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Example sentences for "questing"

Lexicographically close words:
quest; questa; queste; quested; questi; question; questionable; questionably; questioned; questioner
  1. When foot by foot we creep o'er the hueless viewless deep To the sob of the questing lead!

  2. Why does my heart go questing For Pan beyond the hill?

  3. And I fancy that the circulating libraries will feel the same about "The Questing Beast.

  4. The lawyer and the detective no longer ranged the wood like questing hounds.

  5. And still the lawyer and the detective ranged the wood like questing hounds.

  6. Searching the wood like a questing hound had given him also a fine appetite.

  7. But the lawyer and the detective ranged the wood like questing hounds.

  8. Spencer to go and investigate, but I could not tell him why, and he has not the same interest in going questing about as he used to have.

  9. Still walking slowly, nose questing and ears alert, he made his way to the road and halted in some thick brush beside it.

  10. His hobbies are hunting, fishing, dogs, and questing for new stories.

  11. Perhaps it was because the place of his questing had ever been the forests, the mountains, the clean, unpeopled places.

  12. He straightened, his eyes alight with the old questing expression, his face turned to the northwest, his spirit already faring forth across sea and land to the beckoning Valley of the Kuskokwim.

  13. But his questing eyes watched the vast oblong of the lake, looking continually for a sign, whether that of friend or foe.

  14. He quickly recovered himself and sought to hide his momentary weakness, but the hunter had noticed his stumbling step and gave him a keen, questing glance.

  15. A certain Jackal was wont every day to leave his lair and fare forth questing his daily bread.

  16. At the foot of one of these huge shoulders Joe Brazybone paused, and dropped his head, questing silently; then, with a gesture of caution, he led the way upward.

  17. The man was questing here and there like a hound, spying at every tree, catching at every bent leaf or broken twig.

  18. Camilla Van Arsdale, noting his rapt expression and his absent, questing eyes, wondered what underlay such reticence.

  19. Every now and again in the progress of the hearings, Banneker would surprise on the lawyer's face an expression which sent his memory questing fruitlessly for determination of that elusive likeness, flickering dimly in the past.

  20. He has the allurement of his own inconsistency, and the inconsistency of youth is its questing spirit, and, consequently, its chief claim to respect.

  21. It put a dull ache into their hearts, and a yearning which was akin to belly-hunger, and sent their souls questing southward across the divides to the sun-lands.

  22. In questing about the place for Betty Murdoch, one noticed that Jan often did not raise his eyes or muzzle from the ground until he almost touched her skirt.

  23. Jan seemed disinclined to answer the call, being still busily questing to and fro.

  24. But Jan saw no camp-fire, nor any other thing than the track under his questing nose.

  25. Seems like as if that blame dog knows everything," he muttered as he saw Jan trotting to and fro over the trail, his flews sweeping the trodden snow with eager, questing gestures, his stern waving as with excitement of some sort.

  26. Then, the stable door having been left ajar, Jan valorously gripped the small corpse between his jaws and went swaggering off toward the house with it, questing kudos.

  27. She poured over books, carefully questioned the secrets of life, not like a philosopher seeking answers but like a Messalina questing for poisons.

  28. He would listen, his eyes questing eagerly for epigrams, for illuminating sentences he might contribute.

  29. The questing beam came to rest on a brown army tunic behind the desk, followed it up quickly to the face and there held.

  30. The questing snout swung to and fro, fixed its position and discharged another of those lightning-bolts.

  31. He arrived on board a tiny schooner yacht, master and owner, a youth questing romance and adventure along the sun-washed path of the tropics.

  32. The sweat oozed out on all their faces, and now one, and again another, drew deep breaths, involuntarily questing for more air.

  33. And yet the target of a man riding swiftly over uneven ground and in the moonlight is not to be found overreadily by questing lead.

  34. When at last the bandage might be removed from the blindfolded eyes Norton's questing glance found Virginia first of all.

  35. She could fancy the great roots, questing far downward through the layers of dry soil, thrusting themselves almost with a human, passionate eagerness into the water they had found.

  36. It was a terrible, questing face--the face of a creature that was hunting, and yet hunted; of a creature half animal and half man.

  37. Sleeping in the bush at night, unable to light fires to cook their food, lest the light should attract the questing patrol, that, learning of their presence in the country, has been out after them for days.

  38. Chiefs and renegades and warriors alike swept the shore with questing eyes, but they did not see the one for whom they had looked so long lying so near, and yet hidden so well among the reeds.

  39. A straight, tall figure, with eager, questing eyes, he went on through the silver forest.

  40. They must find game or die, and Henry had very little real fear of anything except these questing bands.

  41. But he gave the interior only a few rapid and questing looks, and then he went outside again, his mind set on a dense clump of bushes that grew near the entrance.

  42. It was all in good trim, and his questing eye soon saw where a long, slender pole could be cut.

  43. The two Shawnees walked back and forth a little, searching everything with their questing eyes, but they did not speak.

  44. Meanwhile the savages having tasted blood, even though only that of animals, began questing inside the deserted huts, but found no one.

  45. The dogs, questing to and fro, filled the air with their deep-mouthed ravings.

  46. Dick Farnborough glanced quickly at the clock, and then his eyes went questing up the great staircase.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "questing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    fishing; following; hunting; piscatory; searching