In an agony of mind the man had searched for her everywhere, and failing to discover any trace of her whereabouts, had written to her under cover to her father.
But though they traversed the moors all day, and searched crevices and water-courses with diligence, they met with no better success.
I did not watt to consider that others had probably searched as thoroughly as I could do.
All that night the anxious mother kept weary vigil, while the men-folk searched the hill.
The angels searched, but they searched in vain, There was no good deed to bring; In all that ever that hand had done, They could find no worthy thing.
They waited long in that den of crime, But they saw their chief no more; Or dead or living, they found him not, Though they searched the mountain o'er.
Directly it had taken place, I drew myself carefully up, and searched about for the spile.
My senses were for a few moments confused, and for some time I searched in vain for the handspike.
I searched and searched in vain for such a door, one side consisting of a blank wall partly of stone and partly of perpendicular timbers, which I concluded supported the superstructure.
For the supposed door I searched in vain, and at length came to the conclusion that the only entrance to the vault was from the roof above.
He was searched for everywhere, but could not be discovered, and at length it became very evident to all that Sam must have put his threat into execution and thrown himself overboard during the night.
Still, unless I searched I was sure not to find; so, again crawling through the opening I had made, I once more began to feel my way about, and to try every package I could reach.
Lady Cicely's eyes searched the girl's face earnestly--"and you are very fond of them?
For some time the cash-box was searched for in vain.
I suggested that the missing things should be well searched for first, and then, if nothing came of that, that I should go for the constable, and place the matter under his direction.
Again to-day I searched the newspapers, and again there were no tidings of the ship.
Owen opened the Purple Volume, searched through the manuscripts, and suddenly changed color.
I searched back in my memory for a conversation that I had held with her a week since on her future plans.
The housemaid, who had searched for her ineffectually, brought word that her bonnet and shawl were not hanging in their usual places.
I searched anxiously among her papers for some reference to the family mystery, but found no clew to guide me.
Still, the theory of hiding in a place which has been searched is an old one, and these fellows may have adopted it.
They searchedus and put the plunder in that alcove in the rock on the other side of the fire.
The supreme head of the wicked conspiracy struggled, half awake, as Ned slipped the handcuffs on and searched him for weapons.
As he spoke, however, he searched for the inevitable strings of rabbit skins festooned about the tents, and found them not.
She searched for the sprightly figure she had worn in her mind's eye; his presence under any other name would still have been welcome enough now.
She searched all over, first behind the curtains, then between the pedestals of the bureau, but Stingaree was nowhere in the room, and the bedroom door was still locked.
The bushranger was then searched for other weapons; then marched into the bush at the pistol's point, and brought back handcuffed to the Superintendent's bridle.
But Olle searched in his right waistcoat pocket, and with a movement which he was anxious to hide from all eyes he slipped a rolled-up banknote into Ygberg's coat pocket; the latter understood and acknowledged it by a grateful look.
He hammered it with a large stone, but no reply came from within; he searched the garden and found a ladder, by means of which he reached the old man's window.
John, the servant-man, searched everywhere, but not a trace of them could he find.
I have had all the city searched since then, in vain.
By the lantern's dim and flickering light they searched the beach again for a half-mile along in the vicinity of where the canoe had come ashore.
I searched them to learn if anything or any one had been found upon the Brighton line.
Through these sermons his daughter searched hungrily for mental food.
Sir Thomas, it was as though the Universe was being searched for wonders--all to be concentrated here.
The whole area is being mapped out and it will be searched with such thoroughness before to-morrow's dawn that a rat could not escape.
He, when he had searched out the nature of things, shone among his fellows, and especially stood forth as admirable because, comprehending the laws of astrology, he predicted eclipses of the sun and moon.
Mr. Power's keen eye searched her face for a moment, as if to discover the real motive for her wish.
He made few references to nature and few allusions to the characters of classical mythology, but searched for obscure likenesses between things, and for conceits or far-fetched comparisons.
There were about a dozen German dead, and we searched them but found nothing of value.
I searched him for papers, found none, and rolled him into the river.
We searched them rapidly, cut their suspenders and belts, and I started to the rear with them.
Bob evidently found the sport exciting, however, for he searched away with more or less success, and very soon there were a dozen cray-fish of various sizes crawling about the bottom of the boat.
The search was continued until May 10, when the parties returned, having searched far and wide but without finding any trace of the missing detachment.
It was his turn to be amazed when he was told he had been searched for during the whole of the previous day.
The greater heat of the glass-furnace had melted some of the compounds; but though Palissy searched diligently for the white enamel he could find none.
Arrived there, he searched for a place as apothecary's boy, but could not find one.
The man who took possession of me searched my pockets and annexed everything of military use except my revolver, which had fallen out of my hand a minute before, when I had been knocked down by a bullet that glanced off a rock on to my leg.
He was at once searched personally, and sent away into the town, where he was confined in a cellar.
Then all the luggage vans were searched through and all the large boxes opened, and the train was searched from end to end.
Occasionally the Turks searched through our belongings to see if we had disguises, or diaries, or food stored for escape.
The present generation has not as yet quite got over the bad habit of making fun of these medieval thinkers for having accepted the idea of the transmutation of metals and searched so assiduously for the philosopher's stone.
Here are some standard historians whom I have searched in vain for the declaration that all of them should have.
Not yet daunted, I hurried to the place, which was not ten paces away, and closely searched the stone and the space all around it, but utterly in vain; there were absolutely no traces of the late presence of a human being!
While he searched the empty flat, the long passages, the gloomy bedroom at the end, the little hall where he kept his overcoats and golf sticks, it stayed.
We searched the whole house immediately, but no one was discovered.
Today they searched for me and found me; and as I fled, Du-seen ran after me crying that he would slay me.
Around me were all my company and the man we had searched a new world to find.
Though my eyes searched the wide landscape before me, I saw nothing other than the warriors of Du-seen and the beasts of the fields and the forests.
As I searched around in the brush for likely pieces of firewood, my head bowed and my eyes upon the ground, I suddenly felt a great weight hurl itself upon me.
Then if ordered he was to see that the ship was thoroughly searched for a missing passenger without unnecessary notoriety.
Of course I have already searched for Frieda in every probable place on the ship and have had the stewardess helping me.
An hour later and the Martha Washington had been thoroughly and quietly searched for the missing Frieda Ralston.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "searched" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
