I'd sink into a forgotten obscurity," pursued the crafty Joshua.
A good many," pursued Mrs. Whitson, "think you are throwing yourself away for love.
Not exactly in the way a gentleman would like to get it," pursued Grant.
He'll be on his knees to you," pursued Lucia, wonderfully cheered up by her confidence in the miracles Margaret's teaching would work.
If you do I'll get her for you," pursued Craig, his hand seeking Arkwright's arm to grip it.
She was through, and through the luxurious idler; she made of idling a career--pursued it with intelligent purpose where others simply drifted, yawning when pastimes were not provided for them.
The trouble with you is the same as with me," pursued he.
I suppose I oughtn't to tell you these things," pursued Margaret; "I ought to leave you your illusions as long as possible.
He pursued her, caught her at the foot of the stairs, and held her arm strongly.
She pursued him timidly, laying her hand on his arm.
But Pope's life at this point grows too complicated to be pursued in detail, and it will be impossible henceforth to do more than note briefly its chief incidents.
He pursued the laborious profession of a scrivener, and having realized an ample fortune, retired into the country to enjoy it.
The poet's wings would not be clipped, and in spite of the restrictions by which he was surrounded, Schiller pursued his imaginative course, and found time to feed upon the poetry he adored.
His literary training was commenced under a schoolmaster named Dionysius, and pursued under Draco, a celebrated teacher of music in the large sense then attached to that word.
He even pursued his favorite subject into the continental languages, and by his own exertions enabled himself to peruse the works of Ariosto and Cervantes in their original form.
After a short stay at Paris he pursued the direct route to Nice, where he embarked for Genoa, and thence proceeded to Pisa, Florence, Rome, and Naples.
To this surfeit he was often heard to ascribe that giddiness in his head which, with intermissions sometimes of longer and sometimes of shorter continuance, pursued him to the end of his life.
By nature he was insolent, but under the system of control pursued by the officers of the Ariadne, previous to the mutiny, he had not been able to do much.
But you ought to have been a Frenchman," pursued Lucian.
I have always thought it charming," pursued the lady.
He's Telano's cousin," pursued Garda, inspecting the wrinkled kid at the heel of the left slipper.
And I had thought that perhaps you would follow us, a little later," pursued Margaret; "I hope you will do so still.
Perhaps he will return," pursuedthe clergyman, hopefully.
Come down on the shawl, then, and look up into the sky," pursued Garda.
Tell me one thing," pursued Aunt Katrina, whose mind was now on her nephew's affairs.
Now they are the kind of blue that you see in the eyes of golden-haired children that have got to die," pursued Garda, making one of her curiously accurate comparisons.
You can tie the horses here, and we will walk over," pursued Garda.
The course you pursued, you pursued according to the system, and there is no more to be said about it.
Thus conversing, they pursued their way over London Bridge, and struck down the river, and held their still foggier course that way.
But she says," pursued his companion, "that you aren't to be trusted.
The white bear of the arctic glaciers, pursued by the hunter, throws herself between him and her cub, and dies in its defence.
The mind goes on with the new and strange spectacle, or with the unfinished problem, and unsolved intricate study of the day or of the night hour; and not seldom is the train of thought resumed and pursued to some purpose.
Recent labors of Orientalists have, however, brought to light the fact that in India, long before the palmy days of Grecian philosophy, logic was pursued with vigor as a study and science.
Mr. Adams pursued his journey, but did not arrive at Quincy in season to be present at the funeral.
Monroe began this difficult task cautiously, and pursued it with good effect.
This policy has since been pursued by the General Government, and has resulted in the removal of most of the aborigines beyond the western shores of the Mississippi.
In this posture of affairs, it was evident that upon the course which should bepursued by Mr. Clay, and his friends in the House, depended the question who should be elected President.
The British Parliament had laid restrictions so onerous on the trade of the United States with these Colonies, that it could be pursued to very little profit.
The path he marked out for himself at the commencement of his congressional career, was pursued with unfaltering fidelity to the close of life.
The policy pursued by Mr. Adams toward the Indian tribes within the United States, was pacific and humane.
Wednesday he pursued his journey to New York, and in the evening lectured before the New York Lyceum, in the Broadway Tabernacle.
Napoleon returned to France, pursued by the indignation of the country he had come to deliver.
But the war with France was the real interest of the Emperor's life and he pursued it vigorously, obtaining supplies from the Spanish {67} Cortes or legislative authority of Spain.
Silently, he pursued his own policy in war, and that was very different from the policy of any general who had gone before him.
The bitter reproaches of kinsfolk pursued him vainly as he set out in beggarly state to give service to the poor and despised.
His foreign policy differed from that pursued by Marie de Medici, because he realized that France could never lead the continental powers until she had checked the arrogance of Spanish claims to supremacy.
He was by profession a medical man, and for many years during his early residence in the country, pursued his avocation profitably; but in the midst of an extending practice he lost his wife, to whom he was fondly and devotedly attached.
Juan Garcia de Sierra, who was on horseback, pursued the enemy so closely to the water's edge that the latter cut off the legs of his mount with their kampilan and brought him to the ground, where they killed him.
I give this order for the safety of those who travel by sea, as instead of beingpursued by the ships of the Navy, they shall be helped.
They pursued these in boats more than 10 leagues up the river, and destroyed all the crops.
The Spaniards pursued them, wounding and killing to the middle of the hill.
Annunziata had no comprehension of what Michaele--who persecuted andpursued her continually with words and glances--wanted of her.
He and the other man pursued the fugitive, and finally caught him, and found that it was the prisoner--the same young man that had come to his house as a traveler an hour before.
In reference to the course he pursued at this time, Napoleon subsequently remarked, "Only those who wish to deceive the people, and rule them for their own personal advantage, would desire to keep them in ignorance.
He pursued his way through the woods till he fell in with a party of friendly Indians, and by extraordinary exertions and forced marches, arrived at the fortress with his Indians, to join in the attack.
On the 18th, Mr. Marshall, of Kentucky, defended President Fillmore against various assailants, and the discussion was pursued from day to day.
Daniel, foaming with rage, pursued him thither at the head of his friends, but in vain.
An old-fashioned method of uniting these parts is stillpursued by some repairers--the surfaces are planed evenly, the glue is applied over them, they are clapped together and string tied tightly as possible.
The same method may be pursued with the exception that in place of the peg a screw--if one is to hand large enough--may be inserted.
As generally is the case, more than one method can be pursued for removal of the upper table.
I know the too frequently pursued method of putting the whole collection of parts in a tub of water and there letting them float about until the glue has dissolved and left the wood, but the following is preferable.
The most usual method pursued in England and Germany is that of sawing the head off at a part below the end of the shell and then chiselling a level passage so far as a straight surface makes it necessary along the floor of the peg-box.
There was evidently a conspiracy to murder him, and the deliberate, persistent manner in which that object was being pursued points to a very strong and definite motive.
Thorndyke chuckled softly but pursued the subject no farther.
Does that mean that he pursued any particular branch of learning?
Which all leads to the probability that he has pursuedhis scheme and brought it to a successful issue.
I pursued until night, and had almost overtaken him; but hope and strength failed me at the same time.
As soon as this happened, I pursued my way more cautiously and silently, but in a cold perspiration of terror at the peril I had just escaped.
Part stopped to put out the fires, and the rest pursued the flying enemy with such shots as they could get at them.
This did not detain the voyagers, though they encamped there over night, and then pursued their course towards the unknown.
Argyle is dead these three days," pursued her father, "and with him men of less consequence than I.
You have always pursued the one and avoided the other.
Such she had trusted to find in this quiet country village; but even here it seemed she was to be pursued and crushed by the same ubiquitous fate.
With the ingenuity of a fox pursued they may twist and turn and double, only to end in running directly into the foreseen trap.
There they lay, after having been pursued up the gap in the ceiling by the fiery tongues, afraid to move, and so attract the Apache's view.
I am still pursued and persecuted by that wretched madman, the terror of our school days, the horror of all my subsequent life!
Marion, in agitated perplexity, as she pursued her way to chapel.
This, however, must have been an exceptional day, for bad luck so far as casualties went pursued us with great regularity.
Even as we left Foncquevillers ill-luck pursued us, for a premature burst of a shell from one of our guns took place close to us as we were formed up behind the wood ready to move off, and wounded four, fortunately not seriously.
And in the persistency with which this evil angel pursued his footsteps through life may be found one of the chief causes of the early collapse of his faculties.
Hölderlin earnestly pursued happiness and contentment, but it eluded him at every step.
He pursued his way for another mile up the hill, till he came to a house of rather more pretension than Ford Manor, but of the same character, with a heavy stone portico and square bays on either side.
And did he not seem sad--sorry for her--when Mistress Crawley pursued her in the gallery?
The steps of the two men were still to be heard as Richelieu, with eyes fixed upon the entrance to the tent, pursued them with his irritated glance.
But in the midst of these very chants and meditations his feeble mind waspursued and distracted by contrary images.
At one moment it seemed as if he were about to unfurl the scroll, and from it hurl lightning upon those whom he pursued with looks of fiery indignation--three Capuchins and a Franciscan, who had just passed.
The terrible thoughtpursued her to the chateau and into her apartments, wherein she hastened to shut herself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pursued" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
