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Nor with them mixed, nor told her name, nor sought,
Idylls of the King 2004
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To fetch home wood for night, and eke for fire sought,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Safely vnto that burning shore, for which so long we sought,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The Australian workers union, arbitration they sought,
William Spence 1993
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On reaching the island, however, they find only Theagenes and Chariclea, Cnemon and Thermuthis having just started on their voyage of discovery; and Nausicles, disappointed of finding her whom he sought,
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various
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When they presently arrived at a turn within a few miles of their destination, a turn that would have taken them directly to the house they sought,
The Last Woman Ross Beeckman
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There's nothing neere at hand, or farthest sought,
Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving Grace Christie
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Him through the woods and wide wastes daily sought,
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By all the Proofs of Breeding, Wit, and Art. Then like some Town, by _War-like Numbers_ sought,
The Pleasures of a Single Life, Or, The Miseries of Matrimony Anonymous
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And humbled is the haughty foe, who our destruction sought,
War Poetry of the South Various
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