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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pursue
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hotly pursued (=chased closely)
▪ The man ran out of the store, hotly pursued by security guards.
pursue a career (=try to make a successful career)
▪ She left teaching to pursue a career as a psychologist.
pursue a goal
▪ Have we gone too far in pursuing the goal of national security?
pursue an objective (=try to achieve something you want)
▪ War has always been a means of pursuing national objectives.
pursue the matter (=keep discussing or asking about something)
▪ She decided not to pursue the matter, as it obviously upset him.
pursue your aims (=try to achieve them over a long period of time)
▪ We worked closely together to pursue our common aims.
pursue/follow a dream (=try to do or get what you want)
▪ She left her home town to pursue her dreams.
pursue/follow a policy (=continue with a policy over a period of time)
▪ The organization is pursuing a policy of cost cutting.
pursue/follow a strategy (=do a particular planned series of actions)
▪ They are pursuing different strategies.
pursuing...vendetta
▪ He accused the British media of pursuing a vendetta against him.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
actively
▪ This kind of splitting is a mechanism which is actively pursued by the primitive ego.
▪ The only job he has actively pursued was at his alma mater, Wisconsin.
▪ We are actively pursuing that now.
▪ In search of an answer, you follow your nose, wherever it leads, actively pursuing the mystery.
▪ Research in both branches is pursued actively at Edinburgh University.
▪ Alarmed by Hitler's rise to power, Stalin was actively pursuing an alliance with the Western democracies.
▪ That is what we are actively pursuing.
▪ However, occasions will arise where contributions are justified and this should be actively pursued with the insurer concerned.
further
▪ The matter was not further pursued, and was not raised before us by Mr. Beloff.
▪ The gender perspective is one that could fruitfully be pursued further in anthropological studies on values in connection with social behaviour.
▪ The theme of decentralisation is one that is pursued further in the Next Steps Initiative.
▪ We would wish to pursue further the criminal frauds committed by Robert Maxwell and others associated with the Daily Mirror.
vigorously
▪ Histological proof may be difficult to obtain but should be vigorously pursued.
▪ The Governors urged that the purchase of the land should be pursued vigorously.
▪ Such Day Charges are due to be settled when they are incurred and their collection is pursued vigorously.
▪ They will vigorously pursue their policies to combat drug trafficking and misuse of drugs, nationally and internationally.
▪ My Department has vigorously pursued reported delays with the authorities concerned.
▪ I wish him luck in the negotiations that he will vigorously pursue towards that end.
▪ Strategies that ensure the modernisation of manufacturing, distribution and the minimisation of overhead costs will continue to be pursued vigorously.
▪ There was still no news of Alex Household though police investigations were being vigorously pursued.
■ NOUN
action
▪ Ten of the women are still trying to pursue the action.
▪ The families of the victims chose to pursue the action because it was the only form of redress open to them.
▪ And SportsChannel could pursue legal action if there is no settlement.
▪ There is a protocol for pursuing such actions, and police time and money is not usually wasted on minor assaults.
▪ To my knowledge at this point, nobody has been stopped from pursuing any course of action....
▪ The group said it would continue to pursue legal action, which it filed in the U.S.
activity
▪ But they differ from normal girls in the extent to which they pursue these activities and their inability to desist from them.
▪ Indeed, the logic of commercialism may lead the enterprise to pursue activities at odds with other government objectives.
▪ All prisoners are urged to pursue educational and cultural activities.
aim
▪ Of course, we should not be surprised that pressure groups pursue self-interested aims - that is usually why they are created.
▪ That they may also be interested in pursuing their aims by occult means should afford no surprise.
▪ An Act was passed in 1981 to pursue this aim and establish the new framework for special education suggested by Warnock.
▪ The structure should be tailored in such a way that it can most effectively pursue its aims.
argument
▪ I should like to pursue this argument through the use of Benjamin's conceptual framework in the analysis of postmodernist cultural forms.
career
▪ He subsequently pursued a similar career to his father's, but in the service of the Cavendish rather than the Willoughby family.
▪ But at least he will have done something to pursue his career goal.
▪ In the 1960s he gave up practice to pursue an academic career as an architectural historian.
▪ But Rolt was not content to pursue this full literary career.
▪ He attributed his decision to pursue a managerial career mainly to this experience.
▪ He then pursued a successful career in industry as a personnel director, and built up valuable connections in trade union circles.
▪ Green is pursuing a musical career and Priestley has turned producer-director.
case
▪ Having a specialized unit will make it possible to pursue more cases, he said.
▪ Mrs Moon says prosecutors have consistently refused to listen to her adamant refusal to pursue the case.
▪ But shortly after the trial the twin's parents announced that they were considering pursuing a civil case for damages.
▪ He said the family wants prosecutors to pursue the case.
▪ The police often say it is a domestic matter and refuse to pursue the case.
▪ Meili was suspended from his job and hired a lawyer to pursue his case.
▪ No mean combatant, Mr Holdsworth dismissed two solicitors for not pursuing his case with sufficient vigour.
▪ A change in administrations following this years presidential election could affect how aggressively federal officials pursue the case.
claim
▪ The Court of Appeal concluded that he ordinarily worked outside Great Britain and was therefore unable to pursue an unfair dismissal claim.
▪ These include pursuing a claim for policy excess, car hire charges and loss of the use of one's vehicle.
▪ Where that does not resolve any difficulty, the client may pursue his claims with the Solicitors' Complaints Bureau.
▪ Overall, it may be difficult to discover whether there is enough evidence to pursue a claim.
▪ We will pursue a claim against those responsible for your accident.
▪ It seems we may be able to pursue a negligence claim in respect of the fire.
▪ However, it also has its own panel to whom it recommends people wishing to pursue a medical negligence claim.
course
▪ He was a strong and greedy monarch who pursued a course of military aggrandisement from the very beginning of his reign.
▪ But the municipal oligarchy was too weak to pursue its course for long, and eventually came to terms with the state.
▪ Financial policy, which deviated increasingly from monetarist orthodoxy, also pursued a more distinct course with Nigel Lawson as Chancellor.
▪ I am confident that he will pursue this course and continue to run a department whose sales exceed our expectations.
▪ Prior to Theology, he may have pursued an Arts course when he was a young man.
▪ First School students and Junior students pursue separate courses, as they prepare specifically for classroom work.
▪ To my knowledge at this point, nobody has been stopped from pursuing any course of action....
end
▪ It denies the appropriateness of using any political means to pursue such ends.
▪ Delco is pursuing the low end of the market with its $ 900 Telepath 100 system.
▪ Lord Aldington is determined to pursue me to the end.
▪ Each State, in fact, pursued its own selfish ends.
▪ I wish him luck in the negotiations that he will vigorously pursue towards that end.
▪ A good reporter, given a mere hint of the existence of a story, will pursue it to the end.
goal
▪ But in the final instance, these short-run goals are pursued with a green glinted eye focused on long-run profitability.
▪ Whatever goal I am pursuing, all the others - plus many I may not even recognize - are involved.
▪ Quite often a patient remains undecided at this stage about which goal to pursue.
▪ This is not an unattainable ideal, but a goal which you must pursue in order to avoid stagnation.
▪ Accordingly, curriculum development involves specifying educational goals and selecting appropriate learning contexts in which those goals can be pursued.
government
▪ That is ironic given Labour's supposed support for the concept of unitary authorities which the Government are pursuing.
▪ Although the government has pursued hazards reduction research for decades, it has been taken more seriously in the last few years.
▪ In effect Washington was subsidizing the Wilson government to pursue policies which the latter wished to pursue in any case.
▪ For years governments have let scientists pursue the defenceless boson at public expense.
▪ The Government have pursued policies which have added to and certainly not loosened women's shackles.
▪ The House would welcome a statement that the Government intended to pursue that line.
idea
▪ John, I encourage you to pursue Anne's great idea.
▪ What we can do now is pursue that idea.
▪ Peake was not interested in a permanent move and Pool did not pursue the idea of an extended loan.
▪ Children are encouraged to have and pursue their own wonderful ideas.
▪ Thankfully she did not persist in pursuing her mad idea.
▪ Quinn pursued the idea for a few moments but then abandoned it.
▪ Artists could, and did, pursue self-chosen ideas.
individual
▪ The ability to maintain physical and mental powers has allowed some individuals to pursue their chosen careers regardless of their age.
▪ Politics is the competition among individuals and groups pursuing their own interests.
▪ The constitution should guarantee respect for equality and autonomy, yet leave individuals to pursue their own interests as they wish.
▪ Market systems that allow individuals to pursue their own interests within a system of property rights, contracts, and market prices.
▪ Business development in many companies consists of individuals pursuing exciting deals without a clear sense of how these contribute to the company.
▪ The Conservatives believe that as long as government allows individuals to to pursue their own goals their citizenship is served.
▪ The Council is continuing to collect these arrears from individuals and to pursue debtors by all the means available under the legislation.
▪ The members of society thus perceive themselves as private individuals, each pursuing their own private and competing interests.
interest
▪ But one friend, Zak Ove, son of film-maker Horace Ove, encouraged him to pursue an interest in photography.
▪ Corinne delegated the details of the nursery to Aggie as she pursued her varied interests in town.
▪ I am assuming that you have decided not to pursue your initial interest.
▪ Barry Cox, 53 years old, chief executive officer and president, resigned to pursue other interests.
▪ Fowler was a man of great energy and enthusiasm and pursued his wide interests in many fields of engineering with great vigour.
▪ He succeeds Wayne D.. Wallace, who left the company to pursue other interests.
▪ Therefore, once he has left, the employee is allowed to pursue his own interests.
▪ The Mountain View-based software company said that MacDonald left to pursue personal interests.
issue
▪ So I've ended up pursuing these issues on two fronts.
▪ Our inclination is, however, not to pursue the issue further.
▪ Anxious to pursue this issue to its roots, Coleridge plunges into six chapters of philosophical enquiry.
▪ It is very difficult to pursue an issue when it is impossible to produce a detailed case.
▪ At this stage there will be a decision to do nothing or pursue the issue.
▪ I shall, therefore, pursue two issues.
▪ The question is whether domestic competition-policy authorities have the capacity to pursue the issue.
▪ The course will appeal to advanced level students interested in pursuing conceptual issues about the nature and preconditions of politics.
line
▪ The dissenters pursue four main lines of attack.
▪ Even as Bush talked arms limitations with Gorbachev, he pursued a hard line on defense.
▪ He is right to pursue this line.
▪ All too often the outside researcher pursues lines of enquiry which the prevailing culture manages to encompass and nullify.
▪ So Gassendi pursues two lines of thought in his Exercises against the Aristotelians.
▪ They were unable to pursue any line of inquiry which transgressed across the frontiers of authority of the intelligence organisations.
▪ Civil servants found it very difficult to contradict their ministers or to pursue a different line.
▪ The First Coalition pursued two lines in the search for peace.
matter
▪ It is capable of extension, but we shall not pursue the matter here.
▪ I regret that they were unable to pursue the matter any further.
▪ Anxious to avoid further difficulty, Harriet did not pursue the matter.
▪ She wouldn't put it past him but in the brilliant afternoon heat she wasn't inclined to pursue the matter.
▪ There was no need to pursue the matter any further prior to arrest.
▪ If you feel upset by an apparent unfairness, pursue the matter through the grievance procedure.
▪ He would not risk bringing himself and the Kharkov base into disrepute by pursuing the matter any further.
objective
▪ It masks its true intentions, it conceals the objectives that it secretly pursues: these objectives can not be disclosed.
▪ We will explore in due course whether these objectives are pursued to any significant extent in practice.
path
▪ In the South, the church hierarchy pursued the path of full cultural control.
▪ Meanwhile, far from the hilltop haunts of astronomers, craftsmen and clockmakers pursued an alternate path to a longitude solution.
▪ Mr Glocer, a creature of instant messaging and web interfaces, can not imagine pursuing any other path.
▪ Perhaps they were open to pursuing a new career path because of their developmental stage.
▪ He also promotes his staff according to merit, rather than by pursuing the traditional path of steady, age-linked advancement.
▪ During that time, he has pursued his own path, favouring lyrical abstraction at the expense of changing fashion.
▪ The rift between the two was never really healed, and from the 1930s onwards they pursued their separate paths.
policy
▪ It indicates rather a degree of hesitation in the leadership of the party as to the correct cultural policy to be pursued.
▪ Neither Clinton nor the Republicans are pursuing a health policy.
▪ The conclusion of the policy being pursued at present is that eventually everybody will be subsidising nearly everybody's housing.
▪ That is the policy which we have pursued consistently, with the result that direct taxation has come down substantially.
▪ Similarly, the United Front policy had been pursued despite its damaging effect on the Party.
▪ It also meant allowing money supply to contract, or grow less rapidly, when deflationary fiscal policies were pursued.
▪ User education for schoolchildren in public libraries may therefore become increasingly out of step if this policy is pursued more widely.
question
▪ Both Piaget and Vygotsky were concerned about intellectual development, but each pursued different problems and questions.
▪ Boxer hadn't pursued his question, so he must know that, too.
▪ In what follows, I propose to pursue this question further by considering critically four different philosophical theories of particulars.
▪ Irritated she swept away, flushed the tissues down the lavatory and returned to hear Oliver pursuing her question.
▪ We should begin our test of pragmatism by pursuing the question raised a moment ago.
research
▪ This is the very last place where they would want some outsider installing himself and pursuing his researches.
▪ Although the government has pursued hazards reduction research for decades, it has been taken more seriously in the last few years.
▪ The department is accordingly a highly suitable base for postgraduate students seeking to pursue research or advanced study in comparative law.
▪ It freed scholars to pursue their researches without having to look over their shoulders at the Holy Office.
▪ He is now pursuing his clinical and research interests in diabetes and metabolism at the Clinical Research Centre, Harrow.
▪ She plans to pursue her research actively and has acquired a word-processor to this end.
strategy
▪ Instead, they pursue a novel identity strategy designed to side-step the potentially problematic issue of nationality.
▪ If the system had been built on popular votes rather than the electoral college, each would have pursued a different strategy.
▪ The personalized nature of disputes caused litigants to pursue all possible legal strategies even when it would have been more rational to compromise.
▪ Traders and institutions value anonymity because it enables them to pursue investment strategies without being thwarted by competitors, the groups said.
▪ Small wonder then, that private financiers did not pursue this strategy.
▪ To return control to those who work down where the rubber meets the road, entrepreneurial leaders pursue a variety of strategies.
▪ For lawyers or accountants the notion of pursuing a flexible strategy towards employment makes a lot of sense.
▪ Key executives make a commitment to pursue a new strategy, only to return to business as usual.
student
▪ First School students and Junior students pursue separate courses, as they prepare specifically for classroom work.
▪ Some students might want to pursue a combination of high school and community-college course work.
▪ Even students who choose to pursue technical specialties, through apprenticeships or other avenues, should receive a solid dose of academics.
▪ Contrary to appearances, Mabel was a business student pursuing an advanced degree in international trade at Xiamen University.
▪ All students pursue certain courses of general anthropological concern.
▪ The department is accordingly a highly suitable base for postgraduate students seeking to pursue research or advanced study in comparative law.
study
▪ A considerable amount of time and money has been spent in pursuing the study of river basin dynamics.
▪ When he enters Cambridge, Sir Hugo gives him freedom to pursue the studies of his choice.
▪ In 1943 he was still doggedly pursuing his studies.
▪ Having laid the foundation of a compleat classical education at Harvard College, he pursues every other study with ease.
▪ These and other themes are also pursued through detailed case studies from several contrasting regions of the world.
▪ The gender perspective is one that could fruitfully be pursued further in anthropological studies on values in connection with social behaviour.
▪ Frankenstein was encouraged by his other teacher, Waldman, to pursue his studies because Waldman thought it would help mankind.
▪ Notable among these are Volunteers contemplating careers in the field of economic development, after first pursuing graduate study in economics.
■ VERB
allow
▪ The ability to maintain physical and mental powers has allowed some individuals to pursue their chosen careers regardless of their age.
▪ But it allows him to pursue a compromise peace.
▪ To allow these freedoms and pursue detailed academic planning requires sophisticated and reliable forecasting.
▪ Thus, Ahab will allow the men to pursue other whales and to capture as many as possible.
▪ Therefore, once he has left, the employee is allowed to pursue his own interests.
▪ Market systems that allow individuals to pursue their own interests within a system of property rights, contracts, and market prices.
▪ As very few allow them to pursue day release courses, the main provision is on an evening basis.
▪ The Conservatives believe that as long as government allows individuals to to pursue their own goals their citizenship is served.
continue
▪ As Primrose and her brother rejoined them at the table, Madeleine continued to pursue her own thoughts.
▪ Doctors are continuing to pursue the possibility of a seizure mainly because everything else they can think of has been ruled out.
▪ Lesley Harrison continued to pursue her attacker despite one blow from a screwdriver that punctured her heart.
▪ They continued to pursue their own explanations for the mysterious mountains on the ocean floor.
▪ Margaret was encouraged to continue pursuing her enquiries with the solicitor.
▪ Adams, now 36, wondered whether she should continue to pursue her Olympic hopes.
▪ The position has not altered and we will continue to pursue our present policies.
▪ Some of them continued to pursue him, or else Orestes thought that they did.
decide
▪ I am assuming that you have decided not to pursue your initial interest.
▪ Hernandez wants to be a police officer, but she decided not to pursue that just yet.
▪ Every time a dolphin school is sighted, the group decides whether to pursue it and attempt the drive.
▪ McVeigh later decided against pursuing additional appeals.
▪ A report is sent to the district attorney, who then decides whether to pursue his own inquiry.
▪ I decided not to pursue it.
▪ To begin with I decided to pursue this possibility in a straight forward sketch.
▪ President Clinton is on the verge of deciding how best to pursue an international ban on land mines.
intend
▪ If Clarke had intended to pursue his enquiries further, he obviously thought better of it under that formidable gaze.
▪ He reviewed the course that his administration had followed and intended to pursue in the future.
▪ I intend therefore to pursue three main strands.
▪ What are the main lines of enquiry you intend to pursue?
▪ If you intend to pursue a very flat structure, I would delete the post of Depute Director for modelling purposes.
want
▪ It's a question that lawyers representing the two Hitachi employees wanted to pursue in open court.
▪ I wanted to pursue my star further.
▪ Some students might want to pursue a combination of high school and community-college course work.
▪ She wanted only me, pursued me, in fact, with an ardor that I at first found embarrassing.
▪ It boils down to whether we want to pursue the truth or chase after unfounded beliefs that make us feel special.
▪ He said the family wants prosecutors to pursue the case.
▪ By my junior year in high school, I knew I wanted to pursue journalism.
▪ As always, Rembrandt offers as many possibilities as one wants to pursue.
wish
▪ The risk to the purchaser in this solution is that the vendor may still wish to pursue debtors.
▪ Do you wish to pursue the process?
▪ Opportunities are also available for those who wish to pursue higher diplomas and degrees in a full-time or part-time capacity.
▪ He still wishes to pursue a medical career, and has been told that he will almost definitely get into medical school.
▪ What indications are there that Lansdowne wishes to pursue a cautious policy, and how would you explain that caution? 5.
▪ Conservative Members say that they do not wish to pursue people or insist that their will should be enforced.
▪ We would wish to pursue further the criminal frauds committed by Robert Maxwell and others associated with the Daily Mirror.
▪ However, it also has its own panel to whom it recommends people wishing to pursue a medical negligence claim.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A good reporter will pursue a story until he or she knows all the facts.
▪ After college, Jeffrey said he hopes to pursue a career in medicine.
▪ Carol's been pursuing him for months.
▪ Police pursued the gunman into an abandoned building.
▪ Police pursued the suspect for 20 minutes along Highway 5.
▪ The ship was being pursued by enemy submarines.
▪ The US intends to pursue vigorous programs in space science.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A country abandons the possibility of pursuing its own economic and social policies.
▪ Filthy-rich individuals apart, the politics of greed makes no economic sense for the wealthy countries that pursue it.
▪ If you are interested in pursuing this opportunity please sign and return the attached undertaking of confidentiality to me.
▪ Indeed, the logic of commercialism may lead the enterprise to pursue activities at odds with other government objectives.
▪ Should people pursue their own happiness at the expense of others?
▪ Similarly, the United Front policy had been pursued despite its damaging effect on the Party.
▪ Those who pursue quality management on that basis are doomed to disappointment.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pursue

Pursue \Pur*sue"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pursued; p. pr. & vb. n. Pursuing.] [OE. pursuen, porsuen, OF. porsivre, poursuivre, poursuir, F. poursuivre, fr. L. prosequi; pro forward + sequi to follow. See Sue, and cf. Prosecute, Pursuivant.]

  1. To follow with a view to overtake; to follow eagerly, or with haste; to chase; as, to pursue a hare.

    We happiness pursue; we fly from pain.
    --Prior.

    The happiness of men lies in purswing, Not in possessing.
    --Longfellow.

  2. To seek; to use or adopt measures to obtain; as, to pursue a remedy at law.

    The fame of ancient matrons you pursue.
    --Dryden.

  3. To proceed along, with a view to some and or object; to follow; to go in; as, Captain Cook pursued a new route; the administration pursued a wise course.

  4. To prosecute; to be engaged in; to continue. `` Insatiate to pursue vain war.''
    --Milton.

  5. To follow as an example; to imitate.

  6. To follow with enmity; to persecute; to call to account.

    The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have pursued me, they shall pursue you also.
    --Wyclif (John xv. 20).

    Syn: To follow; chase; seek; persist. See Follow.

Pursue

Pursue \Pur*sue"\, v. i.

  1. To go in pursuit; to follow.

    The wicked flee when no man pursueth.
    --Prov. xxviii. 1.

    Men hotly pursued after the objects of their ambition.
    --Earle.

  2. To go on; to proceed, especially in argument or discourse; to continue.

    Note: [A Gallicism]

    I have, pursues Carneades, wondered chemists should not consider.
    --Boyle.

  3. (Law) To follow a matter judicially, as a complaining party; to act as a prosecutor.
    --Burrill.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pursue

late 13c., "to follow with hostile intent," from Anglo-French pursuer and directly from Old French poursuir (Modern French poursuivre), variant of porsivre "to chase, pursue, follow; continue, carry on," from Vulgar Latin *prosequare, from Latin prosequi "follow, accompany, attend; follow after, escort; follow up, pursue," from pro- "forward" (see pro-) + sequi "follow" (see sequel). Meaning "to proceed, to follow" (a path, etc.), usually figurative (a course of action, etc.), is from late 14c. This sense also was in Latin. Related: Pursued; pursuing. For sense, compare prosecute.

Wiktionary
pursue

vb. 1 (context obsolete transitive English) To follow with harmful intent; to try to harm, to persecute, torment. (from 14th c.) 2 (context transitive English) To follow urgently, originally with intent to capture or harm; to chase. (from 14th c.) 3 (context transitive English) To follow, travel down (a particular way, course of action etc.). (from late 14th c.) 4 (context transitive English) To aim for, go after (a specified objective, situation etc.). (from late 14th c.) 5 (context transitive English) To participate in (an activity, business etc.); to practise, follow (a profession). (from 15th c.)

WordNet
pursue
  1. v. carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in; "She pursued many activities"; "They engaged in a discussion" [syn: prosecute, engage]

  2. follow in or as if in pursuit; "The police car pursued the suspected attacker"; "Her bad deed followed her and haunted her dreams all her life" [syn: follow]

  3. go in search of or hunt for; "pursue a hobby" [syn: quest for, go after, quest after]

  4. carry further or advance; "Can you act on this matter soon?" [syn: follow up on, act on]

Usage examples of "pursue".

I am impatient to pursue the final ruin of that kingdom, which was accomplished under the reign of Sigismond, the son of Gundobald.

Instead of those salutary restraints, which had required the direct and solemn testimony of an accuser, it became the duty as well as the interest of the Imperial officers to discover, to pursue, and to torment the most obnoxious among the faithful.

Tarquin, thinking it advisable to pursue the enemy closely while in this consternation, after sending the booty and the prisoners to Rome, piling up and burning the spoils which he had vowed to Vulcan, proceeds to lead his army onward into the Sabine territory.

The apportionment of space which is made in considering the various diseases and their different stages, as well as the course which the people are advised to pursue under the different circumstances of affliction, is not always in accordance with the plans and recommendations which have been made by others who have written works on domestic medicine.

Bengal species, to which I will allude further on, and it has the same way of taking to water when pursued.

Christians pursued the soul of the Apostate to hell, and his body to the grave.

Mistral, the singer of Provence, the poet of love and joy, the minstrel of rustic labour and antique faiths, was pursuing, amid the homage of his apotheosis, the incredible cycle of his splendid existence.

No question was raised as to the power of the State to appoint, in any mode its legislature saw fit to adopt, and none that a single method, applicable without exception, must be pursued in the absence of an amendment to the Constitution.

Huntress, arrowy to pursue, In and out of woody glen, Under cliffs that tear the blue, Over torrent, over fen, She and forest, where she skims Feathery, darken and relume: Those are her white-lightning limbs Cleaving loads of leafy gloom.

As an arrowy serpent, pursuing the form Of an elephant, bursts through the brakes of the waste.

At the time, she had believed he pursued her merely to assuage some affront to his pride.

Living religious traditions begin to degenerate when their followers replace effective spiritual purification, attentional training, and contemplative inquiry with sterile liturgies, ritualistic meditations, and contemplative exercises pursued with the sense that the practitioner already knows their outcome.

We are at once reminded of the Sun at the new year represented by a child sitting on a lotus, and of the relations of the Sun of Spring with the Autumnal Serpent, pursued by and pursuing him, and in conjunction with him.

Ian Steward, the benison of Canderre-Yarim, had indeed appeared at the border, the first two prepared to pursue political ends, the benison religious ones.

By this time he had been joined by the Earl of Derby, the Earl of Lauderdale, the Lords Talbot and Wilmot, Colonel Roscarrock, Colonel Blague, Charles Giffard, and many other Cavaliers, and a consultation was held as to what course should be pursued.