Word: sought
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...wind of pleasure sought an easier sway...
...breath of slumber sought a warmer...
Thus the author of "Indifference again," as it seems to me, was wrong in co-ordinating laziness and superficial ideas as causes of indifference; since indifference is laziness, though superficial ideas may quite probably be the causes of laziness. But the authors who have sought the origin of our indifference in the character of the Nation have suffered worse confusion of thought. For it is obvious that they have confounded the fact of our receiving pessimistic theories with the fact of subscribing to them in blind faith. In so far as the authority of the Nation closes...
Which the poet's mind has sought...
...That had sought the sheltered...