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Example sentences for "pursued the"

  • From a cousin of mine," pursued the girl.

  • Panem et circenses" pursued the mathematician, pleased with his simile, "to appease the howling rabble.

  • The New York papers," pursued the other, benignly explanatory.

  • Very much the châtelaine; grande dame and that sort of thing," pursued the other.

  • I had studied myself; I had had experience of myself; I knew how much I loved her, and how happy I should be,' pursued the Carrier.

  • I am a plain, rough man,' pursued the Carrier, 'with very little to recommend me.

  • Pardon me for returning to the subject," pursued the captain.

  • Here is this perfectly hopeless booby, Frank," pursued the philosopher.

  • You planned this marriage of your own freewill," pursued the captain, with the furtive look and the faltering voice of a man ill at ease.

  • Or would you know,' pursued the Ghost, 'the weight and length of the strong coil you bear yourself?

  • That is no light part of my penance,' pursued the Ghost.

  • You are in the dark," pursued the Doctor; "and yet you have not even begun to prepare for rest.

  • We have still," pursued the Colonel, "a moment to ourselves.

  • I speak on grounds of public policy," pursued the Prince.

  • At a quarter past eleven," pursued the lady, "leave the house.

  • I must insist upon your looking at it, Miss Leavenworth," pursued the coroner.

  • He had doubtless some cause for hating the English with which we are unacquainted," pursued the secretary.

  • That she gave orders," pursued the juryman, "for the removal of the body into the further room?

  • Lastly, and most of all,' pursued the Bell.

  • You are going to be married, you say,' pursued the Alderman.

  • If the pale face be the friend of the Ottawa," pursued the governor, in the hope of obtaining some particular intelligence in regard to this terrible and mysterious being, "why is he not here to sit in council with the chiefs?

  • Major Blackwater," pursued the governor, "let a detachment consisting of one half the garrison be got in readiness to leave the fort within the hour.

  • And I am thinking," pursued the turnkey, "that ye speered at me when we locked up, and if we locked up earlier on account of Porteous?

  • Ratcliffe laughed, and, winking to the procurator-fiscal, pursued the inquiry in his own way.

  • You must be aware," pursued the magistrate, "that persons in my situation are often obliged to make painful and disagreeable inquiries of individuals, merely because it is their bounden duty.

  • How that lad will end," pursued the rector, when he was left by himself, "is more than any human being can say.

  • Or would you know," pursued the Ghost, "the weight and length of the strong coil you bear yourself?

  • That is no light part of my penance," pursued the Ghost.

  • As yet," pursued the stranger, "Sir Montacute had placed no limit to his son's expenditure.

  • Blueskin's only chance would be to carry his threat into effect," pursued the woollen-draper.

  • As I said, the key to this murder," pursued the magistrate, "is the secret that Martinez held.

  • You will certainly recognize the next picture," pursued the judge.

  • I warned you," pursued the judge, "that we are coming to an unpleasant part of this examination.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pursued the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    availed himself; clear profit; colored ribbons; decisive battle; eight states; give his; image worship; jury trial; keep stirring; landlocked country; legal medicine; medieval romance; military escort; officers killed; pursued the; pursued them; relative pronoun; supposed that; take upon; tell thee; three feet; until finally; usually propagated