Sentence examples for go in quest of from inspiring English sources

The answer for some venture capital outfits has been to go in quest of a new generation of unicorns.

The prudent man, he wrote, "does not go in quest of new enterprises and adventures, which might endanger, but could not well increase, the secure tranquillity which he actually enjoys".

The new nation, he insisted, required a new kind of republican government, "and it is as ridiculous to seek for models in the simple ages of Greece and Rome, as it would be to go in quest of them among the Hottentots and Laplanders".

(When Johnson was working on the "Lives of the Poets," Boswell offered to arrange an interview with Alexander Pope's executor. Johnson declined. "If it rained knowledge I'd hold out my hand," he said, "but I would not give myself the trouble to go in quest of it").

I am dealing here with the young banquet speaker, the dilettante, who goes in quest of glamour.

When composers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries entered the shadow realm of dissonance, they often went in quest of emotional extremes.

Probably, as happens in most early-career artists, she just lost motivation and perhaps went in quest of the proverbial lost childhood".

I was… When composers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries entered the shadow realm of dissonance, they often went in quest of emotional extremes.

This account of Sharia law relates that, in the early centuries of Islamic jurisprudence, it… When composers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries entered the shadow realm of dissonance, they often went in quest of emotional extremes.

The others, all New Hampshire residents -- David Taylor of Littleton, Henry Sanders of Hancock and his brother Richard of Peterborough -- had arrived earlier, stoked a fire in the cabin's huge cast iron woodstove and gone in quest of deer.

How is it, then, as I discovered when I went in quest of a girdle, that this once culturally mandated undie has disappeared from the sartorial landscape like so much melted snow?