Pursues

Examples

• Then I don't understand,' pursues the Father, 'how even their living beyond their means could bring them to what has been termed a total smash. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It may be that he pursues her doggedly and steadily, with no touch of compunction, remorse, or pity. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Only as ultimately securing tranquillity of mind, which the philosopher instinctively pursues, has it for him any necessity. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I was saying, what do you think NOW, pursues Mr. Guppy, of enlisting? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Information is flashed to meet or overtake the vessel and caught up by her aerial, as she pursues her way at twenty-five or thirty miles an hour. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It is not worth my while,' pursues Podsnap, becoming handsomely mollified, 'and it is the reverse of important to my position. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Adeimantus pursues the argument further. Plato. The Republic.
• Temple has turned his thoughts to agriculture, which he pursues ardently, being in possession of a fine farm that his father lately conveyed to him. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• If I get on with him as I expect to get on,' Silas pursues, stumping and meditating, 'it wouldn't become me to leave it here. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He is such an incarnate hypocrite, that whatever object he pursues, he must pursue crookedly. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• And now, Mr Lightwood, was she ever,' pursues Podsnap, with his indignation rising high into those hair-brushes of his, 'a factory girl? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Now where, pursues Mr. Bucket, had she been on the night of the murder? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Repressing an indignant look, indicative of anything but a disposition to excuse him, Silas pursues his point. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• A child pursues a certain course of conduct. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• And yet, sir,' he pursues, 'being acquainted with old Mr Harmon, one would have thought it might have been polite in you, too, to give him a call. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He pursues methods in ore-dressing at which those who are trained in the usual practice may well stand aghast. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Because my time, pursues Sir Leicester, is wholly at your disposal with a view to the vindication of the outraged majesty of the law. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• And if you have no real objection to accompany Mr. Bucket to the place in question, pursues the lawyer, I shall feel obliged to you if you will do so. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Between such old and intimate friends as ourselves,' pursues Veneering, 'there should in such a case be no reserve. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He entered on the path he had marked for himself; he pursues it still. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The only question is, pursues the lawyer, whether you will give up anything. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I say, my friends, pursues Mr. Chadband, utterly rejecting and obliterating Mr. Snagsby's suggestion, why can we not fly? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

Edited by Griffith