He takes into his hospitable vocabulary words which no English dictionary recognizes as belonging to the language,--words which will be looked for in vain outside of his own pages.
Perhaps the next poem, which may be looked for in its proper place, may help us to form a judgment.
I hope not, for I want them to be joined together in that dearest of intimacies, which, if founded in true affinity, is the nearest approach to happiness to be looked for in our mortal, experience.
Still, the old spirit infused by "Eyes and No Eyes" was upon me, and I looked for something to fasten my thought upon, and treat as an artist treats a study for a picture.
And, albeit they now and then twin, yet herein they seem to come short of that commodity which islooked for in other countries, to wit, in that they bring forth most commonly but one calf at once.
Chilo rose also; he looked for a while on the face of the laborer, lighted up by the shining of the moon, then, stretching his arm, he put his hand slowly on his head.
Lygia had made no confession to her, but she had said that she looked for rescue to him, to Vinicius: she had hoped that he would obtain for her permission from Cæsar to return home, that he would restore her to Pomponia.
The mass of documents which are gradually brought to light from the cabinets of these rulers will always remain an important source of historical information; but from such men no fruitful political conception can be looked for.
Other scenes of moving life are to be looked for in the military historians.
A profound self-analysis is not to belooked for in the 'Commentaries' of Pius II.
A description of the view from the summit would be looked for in vain, not because the poet was insensible to it, but, on the contrary, because the impression was too overwhelming.
Much of the history of the subject, indeed, is to be looked for in this volume.
Similar cooperation may be looked for in due time from the Eastern nations and from Australia.
From such an adversary hostility in its greatest force and in its worst forms may be looked for.
Much is obscure if speculative completeness is looked for, but the moral relations of God and man are not obscure.
Rather at the best, its emblem is to be looked for, not in corn, but in the forest tree-the very rings in whose trunk tell of recurring seasons when the sap has risen at the call of spring, and sunk again before the frowns of winter.
And if the explanation is to be looked for in that direction at all, it can only be the invisible aggregate of ransomed souls which is regarded as being the Zion of the prophecy.
Presently came a messenger from Passaconaway, informing his son-in-law that Weetamoo had finished her visit and wished again to be with her husband, to whom he looked for an escort to guide her through the wilderness.
The governor's patience was at an end, for this was a part of the masquerade that had not been looked for.
At eighty years of age he looked for a third wife, and chose the daughter of a warrior, his presents of blankets and calicoes to the parents winning their consent.
The journeys of the late explorers had greatly lessened the area of the country in which fresh discoveries could be looked for; true, the results had not been encouraging.
At Southampton Harry found Sir John Berkeley concealed in a house where he had previously instructed Harry he might be looked for.
My first step in taking part in plots and conspiracies does not appear to me to lead to the end which I looked for.
He was discontented with the whole course of events, and foresaw that, with the unhappy temper of the king, no favorable issue could possibly be looked for.
When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
It had become too plain that from such persons no repentance was to be looked for.
The generals, when a movement was to be made, looked for instruction to their staff.
As his reward, he looked for a triumph, and the consulship, one or both; and the consulship he knew could not well be refused to him, unwelcome as it would be to the Senate.
From that quarter no help was to be looked for, and a method was devised to give him the reality of power without the title.
The bed of the Warregò may be looked for at a distance further on, equal to that of my ride of 14th June.
In returning, we looked for a good line of approach, and found an easy way for the carts to descend into the valley.
The most to be looked for was an absence of flagrant misconduct.
Further, he could be sure that France would go as far as diplomacy permitted to prevent the accession of Mary, on account of her relationship with the Emperor, to whom she had all her life looked for counsel.
And I looked for it from those who are responsible for that which is nearly always a catastrophe.
We looked for you to come in a coach-and-four--did we not, Miriam?
It was not in France that he looked for happiness, but elsewhere.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "looked for" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
