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Definition of Questing
1. quest [v] - See also: quest
Lexicographical Neighbors of Questing
Literary usage of Questing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and His Noble by Thomas Malory, Edward Strachey, William Caxton (1901)
"SIR PALAMIDES AND THE questing BEAST. the questing beast that had in shape a head
like a serpent's head, and a body like a ..."
2. La Mort D'Arthure: The History of King Arthur and of the Knights of the by Thomas Malory (1866)
"HIS meane while there came sir Palomides the good knight, following the questing
beast,1 that had in shap a head like a serpents head, and a body like a ..."
3. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"He trotted along, questing like a hound on a broken trail, through the wood of
the north hill. At last he was satisfied, and threw himself down on the soft ..."
4. The Dawn in Britain by Charles Montagu Doughty (1906)
"Those hounds bay, questing, there, mongst thicket reeds ! Sun gleams, uprisen
now, on far river's mouth : Wherein, with stranger sail, seen, ..."
5. The Christian Herald by John Edwards Caldwell (1820)
"questing me to let them know if we will send them back in the course of the winter."
Without wailing for the next meeting of the society in November next, ..."
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