And will you call that vain, which seeks The latent sparks of virtue to evolve, Or animate anew to high resolve, The drooping fervor of our weary souls?
Thus, under the great name of Liberty, each vain spirit seeks its revenge and finds its nourishment.
Guillin, who seeks refuge in the keep, is almost reached by the flames.
We have also an increasing force in Irish Nationalism which seeks to paralyse the government of Ireland by means of the general or sympathetic strike.
This organisation seeks to establish courts in Ireland in opposition to the ordinary law courts, and to enforce their decrees by means of illegal intimidation and outrage.
The Industrial Development movement which seeks to bring before the people of Ireland and the Irish public bodies the excellence of Irish manufactures is as yet in its infancy.
But it is chiefly by giving expression to the loftiest sentiments of invincible courage and fortitude, that he seeks to support himself in the midst of his torments.
Shame, confusion, and the curse of the country,--let these be your vengeance on the man who seeks to clutch the reins of government!
It is explained to us of course that he seeks it in order that he may unite it to the spiritual in his own person,-- theoretically for the good of mankind, if practically for the advancement of his own particular policy.
Then the excitement rose to its zenith,--and amidst the tempest of applause, the King himself stood quiet, watching the turbulence with the thoughtful eyes of a student who seeks to unravel some difficult problem.
After all, these, and many other troubles like unto them, are in some sort wounds and bruises; they do not sap the springs of vitality, and only a succession of such blows can crush in us the instinct thatseeks happiness.
The second canto of the poem describes Gawain's long journey through the wilderness on his steed Gringolet, and his adventures with storm and cold, with, wild beasts and monsters, as he seeks in vain for the Green Chapel.
One finds what one seeks in this world, but it is perhaps significant that Dickens sought his golden fleece among plain people, and Thackeray in high society.
He seeks a divorce, but is driven frantic by the loud arguments of a lawyer and a divine, who are no other than Cutbeard and a sea captain disguised.
He sought an introduction as a man seeks gold, haunted every place where Johnson declaimed, until in Davies's bookstore the supreme opportunity came.
And then, because he thinks always in parables and seeks out most curious texts of Scripture, he speaks of "the two milch kine that were to carry the ark of God into another country and leave their calves behind them.
He seeks Sibylla and that crown, and is like to get them.
When a man seeks to find and parades reasons for committing a crime, it is to stifle his conscience.
Many a twin movement of the world's groping spirit thus seeks the light.
Humboldt seeks to palliate this cupidity by making him the conscious inheritor of the pecuniary chances which every free son of Genoa expected to find within his grasp by commercial enterprise.
Nothing can oppose it but the pro-slavery spirit thatseeks to enslave the American mind to barbarism and the colored millions and their increase to perpetual bondage.
The democratic theory which seeks to absolve humanity from oppression, is not confined to the resistance of a single despot.
It has now assumed gigantic proportions of mischief, and with its hand upon the very throat of the Constitution and the Union, it seeks its death.
He seeksadvertisement as little as he hankers after pleasure.
Coffee Cooler--one who seeks easy details away from troops; one who is always looking for an easy job.
He seeks the nuptial vows to take, Or any other useless fake.
Place him in London, and let it be his interest to please the English government, he would not hesitate, and with the very hand which now seeks to seize the sceptre of Charlemagne, he would grasp the truncheon of a policeman.
Diogenes sought them with a lantern, he seeks them with a banknote in his hand.
He sees in her a noble, self-dependent being, who needs not andseeks not him for any lower object.
She sees in him a free and noble being, who seeks not and needs not her for an unworthy object, advantage, or pleasure.
The difference between the two schemes of education--that which exacts mechanical obedience, and that which seeks to foster growth--may be looked at from another point of view.
The encouragement which is given in Utopia to the child who seeks to gratify his desire for knowledge, is positive as well as negative.
Learn to look at the thing as a trade in which each seeks her own advantage, and in which each gains the more clearly these advantages are defined.
The former seeks a hospital alone, and the soul of him dies!
The formal impulsion seeks unity and permanence, but it does not wish the condition to remain fixed with the person, that there should be identity of feeling.
But imagination strives to pass unfettered and lawless from one conception to another conception, and seeks not to be bound by any other connection than that of time.
I have previously remarked that the poet is nature, or he seeks nature.
The renaissance introduces new ideas into civilization; it resuscitates the traditions of antique science and seeks to unite them to the truths of Christianity.
It seems also that modern music only aims at interesting the sensuous, and in this it flatters the taste of the day, which seeks to be agreeably tickled, but not to be startled, nor strongly moved and elevated.
Pure speculation, which seeks to set free the form from all contents and matter, was remote from his creative genius, to which the world of matter and sense was no hinderance, but a necessary envelop for his forms.
As soon as the poet means only to jest, and seeks only to amuse, we can overlook traits of a low kind, provided he never stirs up indignation or disgust.
What he flees from he carries in himself, and what he seeks remains entirely outside him: never can he triumph over the fatal influence of his time.
I will neither descend through the bowels of these rocks, nor vanish in a flash of fire; and yet the eye that seeks to trace my motions shall have reason to curse it was ever shrouded by eyelid or eyelash.
These resolutions are the first step in the school which seeks to abolish marriage, and behind this picture I see a monster of social deformity.
I am sure you believe in me, in my honesty of purpose, and also in the grand work which The Revolution seeks to do, and therefore you will not allow me to ask you in vain to come to the rescue.
He seeks intercessors in larger number, in greater power, to prepare the way of the Lord.
The prayers are all a proof that he seeks for them the very life of heaven upon earth.
The spirit that seeks to enjoy as much as possible of what is innocent or legitimate, that gives the first place to the calls and duties of daily life, is inconsistent with a strong faith and close intercourse with the spiritual world.
And as we pray in the Spirit, our worship is as God seeks it to be, "in spirit and in truth.
God still seeks for men and women who will, with all their other work of ministering, specially give themselves to persevering prayer.
As Christ seeks the lost sheep until He find it, Gods seeks intercessors.
A soul that not onlyseeks an answer, but seeks first the God who gives the answer, receives the power to know that it has what it has asked of Him.
This dependence upon God secures our true independence; when our will seeks nothing but the Divine will, we reach a Divine nobility, the true independence of all that is created.
In a frantic effort to forget its hollowness it takes to ping-pong, parchesi and progressive euchre, and seeks to lose itself and find solace and consolation in tiddle-dy-winks.
To break the spirit of his men will not do--it would unfit them for service--so what he seeks to do is merely to bend their minds so as to match his own.
It seeks the explanation of institutions and legal principles in the facts of history.
He does not want to plunge into haphazard analogies, but seeks common ground before all things in order to be able to watch for the appearance of ramifications and to explain them.
It is only another side of this same perversity, when McCulloch seeks to force the results produced by animals and machines into the definition of labor.
Every deviation from this level immediately sets forces in motion which endeavor to restore the level, just as the water of the sea seeks its level, notwithstanding the mountains and abysses which the winds bring forth from its bosom.
It is he who gives beyond his obligations, andseeks opportunities of thoughtful kindliness.
He casts out his passions, he denies his {139} desires, he abandons his ambitions, and so seeks safety.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seeks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
