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Example sentences for "seek for"

  • The news was carried far and wide, and all Repeated how her brother brave had come To seek for her.

  • Now must we seek For confirmation of the glad report.

  • But when he heard the tale in full, he said: "O father, let me go to seek for her, My sister dear.

  • Do you so seek for it in the way of gospel obedience, and in observing your duty in keeping Christ's commandments?

  • Upon these considerations we resolved to seek for a good place to go on shore again, and pitch our tents, till the heat of the weather abated.

  • I am almost sure that I spoke before (though I cannot now go seek for it, and my memory is but a worn-out tub) of a certain deep and perilous pit, in which I was like to drown myself through hurry and fright of boyhood.

  • The boy that lives at oh--ah; and some day you would come seek for him.

  • After that I will go to seek for him in the thick of the fog, like a needle in a hay-band.

  • If by that time he did not know that it would be a disgraceful thing to seek for an introduction to Duke Muh of Ts[']in by feeding cattle, could he be called wise?

  • But to do what you do in order to seek for what you desire is like climbing a tree to seek for fish.

  • My object in them is to seek for what I greatly desire.

  • If you climb a tree to seek for fish, although you do not get the fish, you have no subsequent calamity.

  • That was to seek for insects in the bark, on which they live.

  • It was, indeed, a morning that might have made any one happy, even with no Golden River to seek for.

  • I come," said Hermod, "to seek for Balder.

  • Aramis was not the man to seek for a useless popularity.

  • As you must be very dull there, to seek for amusement in the remembrance of a provinciale--'" Louise rose up suddenly.

  • Dear friend," said Athos, "a person has just been here to beg me to seek for you, on the part of the king.

  • Those have not been wanting (as, indeed, when hath Satan been to seek for attorneys?

  • Do thou keep watch lest that they drive the sheep away while I do seek for water.

  • I kissed this letter and the hermit's grave many thousand times, and started on my way to seek for mankind.

  • Now, I beseech you, seek for life, as I am seeking of it; as who should say, For there is a sufficiency in the Lord Jesus both for me and you.

  • The tempter suggests it is 'too, too late' to seek for pardon, and with a desperate resolution which must have cost his heart the severest pangs, he continued his game.

  • And I tell thee, it is an easier thing to persuade a well man to go to the physician for cure, or a man without hurt to seek for a plaster to cure him, than it is to persuade a man that sees not his soul-disease, to come to Jesus Christ.

  • And after all it is most likely that he will turn to our stock to seek for friends.

  • Then he went to seek for harp-strings, And along the heath he wandered.

  • Would he take Harry's death for granted, and proceed singlehanded with the survey; or would he send out a search party to seek for traces of his lost assistant?

  • We seek for Truth" is our badge, and it is as Truthseeker that we do you homage to-night.

  • I have myself heard the question asked: 'Why should I seek for truth, and why should I lead a good life, if there be no immortality in which to reap a reward?


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