besought

Example Sentences

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However impulsively, he hadn't resought Troyon's without definite intent, to wit, to gain some clue, however slender, to the mystery of that wretched child, Marcel.

From The Lone Wolf A Melodrama by Vance, Louis Joseph

If James had resought her love overnight, it had been a passing whim.

From Love and Lucy by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

Claire felt a thrill of relief as she thanked the maid and resought the street.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar

The eyes resought the page, the lips resumed their movements.

From The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields by Allen, James Lane

A creek here slipped out of the woods to find fault with a stone culvert ere it flowed beneath the track and resought silence among the encircling spruce trees.

From Every Man for Himself by Moorhouse, Hopkins