How To Use Pursued In A Sentence
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There is much in the words and thoughts of the Romantic poets that is excessive or impractical, but their beliefs and the passion with which they pursued them still serve as an example.
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All of the information collated here is part of a wider investigation currently being pursued by a number of media outlets.
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The system of education and discipline pursued has undergone some modifications in recent years -- notably during the provostship of the Rev. Francis Hodgson; but radical defects are still alleged against it.
The Grand Old Man
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With little prompting from the teacher, the students raised and vigorously pursued the following questions.
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So the word "incognito" is projected on to the set and floats around ardently pursued by Julian Barratt's mayor.
Government Inspector – review
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He was pursued up the tunnel by Jock and had to lock himself in the dressing room to avoid condign punishment.
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Rank was a businessman who pursued a grander vision than Isidore Ostrer or John Maxwell had ever done.
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People pursued more material products and neglected the ecosystem performance of forestry.
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The same idea must occur to every one who compares the French method of colonization with that pursued in English dependencies.
Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia
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Some ziphiids are pursued by whalers for their oil and spermaceti.
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A group of British tabloid journalists were pelted with eggs by a French campaigner yesterday and pursued across the camp.
Times, Sunday Times
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This case should be pursued and if she is guilty she must be held accountable.
The Sun
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I have to go to Roanoke again next week-- ' `I'm going to Boston to deliver a paper," he pursued.
LASTING TREASURES
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Rather, love, and its consequences, is seen as a valuable goal, but one to be pursued with caution and handled with care.
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Further appeals can be pursued through the federal court system.
A Conceptual View of Human Resource Management: Strategic Objectives, Environments, Functions
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Maybe other readers more versed in rocketry can provide some better information on why vertical take off and landing vehicles are being pursued.
Masten Space System's Xombie Make First Successful Test Flight - NASA Watch
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He was by then being branded as a traitor and rebel, and had found himself pursued by government agents and without a friend in the world.
Christianity Today
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Owing to these reversals the linear and telic structure of the narrative is attenuated as the pursuer becomes the pursued, the hunter the hunted, the victimizer the victim, the will to kill the will to die.
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Dorst pursued a parallel career in mammalogy; he edited the quarterly journal Mammalia for 40 years, from 1960 to 2000.
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The policy of détente was abandoned and, under the Reagan administration, an increasingly aggressive policy was pursued towards the Soviet Union.
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Another story was that a certain dissipated youth of the community, going home one Saturday night, or rather Sunday morning, from some unhallowed orgy, was pursued by a lamb of fire, with its head cut off and hanging by a strip of skin or flame.
The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career
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He pursued a different strategy...and got blootered.
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He went on to say that the fugitives had been pursued and captured and brought back to bondage; and upon Borrow's admitting that he had been the instigator of the adventure, he was sentenced to be flogged, and that it was on the back of this very Martineau that he had been "horsed" to undergo the punishment!
Hawthorne and His Circle
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All of this bad news comes on top of the tough austerity programme being pursued by the coalition government.
Times, Sunday Times
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Russie is pursued by cruel foe, He rides away, and suddenly betakes him to his boe, And bends me but about in saddle as be sits, And therewithall amids his race his following foe he hits.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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The plot, about police investigator Stewart trying to nab a criminal while being unlawfully pursued with daffy poetess Colbert in tow, is too lightweight — and the characters spend too much time pointlessly arguing — for me to care.
Weekly Mishmash: April 18-24 : Scrubbles.net
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From 1906 he pursued parallel careers as a book illustrator and cartoonist.
Times, Sunday Times
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The thing Matt hasn’t pondered is this: had prosecutions been pursued, then Obama’s policy of massive drone bombings in Afghanistan – that kill civilians right and left – would have led to prosecutions after his team leaves office as well.
Matthew Yglesias » The Yoo and Bybee Rulings
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But the trophy pursued above all others is currently not accepting freebies.
Times, Sunday Times
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The disgraced minister walked swiftly from the car to his house pursued by a whole posse of reporters.
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Chinese police pursued the car, and in the ensuing chase the suspects' automobile collided with a traffic island, killing one occupant and seriously injuring the other.
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Along with the common ringneck pheasant and chukar partridge, the rare ‘blue’ pheasant (listed as ‘green’ by the State Department of Fish and Game), black francolin, gray francolin, and both lace-necked and barred doves can be pursued.
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To return to the general argument pursued in this chapter, it is assumed, for reasons above explained, that a slow change of species is in simultaneous operation everywhere throughout the habitable surface of sea and land; whereas the fossilisation of plants and animals is confined to those areas where new strata are produced.
II. Uniformity Of Change
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When pursued he makes directly for his hole, and even if his hinder parts should be caught hold of, is extricated with great difficulty.
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She burst through the door pursued by two men.
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The inhabitants were pursued and had to flee in haste, so that many froze to death.
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Two convicts escape while handcuffed together, and are pursued by police and the press while attempting to track down their former associates.
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They clattered through the streets of Castellammare, pursued by urchins, crying, "Un sordo, signori!
The Emancipated
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All of this bad news comes on top of the tough austerity programme being pursued by the coalition government.
Times, Sunday Times
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The structural explanation of social problems is pursued more thoroughly than in a developmental model.
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Two national charities have benefited from a novel idea which was pursued by a Newport man as a fund-raiser in the Dublin City Marathon.
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Visitors scattered as the bear galloped heavily across the road, pursued by the snarling dog.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ten miles on our way, and we came to a newly laid out village, called St. Thomas, from whence we pursued our journey through a new country to
Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West
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There was some variation in this regard as different colonial powers pursued different expansionist policies.
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If I attempted a race with the boys, I was obliged to give up from very weariness; and laughing at what they termed my laziness, they pursued their amusements without me.
A Grandmother's Recollections
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Such is the power of Kelly and Bloomberg that no one - not one politician, starting with City Council Public Safety Chairman Peter Vallone, nor one mainstream news organization, starting with the New York Times with its barrelful of city-side reporters -- has pursued the circumstances of Schoolcraft's hospital admission.
Len Levitt: Schoolcraft and Serpico: Smearing Prophets as Nuts
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She pursued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the Frank asked Nur al-Din anent the maker of the kerchief, he answered, saying, “In very sooth this kerchief is the handiwork of my mother, who made it for me with her own hand.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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He pursued this aim with tenacity and political skill.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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It is understood that DNA and other tests carried out in the immediate aftermath of the killing are central to proving or disproving the main line of the inquiry being pursued by the 40-strong team.
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Possessed by morbid drives that defy easy psychological analysis, they pursued a revolutionary domestic policy, not because they had any faith in its merits but in order to be revenged on their enemies and consolidate their power.
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The appellate court, though it reversed the defendant's trial court victory, agreed that such an argument could be pursued.
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He was reportedly obliged to leave London under a police escort, pursued by an angry mob.
Times, Sunday Times
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He therefore was commissioned to abridge and write a preface to a now obscure work of mental philosophy, The Light of Nature Pursued by Abraham Tucker (originally published in seven volumes from 1768 to 1777), which appeared in 1807 and may have had some influence on his own later thinking.
William hazlitt | the man of letters « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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This work was pursued with great vigor and enthusiasm.
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The officers however, pursued their investigation with the utmost assiduity and with not a little skill.
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On the other hand, Indian and Western philosophical studies should be pursued independently using idioms, language, and metaphors appropriate to the investigations.
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Police pursued the car at high speed.
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science of distribution," or chorology (chora = a place) -- has been pursued with lively interest since the discoveries made by Alexander von Humboldt.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
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This was the line pursued at the time by the body politic and large sections of the media to justify a knee-jerk reaction and savage state repression.
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The obvious solution - to move into more capital-intensive highly skilled work - is being energetically pursued.
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The British bourgeoisie always pursued its interests in a transnational context (cf.
Global Capitalism and National Decline
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running and leaping like a herd of pursued antelopes
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Students will be encouraged to develop field or empirical research projects that could be pursued in Spring 2004 as the Faculty Seminar continues, and possibly in a longer-term time frame.
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Alexander pursued a lucrative itinerancy painting portraits in America, and when he had exhausted his possibilities, he returned to Scotland.
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There is a broad consensus of opinion about the policies which should be pursued.
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In addition to all these considerations, the right of North Carolina to have this title extinguished by the General Government, is strengthened by the policy which has been pursued towards the Cherokees by the States of Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama.
North Carolina--Cherokee Indians. Report and Resolution of a Joint Committee of the Legislature of North Carolina, Relative to the Cherokee Indians
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The postmaster pursued the car but the trailer detached itself from the car in the chase.
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Berezovsky explicitly states in his court action that he wanted his name hidden from ownership of his assets after 2006 because he believed he was being pursued by the Russian authorities, having become a public opponent of Putin.
Carlos Tevez: The billionaires' fight over his ownership revealed | David Conn
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She says it's based on a real stalker who pursued her in much the same way.
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Six-foot-five, wickedly charming and patricianly handsome, he had been the consummate "extra man," a skilled practitioner of "the night shift," as he called his after-hours life on the benefit, dinner party and opera circuit, which he pursued full-throttle, as his employers encouraged him to do, for the connections he made there brought the auction house some of its best sales.
NYT > Home Page
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Yet this fascination with emotion trapped in pigment is pursued most powerfully and strikingly in British art of the modern and early modern era.
Times, Sunday Times
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Gardiner has pursued relentlessly high standards in performing classical music.
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The country has pursued an effectively independent line on military issues.
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He was arrested in the Roxy area by other police officers who pursued the bus on motorcycles.
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There have been personal vendettas pursued that way, though they are rare.
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Several lines of inquiry have been pursued and the investigation is continuing.
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He has now been held up to be pursued killing.
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They pursued elephants here, there and everywhere.
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Here and there a gentleman was teaching a lady to swim, with his arms round her; here and there a wild nereid was splashing another; a young Jew pursued a flight of naiads with a section of dead eel in his hand.
Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life)
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The vehicle turned west on 102 Ave. and officers pursued it and pulled it over near 114 St. Nowicki was driving the vehicle and appeared slow and confused.
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This is wishful thinking pursued to the point of deception and self-deception.
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Denizens of coastal waters in the Pacific, sea otters were pursued for centuries for their thick, soft pelts.
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Simultaneously he pursued an interest in archaeology.
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The only job he has actively pursued was at his alma mater, Wisconsin.
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E.H. Carr, Isaac Deutscher, the novelist Naomi Mitchison (a "silly sympathiser"), and J.B. Priestley all pursued very successful careers without, so far as we know, any hindrance from the British government.
Orwell's List
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His work was all-consuming, often at the expense of those he loved, and he pursued his ambitions ruthlessly and selfishly.
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The president believes leaking classified information is a very serious matter and it should be pursued to the fullest extent by the appropriate agency.
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Drawn by a total revulsion of ideas from the chain of thinking that had led him to composition, he relinquished his annotations in resentment of this dismission, when he might have pursued them uninterruptedly without neglect of other avocations.
Camilla
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When a bull moose or elk made a similar suggestion, it was similarly pursued.
A Plague of Angels
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He also notes changes in the attitude and policies of ruling classes and in the zeal with which religious disputes were pursued.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Here, English borrowed a group of linked terms from French, the language in which ballet was pursued and from which it gained international status: jeté, pas de deux, pirouette, and of course ballet itself are all from French.
The English Is Coming!
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Subsequently, he pursued his study at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and received a degree in Master of Divinity with Biblical Languages.
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The country has pursued an effectively independent line on military issues.
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Commodities that once were thought dull and obscure are being pursued by hedge funds and speculators.
Times, Sunday Times
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We've seen him being doorstepped in his baseball cap, taking his constitutional in Hyde Park, accompanied by his solicitous trainer, pursued by a brute from the Mirror.
Hugh Muir's diary
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On the one hand military action must be pursued with maximum efficiency, defined by military criteria.
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He said he pursued information about the pornography matter because it "galled me to no end" that SEC employees were spending "hours and hours over weeks and weeks" viewing porn while collecting government pay.
SEC porn sting netted workers in 7 cities
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This war seemed to vindicate the massive programme of naval expansion and re-equipment that had been pursued since the end of the previous one in 1763.
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Yet it's hard to think of anyone who has pursued power with such relentless single-handedness.
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And now he was proposing to leave her unprotected while he pursued yet another prospect that would end in the usual failure.
Times, Sunday Times
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And he measured her in a careless way, and knew, bold now, that she would begin to retreat, coyly and delicately, as he pursued, ever ready to reverse the game should he turn fainthearted.
Chapter 6
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I had a great interest and love of music, and music was always a part of the family, but no one had ever pursued it.
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The city has pursued fines or licence revocations for thousands of drivers.
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The culinary exploits were pursued further with the progress to open sandwiches, having a flat molecule on one side of the metal atom, and with only small molecules such as carbonyl, methyl or ethyl groups on the other side.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1973 - Presentation Speech
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But it has also presented an immediate and magnified picture of what war means on the ground, removed from any wider context of the political ends being pursued.
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He was by then being branded as a traitor and rebel, and had found himself pursued by government agents and without a friend in the world.
Christianity Today
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Graham Jenkins turned a gun on himself after officers pursued his car southbound on the M1 and eventually managed to stop it near Nottingham.
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Similar policies were pursued in the 1970s, particularly in relation to health services.
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No zealous advocate of good citizenship would argue that political participation ought to be pursued to the neglect of all other obligations.
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His nemesis is a Scotland Yarder declared Sir Denis Nayland-Smith who with his trusty sidekick Dr Petrie pursues Dr FuManchu a same approach Holmes as good as Watson pursued Prof Moriarty all those years.
TV Anime Guide for Nov 09 Updated 1 Nov 09
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The two political parties pursued uncompromising ideological agendas.
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Although there have been regular meetings between the two exchanges, regulatory issues would probably be sufficient to deter a match being pursued too closely.
Times, Sunday Times
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But he could have given a statement to the court without swearing an oath, an option not pursued by his inexperienced lawyer.
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It was strongly influenced by the contemporary art movement known as Constructivism, which was being energetically pursued.
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Actually, absquatulate means to leave hurriedly, with the implication that one is being pursued.
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Active biomimetic systems as pursued in the new research network have many possible applications as drug delivery systems, molecular sorting devices, diagnostic tools for cell screening, or scaffolds for tissue engineering.
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Member states have pursued their domestic interests too eagerly and threatened to disrupt a trade agreement.
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Judicatory justice and judicatory efficiency are the two value objectives pursued in our judicatory re - form.
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The beauty of implicitness is a very outstanding artistic realm pursued in the artistic creation.
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Counter trippant means facing in opposite directions as they do when pursued by the hunter.
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I shall not dwell upon the career of Sophia -- who has pursued her life in Paris very wisely, shrewdly, circumspectly, not to say commercially, thus showing how honest bourgeois ancestry can triumph over the flightiest of modern temperaments.
Personality in Literature
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Are India's core interests—the eradication of poverty and the maintenance of a multireligious democracy and open society—best pursued in opposition to the West or, despite occasional differences, under the rubric of a liberal international order underwritten by American power?
It's Time to Re-Align India
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Moorish alcayde and her lover, when closely pursued, threw themselves in despair.
The Alhambra
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The humans pursued a meandering course through the forest.
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His youthful studies, which I have said before were pursued with unconquerable energy, embraced grammar, poetry, rhetoric, history, and the exposition of the Holy Scriptures; the Bible, indeed, he read unceasingly, and drew from it much of the vital truth with which it is inspired; but he perhaps too much tainted it with traditional interpretation and patristical logic.
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
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We realize it could be impossible to recover costs from an overseas company that's been described as defunct with no assets, but it's going to take years to clean up the toxic site, so both efforts should be pursued concurrently.
News Review - Top Stories
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The section should be interpreted to impute income where the obligor has pursued a deliberate course of conduct for the purpose of evading child support obligations.
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In the fall of 1999, we were being pursued by many suitors.
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KNIGHT NO MORE: The government's Honors Forfeiture Committee has decided to annul the title awarded to Fred Goodwin, who pursued the takeover of Dutch bank ABN Amro that led RBS to the brink of collapse in 2008.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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Though young when he wrote them, they bespeak a mature understanding of genuine piety - and the way such piety should be evident in all of life, and pursued with ardour and zeal.
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She pursued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the Frank asked Nur al-Din anent the maker of the kerchief, he answered, saying, “In very sooth this kerchief is the handiwork of my mother, who made it for me with her own hand.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Owens also said he intends to end what he calls the attorney general's "slush fund" -- back taxes, fraud and other collections pursued by the office, a portion of which are retained by the office for its uses.
Www.the-daily-record.com's Homepage Articles
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The Lieutenant and 80 soldiers, much against orders, pursued the attackers and were wiped out when they were decoyed into an ambush of 1,000 waiting warriors.
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Symbols of the excesses of the white-shoe brigade may be kitsch and amusing, but are indicative of a society where development was pursued for the good of a few.
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He is said to have claimed that he was being pursued by the Russian mafia.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many of the major advances in the pulmonary circulation were led by mavericks, such as Forssman, Moser, and Petty, who pursued their passion against prevailing opinion.
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And even more interesting, brave and admirable Human Rights defensor, COFAVIC leader Liliana Ortega is actually on the dog house of chavismo as she has pursued human rights defense equally strongly under Chavez as she did before Chavez.
02/26/2006 - 03/05/2006
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A psychiatrist is under the impression that he is being followed by a patient; the feeling of being pursued increases day by day.
Speaking with Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza, author of A Window in Copacabana, the most recent book in the acclaimed Inspector Espinosa series
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The police car pursued the suspected attacker
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He thus has the knowledge that he should avoid fornication, but he fornicates nonetheless because he actually sees the fornication as an act of pleasure to be pursued.
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pursued his guide, on this very spot the man fell from his horseI was behind that bourtree-bush at the very moment.
Chapter LIII
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The problems: He's being pursued by the Angolan crime lord (Hoji Fortuna) he stole the gas from; and he's fallen hard for the sexy Nora (Manie Malone), who's already been claimed by the local crime boss.
Dan Persons: Mighty Movie Podcast: Djo Tunda Wa Munga on Viva Riva!
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What really marked the end of Webster fortunes was the policy pursued by the fourth and fifth baronets, both Godfreys.
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There are also sights that feel entirely new: a sloth swimming lazily in a tropical blue sea, or young marine iguanas pursued by fearsome racer snakes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Alexis Masters, lifelong mystic, scholar and kriya yoga practitioner, holds a bachelor of arts in transpersonal psychology from Antioch University, where she also pursued graduate work in feminist theology and comparative religion.
Alexis Masters biography
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The private developers have pursued the investment route with regard to the shopping centre, and to smaller sector shopping centres on particular estates.
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Second, he grossly misrepresents the views of the American people, blaming them for an increasingly unpopular policy pursued by the US ruling elite.
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You talked about other forms of exploitation ," Izzy pursued.
THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
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Some scoff at the way he pursued fame, but was there any harm in chasing those off-field riches?
Times, Sunday Times
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There is a broad consensus of opinion about the policies which should be pursued.
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It does seem to be that, despite the many successes of feminism, the last area to undergo change is our sense of who pursues and who is pursued in a relationship.
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While they pursued this non-military course, local media relentlessly reported on irredentist and chauvinistic campaigns gaining momentum in neighboring republics.
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And, for Jerry, most delightful of all, there was the gurgle and plash of a brooklet that pursued its invisible way over mossy stones under a garmenture of tender and delicate ferns.
CHAPTER XIII
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‘He has not peached so far,’ said the Jew as he pursued his occupation.
Oliver Twist
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The desire for advertising revenue, if pursued too vigorously, might well put those aims at risk.
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Their loyalties were divided, and their politics pursued interests which were not necessarily those of the city.
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The improved brain made this possible by careful observation of the animals they pursued.
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A FISH called a tunny, being pursued by a dolphin, and driven with great violence, not minding which way he went, was thrown by the force of the waves upon a rock, and left there.
Original Acrostics on all the States and Presidents of the United States, and Various Other Subjects, Religious, Political, and Personal
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Elizabeth pursued the idea of a French marriage at this stage for the sole reason that she thought the French would never agree to a defensive entente against Spain in the absence of a dynastic marriage.
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Father, "Cadfael pursued, while he had every man's attention," that I showed you the blue flowers of the gromwell he wore in his cap when he was found.
The Leper of Saint Giles
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I do not think this is the case, because before I pursued him, he had no other past relationships.
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With a muffled skreigh the mare leapt forward, seized the bit 'twixt her teeth, and _ventre à terre_ pursued the others in spite of her rider's remonstrances.
Border Ghost Stories
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Other members of the country gentry pursued foxes; he pursued churches.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was pleased, but somewhat embarrassed, when she pursued me.
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In a recent television interview with Jay Leno on the “Tonight Show,” Cindy McCain joked about how the Navy captain had pursued her.
Mjh's blog — 2008 — August
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Ben must have been more than a little interested in the possibility to have pursued it so far.
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She is pursued by Mr Lillyvick, whom she marries, but soon deserts him for a retired naval captain.
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He constantly cross-cuts from pursuers to pursued to keep the pace up.
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Since Anna seems to do better and be stronger emotionally when she is pursued or already in a relationship, I sincerely hope that she meets someone soon.
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It ought to be easy to argue that egalitarian social goals are best pursued by crushing bureaucracy, by taking power away from know-all Islington lawyers and restoring control of people's working lives to them.
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When Sabin developed his attenuated strains of polio he energetically pursued his goal of making them widely accepted as vaccine strains.
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He is said to have claimed that he was being pursued by the Russian mafia.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is also an option of extending the site He said he had favoured a proposal to create a film studio at the power station site, but that idea was no longer being pursued.
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The building of boardwalks at each side, the reinstallation of gas lanterns, the removal of the parapet and the sanding of the bridge were all elements of the project and it must be pursued fully.
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In the tenth century," according to Dufour (_Histoire de la Prostitution_, vol. VI., p. 11), "shoes _a la poulaine_, with a claw or beak, pursued for more than four centuries by the anathemas of popes and the invectives of preachers, were always regarded by mediæval casuists as the most abominable emblems of immodesty.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy
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Normally, the pinkroot is considered to be a protected and effective medicine provided it is administered in the right dosage and always pursued by a saline aperient like magnesium sulphate.
Find Me A Cure
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No zealous advocate of good citizenship would argue that political participation ought to be pursued to the neglect of all other obligations.
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The federal government also pursued the matter of fugitive slaves escaping overland to territories held by foreign powers.
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The task of establishing and encouraging national cultural activities was pursued with some vigour by the new ministry.
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They were relatively non-partisan and pursued policies which would least disturb the social fabric.
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I lunched off the sandwiches the Broadburys had given me, and in the bright afternoon made my way down the hill, crossed at the foot of a small fresh-water lochan, and pursued the issuing stream through midge-infested woods of hazels to its junction with the sea.
Mr. Standfast
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Contemporary London a photonegative of Early Modern London: a central area in which people live (now: in which livelihoods are pursued), surrounded by a ring in which livelihoods are pursued (now: where people live).
Modern London
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Every voice in the town declared confidently that the jongleur was the guilty man, and had successfully hidden his plunder before he was sighted and pursued.
The Sanctuary Sparrow
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When we pursued the contactor for recompense he started to send threatening letters demanding payment of his call-out charge.
Times, Sunday Times
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Such efforts were to be pursued through the application of agroforestry, tree farming, and soil conservation technologies.
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He pursued a career in medicine.
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What was a roadman doing twenty miles from his beat, pursued by the police?
The Thirty-Nine Steps
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She strongly refuted rumours that she pursued the case for malicious reasons.
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That is the policy which we have pursued consistently, with the result that direct taxation has come down substantially.
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Both were situated by the village's port, where the activities related to whale hunting had been pursued for almost a century.
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Akka prove that evolution in these caverned spaces has certainly pursued one different path than on earth.
The Moon Pool
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On the debit side, too many rogues have gone unpursued.
Times, Sunday Times
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Court politics were pursued within a context of competition between rival patronage groups.
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Perceiving that I had no intention of giving him fair play by coming within his reach, he suddenly uncoiled and glid across a log, thinking to make good his retreat; but being determined on having -- not his scalp, for the head of a rattle-snake is rather a dangerous toy -- but his rattle, I pursued him across the log.
A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America
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Over the course of the journey, their dog sled is pursued by a hungry pack of wolves.
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Hobbie Elliot had, in the meanwhile, pursued his journey rapidly, harassed by those oppressive and indistinct fears that all was not right, which men usually term a presentiment of misfortune.
The Black Dwarf
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Its packaging business has been closed, while the divestment of its glass container business is still being pursued, he said.
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The sovereignty issue has since been pursued purely diplomatically, in bilateral and trilateral negotiations.
Times, Sunday Times
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The continual murderer in is pursued by police after the toy store, discovers has no way out, but reads the evil spirit incantation to attach own soul to side "the good child" on the rag baby body.
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Orestes killed his mother and the Furies pursued him for eternity.
DOLL'S EYES
