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Sentences ending with sought

It was tedious work struggling up to a position of influence with bloodless hands; but when a man came with the blood of half a dozen men on his soul, his worth was recognized at once and his acquaintance sought. [5]
Still, the person who made the fingerprints must be sought. [5]
I remarked that the questions asked the candidates were wild, intricate, and often required a sort of knowledge not needed in the office sought. [5]
When he reached the palace-gate he begged one of the civic guard to conduct him to his brother, and as he backed his request with a gift of money he was led at once to the man whom he sought. [10]
She had found the clear perception she sought. [10]
Was not their strange radiance an emanation from the eternal glory that she sought? [10]
A remedy was sought. [5]
This she thought she could certainly recognize, and from thence make her way to the street she sought. [10]
Here was the secret I sought. [9]
The theologians in Jena have actively disputed about the part of the earth, in which the little garden of Paradise should be sought. [10]

Short sentences using sought

At nightfall Moor sought Sophonisba. [10]
He was much sought after. [9]
Then he sought his bed. [13]
Later, I sought her out. [9]
What was it he sought? [9]
Terrorized, I sought for shelter. [9]
Pierre sought his eye. [11]
Solitude, sought, 135. [6]
You have sought. [5]

Sentences containing sought two or more times

He had sought it in philanthropy, in Freemasonry, in the dissipations of town life, in wine, in heroic feats of self-sacrifice, and in romantic love for Natasha; he had sought it by reasoning--and all these quests and experiments had failed him. [2]

More example sentences with the word sought in them

And why have you sought me? [11]
If pride within you secretly abides That, forced by the elixir's charm, The Sooth You needs must speak--be wholly pure in thought, Despising not the teachings wise, of old; When Truth with equal earnestness was sought If speech be silver, silence then is gold! [10]
His father must, yes, he must hear him, and when it grew dusk, he again sought the house to which he belonged, and from which he had been so cruelly expelled. [10]
Here it was written why those who asked should receive, and those who sought should find: "For what man is there of you whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? [10]
Only yesterday he would have sought her without a second thought, but to-day Althea's declaration that he was the only man whom the daughter of Archias loved stood between him and his friend. [10]
But it is worth mentioning that in the historical evolution we have always got better things than we sought or imagined, developments on a much grander scale. [4]
After he had worked at the Rathhaus long after hours, he would go home alone, and no one sought him out to pass an hour in his company, for everyone feared the rough and brutal frankness of his speech. [10]
He had sought work in great commercial concerns, and had almost been grateful when rejected. [11]
The following afternoon Wolf sought Barbara again, and now for the first time succeeded in relating regularly and clearly what, constantly interrupted by her impatience, he had told in a confused medley the day before. [10]
The gracious sentiment with which the Queen sought to express her sense of what Holland owed him would have been deeply felt even had her personal friendship been less dear to us all. [6]
With strange hopes, with trembling fears, with mingled belief and doubt, wherever I have found myself I have sought with longing yet half-averted eyes for the "elect lady," as I have learned to call her, who was to lift the curse from my ruined life. [6]
The White Guard, with their faces turned homeward, and the man they had sought for in their care, seemed to have acquired new strength. [11]
His eyes, wet with tears of grateful joy, sought the young man's, and, though he had just warned him plainly enough against courting his daughter, his sparkling gaze now asked whether he had ever met an equally bewitching marvel. [10]
From sumptuous Versailles, with its palaces, its statues, its gardens, and its fountains, we journeyed back to Paris and sought its antipodes --the Faubourg St. Antoine. [5]
Biberli had noticed with delight that his master had not sought as usual to detain him. [10]
He made friends with and sought the acquaintance of only those above him in position and who could therefore be of use to him. [2]
Such a confession will probably flow more easily from the lips when sought by the person for whom it means happiness or despair, than when a stranger--even one as old and friendly as I--seeks to draw it from a modest maiden. [10]
It matters not whose hand: Honora never sought to know. [9]
The man on whose breast he saw Kasana lay her head was a prince, a person of high rank and great power, and the capricious beauty did not always repel the bold man, when his lips sought those for whose kiss Ephraim so ardently longed. [10]
For Dr. Leigh, whom she had sought out several times, was reserved, and did not voluntarily speak of Father Damon; she had heard that he was throwing himself with more than his usual fervor into his work. [4]
It was Honora whom Mr. Spence sought after breakfast, and to whom he declared that her presence alone prevented him from leaving that afternoon. [9]
Stephen sought Richter, who told him that the regiments were to assemble the morning of the morrow, prepared to march. [9]
The arguments by which the repeal of the Missouri Compromise is sought to be justified are these: First. [7]
In a corner, which seemed to catch the sun, was a bird-cage on a pole, sought by pigeons and doves. [11]
In the interview which Father Damon sought with Dr. Leigh at the Women's Hospital all this was explained, and ways and means were discussed for help elsewhere. [4]
She sought every where for him whose eyes had used to look tenderly into hers out of this poor skull, but she could not find him. [5]
In the days when I saw him most and best, he talked of you as an angel gone, and he had never sought another woman had he known that you lived. [11]
But we found what we sought, the most suitable house possible, whose landlady proved to have been trained as a cook in a Frankfort hotel. [10]
She knew now what she must do if Dion sought her, and the architect, for the first time, found her a silent companion. [10]
Still, if from what she has done an inference is sought to be drawn as to what I would do, I may without impropriety speak out. [7]
If, after all, what is now sought is to have me put Dr. McPheeters back over the heads of a majority of his own congregation, that, too, will be declined. [7]
While these malcontents were successfully gathering adherents, and the traitor had sought the commander of the Egyptian garrison, two more messengers arrived with tidings that the fugitives would arrive in Succoth between midnight and morning. [10]
The thoughts which were in her mind so completely absorbed her that she now studiously sought the solitude which she had formerly shunned like a misfortune. [10]
The men who were determined that that amendment should not get into the bill, and spoil the place where the Dred Scott decision was to come in, sought an excuse to get rid of it somewhere. [7]
His deed she well knew was that of a reprobate, and she sought no excuse or defence; her mother's heart forgave it without any. [10]
In our minds we were both looking at those miserable scenes on the 'Fulvia', when Madras sought to adjust the accounts of life and sorely muddled them. [11]
A dipper of water was brought, and when she had drunk it she raised her head slowly and her eyes sought those of Ingolby. [11]
Madness, and a watching demon that whispered of substance, and sought to guide his wanderings in the night. [9]
The Minorite Benedictus was vainly sought at the Franciscans. [10]
Their first stage was twenty-five miles, and it led through the ravine where Parpon and his comrades had once sought to frighten George Fournel. [11]
But now she was strongly under the spell of the new ideas hovering like shining, gossamer spirits just beyond her reach, that she sought to grasp and correlate. [9]
In vain it was sought to draw him into the friendly circles of gossiping idlers and officials. [11]
The young Seigneur was serious enough about it, and more than once, irritated and perturbed, he sought Madame Chalice; but she gave him no encouragement, remarking coldly that Monsieur Valmond probably knew very well what he was doing, and was weighing all consequences. [11]
When the "reception" was over and the company was breaking up into groups and moving about, Philip again sought Evelyn. [4]
Mr. Cuthbert, who was many kinds of a barometer, sought her out later in the courtyard. [9]
The Honourable Jacob was left behind scratching his head, and presently he sought a front seat in which to think, the back ones not giving him room enough. [9]
In short, he was informed in so many words that every tie that bound her to him must be broken in favor of another, and the hypocritical regret with which she sought to cover up the hard facts only made him doubly indignant. [10]
To Louis she was ever the same, affectionate, gentle, and unselfish; but her stronger soul ruled him without his knowledge, commanded his perturbed spirit into the abstracted quiet and bitter silence wherein he lived, and which she sought to cheer by a thousand happy devices. [11]
He had retired very late to rest, and the chamberlain therefore put off waking him, especially as he had been troubled by evil dreams, in spite of his happy frame of mind when he sought his couch. [10]
She sought in vain in them for those evidences of spontaneous love, of delight in writing to her of all persons in the world, the eagerness of the lover that she recalled in letters written in other days. [4]
Her eyes sought us fifty times that day, but they passed on and there was never any ray of recognition in them. [5]
And now surged up a dryad-like memory which had troubled him many a wakeful night, of startled, appealing eyes that sought his in vain, and of the son she had left him flinging himself into his arms in the face of chastisement. [9]
Startled, sobered, confused, Ulrich sought for words, and at last stammered: "We have, we wanted . [10]
Lem's voice seemed to William Wetherell to have given way to a world-wide silence, in the midst of which he sought vainly for Cynthia and the stage driver. [9]
The Bailly whispered to the Governor, the Governor to his aide, and the aide sought the naval officers present; but these could give no explanation of the delay. [11]
I followed him to the boat this morning and sought to cast myself at his feet. [10]
You sought me to tell me that? [11]
When he sought to seize her hand, as he not seldom did, she hit him sharply on the fingers, and scolded him. [10]
She had sought to remove comparisons, too, from the limits of her vision; to cherish and keep alive, indeed, such regrets as she had, but to make no new ones. [9]
Her heart yielded to no feeling but the love of Elfonzo, on whom she gazed with intense delight, and to whom she felt herself more closely bound, because he sought the hand of no other. [5]
He never sought to make friends, had a thorough contempt for social trifling, and shrugged his shoulders at the "swagger" of some of the other officers. [11]
She now returned to Lugano, and there sought to compensate her poor honest friend by the sale of her ornaments, but the time soon came when the generous artist was forced to submit to be supported by the charity of a servant. [10]
She never sought to know whence the man came; it was sufficient to know whither he had gone, and that he had been hers for a brief dream of life. [11]
Bias also sought to know much more about Hermon's past and future than he had yet learned, not merely from curiosity, but because he foresaw that Myrtilus would not cease to question him about his blind friend. [10]
It sought only to hold the public places and property not already wrested from the government, and to collect the revenue, relying for the rest on time, discussion, and the ballot-box. [7]
Suddenly there came to his mind the words of a great man who sought to save a city manifold centuries ago. [11]
She had sought to help one who loved her, and to fully prove the other--though the proving, she knew, was not necessary--before the darkness came. [11]
He had first to help Dorippe cut the green branches, and, while thus engaged, sought pleasant gifts not only on the ground, but from his sweetheart's red lips, then moved up the mountain with his donkey, very slowly, without urging the animal. [10]
I often ought to have behaved differently to you; but why have you never in the smallest thing sought my love? [10]
She had learned to go her own way, and sought and found arduous duties in the service of the city and the poor. [10]
Your lover sought to enjoy the sensation of showing himself to the crowd with the stateliest woman in the company on his arm! [10]
This compels us to do many things which we would rather not do, which we might accomplish openly and unopposed if conditions were frankly recognized, and met by wise statesmanship which sought to bring about harmony by the reshaping of laws and policies. [9]
But I sought to curb my sentiments, my indignation, at the manner in which the working-man had been treated; to appeal to the common sense rather than to the passions of my audiences. [9]
That much was to be said for him, that he had not sought to influence her to his own advantage. [11]
From time to time, as he talked, his eyes sought hers boldly, and in their dark pupils were tiny points of light that stirred and confused her, made her wonder what was behind them, in his soul. [9]
Ann had had tidings of our home-coming, yet I found her not at our house, and when I had waited for her till evening, and in vain, I sought her in her own dwelling. [10]
Anxious spirits and throbbing hearts were those that now sought shelter in the Serapeum, fully prepared to perish with their god, and yet eager with enthusiasm to avert his fall if possible. [10]
She was as though she sought for nothing, wished nothing but the life in which she lived. [11]
It was not this time difficult to find me, for when she sought me we were fighting with the Blemmyes in the green hollow that leads from the mountain to the sea. [10]
With quite one third more people than we had then, we have only half the sort of offices which are sought by men of the speaking sort of talent. [7]
In the morning they went forth, and rode into the White Valley where the buffalo were feeding, and sought to steal upon them; but the shots from their guns only awoke the hills, and none were slain. [11]
Not deriving from these means the relief which he sought, he bit off an immense mouthful from the bread and meat, and took a quick drink of the porter; by which artificial aids he choked himself and effected a diversion of the subject. [12]
Unlike the old theology woven of myths and a fanciful philosophy of the decadent period of Greece, natural theology was founded on science itself, and scientists were among those who sought to develop it. [9]
This it was their intention soon to do, for within the past day or so our batteries had not sought to spare the convent. [11]
Wearied out by the vividness of her sorrowful recollections, she sought relief in long walks on the moors. [14]
Cleopatra had sought the venerable Anubis, who now, as the priest of Alexander, at the age of eighty, ruled the whole hierarchy of the country. [10]
On the contrary, the various allied governments had entered into compacts for the transference of territory in the event of victory; and had even, by the offer of rewards, sought to play one small nation against another. [9]
Was it because the star was hid awhile, That I in blindness wandered from my path; That I wooed Folly with her mumming smile, And sought for Lethe in a cup of wrath? [11]
The next morning the smith again sought the charcoal-burner, and this time found him. [10]
In August of the same year he made a trip to London, to get material for a book on England, but was too much sought after, too continuously feted, to do any work. [5]
At that time, the Russians were so used to victories that on receiving news of the defeat some would simply not believe it, while others sought some extraordinary explanation of so strange an event. [2]
The heart of the proud, lonely man only sought a place where it might be permitted to soften; the soldier, bereft of love, needed some nook where he could exercise on others what was denied to himself: "devoted affection. [10]
The interior of the peasant hut was filled with people who had sought shelter there, and the stifling atmosphere which the artist felt at the door induced him to remain outside. [10]
Not content with the old European trade, they have sought out the East and West Indies, and likewise Cathay and Tartary, whence they pretend, from their now and then suspicious voyages, they bring home great commodities. [4]
Early that morning the news had reached the prefect that Antinous had sought his death in the Nile, and it had shocked him greatly, less on account of the hapless youth than for Hadrian's sake. [10]
The next morning the mutineers from Aalst sought their fallen leader; but he had disappeared, and the legend now became wide-spread among them, that the Prince of Evil had carried Navarrete to his own abode. [10]
It was on the morning of my fiftieth birthday that the solution of the great problem I had sought so long came to me as a simple formula, with a few grand but obvious inferences. [6]
And one of the men, as cheerful as Joan herself, undertook to carry a little keg of brandy into the house, under the very nose of the young inspector, who had sought to mark his appointment by the detection and arrest of Tarboe single-handed. [11]
The commander of the Macedonian guard, who years before had vainly sought her favour, and finally had become the most loyal of her friends, had promised to keep them closely. [10]
Scarcely that, but the Honourable had made up his mind to cross the glacier and none sought to dissuade him from his choice; the more so, because there was something of danger in the business. [11]

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