"quest" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Perhaps, Barliss, you are pursuing a useless quest.
- Better to go back to the ship and the useless quest without a goal, until he should die and the ship and robots should run down and stop.
- Tell me, I pray you, if you can, so that I may not have travelled on a useless quest.
- If this woman thought Richard was being too insistent or assertive, she very well might decide to get rid of him by sending him on a useless quest to the ends of the world.
- 'It seems that I have led you on a useless quest, my friends,' Hawkmoon told Bowgentle and Count Brass.
- By the time we left the dining-room I could see that he regarded the whole matter as a useless quest, and that he was already wondering whether it would not be better for him to get back to London straight away.
- 'Poor child,' answered the dove, 'who has sent you on such a useless quest?'
- According to Harold Bloom, one can presume that the "harmony was threatened if fully half of [the poem] was concerned with the useless quest after "The Melancholy".
- --accepted this majestic swell as trustworthy circumstantial evidence that no important land lay to the southward, and so did not waste time on a useless quest in that direction, but changed his course and went searching elsewhere.
- After a long and useless quest it occurred to me that I had better go to the place where the oxen were bred by a Kaffir chief, whose name I forget, but whose kraal was about fifty miles from our station.
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