Though intellectual understanding of his world and destiny may fail however earnestly he pursues the quest, he should obtain the knowledge that comes by reverence and obedience.
He pursues death with his longing as one goes into the mountains to seek treasure.
She is a true woman whose honor must not be insulted; who, though poorly paid, pursues her honest labor for bread and would scorn the obtaining of a livelihood any other way, regardless of the magnitude of the inducement.
This monstrous crime pursues her like a nightmare.
It is in vain to think of escape by running, let the person be ever so swift, in case the elephant pursues in earnest, as his strides are of prodigious length.
Man of science wrestles with man of science for priority of discovery, and pursues in pangs of jealous haste his solitary inquiry.
In the Eikonoklastes he pursues the dead king with jibe and taunt, and exults over the smallest advantage gained.
Having in concert with Polydeuces borne off by guile the daughters of Leucippus from their affianced husbands, Castor kills one of the injured lovers who pursues him and demands restitution.
So the sparrow-hawk pursues the skylark in the open sky.
But the bird of prey is less ferocious than the insect; itpursues a creature smaller than itself.
The ray pursues its way unimpeded, and innumerable open, ardent eyes long for it and sometimes seem to feel the presence of the luminous wave moving forward on its victorious course.
He makes his appearance in a country and creates havoc among the flocks; one pursues him, but for some reason or other no shot reaches him; he is invulnerable.
He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavours after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.
His business is serious, and he applies himself seriously to it; he steadily pursues the numbing, stupefying, and petrifying, not the animating and exhilarating qualities of the wine.
In other words, the supreme good is the reason of philosophizing; and therefore that cannot be called a sect of philosophy which pursues no way of its own towards the supreme good.
She is his colaborer in the studies he pursues despite his infirmity.
It is sweet and glorious to die for one's country; death even pursues the man that flies from him; nor does he spare the trembling knees of effeminate youth, nor the coward back.
With Goethe he has ceased to be a beneficent spirit; we understand when we read Goethe what Schopenhauer meant when he wrote that Amor pursues his way, indifferent to the misery of the individual.
The secret of the course which he pursues can have no connection therefore with religious motive or belief.
No man can escape from it when once it pursues him.
If Man runs away on shore, the a-mi-kuk pursues him by burrowing through the earth.
There is a voice of sorrow in all shouting, And shamepursues not only him who flies.
The Werewolf, in some respects closely related to the vampyre, also pursues his ravages among the priest-ridden peasantry of the South and East.
Hubert pursues the stag till it turns to face him, and behold, between its antlers, the cross!
In the Southampton version, after the carrying of Jenny by her head and feet to the grave, and the other children following and standing round, Jenny Jones rises up and pursues the children.
Semele Zeus pursues and slays with the thunderbolt[81]; the birth of her son Dionysos from his thigh is represented but rarely on vases, and is liable to confusion with other subjects.
Theseus descends below the sea to visit Poseidon,[940] or as on the Blacas krater in the British Museum, when Eos pursues Kephalos.
Zeus also pursues Taygeta, who is connected with the mountain in Laconia.
A scene in which she pursues a woman and a child with bow and arrow may have reference to the slaughter of the Niobids.
She pursues a hare, doe, or bird,[1060] or offers a bird to a youth.
Aigeus,[1228] and an unintelligible scene where he pursues or attacks his mother Aithra, apparently wielding the newly found sword.
With this she immediately returns to her den, and again pursues him; he then drops another; and by the time she has returned with that, he generally escapes with the remainder.
On such occasions she pursues the spoiler with an enmity the most inveterate; and he, contented to lose a part in order to save a part, is frequently obliged to drop one of her cubs.
Discretion points out the noblest ends to us, and pursues the most proper and laudable methods of attaining them; cunning has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed.
While crossing the market I'm suddenly startled-- A heavy grey drake From a cook is escaping; The fellowpursues With a knife.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pursues" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
