Seeks

Examples

• It was the unhappiness of a fine brain that seeks employment. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• With Plato the investigation of nature is another department of knowledge, and in this he seeks to attain only probable conclusions (Timaeus). Plato. The Republic.
• Seeks earnestly to know whether Podsnap 'will rally round him? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I know too well, as his grave figure passes onward, what he seeks, and what he dreads. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• It is largely due to the Patent Law, which justly regards the inventor as a public benefactor, and seeks to make for him some protection in the enjoyment of his rights. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Heloise and I, under pretext of study, gave ourselves up wholly to love, and the solitude that love seeks our studies procured for us. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The one seeks violent conquests, the other the relief of humanity. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• How much of this really seeks to create a fine expression of the sexual impulse? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• What is to be absolutely annihilated is not alone prostitution, not alone all the methods of expression which lust seeks out, but lust itself. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Lawyer Lightwood,' ducking at him with a servile air, 'I am a man as gets my living, and as seeks to get my living, by the sweat of my brow. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Who seeks him? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• My dear Maurice, believe me, there are still kingdoms to be gained, if he who seeks has the nerve, judgment, and fortune of a born adventurer. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The reader who seeks to find some one idea under which the whole may be conceived, must necessarily seize on the vaguest and most general. Plato. The Republic.
• A habit does not wait, Micawber-like, for a stimulus to turn up so that it may get busy; it actively seeks for occasions to pass into full operation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Opposition not only enlarges the soul; but the soul, when full of courage and magnanimity, in a manner seeks opposition. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• But the figure that he seeks is not among them. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Lay hands on this stranger if he seeks to lodge in your village to-night, and be sure that his business is honest, Gabelle. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• It does not passively wait for information to be bestowed which will increase its meaning; it seeks it out. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Vitruvius was not ignorant of the fact that water seeks its own level, and he even argued that air must have weight in order to account for the rise of water in pumps. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• And then one, seeing another grow rich, seeks to rival him, and thus the great mass of the citizens become lovers of money. Plato. The Republic.
• Here Edison, throwing himself down, sometimes seeks a short rest during specially long working tours. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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