The Greek Emperor sought their friendship, and even consented to pay them tribute.
Other nations sought to lighten the weight of the yoke by taking service with the tyrant or bowing the head.
Czar Peter turned to the Greek Empire for help, and sought to strengthen his position at home by a marriage with the grand-daughter of the Emperor Romanus Lecapenus.
They sought leave from the Emperor Valens to do this.
The Church was sought which was willing to allow to Bulgaria the highest degree of ecclesiastical independence, and which seemed to offer as the price of adhesion the greatest degree of political advantage.
Patriotic Bulgarians, under the Sublime Porte, sought to re-establish their old National Church and shake it free from its subjection to the Greek Patriarch at Constantinople.
My Australian eye instinctively sought for the Southern Cross ranged against it in the sky in sign that the Christian standard held the Heavens too.
Another occasion was sought to get rid of the tribute to Turkey, and from a Prince, subject to a suzerain, the ruler of Bulgaria became a Czar, responsible to none but his subjects.
I sought in vain in those northern latitudes, shivered a little and, as though arguing against a superstitious thought, said to myself: "But there is the Great Bear.
We stared aghast and our laughter was not hearty when a rat scurried out of the carcase and sought safety in a hole of the adjoining wall.
I punched my hands against the sandbags until they bled; the whizz of the shells passed like ghosts above me; slumber sought me and strove to hold me captive.
Why, she gave her home and shelter when the folk of Troy sought to stone her.
He did not seek her for her righteousness; he sought her because her beauty spoke like a god to him!
So he sought and questioned where that woman might be; and men said she was queen of a land among the Iberians.
The custom of our house is to afford twenty-four hours of uninterrupted refuge in the sanctuary of St. Dominic, without asking any question at the poor unfortunates who have sought relief there.
Eachin, moving towards the left wing of the battle, sought less formidable adversaries, and again, by some show of valour, revived the sinking hopes of his followers.
Without knowing what she sought except the general desire to know the worst of the dreadful report, she hurried forward to the very spot which of all others her feelings of the preceding day would have induced her to avoid.
Many years have I asked and sought for the kingdom of heaven, but never till now have I found the right knock.
And that he had sought it far and long, and in all the earth there was no man more unhappy.
He sought it for eight days, and on the ninth early in the morning he found the blood-red flower.
He sought out a tall oak tree, climbed up to the top, and felt devoutly thankful that his big smoothing-iron was in his pocket, for the wind in the tree-tops was so high that he might easily have been blown away altogether.
It is he who sought me out in my captivity and set me free, and to him I owe the happiness of seeing you once more.
Who knows if I should ever find the Golden Blackbird, even if I sought the whole world through for it.
The Princess's father, who had never ceased to repent his harshness towards his daughter, had sought her through the land, but as no one could tell him anything of her, he supposed her dead.
For many days he sought her up and down the woods and at last he found her.
So they ran; but what was their dismay when they found that the cradle was empty; and though they sought high and low, not a trace of Rosanella could they discover.
Keenly he sought to read the expression there; then, with just the shadow of a smile, nodded to himself.
His eyes sought Gordon's face, half in relief, half in fear.
Her blue eyes sought Palmer's frankly and innocently enough, and yet with just a trace of coquetry.
The tenants thus dispossessed either swelled the ranks of the vagabonds who infested the highways or sought their livelihood at sea or in London, which provided the two best openings for adventurous young men.
And Anglo-American history begins with that century of maritime adventure and naval war in which English sailors blazed and secured the long sea-trail for the men of every other kind who found or sought their fortunes in America.
I brushed them by, and fled the room, and reached the outer air and sought for her.
This added to my restlessness, and I sought to look at my watch, for the first time since the accident; it was gone.
I yielded because I could not help it, not because I would have willed it; and with that dull strength which grows into the sinews of the soul from necessity, sought to adjust myself in such fashion as I might to my new conditions.
When it was thus too late, it occurred to me that I had lost an opportunity which might not easily return to me, and I soughtfar and wide for Mrs. Faith.
Christ sought to convert the Jews, not to kill them; and for my part I can honour the man who clings to his own faith, aye, and forgive him because they forced him to feign to belong to ours.
I tell you, lady, that I have sought many, for not all are so hard to win, and I hate them every one.
Well, they have come back, for last month I bought them all, and more, at a price larger than I wished to give because others sought them, and but this day I have paid in gold and taken delivery of the title.
Madame Scheffer sought in all ways to serve her sons, and so we find there was always a gentle rivalry between Ary and his mother as to who could love most.
But she was loyal, more than loyal, to Rembrandt: she lived but to serve him and sought to protect his interests in every way.
Nevertheless, her ardent mind sought to penetrate every mystery, so she was often accused of being a doubter--when the reverse was really true.
The next day he still soughtthe Louvre--not caring to reveal his ignorance by asking the way.
There was a becoming flavor of melancholy in his manner, and more than one gracious dame sought to lure him back to earth, away from his sadness, out of the dream-world in which he lived.
His father was distressed, and sought by bribes to get him to quit scrawling with pencil and turn his attention to logarithms and other useful things; but with only partial success.
To God's great goodness it has ever been their habit to ascribe their successes; and when an enterprise has failed, the causes of failure have been sought for in the Divine displeasure.
Some havesought a mystical meaning in this last regulation, as if the high priest figured the Redeemer, and the death of the high priest the completion of redemption by the death of Christ.
They had trusted in their own hearts when they ought to have sought guidance from above.
When we have clear indications of the Divine mind as to any course of action, we are to advance to it promptly and without fear, even though the means at our disposal appear utterly inadequate to the object sought to be gained.
But as it would be a miserable thing for the new life to stand still as soon as our personal safety was secured, so it would be a wretched affection that sought nothing more on behalf of our dearest friends.
There is no reason to think that in taking this step Joshua acted presumptuously, proceeding on his own counsel when he should havesought counsel of God.
One other service of Joshua to the nation of Israel remains to be noticed: he sought with all his heart that they should be a God-governed people, a people that in every department of life should be ruled by the endeavour to do God's will.
The objections which may be made to the practice I have sought to recommend, I must leave to be considered in another place.
Thus every external circumstance is unpropitious, and it is not strange that relief has been sought in the use of manuscripts.
Till fairer shines our mortal home Than heavens we sought beyond the skies.
One moment he spoke in a whisper, the next in a quiet, conversational manner, the next there came a thundering blast as if he sought to arouse the dead.
That he acted in perfect good faith is evident from the preceding, which is borne out in a lengthy dispatch in which he sought to justify his action in the eyes of his brother.
While the trains were at a standstill, Mr Huskisson, formerly President of the Board of Trade, got out of the carriage in which he had been travelling and sought Wellington.
The Peshwá sought refuge with the British, and forthwith entered into an offensive and defensive alliance with Lord Wellesley as the only means of saving his territory.
Accordingly, somewhere toward eight o'clock in the evening, he sought her out with the bold resolution of forcing her to satisfy him on this point.
Mr. Byrd received this tribute to his skill with some confusion and a deep blush, which he vainly sought to hide by bending lower over his work.
Tredwell, as, seeing no immediate prospect of change, they sought for seats at the other side of the room.
Tredwell, as if she sought in their faces some confirmation of a hideous doubt or fear that had arisen in her own mind.
Confused, disordered, the prey of a thousand hopes and a thousand fears, she sought for solitude and found it within the four walls of the small room which was now her only refuge.
Refusing all offers, many of them those of honorable marriage, she sought for work, and after a short delay found it in the household of Mr. Orcutt.
Mr. Byrd, on the contrary, felt a strange pang that the information he had sought for so long and vainly should come at last from the lips of an innocent child.
If there is any thing exceptionable, it must be sought for in the specific powers upon which this general declaration is predicated.
A little consideration will satisfy us, that the species of security sought for in the multiplication of the Executive, is nattainable.
The security essentially intended by the Constitution against corruption and treachery in the formation of treaties, is to be sought for in the numbers and characters of those who are to make them.
Was it possible that she had obtained the knowledge she sought for, and as yet held it in her bosom like a concealed weapon, waiting a favorable opportunity to strike?
As the party in the dog-cart drew near, Osmond's eyes sought out Elsa.
They had grossly mismanaged the child--they had never sought her confidence, only exacted her submission.
At last he became aware of a girl, who he guessed might be the one he sought for, merely because he could not see anyone else who could possibly answer to that description.
With a dozen scalps in their possession, the Crows sought the shelter of the forest, and afterwards regained their own village.
Regarding the Indian tribes as an injured people, he sought to set before his young friends the wrongs and oppressions practised on the red man; that they might sympathize with his trials, and feel interested for his welfare.
Her whole world then thought she defied and laughed at the smart set; but Richard Baskerville saw, and had the assurance to tell her, that she secretly liked them very much and even sought their countenance by unique means.
It was no man of ordinary mould whom Baskerville had sought to destroy, and that Clavering would be destroyed there was no reasonable doubt.
She could have made the fortune of a débutante, and hence ambitious mothers sought her favor.
We pinned our faith to Brown, andsought him in his warehouse.
Two comrades and travelers, who sought a better country than the United States in the month of August, found themselves one evening in apparent possession of the ancient town of Boston.
They possessed property and character, and were not to be swayed by every demagogue who soughtpreferment and office.
Beyond he could hear the confused shouts of many men, as they in vain sought to explain the death of their companions.
Quickly the lads hurried back to Alexis and as quickly sought out a surgeon.
The lads saluted and took their departure, returning to the spot where they had sought rest only a few short hours before.
Night came on, and the lads sought shelter in the home of a Galician peasant.
Still holding the medal his hand again sought Chester's and pressed it.
The Admiralty naturally sought an opportunity of giving honourable service to their officers and men.
The Hudson's Bay Company and its rival sought to carry their operations as far inland as possible in order to tap the supplies at their source.
If I have loved him--if I love him still--it is because I alone have sought it should be so.
Even in the middle hour of night She sought no soft relief, But, by her taper's misty light, Sate nourishing her grief.
I have ever sought your honour and your glory, perhaps by means you now condemn; but I have acted, like a weak, fallible mortal, for the best.
Gain is every where sought after with the utmost avidity; but it is sought not for any lofty object, but on account of the substantial physical comforts with which the possession of riches is attended.
He had sought a refuge there--and he there lay concealed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sought" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
