The phrase "quest after" is correct and usable in written English. It means to enthusiastically search for, or pursue, something. For example: "He embarked on a quest after the perfect recipe for banana bread."
Wabi Sabi completes her quest after several small, satisfying epiphanies.
The protagonist's quest after this ever-vanishing and reappearing "Heisenbug" becomes a poignant meditation on technology's effects on humans.
Mr. Freer, meanwhile, has turned up on Animal Planet and the History Channel's "Monster Quest," after an episode about the Hillbilly Beast of backwoods Kentucky.
He said his church's popularity showed that Ukrainians were on a spiritual quest after having weathered the state-mandated atheism of the Soviet era.
She also weaves in her quest, after Foley's death, to comprehend the medical and financial information she was too harried to deal with when he was sick.
At times it sounded less like a proposal and more like Gandalf trying to explain the route of an urgent quest after an unusually hefty pipeweed session.
"Certainly with the Kennedy things he was questing after truth," Ms. Lattimer said.
She quests after abstruse knowledge she is not yet qualified to absorb, then ratchets up her qualifications with the energy and chic of the present moment.
LEXINGTON, Ohio — Motorcycle tinkerers questing after high fuel efficiency were forced to consider everyday practicality at the 2011 Vetter Fuel Economy Challenge at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course last weekend.
As an objective reader, I was engrossed by the elegant plotting and intelligent writing, by the questing after a truth that would never be found.
If we were questing after some common set of values and beliefs that defines Europeanness, then it had to be watertight enough to justify excluding this other Europe if it is continually to be denied the chance of joining.
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