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As anyone who's made more than a few purchase on eBay will know, electronic auction houses offer labyrinthine delight once you've learned their language of bids, deadlines, quests for rare purchases and sudden discovery.
Keflezighi's double marathon quest was not rare in the 1970s, when a lack of prize money forced top runners to compete more often.
Alex-Li's quest for her rare signature takes him and many bizarre hangers-on to a series of autograph auctions, which form the backdrop to this endless, and endlessly weird, adventure.In this section A small man of great stature Good bad and plain bad Lost and lovely Could he have saved Weimar?
Birding tends to be more specialized and professional (Sheard 1999), although in North America, the term 'birding' often replaces 'birdwatching.' 'Twitching' refers to the quest to see rare species, especially those that are difficult to find, or outside of their typical geographic range ('the obsessive art of chasing rare birds that one has not seen before, yea, unto death' (Gooddie 2010)).
Thanks to this, she grew up to be that most rare of creatures: a restive, questing woman who seemed always to be in search of a means of assuaging her loss, yet was also wholly herself, as easy in her skin as in her breeches and gardening boots.
Kings of Cannabis, our documentary about weed kingpin Arjan Roskam and his quest for the rarest strains.
We are on a quest to find the rare pygmy goose.
Celtic's disappointment at the ending of their quest to claim a rare domestic treble was coloured by acrimony.
