pursuit

• We drove down Winchester Street, then we exited the vehicle and pursued on foot Describe for the jury, if you would, what you refer to as your pursuit of the defendant. —  Scottoline, Lisa - Mistaken Identity
• In this pursuit was my prime of life wasted, which might have been profitably and honourably spent In three years, however, I brought my sixty-three suits to a kind of conclusion; the probabilities were this could not have been effected in fifty. —  Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck
• If the business before me springs not from a clear understanding and a regard to that use of things which perfect wisdom approves, to be brought to a sense of it and stopped in my pursuit is a kindness, for when I proceed to business without some evidence of duty, I have found by experience that it tends to weakness. —  The Journal of John Woolman
• There can be no conclusion except that the pursuit was a massacre, where fleeing women with in­fants on their backs, or in their arms, were shot down after resistance had ceased and almost every warrior was dead or dying. —  Cheif Red Fox
• If a police car kills innocents during a pursuit, the pursuit was a failure. —  Signs of the Times

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