M1) We have travelled far since we turned our backs on Nemi and set forth in quest of the secret of the Golden Bough.
Many under such circumstances would return home and not pursue their quest until the next meal had been eaten, for beyond that the evil influence did not extend.
As the galley put off from the shore, and the flutes summoned the oarsmen to their toil, its owner felt so disheartened that he did not even venture to hope that he was going in questof good tidings.
And so housed in the Mind, and sallying forth from thence in quest of his game, whether of persons or things, he was the Mercury, the merchantman of ideas to his century.
Forthwith I went in quest of the Chevalier, whom, at the indication of a lackey, I discovered in the room it pleased him to call his study--that same room into which we had been ushered on the day of our arrival at Canaples.
But his quest was not long, for in a few minutes he called out: "I've got it!
Next, he staggered forward a step or two, rolling his eyes around as though in quest of further foemen.
There is the hurried pattering here and there and everywhere, of game and vermin, or the unhurried crawl of the urchin as he issues from his bed in quest of food.
So saying, he sallied forth, pacing round the fortifications in quest of Oswald, where he learnt that he and Wulfhere had betaken themselves towards the valley.
As soon as Ethel returned from her mission, she was informed that a wounded stranger had come from far in quest of her.
Many of them who had taken part in the assault on the castle were not followers of the Count, but mercenaries, who were eager for further advance in quest of plunder.
Sigurd, we need not say, was still further maddened by this additional repulse, and in a rage which would brook no further control, he hurried off in quest of Oswald, whom he found superintending the efforts of the workmen.
I have been watching for many a day down the Gyll, for the Normans have been getting bold, ransacking the forest in quest of Saxon refugees.
Not a sound fell on the stillness of the night air, saving the horrid braying of a stag in the distant wood, and the screeching of owlets as they fluttered amid the branches of the trees in quest of prey.
She returned in the course of half an hour; but she gave me little hope of success, though she said the Count, her father, had gone out in quest of the persons whom he suspected.
During the council of Constance, Poggio, the papal secretary, spent in the quest of MSS.
I remember myself as very merry in the midst of my serious scientific friends, and I can think of no time when I was more inclined to play the tomboy than when off for a day in the woods, in quest of botanical and zoological specimens.
I departed to renew my search; its result was disappointment, and Joseph's quest ended in the same.
Persons were sent to the quarter, and other places, in quest of him, but returned without him.
Of the rest of the family all he could see was the broad blue seats of their trousers as they leaned hopefully over the side in the questfor wealth.
How could she be content with a craven who, instead of scouring the world in the quest for deeds of derring-do, had fallen down so lamentably on his first assignment?
A number of the local birds sang melodiously in the undergrowth at the end of the lawn, while others, more energetic, hopped about the grass in quest of worms.
They will no doubt be back from their quest before midnight; but I should advise your setting out before then.
Yanko, on the whole, was relieved; it would have been a poor thing to send Mitsos to another house in quest of a sturdier patriot than he, and Maria's offer had obviated this without entailing the journey on himself.
An adventure and a quest for the good of her country were offered her, and she embraced them.
For long ere to-day Often were traitors to country and dear parents Through quest to shun the realms of Acheron.
Birch complied instantly, and a man was despatched in quest of the booty; he soon returned, throwing the bundle on the floor, swearing it was as light as a feather.
Nothing but reiterate assurances of Henry's safety; even now he is in quest of you.
Had his questbeen in vain, and was Thomas Haydon far away from this lonely valley set among the wild hills?
Yet even this meagre quest is not likely to be gratified.
There is not a line of history or of reliable tradition that will enable us to reach farther back than five or six thousand years in this quest for the origin of our race.
I am not a tree, born to stand in one place always and know not what there be over the next hill; for I am Canim, the Canoe, made to go here and there and to journey and quest up and down the length and breadth of the world.
Then breed thou after thy kind, the kind that does not kill; but come not on such quest among the Tana-naw.
In this quest they made less of a trial than in the getting of furs; how much less we shall see.
My only quest for special information of that character proved disappointing.
One who had looked in secret places, face to face, upon the magic countenance of the Muse, and was thereafter vowed to the quest of the Holy Cup wherein glows the essential blood of beauty.
But now, for all time, his desires were changed, and his great quest at an end.
To appease his hunger meant to hunt, and his mind was too filled with his quest of Nepeese for that.
Baree's questfor Nepeese became now more or less involuntary, a sort of daily routine.
Dryden well knew, had he been in quest of truth, that, in a pointed sentence, more regard is commonly had to the words than the thought, and that it is very seldom to be rigorously understood.
The lover of birds, however, will in many, if not in most cases, find that his quest for knowledge is hampered by not a few restrictions.
At the approach of evening, however, the sleepy bird rouses itself, and, hungry and alert and active enough, leaves its daytime haunt and commences its evening peregrinations in quest of food and enjoyment.
In summer, in the neighbourhood of the great breeding colonies of sea-fowl, the surrounding seas for many miles are full of animation, the birds scattering from these home centres far and wide in quest of their finny prey.
The Dipper, on the other hand, in his quest for sustenance, is as much aquatic as a Grebe or a Moorhen.
The Pied Wagtail delights in such spots, tripping daintily round the water's edge in quest of insects, and building its nest in some hole in a wall or about the hulls.
This Merganser is a most expert diver, and every few moments either one or the other of the pair disappears in quest of food.
It was hovering with quivering wings, the head almost hidden as the bird peered down in quest of prey.
At one period we used to visit them several times a week in quest of ornithological information, varying our experience by occasional much more extended excursions over them.
These are the Thrushes and Starlings that may then be seen on the shorn fields busily in quest of snails and worms.
Luckily, that took us back into my own neighborhood, and I was sure that this last quest could not be fruitless: Rosette must be there.
So I determined to hunt up Rosette, at her various aunts' abodes, praying that I should have less difficulty than Jason had in his quest of the Golden Fleece.
They are surface feeders, and swim in large schools in quest of menhaden, scup, and other small fishes.
Northern anglers who go to Florida in quest of the tarpon will find in the cero and kingfish game-fishes of great merit on light tackle.
