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    quest


    quested


    questing


    quests


    1. We were not told that destroying our environment in the quest for our worldly comforts is immoral


    2. She didn't owe him, if she stayed with him on this quest, it was just the hormones she inherited from Tdeshi driving her to it


    3. ‘In the meantime, can I help you with your quest? You might need to use another computer …’


    4. ‘A lot of them are virtual reality type things … where you have a quest and have to kill people and earn prizes


    5. Lyla did not approve of Sons’ quest, but she would not be left behind


    6. When the sun rose, Son and his men began their quest, led by the old


    7. woman, but she felt that something had gone wrong with Sons’ quest


    8. Son told Lyla everything that had happened on his quest, from his


    9. Almost as though observing from a distance, I watch my other self flounder as doubts about my chances of concluding the quest with any degree of success become definite, bottomless failure; my perennial loneliness becomes an old age of isolation in a world slowly spiralling down into barrenness and desolation as I eek out my days, hated by those who remain here … the few who could not escape across … Berndt’s face stares at me, full of the loathing he feels for my failure


    10. It’s not as though I can settle down to anything else until this blasted quest is out of the way

    11. The thought hits me that winter is not far off … if I am going to finish my quest, I had better get moving


    12. She’d dragged a detailed version of my adventures in Italy out of me when I’d been too relaxed to resist and has no illusions about the very real dangers attendant on this quest of mine


    13. Smiling, the woman makes a comment which I don’t understand … but who needs translation? A reassuring moment of normality in a turmoil of madness – this, after all, is the reason it is so important that I succeed in my quest


    14. ’ Berndt said amusement clear in his voice as he ties the boat’s name in with our quest for the Element of Water


    15. The dull, colorless, empty feeling brought on by the absence of yaag hadn't bothered her during the later part of the camping trip as much as it had before Desa made Alan share his body with her, but the quest for a buzz was still there and the presence of a keg was irresistible


    16. The more I think about the final leg of the quest, the less I see my way to achieving it


    17. But at least I was in Greece and I'd read somewhere that 'Greece always gives more than it takes', so with two weeks of immeasurable contrasts stretching out before me on my very own quest with nothing to guide me but sweet ignorance and a ferry, I drained my glass and moved out under a parasol


    18. To my utter amazement, he goes on to say that Joris’ last mission was to guard me on my quest to retrieve the last of the Elements, emphasising that without Joris’s protection, the task would have failed – he also manages to suggest that Joris had a hand in the retrieval of the other Elements without actually saying so – but I’m not going to quibble over that


    19. ‘Because they think you have completed the quest


    20. As long as it was unfinished, you were in danger – if you were eliminated, the whole quest would fail

    21. I’ve had my doubts about how effective this whole quest would be if I couldn’t remember where the places were


    22. He told them of us, and our quest


    23. ‘It is not your quest, Gottesman


    24. ‘Lintze, you have forsaken much for the sake of your quest - I do not ask to see that which you hold but honour you for your efforts … you are a true daughter of your family


    25. long as you are willing to hear any answer, then you will be able to pursue this quest of finding the truth behind the suspicious behavior of your significant other


    26. ‘Oh he’s not going with you on the next leg of the quest


    27. No, she was not here to join him in this quest for knowledge, she was only here to oppose it


    28. The young man was, by now, emotionally drained, having lost count of the number of dates and encounters that he’d endured in his desperate quest to find marital happiness


    29. Why get involved in the struggle between the substrates? Silicon interference in the quest for departed souls evolves every now and again, the superfluid helium substrate evolved defense mechanisms for them before Sol condensed within its body


    30. heavy hearts, they gave up their quest and headed for home

    31. If this went on for another week, he would have to decide between making new friends or giving up the quest


    32. “Anyway, I would continue this quest as a friend, not as a fellow investigator with a separate personal life


    33. “You have your own quest in the city, chasing the ghost of a woman you compare me to


    34. That had become a major barrier on this quest, but at last it was only three blocks to the last address where Tdeshi ever lived


    35. Her heart felt that he was one of her prime allies in this quest


    36. He could only get bathroom duty on this lugger, but it was a start on their quest to catch up with Tahlmute in the Gengee


    37. up the stairs of Collingston High feel like the quest of climbing Everest


    38. "It was in a way, but growing up in a jar and leaving the expedition and traveling thru the wilds of the Lhar was like all the toil and heartbreak that someone has to go thru on any great quest


    39. "Well the quest to get here was quite an adventure, but this home with you is well worth it


    40. False spiritualities are a quest for power that Satan promises men in exchange for authority

    41. Focusing on the object of his quest, he scanned the streets, searching for some kind of sign, some indication that he had reached his journey's end


    42. Spare yourselves the journey, and know that the quest to understand life ends in nothingness


    43. She had nearly forgotten about the young mage and his quest


    44. The man had almost ceased to exist, lost to the world in a foolish quest


    45. She approached him in secret, convincing him that she felt a passion for his cause that was similar to his own and conscripting him into service, providing him will all the necessary resources the man would need to carry out his quest


    46. "Unfortunately he has yet to learn that the world is built on chaos, and that his quest for order is contrary to the nature of reality


    47. But YingolNeerie? A land of force and slavery and a life of nothing but a vicious quest for dominance where everyone must constantly strive beyond all possible need? That was a land lost to great evil like the dark lands in the wars of magic


    48. Of course Anon had known the elf was worthy, that had never actually been her quest


    49. In his quest to feed the children, Adros had found many such chambers, deep underground


    50. Their greatest quest had failed













































    1. Across the ages many have quested concerning the whereabouts of Eden, but a satisfactory answer continues to prove elusive


    2. Throughout all this time, you have quested for Answers and I have given you


    3. Throughout all this time you have quested for


    4. Clumps of undergrowth limited the vision that quested under the somber twilight of the lofty arches formed by intertwining branches


    5. Rain quested down into the heart of the vortex, churning the mist into a frothing broth that glowed and fizzed angrily


    6. heard that he was a rogue soldier who quested through the obscure regions of Patala, which is supposedly where he gained Garuda’s Feather from the Nagas


    7. quested, and disappeared into the darkness


    1. questing for truth to become fully present and aware as to


    2. She turned to her friends and they continued upon their Christmas questing


    3. He could feel the tip questing about for some easy entry point, settling finally on the area just below his left eye


    4. ” But the Purveyor has, is, and always will be persistent as well as insistent that an ever more clearly perceived vision is placed within the questing grasp of Man


    5. But on the inside I have led a very active mental life, always questing for an understanding of that earliest of all questions, ‘What’s it all about?’”


    6. But on the inside I have led a very active mental life, always questing for an


    7. 'What were you doing out on the streets this time of night?' he inquired, fascinated by the satiny feel of her sleek skin under his questing fingers


    8. Conan wheeled suppely, sweeping the shadows with a fiercely questing stare


    9. When he shook himself from his revery and drew back his mind from the nighted abysses where it had been questing, the moon was rising, casting long shadows across the smooth marble back of the garden-seat, at the foot of which sprawled the darker shadow which had been the lord of Attalus


    10. The effect was unspeakably ugly, an architectural obscenity that was thrust at the sky with questing pseudopodia of brick and mortar, wood and steel

    11. He could feel their appetite questing for his soul – for what is more terrible than being eaten alive, not from without but from within? Gnashing and weeping tearlessly, Ambrosius hit the jungle and trees whipped past on either side of the boat


    12. Prow hunting the waves, questing for the next trough, climbing each peak like a cyclical mountaineer, the ship bore on after the fish


    13. discoveries loop the loopier in questing persecutors otherwise salivating profusely


    14. enable a devotee to achieve what he is questing for


    15. “And its gift?” the questing breast caught the rising rays scattering her into clouds of yeast


    16. What you postulate and how you live interact to recalibrate your true ideal – the one you are actually creating through compromise – away from your hypothetically predicted Game's End Winner's Reward, that is theoretically awaiting every l ive a ction r ole p laying hero questing for The iDeal


    17. ” This is how we go rogue these days – we spontaneously ad lib our avatars within the games of our questing


    18. I put forth a mental plea for strength and vision, and sent my own questing tendril of thought down the corridor, out into the main shop space


    19. Nancy had felt the questing blackness, but had pushed


    20. As she waited, she felt the questing again

    21. for the questing this morning


    22. She wanted to tell him of the general questing she


    23. "As you have heard me saying, the questing is getting


    24. they had were from the same questing mind that Sstani


    25. Seeing now that his curiosity concerning states of consciousness could have disastrous results in the real world, he abandoned all thought of dream questing


    26. Maybe, in Joseph’s case, a good man was a questing man


    27. Twoflower helped the wizard to his feet and they crouched by the altar stone, watching the manic figure as it battled the questing arms


    28. Rincewind jumped as something touched his leg, and brought his heel down on a questing tentacle


    29. He was no mechanic or artificer, yet many of his questions had sent Fultyn questing down highly profitable avenues which might never have occurred to him otherwise


    30. Subconsciously she had been searching, questing, for the last six months, seeking to find something that she could work at

    31. ’ In her heart is a questing fever that will give her no peace


    32. “Like questing souls they are, indeed; and some say they are the souls of sailors drowned, souls so thick with sins that they may never rest from one year to another


    33. The moving, questing people were migrants now


    34. The divinity that I am questing is not you who are afraid of doubt


    1. “I have been lead to believe our parallel quests are for a common end - her safeguarding


    2. Many were the epics and sagas recited at great length about these mythological gods and goddesses and their many heroic quests as if they were a cut above the best of once-live heroes


    3. John Printess hurried forward to receive his quests


    4. “Grover,” I said, “have heroes really gone on quests to the Underworld?”


    5. The plays were about princes, princesses, noble younger sons on quests, evil magicians, good soldiers and dishonest merchants… Grimm’s Fairy Tales revisited


    6. Mabel knew his visits were quests to see if she would volunteer


    7. , faced trial and glory in their quests in attaining sal-


    8. At first their quests were for the ultimate golf


    9. But in all such quests and searches, the secrete is in the seeker


    10. is no need to use great questions as bargaining chips in cheap quests for

    11. This is the only way to honor our educative quests


    12. When you read books about this stuff, people were always assisted in their quests by people with


    13. Good for looking up items and quests


    14. So renunciation of the material world is the right step for one who quests


    15. quests him to enlighten him at length on the signs of his greatness


    16. Just before this trip Odin informed Loki that his job as retainer now was to accompany Thor on all his quests


    17. The human quest, the purpose for which every human is born, is a combination of three quests, viz


    18. Mulling these thoughts over and thinking about how to combine their quests, Shela and the others wandered back over to the elf and nuathreen who were still going at it tooth and nail


    19. Maybe they would stop pestering each other long enough to help the humans complete their quests


    20. bestowed two sections of minions, and one Galan healer to accompany you in your quests!

    21. The five of you were in high spirits, and shared tales of your quests and conquests


    22. remains your deputy, and a number of quests are already looming in the horizon for you two


    23. existence; the skirmish where one gained one's spurs, from which one set out on the true quests of life


    24. He had sought it in philanthropy, in Freemasonry, in the dissipations of town life, in wine, in heroic feats of self-sacrifice, and in romantic love for Natasha; he had sought it by reasoning- and all these quests and experiments had failed him


    25. He had sought it in philanthropy, in Freemasonry, in the dissipations of town life, in wine, in heroic feats of self-sacrifice, and in romantic love for Natásha; he had sought it by reasoning—and all these quests and experiments had failed him


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    Synonyms for "quest"

    quest seeking pursuance pursuit ask for bespeak call for request bay search chase exploration research investigation inquiry

    "quest" definitions

    a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria


    the act of searching for something


    make a search (for)


    search the trail of (game)


    bark with prolonged noises, of dogs


    seek alms, as for religious purposes


    express the need or desire for