuit with nearly thirty-six hours start, even if I could procure a conveyance that day. [6]
With a brain like his, that young man could amass thousands and thousands of dollars in some other pursuit, if he chose to do it. [5]
I do not know what we should have done without the returning carriages to draw off the pursuit. [5]
Malbrouck fired and killed a heifer, and then all ran in pursuit as the moose made for the woods. [11]
But he must keep ahead of all pursuit, for if Abdullah's people should get in front of him he would be cut off from all hope. [11]
Cleopatra goes to it whenever she longs for repose after the pursuit of pleasures which have lost their zest. [10]
If the Celebrity is arrested after a long pursuit, it will avail you nothing to affirm that you knew all along he was the noted writer. [9]
Our Declaration of Independence says: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. [7]
Our Declaration of Independence proclaimed that every citizen had the right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," which means the opportunity to achieve the greatest self-development and self-realization. [9]
Mr. Richard Venner, in the pursuit of his interesting project, arose and lighted a lamp. [6]
They were depicted in stormy pursuit of the damned--the miscreant followers of Angramainjus, the evil Spirit, of whom you must imagine a vast multitude fleeing before them. [10]
If Hierax--who is in pursuit of him with his horsemen--is lucky and catches him in time, he will no doubt give up the crown of his own free will. [10]
But we are in pursuit of equal laws, and a fairer chance of leading happy lives than humanity in general ever had yet. [4]
This pursuit brought in money, which was put to an excellent use by the old man, who offered sacrifices to his own comfort at the cook-shop, and enjoyed fish fried in oil with his Zamora wine. [10]
He was an implicit believer in that principle of the Declaration of Independence that all men are vested with certain inalienable rights the equal rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. [7]
I think that if he had a prisoner who was fond of fishing, he would take him with him on the bay in pursuit of the mackerel and the cod. [4]
In my pursuit I do not always succeed at the first attempt, but whoever I once fix my eyes upon comes on the roll at last, and I will keep the foremost place open for your lovely, refractory daughter. [10]
And so here I be, exercising life, and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. [9]
For an hour his eyes were fixed, now on the desert behind him, whence pursuit should come, now on the golden-pink hills before him, where was sanctuary for a moment, at least. [11]
No matter what his culture or ignorance, no matter what his pursuit, no matter what his character, the subject I refer to is one of which he rarely ceases to think, and, if opportunity is offered, to talk. [6]

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