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Seek out

verb

Look for a specific person or thing.

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"Seek out" Quotes from Famous Books

... to cheer him, and when presently he left me to seek out the redoubtable Gouville, the poor lad's face was brighter by far than when he ...

— The Suitors of Yvonne • Raphael Sabatini

... condemned the vicar to a direful term of suspense, and he certainly would not have knocked at the door of the pretty little gabled house at the Dollington end of the town for many days to come. The vicar would have had to seek out the attorney, to lie in wait for and ...

— Wylder's Hand • J. Sheridan Le Fanu

... was a skilful disputant, he found himself not seldom in the wrong. On these occasions, he would redouble in energy, and declare that black was white, and blue yellow, with much conviction and heat of manner; but in the morning such a licence of debate weighed upon him like a crime, and he would seek out his father, where he walked before breakfast on a terrace overlooking ...

— Tales and Fantasies • Robert Louis Stevenson

... without being producers themselves they are enrolled under a School, and that, like the writers of novels, they reject all work which is conceived and executed outside the pale of their esthetics. An intelligent critic ought, on the contrary, to seek out everything which least resembles the novels already written, and urge young authors as much as possible to try ...

— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. • Guy de Maupassant

... Doubtless it will, when he knows how needless 'tis; For when they're most secure, they're most betray'd: Besides, I did but act the part he made; And Ills he forces, sure he'll not upbraid. Go seek out Antonio. ...

— The Works of Aphra Behn - Volume IV. • Aphra Behn

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