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Example sentences for "would seek"

  • He would mount that rock alone; he would seek to ascertain the place of Lord Mar's confinement; that not one life in Wallace's faithful band might be lost in a vague search.

  • The men gathered round their fallen companion bewailing the prospect of his perishing under these inclemencies; but Wallace cheered them by saying he would seek a shelter for their friend, and blow his bugle when he had found one.

  • I would seek no more than that Christ were absolute King over my will, and that my will were a sufferer in all crosses, without meeting Christ with such a word, "Why is it thus?

  • Do not deceive yourselves, by thinking it sufficient to have so much honesty and grace, as in your opinion may put you over the black line, in irregeneration, as if ye would seek no more than is precisely necessary for salvation.

  • If any man denied the divine majesty, I would seek no other argument to persuade him than what was used to convince an old philosopher who denied the fire: they put his hand in it till he felt it.

  • We would seek no other persuasion to go and dig for a treasure of gold, than to show us where it is hid.

  • And if one of a cubit’s height should imagine himself as tall as a mountain, and accordingly labour to stretch out himself, we would seek no other sign of madness.

  • In that righteousness I would seek to live, and in that righteousness I would seek to die.

  • Gracious God, I would seek to end another day with Thee; I would desire to look up to Thee through Jesus Christ, Thy well-beloved Son, and to be made partaker of that peace which passeth all understanding.

  • Then he would seek to win her favour by acts of daring, such as he well knew how to do.

  • I do not seek to defend him; but to me and mine he did a good deed and I would seek to be grateful.

  • He had shielded me for his own reasons, of which I guessed that family pride was not the least; but he would seek a meeting with all dispatch.

  • Had not necessity driven me there I vow I should never have ventured of myself; and as I rode I swore oftentimes that once I were free of my errand I would seek my refuge in my own countryside.

  • In my helplessness I would seek comfort in dreams of becoming a great man some day, rich and mighty, and avenging myself on him.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    exceedingly interesting; general exercise; retrospective view; would accompany; would advise; would agree; would begin; would call; would create; would endeavor; would endeavour; would fight; would form; would have been the; would just; would lead; would lose; would never have been; would not; would often; would please; would present; would read; would sometimes; would soon; would tend