Searched

Examples

• Were thy garments searched by as curious an eye, Isaac, said he, what discoveries might not be made? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Others, again, searched the surrounding trees for fruit, nuts, small birds, and eggs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Every time her hand searched for either of these, it would touch the book; and, sooner or later (who knows? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Here, in a broad thoroughfare, once the abode of wealthy City merchants, we found the sculpture works for which we searched. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• They took me into the guard-house and searched me, but they found no sedition on me. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I eagerly searched my reticule. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a certainty. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• This comrade is a guerilla from there, Gomez told him while the man searched him. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• They searched on for some time, but no other was to be seen. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid and searched. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• After making her fast, they swarmed the sides and searched the vessel from stem to stern. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Have them searched and bring them to me when I send for them. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I have searched anxiously, in my own mind, for those means, and I have not found them. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He searched further, but found nothing more. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He too was thrown prostrate and searched to the skin. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• This I reached about morning and entering the first enclosure I came to I searched for some evidences of a habitation. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• His pockets are searched, and his sword and pistols taken from him. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Here he was searched; and nothing being found upon him, locked up. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Quickly he ran to the cupboard and searched in the far recess of the lower shelf. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• About two hours afterward, when the missing boy was being searched for, a man came to the Edison home to make anxious inquiry of the companion with whom he had last been seen. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The hiding-place at the Shivering Sand must be searched--and the true state of the case will be discovered there. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• But his stables had been searched? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• When she spoke, his eye searched the obscurity of her retreat. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I might at any moment be seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat pocket. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Well, but are these rooms never searched to ascertain whether any spirits are concealed in them? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Four of them, well armed, searched every cranny and lurking-hole, till at last they found me flat on my face behind the stone. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Mrs. Nunsuch went and searched till she found a fragment of the narrowest red ribbon, which she took downstairs and tied round the neck of the image. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• In vain I searched among the groups of travellers and leave-takers for the lithe figure of my friend. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Outside in the guard room Gomez and Andreu Nin were being searched by the guard. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• My good servants, who have been with me for years, have, I am ashamed to say, had their boxes and rooms searched already by the other officer. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

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