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• She had sought him. (4)
• And Christian sought him. (12)
• Clara was now sought for. (10)
• His tongue sought his palate! (8)
• The young man sought amusement. (10)
• Her mind sought to escape in the past. (8)
• Their acquaintance was exceedingly sought after. (4)
• The old man then sought to obliterate her utterly. (10)
• He sought him in Geneva, Lausanne, Nice, Marseilles. (12)
• Reeling, Niels Heinrich sought his cap with his eyes. (12)
• Then his hand sought hers, and gave it a hard squeeze. (8)
• He did not pray, but merely sought rest from sensation. (8)
• But he sought out the proprietor with a trembling heart. (9)
• He sought to get his reward by gentle muscular persuasion. (10)
• Do they doubt that such a writer could be found, if sought? (16)
• In this search, who knows what he thought and what he sought? (8)
• She sought to collect a few more of the scattered fragments. (10)
• Laetitia raised her dark eyelashes; she sought to understand. (10)
• Making their adieux together, they sought their hats and coats. (8)
• And, going home, she sought her bedroom where she could be alone. (8)
• I went and sought the company to which her icy scorn had sent me. (12)
• Soames sought to cheer him by the continual use of the word Buller. (8)
• And crushing his old opera hat against his chest he sought the lift. (8)
• The unfriendliness of the friends who sought to retain her recurred. (10)
• While I sought and sought, my life became one pain. (12)
• I conquered my aversion, and sought out the woman when she was alone. (12)
• I remained on your track; I sought every opportunity of being near you. (12)
• She was a coarse vessel, and he wondered at the men who sought joy in her. (13)
• He turned his back on the towers; and sought distraction in the faces of the passers-by. (8)
• Their hands, which still held the implements of dentistry, insensibly sought each other. (8)
• Thousands had perished; thousands had sought refuge in England; thousands had recanted. (19)
• I am not aware that if my adversary suffer in a fair fight not sought by me, it is my fault. (8)
• He had work to do in preparation for a Confirmation Class, and sought his study on getting in. (8)
• I became the fool of one who sought to trap me, and I let the accursed dancer poison my blood. (12)
• They told me you were in Berlin, and I sought and at last found you, and under what conditions? (12)
• But as the hour approached he grew restless, and sought the schoolroom, which overlooked the drive. (8)
• She took his hand, and walked with him, and seemed The wife he sought, though shadow-like and dry. (10)
• But the more she sought and longed, the deeper grew her bewilderment, her feeling of being in a cage. (8)
• Tales of search for simples, and those who sought of love Ease because the creature was all too fair. (10)
• He was floating by unheeded, and saw that her hand stretched low, and could not gather what it sought. (10)
• Lavender descended from the car, and, accompanied by Blink, entered the hotel and sought the coffee-room. (8)
• The conviction was in his mind that the husband of this woman sought rather to punish than be rid of her. (10)
• To know Fanny to be sought in marriage by a man of fortune, raised her, therefore, very much in her opinion. (4)
• If he has sought to prevail, he can learn whether his blows have told, and, what is more important, upon whom. (16)
• The candour of this conclusion discomfited him; and, finding that Holly had gone up to bed, he sought his own room. (8)
• If the marauder escaped with his life, much less the plunder he sought, the prediction often made would be inexact. (21)
• Therefore the best sought him out and made friends with him, and the more he prospered the wiser and better he grew. (5)
• Mrs. Berry sought grace while she performed a series of apologetic bobs, and wiped the perspiration from her forehead. (10)
• He urged those about him to watch what was going on, laughed his clucking laugh, and sought to encourage the simpleton. (12)
• Her having sought him he read for the frank surrender which he was ready to match with a loyal devotion to his captive. (10)
• To this depressing spot, drawn by some subtle influence he had sought neither to resist nor analyze, came Mr. Brentshaw. (1)
• The agony of grief which overpowered them at first, was voluntarily renewed, was sought for, was created again and again. (4)
• A silent trio sought Paddington in a taxi-cab, digesting this desperate climax of an affair that sprang from origins so small. (8)
• I fled nothing, nothing pursued: The changeful visible face Of our Mother I sought for my food; Crumbs by the way to sustain. (10)
• Had she known her sister sought to tear her from such prospects and such realities as these, what would have been her sensations? (4)
• His eyes seemed filled with blood; he sought a sacrifice and a creature to make atonement, and observed the dog gnawing at a rug. (12)
• There was absolutely nothing to see, and therefore we also sought shelter, and sleepily waited for the town to come to life again. (20)
• As a consequence of express injunctions given by my lady five years previously, the assistant-manager sought an interview with her. (10)
• Thus speaking, the Darties entered their habitat in Green Street, the rent of which was paid by James, and sought a well-earned rest. (8)
• But I could not help attributing my sentiments to the husband, and sought to conciliate his tolerance with a cup of brandy from my flask. (2)
• The Thier, when he had recovered from his amazement, sought for old Gottlieb to give him a back-hit, as Margarita foresaw that he would. (10)
• There remained what might be called his general account with the world, and at the end he had sought to settle this, the largest of all. (13)
• If he really sought to reconcile himself like a dutiful branch, he must be forgiven for having dismembered himself from the paternal tree. (4)
• He was frightened by the effect he had produced, and like most men with but little courage, he sought at once to justify himself by bullying. (8)
• Her opinion was sought as to the probable continuance of the open weather, but her answers were as short and indifferent as civility allowed. (4)
• The abnormal condition of Ireland and the question of what remedy should be sought for it have deeply divided and embittered public opinion. (14)
• He bent down his face, and learned an unheard-of thing from the beseeching, horror-stricken glance that sought him as from fathomless depths. (12)
• Nevertheless she felt that she was a wealthy landowner, and sought capitalists to finance her on the security of this dusty and hopeless claim. (12)
• In this spot of the broad American city coarse license flourished, and the one necessity for him who sought forgetfulness was the price of pleasure. (13)
• With these feelings, she rather dreaded than sought for the first view of that well-known spire which would announce her within twenty miles of home. (4)
• But with the remembrance of the kindly serviceable man at Rouen, he sought to convey to the porter, that the terms of their association were cordial. (10)
• She might, after all, at heart be one of the leisured, jewelled, pretty-winged; the spending, never harvesting, world she claimed and sought to enter. (10)

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Definition of sought:

• sought, sawt, pa.t. and pa.p. of seek_.(0)

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