The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive. From LearnThat.org. [Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)]
A pursuer of truth. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Their nearest pursuer is Cincinnati, eight games back. From Wordnik.com. [Edmonds quickly becomes key to Cards' success] Reference
The Bills 'all-time leader with 171 sacks, Smith's closest pursuer is current DE Aaron. From Wordnik.com. [DE rankings: Can anyone measure up with Reggie White?] Reference
He whistled under his breath at the discovery: if the pursuer was a. From Wordnik.com. [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference
I saw that a great fear had seized the crew, for there was but little doubt that our pursuer was a pirate. From Wordnik.com. [Roger Trewinion] Reference
By this time my pursuer was a hundred yards away, thinking himself sure of me at last, and saving his breath. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess] Reference
He had secured but a few yards 'start in the race, and his pursuer was a white man, able to back speed with intelligence. From Wordnik.com. [The Price] Reference
The pursuer was a Portuguese man-of-war, and the pirate vessel turned and fought so fiercely that the enemy was put to flight. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Hoppergrass] Reference
"Well, well!" exclaimed the voice of their pursuer. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
They were also lighter in weight than was their pursuer. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast] Reference
No more than fifty yards separated pursued from pursuer. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
Suddenly Bentley finds that he's no longer the pursuer, but the pursued. From Wordnik.com. [And Now For The 'Beauty' Part] Reference
From being the pursuer he now found himself with the shoe on the other foot. From Wordnik.com. [The Banner Boy Scouts on a Tour, or, The Mystery of Rattlesnake Mountain] Reference
After that it was impossible to tell which was pursuer and which was pursued. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Phantom] Reference
Bellaroba cowered by the wall; pursued and pursuer brushed against her in turn. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
The body was inanimate when the pursuer dived and tackled it too easily to the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Pros and Cons of Wildflower Collection] Reference
Tom did not look back, but he cast out short, broken sentences to console his pursuer. From Wordnik.com. [Tom of the Raiders] Reference
The one of them I tell you is a bigot, a pursuer, a persecutor -- the other a sensualist, a. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
As the night comes on, Bertha rushes in to seek refuge from her pursuer, from whom she has fled. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Lottie fell through the hay-mow in the barn, trying to escape her pursuer in a lively game of tag. From Wordnik.com. [The Lilac Lady] Reference
Imagine his surprise when he beheld but one pursuer, and that one holding on high an emblem of peace. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas] Reference
He probably has dashed out of the cloud in such a way as to put the screen between himself and his pursuer. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
Dietrich's steed is dead, but hearing his pursuer close upon his heels he takes refuge in an adjacent wood. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
All day long she dogged us slowly, but, at night, I tacked off shore, with the expectation of eluding my pursuer. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Immediately the horseman pulled his horse back on its haunches and from the bank stared down at pursued and pursuer. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
I was becoming winded anyway and I thought that this was as good a place as any to make my stand against my pursuer. From Wordnik.com. [London Fog] Reference
Slone followed, reading the signs of Wildfire's progress, and the action of his pursuer, as well as if he had seen them. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
These two, in their unceasing unflagging career through the void of heaven, appear to be in flight, avoiding some pursuer. From Wordnik.com. [Moon Lore] Reference
Thinking that I saw an enemy in every face, and a pursuer in every one who came near me, I hastened to take refuge in the cars. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
She pretended to hesitate, as though willing to get caught, and her pursuer bleated and snorted with joy, calling to his comrades. From Wordnik.com. [Melliflua and the Fauns] Reference
Richard Hughes, his closest pursuer, will have the better chances as the season draws to a close over the next two months, Hanagan feels. From Wordnik.com. [Talking Horses] Reference
There seemed no time to think, but the boy's hand had already loosened when out of the black came the hot breath of the foremost pursuer. From Wordnik.com. [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference
Away they went, casting the earth from their slender hoofs, caring for neither brush or brake, for a relentless pursuer was on their track. From Wordnik.com. [The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West] Reference
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