But we have been so often deceived hitherto; treasure-seekers have always forestalled us.
In Brittany treasure-seekers gather fern-seed at midnight on Midsummer Eve, and keep it till Palm Sunday of the following year; then they strew the seed on the ground where they think a treasure is concealed.
Ridicule is a barrier to all knowledge, and, though we know that, we seekers after truth always bring up short at that barrier and dismount, not daring to put our hobbies to the fence.
It sometimes happens, however, that the pleasure seekers are more than a match for the Roughs, who, in such cases, are driven out after very severe handling.
Then the pleasure seekers come out in throngs, and soon the ice is crowded.
There precious nuggets await the frenzied seekersfor wealth.
Through the canyons, troops of gold seekersnow wander.
The first gold-seekers must pass out from active affairs before the real State is honestly builded up.
Our arrangement of books should not be inconsistent with the organization of knowledge, lest we fail in an =inestimable= service to the seekers and disseminators of knowledge.
As soon as a movement is on foot for parks the seekers after gain will be there howling "the poor must be fed!
At first few but the honest seekers came; but, by and by, the selfish and the vicious came with no contrition; came because the many came.
And when the pleasure seekers urged that Jesus join them in their mirth, he said, 16 How could I seek for pleasure for myself while others are in want?
In another instant it looked as if the whole place about where the diamond seekers stood, was a mass of fire.
Then, as the diamond seekers looked, they saw in the glare of a score of lightning flashes that followed the one great clap, the whole side of the mountain slip away, and go crashing into the valley below.
The four diamond seekersstood gazing at the apparition.
It was in this craft that the seekers after the diamond makers proposed undertaking the trip.
The social atmosphere on steamers whose patrons are chiefly gold seekers is unlike that on its fellow, where many have jollity moderated by business cares, others reserved in lofty consciousness that they are on foreign pleasure bent.
It was a brick house on the south side of the road, a resort for pleasure seekers from Wheeling, and a well kept house.
This house was largely patronized by pleasure seekers from Wheeling and other places, beside doing an extensive road business, and enjoyed an excellent reputation as a hostelry.
The secret of his more esoteric fame is just this, that he dresses a worldly and easy philosophy in the forms of spiritual faith and so deceives the troubledseekers after the higher life.
The gold seekers had to do some of the fighting, but they did not rob and pillage the country, nor were they allowed to be unnecessarily cruel.
It will be six months before this ship can return," said the captain of one of the first ships that carried gold seekers to Alaska in answer to an anxious inquiry as to how long it will be before the promised letters could arrive.
And the Bush Robin watched the gold-seekers take possession of the treasured things, which he had looked upon as his own especial property; fancying that they glittered merely for his delight.
The gold-seekers were wading up to their waists in water, and the Bush Robin was fluttering round them as they moved slowly up the stream.
When the men landed they were told that there was no ship at Panama; that half the gold-seekers in that town were ill, and that there was no use in pushing on.
This was the easiest route, but the boats could only be used on the Yukon from June until September, and the great rush of gold-seekers came later that autumn.
Those gold-seekers who went by the Isthmus of Panama had to stop at the little settlement of Chagres, where one hundred huts of bamboo stood on the ruins of the old Spanish fort of San Lorenzo.
I find that dishonest dealers refuse to sell to home seekers who present this certificate to them.
One point I should like to emphasize is that the back-to-the-farm movement will be successful in proportion to each state's activity in supplying home seekers with information that will insure their success on the land.
The seekersare always blinded by blue flame, and frightened away by roaring noises.
Knipperhausen, who was skilled in incantations, he was not proof against it, and guided the seekers to the spot.
The trouble with theseseekers after glory is that they never stop to consider whether their ministry is straightforward and faithful.
Under this heading our contributor, Dr Valentine Knaggs, deals briefly month by month, and according as space permits, with questions of general interest to health seekers and others.
For instance, there are certain seekers after health who ignore and are shocked by the very obvious truth that "brain is flesh.
This was quickly found, whereupon more lights were turned upon the spot, and then we saw that the treasure seekers numbered four; two of them were newcomers, apparently well equipped for the undertaking.
Pleasure boats ply between the mainland and the island lying four miles out in the lake, whereon stands a commodious hotel, and where pleasure-seekers find a cool and pleasant resort during the heated months.
He encouraged trade with Brazil by granting concessions to the gold seekers and planters of that great colony; and the importation of gold, sugar, and tobacco brought back to Lisbon some of the prosperity of the sixteenth century.
Here, beautifully framed by rugged mountains, is one of Nature's sanitariums where crowds of health seekers come annually to enjoy the dry air, cooled to reasonable comfort by the nearness to the sea.
One morning early, before the office-seekers were astir, he went out for a walk.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seekers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
