1 You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.
2 He lost no time in endeavouring to seek him out, with the hope of persuading him to begin the world again through his credit and assistance.
3 At length lassitude succeeded to the tumult I had before endured, and I threw myself on the bed in my clothes, endeavouring to seek a few moments of forgetfulness.
4 Still I would penetrate their misty veil and seek them in their cloudy retreats.
5 When I found this, I resolved to quit the place that I had hitherto inhabited, to seek for one where the few wants I experienced would be more easily satisfied.
6 But I did not believe my errors to be irretrievable, and after much consideration I resolved to return to the cottage, seek the old man, and by my representations win him to my party.
7 I was overcome by gloom and misery and often reflected I had better seek death than desire to remain in a world which to me was replete with wretchedness.
8 You travelled to seek happiness, but a fatality seems to pursue you.
9 He wished me to seek amusement in society.
10 In this state I was carried back and placed on a bed, hardly conscious of what had happened; my eyes wandered round the room as if to seek something that I had lost.
11 Follow me; I seek the everlasting ices of the north, where you will feel the misery of cold and frost, to which I am impassive.
12 The peasants were shut up in their hovels, and only a few of the most hardy ventured forth to seize the animals whom starvation had forced from their hiding-places to seek for prey.
13 Yet I seek not a fellow feeling in my misery.
14 Therefore, as a man who has not thought and philosophised in vain, I seek no vengeance, plot no evil against thee.
15 I shall seek this man, as I have sought truth in books: as I have sought gold in alchemy.