Use seek in a sentence
Sentences starting with seek
- Seek elsewhere, among your own people, in your own religion and language and position, the Mistress of Rozel. [11]
- Seek to discover where Irene can be. [10]
- Seek Him, and when ye have found Him fall down and sing praises before Him. [10]
- Seek not to know too much, nor think that what you do is of vast value. [11]
- Seek and pray for repentance. [9]
Sentences ending with seek
- He could not think of returning yet, for they were scarce able to say where they had been, nor had yet heard of what they were sent to seek. [4]
- But motive might not be so far to seek. [11]
- There is certainly no sort of evidence that he engaged in the common dissipation of the town, nor gave himself up to those pleasures which a man rescued from the hardships of captivity in Tartaria might be expected to seek. [4]
- In my perplexity I did not know whose aid and advice to seek. [2]
- I was a fair and youthful bride, The kiss of love still burns upon my cheek, He whom I worshipped, ever at my side, --Him through the spirit realm in vain I seek. [6]
- Bear all that cannot be mended, and if an inward voice does not deceive me, he whom we seek. [10]
Short sentences using seek
- Go, seek a nobler theme! [5]
- They seek the general effect. [5]
- They seek him everywhere. [5]
Sentences containing seek two or more times
- If I do not seek it, it will seek me. [5]
More example sentences with the word seek in them
- The treasures which your sages painfully seek out we already possess in our scriptures, our law and our moral ordinances. [10]
- The particulars of your plans I neither know nor seek to know. [7]
- I will seek your lover, and if I find him he shall know where you are, but I cannot and will not invite him to an assignation here behind my sister's back. [10]
- And whom do you seek here? [10]
- It is neither you nor Ulrich, who drives me hence, but the mysterious ancient curse, that pursues my people when they seek to rest; it is, it is. [10]
- He was as yet unknown beyond the circle of his friends, and he did not seek society. [6]
- I lived from year to year With shadows, the strong warders of desire; I learned through them to seek the golden fire That hides itself in Song's bright hemisphere. [11]
- I wish he would make up his mind to come and seek me--in disguise, of course--I would--" "He is very timid, and it would not suggest to him anything so unpracticable. [10]
- By day he would look his dumb compassion in the captain's face; and by night, in the darkness and the driving spray and rain, he would seek out the captain and try to comfort him with caressing pats on the shoulder. [5]
- He said he would keep these things always; and that soon he would seek out these dear good friends of his and take them under his protection. [5]
- How good it would be to know where to seek for help in this life, and what to expect after it beyond the grave! [2]
- He would be worthy of hate his whole life long, if he did not seek her once more! [10]
- Sirona is a worthy and innocent woman, and at the time when Phoebicius came out to seek her, I had never even set eyes upon her nor had my ears ever heard a word pass her lips. [10]
- In all the world The eye may vainly seek nor find their like. [10]
- Will not the wise novelist seek to encounter the least intellectual resistance? [4]
- But new reapers will arise, and they too will seek a field. [7]
- At sixteen the wild fellow went out into the world to seek his fortune, and had found it as a daring sailor. [10]
- Unhappy are they who seek for gold at the rainbow's foot, who chase the fire-fly in the night, who follow the herds in the White Valley. [11]
- She and all who have a voice in the management of court affairs look first at the roof and then seek anything to raise and support it, though it should be corpses, ruined lives, and broken hearts. [10]
- And he, Felion, who had been lord and master of the valley, worked with them, but did not seek for riches, and more often drew away into the hills to find some newer place unspoiled by man. [11]
- But many brightly-coloured, white, or otherwise conspicuous species, do not seek concealment; whilst again some equally conspicuous species, as well as other dull-coloured kinds live under stones and in dark recesses. [1]
- The Russian Revolution, which we must seek to understand and not condemn, the Allied defeats that are its consequences, can only make our purpose the firmer to put forth all our strength for the building up of a better world. [9]
- A dance, for which her partner came to seek her, put an end to her discourse with her future directeur de conscience, but the next evening Monsieur de Jobert came to see Helene when she was alone, and after that often came again. [2]
- I don't know whether these reformers who carry the world on their shoulders in such serious fashion, especially the little fussy fellows, who are themselves the standard of the regeneration they seek, are more ludicrous than pathetic. [4]
- His lofty purposes were unsettled, and he began to seek diversion for his mind, especially at the fencing-school with Sanchez Coello. [10]
- If my son were alive, I know where he would seek a wife. [10]
- The doctor nervously went out, as if to seek her; and Freddy Tarlton said, "Jacques, let us have a little game, just for quarters, you know. [11]
- Hereupon the father was urgent on the King's Majesty that he should seek to seize my brother, pronounce him a banished outlaw, and that whenever his person should be taken he was to be punished with death. [10]
- But, as I was saying, to change quarters here as late as November is a little difficult, for the wise ones seek to get housed for the winter by October: they select the sunny apartments, get on the double windows, and store up wood. [4]
- And not only was Napoleon not afraid to extend his line, but he welcomed every step forward as a triumph and did not seek battle as eagerly as in former campaigns, but very lazily. [2]
- Hadrian's first thought was for his favorite, and being averse to venturing himself once more to mix with the crowd, he begged the sculptor to go and seek him and conduct him safely. [10]
- Hide and seek was altogether too tame for her, a stake of life and death, or imprisonment or treasure, being a necessity. [9]
- And it so warmed me toward Mr. Brown of St. Louis that I said that if ever I visited that city again, I would seek out that excellent man and kiss the hem of his garment if it was a new one. [5]
- He had to wander far and seek with diligence, but he succeeded. [5]
- Hitherto she had walked on without goal or purpose, but here the question where to seek shelter confronted her; for the torchbearers who had lighted the way disappeared one after another in the various houses. [10]
- Perhaps--" But the viscount perceived that some more questions were about to be asked; so he worked his way out of the crowd, released the sleeve, put on the coat and wandered away to seek a humble and obscure lodging. [5]
- But for the very reason that he has hitherto obeyed the command, he must not now seek to destroy what we have commenced under the guidance of the Most High. [10]
- Woman in her very nature is created to be sheltered and protected; and the yearning in her, when her love is given, is intense as nature itself to seek sanctuary in that love. [9]
- Those who seek vain pleasure in England take more pains to enjoy it than they would spend in New England to gain wealth, and yet have not half such sweet content. [4]
- It is no vain imagining that I have made my goal, and if I am to bring joy to the wretched I must seek others than he. [10]
- I seek in vain for words to express the exhilarating effect of that briny coolness on my imagination, and of the visions it summoned up of the newer, larger life into which I had marvellously been transported. [9]
- He experienced the usual fate of authors who seek to introduce into the market literary wares of a new and better sort. [4]
- We had found upon the train from New York a lovely, lonely lady, the wife of one of our most spirited Massachusetts officers, the brave Colonel of the __th Regiment, going to seek her wounded husband at Middletown, a place lying directly in our track. [6]
- As they argued upon the questions of the day, the colonel did not seek to impress by words, or to fascinate by manner. [9]
- This love leaped up now determinedly--perhaps unwisely; but what should a blunt soul like Hugh Tryon know regarding the best or worst time to seek a woman's heart? [11]
- Leave your eyes unfettered by your will but a single instant and they will surely turn to seek it. [5]
- We did not understand why a country that admits our beef and grain and cheese should seem to seek protection against a literary product which is brought into competition with one of the great British staples, the modern novel. [4]
- It is an unanswerable argument to this effect that no candidate for any office whatever, high or low, has ventured to seek votes on the avowal that he was for giving up the Union. [7]
- Captain Stafford, with twenty men, went to Croatan to seek the lost colonists. [4]
- Before I could turn and seek the door, there came a really terrific shock; the ground seemed to roll under me in waves, interrupted by a violent joggling up and down, and there was a heavy grinding noise as of brick houses rubbing together. [5]
- Having found the Truth; perceiving that beyond question man has but one moving impulse--the contenting of his own spirit--and is merely a machine and entitled to no personal merit for anything he does, it is not humanly possible for me to seek further. [5]
- Meanwhile, Daphne had tried honestly to conceal her feelings from the old man, but such games of hide and seek were useless against the master's keen penetration. [10]
- There would be Tom and Alfred and Russell and Julia and little Myra with her grass-stained knees, faring forth to seek the adventures of a new day in the shady western yard. [9]
- He had wandered to this remote region from his birthplace in the interior of the State of New York, to seek his fortune. [5]
- We seek not to take up our abode in other nations and in the cities of the infidel. [11]
- Then she began to seek some colorable ground for what she had heard as she went past the screen behind which he had been working. [10]
- It is vain to seek reason outside ourselves; the highest to which we can attain is for reason to behold itself in us! [10]
- When I went to seek out Irene I overheard all, and I have seen with my own eyes the two horrible wolves who are lurking to fall upon you, and heard with these ears their scheme for doing it. [10]
- He seemed carefully to seek out her tender spots so as to torture her mentally as harshly as possible. [2]
- I was right to seek out a land where such healthy principles and theories are in men's hearty and minds. [5]
- I walked forth to seek my fortune. [5]
- I was minded to seek her there, and went by the ante-chamber where the sick lady's writing-table and books stood, and which led to the sitting chamber. [10]
- Pentaur knew where to seek Gagabu, for he himself had been invited to the banquet which the prophet had prepared in honor of two sages who had lately come to the House of Seti from the university of Chennu. [10]
- Barbara often longed to seek an audience with him. [10]
- The mobs used to riot there, but they must seek another rallying-place in future. [5]
- Do not seek to know my plans. [9]
- I had often to get up in the night, and seek the bedroom of my brother, as if the having a human being by me would relieve me from the frightful gloom of my own thoughts. [4]
- It is time to depart; seek not to return, that we may have peace and you safety. [11]
- I seek only to blow a flute accompaniment in the national concert, and leave others to play the fiddle and Frenchhorn. [4]
- It seems unaccountable to a superficial observer that the thousands of people who are dissatisfied with their climate do not seek a more congenial one--or stop grumbling. [4]
- From time to time Paulus murmured in a low voice, but in tones of keen anguish, "In vain--all in vain--" and again, "I seek, I seek--but who can show me the way? [10]
- The house was thrilled as with an electric shock, and the people half rose as if to seek a glimpse of the person who had made that exchange. [5]
- But no one thought the less of him for his pace--that is, no one appeared to, for this sort of estimate of a man is only tested by his misfortunes, when the day comes that he must seek financial backing. [4]
- In the Vaterland those who seek for higher and better things--for liberty, and to be rid of oppression --are so called. [9]
- He would seek this man Noble; he would argue, he would persuade, he would appeal to his honor. [5]
- And I say this also: He that waiteth for all men to be satisfied with his plan, let him seek eternal life, for he shall need it. [5]
- She did not think of applying submission and self-abnegation to her own life, for she was accustomed to seek other joys, but she understood and loved in another those previously incomprehensible virtues. [2]
- Another thing: if they were a small party, they would probably seek to surprise us by coming out of the cane into the creek bed above the bend, and stalk down the creek. [9]
- That is what they wanted to know; and in order to find out they stopped avoiding Gottfried and began to seek his society and have sociable conversations with him. [5]
- For a minute they stood clasped in each other's arms; then Rufinus freed himself, and set out to seek the abbess. [10]
- Move him where they might, they said, he would ever seek to get back there. [12]
- It came about, therefore, that one day Philip made his way down into the city to seek an interview with Mr. Mavick. [4]
- It said, "Out there, beyond, is what I go to seek, what I must find, what will be home to me. [11]
- Shall I not, then, in the tumultuous place Of my life's warfare ever seek thy face? [11]
- She must drive them back to the inmost recesses of her heart, seek to crush them; for it was a sin for her to long so ardently to meet another. [10]
- From this time the young lover preferred to seek the balcony without Sanchez. [10]
- We are half the time 'in transitu', flying hither and thither, craving that exact adaptation of the weather to our whimsical bodies promised only to the saints who seek a "better country. [4]
- We flutter in the sunshine, and seize on all that satisfies our intellect or gratifies our senses: they gaze at the earth, but walk on with a firm step to seek power and profit. [10]
- After Easter, when the spring-tide was already blossoming, my soul likewise went forth to seek joy and gladness, and now will I tell of the new marvel which found fulfilment in my heart. [10]
- So bitter was the resentment which filled his soul that he could not bring himself to seek her on the following day; but she awaited him with the sorrowful fear that she had saddened the return of her best and truest friend. [10]
- Onuphis travelled to the Euphrates, settled there, and was obliged to seek for some means of earning his daily bread, as he had left Egypt a poor man. [10]
- I paused on the corner for thought, and at length came to a reluctant but prudent conclusion that I had best go back to my lodging and seek Monsieur early in the morning. [9]
- At any rate, the architect could now avail himself of Caesarion's invitation to overlook from the appointed place of meeting--the lofty steps of the Temple of Isis--the Bruchium, and seek the best site for the twin statues. [10]
- Snatched from all that was familiar in his daily existence, he seemed to grow dizzy and seek support beyond himself. [10]
- But she decided that she would first seek Elise; before she accused the man, she would question the woman. [11]
- It was fortunate that she was going early the next morning to seek the aid of Archibius, whom Anukis believed to be the wisest of men; but this by no means soothed her. [10]
- One would suppose that people set down on this little globe would seek places on it most agreeable to themselves. [4]
- And he commanded that not only his own constables and men-at-arms, but likewise the town bailiffs, should forthwith seek and take both those young men. [10]
- Who tells you that I do not seek to come upon the track of the first beginning of things? [10]
- Do you think that he will again seek the singer? [10]
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