Word Finder - pursuit

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The act of pursuing.

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Unremitting pursuit of wealth doesn't bring happiness, particularly if successful.

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A hobby or recreational activity, done regularly.

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A discipline in track cycling where two opposing teams start on opposite sides of the track and try to catch their opponents.

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The sounds of pursuit grew fainter.

The pursuit of the Russian army, about which Napoleon was so concerned, produced an unheard-of result.

Apellicon's chief pursuit was the collection of rare and important books.

Sounds of pursuit came from a few floors down, blocking her escape.

Colonel Swayne was not able to continue the pursuit, and returned to Berbera.

For a time this was a profitable pursuit, as the horse hides brought good prices.

He was marked by the modesty of true genius, and his life was given to the single-minded pursuit of truth.

Shifting to his highest gear, Dean raced in pursuit down a long incline.

There are those who would see the gates ruptured in pursuit of the mortal world.

The pursuit of this study has not only thrown valuable light on the economy of the plant as a whole, but forms an indispensable condition of the advance of morphological anatomy.

His further pursuit of the legal profession seemed to be out of the question, and on his return to Boston he remained quietly at home.

Mention is made of nets and snares, but the dog does not seem to have been used in the pursuit of game.

There were no sounds of pursuit, no sounds of arrows being drawn or fired.

Apart from these missions, his activities were devoted to the composition of history, a pursuit for which the monks of St Albans had long been famous.

As soon as he trotted out upon the surface of the river he found himself safe from pursuit, and Zeb was already running across the water toward Dorothy.

He did not press the pursuit far, although the great king's camp with his harem fell into his hands.

Many of our native species spend the day lurking beneath stones, and sally forth at night in pursuit of their prey, which consistsof small insects, earthworms and snails.

He donned biking clothes, packed a jacket and sweater in his pannier and set off in pursuit of a few peaceful moments in one of his favorite worlds.

Gudrun is carried off by a king of Normandy, and her kinsfolk, who are in pursuit, are defeated in a great battle on the island of Willpensand off the Dutch coast.

Scholars were held in honour in those days by princes and people, and Ben-Sira frankly adduces this fact as one of the great advantages of the pursuit of wisdom.

One glance back revealed that Josh was still in pursuit.

It was unreal rocketing down this mountain, in pursuit of an unknown someone, one minute, surely Jeffrey Byrne, the next minute someone else.

The words rush through my hand like hounds in pursuit of a hare which they often miss.

The rapidity of the Russian pursuit was just as destructive to our army as the flight of the French was to theirs.

Immediately after this proclamation Gdrgei disappeared with his army among the hills of Upper Hungary, and, despite the difficulties of a phenomenally severe winter and the constant pursuit of vastly superior forces, fought his way down to the valley of Hernad - and safety.

Rice agriculture is a highly ritualized activity and is really a complete way of life, rather than just an economic pursuit.

Keep him! shouted different people and the people dashed in pursuit of the trap.

The battling immortals had nearly destroyed the human world in pursuit of one another.

The advantage to the animal of this imitation of surrounding objects is that it escapes the pursuit of (say) a bird which would, were it not deceived by the resemblance, attack and eat the caterpillar.

The railway communications were constantly damaged, isolated posts and convoys captured, and the raiders always seemed able to avoid contact with the columns sent in pursuit.

Thirdly, when Xenophanes himself says that theories about gods and about things are not knowledge, that his own utterances are not verities but verisimilitudes, and that, so far from learning things by revelation, man must laboriously seek a better opinion, he plainly renounces the "disinterested pursuit of truth."

The practical bearings of a science, it will be granted, are simply, as it were, the summation of its facts, with the legitimate conclusions from them, the natural application of the data ascertained, and have not necessarily any direct relationship to its pursuit.

In spite, therefore, of the encyclopaedic tradition which has persisted from Aristotle through the Arab and medieval schools down to Herbert Spencer, it is forced upon us in our own day that in a pursuit so manysided as medicine, whether in its scientific or in its practical aspect, we have to submit more and more to that division of labour which has been a condition of advance in all other walks of life.

Effectual pursuit might not have been practicable; but the.

In 1795 the Burmese were involved in a dispute with the British in India, in consequence of their troops, to the amount of 5000 men, entering the district of Chittagong in pursuit of three robbers who had fled from justice across the frontier.

Enactments about the pursuit of thieves, and the calling in of warrantors to justify sales of chattels, are other expressions of the difficulties attending peaceful intercourse.

As a rule, they are only mounted at the moment of attack, or in pursuit.

The Aleutian Islands gradually became known in the pursuit of this trade, through Michael Novidiskov (1745) and his successors, and it was not until Captain James Cook, working from the south, explored the sea and strait in 1778 that the tide of discovery set farther northward.

Very soon the No came to occupy in the estimation of the military class a position similar to that held by the lanka as a literary pursuit, and the gagaku as a musical, in the Imperial court.

When disturbed they go off at a swift trot, which soon leaves all pursuit from a man on foot far behind; but if chased by a horseman they break into a gallop, which they can keep up for some distance.

The intolerable meanness advocated for the sake of the paltriest gains, the entire ignoring of any pursuit in life except money-getting, and the representation of the whole duty of man as consisting first in the attainment of a competent fortune, and next, when that fortune has been attained, in spending not more than half of it, are certainly repulsive enough.

After twenty minutes they broke and fled, and the cavalry followed them till broken ground rendered further pursuit impossible.

Alvensleben, mistaking the withdrawal of the French for the beginning of a retreat, had meanwhile sent orders to the 6th cavalry division to charge in pursuit towards Rezonville; but before it could reach the field the French relieving troops had forced their way through the stragglers and showed such a bold front to the Prussian horsemen that an attack held no promise of success, more especially since they had lost their intervals in their advance and had no room for a proper deployment.

Then the 1st Guard Dragoons (since known as Queen Victoria's regiment), after a brilliant manoeuvre under heavy fire, to get into the best position for delivering a charge, rode down the whole French line of pursuers from left to right, and by their heroic self-sacrifice relieved the remnants of the infantry from further pursuit.

Their leading ships were severely mauled, and their whole force so crippled that they could make no pursuit of the Dutch when they drew off, their injured ships being towed by the Spanish galleys, in the late afternoon.

It was true that the most active French colonial element, the trappers, were barbarized by the natives, and that the pursuit of the fur trade and other causes had brought the French into sharp collision with the most formidable of the native races, the confederation known as the Five (or Six) Nations.

For sixteen years the pursuit of his kingdom was the chief object of John's ambition.

Learning was then no mere pursuit of a special and recluse class.

Do class barriers affect the pursuit of sexual gratification?

The process was more often haphazard than the pursuit of a grand design.