After this came the forty days moral regeneration, which if successfully passed, gave the seeker power to communicate with the spirit world.
This was the way of it: the seeker for perfection must with a single attendant retire to a hut or cave in the forest on the night of the full moon in the month of May, and for forty days live thus secluded in fasting and prayer.
Why, then, pure seeker of the good and true, shouldst thou hope to find me, in yonder image of the divine?
Near this miserable Seeker sat a little elderly personage, wearing a high-crowned hat, shaped somewhat like a crucible.
The invaluable Index to this most useful periodical may be consulted with advantage by the seeker after etymologies of Slang and Cant words.
In short, the volume is again in the shop of the curiosity-seeker in the Rue Borgognona, if Mademoiselle Hafner still wants it!
His gestures, so conformable to the appearance of things, his mobile face and his Tuscan tongue, which softened into h all the harsh e's between two vowels, gave a savor to his stories which delighted a seeker after local truths.
Under the power of this word this earnest seeker emerged into the light.
In this book there is a prayer in Hebrew and Italian which gives us an insight into his experience and life as a seeker after the truth.
It is but folly to ask what the caste of a saint may be; The barber has sought God, the washerwoman, and the carpenter-- Even Raidas was a seeker after God.
It is a hard fight and a weary one, this fight of the truth-seeker: for the vow of the truth-seeker is more hard than that of the warrior, or of the widowed wife who would follow her husband.
But theseeker after truth is fearless of consequences.
My own first experience as a seeker after help in a public library in matters technical that were then of great importance to me, met the rebuff and disappointment that have given me a point of view which amounts to a conviction.
From the standpoint of the seeker of recreation, the fiction is generally, although not always, more interesting.
Then the kindly fast-mail thundered over the railroad tracks and enabled the seeker after forbidden pleasures to scurry to the first floor under cover of the disturbance.
And yet in a very high sense of the word Seneca may be called, as he is called in the title of this book, a Seeker after God; and the resemblances to the sacred writings which may be found in the pages of his works are numerous and striking.
That seeker should, also, regard backbiting as grievous error, and keep himself aloof from its dominion, inasmuch as backbiting quencheth the light of the heart, and extinguisheth the life of the soul.
When the detached wayfarer and sincere seeker hath fulfilled these essential conditions, then and only then can he be called a true seeker.
Then will the manifold favors and outpouring grace of the holy and everlasting Spirit confer such new life upon the seeker that he will find himself endowed with a new eye, a new ear, a new heart, and a new mind.
That seeker must, at all times, put his trust in God, must renounce the peoples of the earth, must detach himself from the world of dust, and cleave unto Him Who is the Lord of Lords.
So great shall be the discernment of this seeker that he will discriminate between truth and falsehood, even as he doth distinguish the sun from shadow.
The Democratic Party shows its gratitude best when it faces the infuriated office-seeker in his mad career and tells him that there is not even the smallest post-office open for him.
Here and there, one is tempted to say of Mr. Pater that he is ‘a seeker after something in language, that is there in no satisfying measure, or not at all.
Pass a seeker through the glottis to one of the lungs and slit it open with a pair of scissors.
Owing to the complexity of the Eustachian tubes and the bony form of the ear cavity, it is not possible to pass a seeker from the Eustachian aperture through the tympanic membrane.
With which philosophic acceptance of facts and a cheerful looking forward to the "next thing," the rejected seeker after public office ran up the hill leading from the post-office and straight against another opportunity, as it were.
It was shown that to be a sensation seeker was to court boredom and apathy, and that these had deënergized her.
The human being, whether male or female, housewife or industrial worker, is a seeker of sensations.
The over-conscientious housewife,--the seeker of perfection.
She became a seeker of pleasure and sensation, drifting from one type of amusement to the other in an intricately mixed coöperation and rivalry with members of her set.
It is true that one may become a mere seeker of sensations, a restless and fickle pleasure lover who passes from the normal to the abnormal, exotic in his vain search for what is logically impossible,--lasting novelty.
Here and there, one is tempted to say of Mr. Pater that he is 'a seeker after something in language, that is there in no satisfying measure, or not at all.
Like most of our younger poets, Mr. Irwin is at his best in his sonnets, and those entitled The Seeker after God and The Pillar of the Empire are really remarkable.
To The Fortune Seeker A little more, a little less!
This is the seeker of perfection in himself, who will not compromise with his instincts and his human flesh.
The weak seek the pity of others; they need it; and the pity-seeker is a very distinct type.
The good child is often without sufficient curiosity to be bad, whereas the bad child may be an overzealousseeker of experience.
Moreover, man is the only seeker of perfection; he is a deep, intense critic of himself.
He may be bored by monotony, a restless seeker of new experiences and new work, possessed by the devils of wanderlust.
So, the cities grow larger, increase their modes of excitement, and the dweller in the city, unless fortified by a steady purpose, becomes a seeker of excitement.
Woman, demanding equality, refuses to be regarded as merely a child bearer and is become a seeker of luxury.
The sensualist, a deliberate seeker of sex pleasure, often indulging in perversion.
The gold-seeker himself has also become rich, by the conditions already mentioned as attached to the conveyance of the property.
He also is a Seeker in secret, and from him haply I may learn.
When I was in Ceylon, a wise Seekerconfirmed that from the gospel which is written in Pali.
He spoke of those places as a scholar removed from vanity, as a Seeker walking in humility, as an old man, wise and temperate, illumining knowledge with brilliant insight.
Perhaps in three days, or four, or ten, if I perceive that the Sahib is a Seeker and of good understanding, I may myself draw him another.
I, vain seeker after knowledge, had, at least, discovered gold.
The Fiend comes to Faust, the tiredseeker of knowledge; Heaven and Hell stake their cause in the Mortal's temptation.
Blessed is the wayfarer who hath recognized the Desired One, and the seeker who hath heeded the Call of Him Who is the intended Aim of all mankind, and the learned one who hath believed in God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.
He hath extended assistance to every wayfarer, hath graciously responded to every petitioner and granted admittance to every seekerafter truth.
Soho Square and Golden Square are quiet and charming retreats, away from the bustle of the shoppers of Regent and Oxford Streets, though perhaps melancholy enough to the seeker after real architectural charm and beauty.
Nothing has the peculiar charm of old houses for the seeker after knowledge.
