How To Use Pursuer In A Sentence

It's an evolutionary trick to distract the pursuer, much as lizards lose their tails.
Finding the swiftest pursuer close upon his heels, he threw off, first his blanket, then his silver-laced coat and belt of peag, by which his enemies knew him to be Canonchet, and redoubled the eagerness of pursuit. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
The children would gather in a noisy clump at the rear window to shout encouragement and offer coaching tips to their pursuer.
A teacher pranced before the class in a red cloak, but it was her big-mouthed gator pursuer that … Literacy News – 76th Edition « News « Literacy News
Owing to these reversals the linear and telic structure of the narrative is attenuated as the pursuer becomes the pursued, the hunter the hunted, the victimizer the victim, the will to kill the will to die.

In such a case, the only women who will interfere and warn the intended victim will be his own relatives – a mother or a sister; others, while under no delusions as to the interested nature of the motives by which the pursuer is actuated, will hold their tongues, and even go so far as to offer facilities for the chase. Marriage as a Trade
And though that wasn't good for finding out how Tammy was doing, it did suggest the absence of their pursuer. COLDHEART CANYON
He ducks into an alleyway in an attempt to lose his pursuers, but before he can scurry over a low wall, they catch up.
We managed to give our pursuers the slip.
There are four distinct learning relationships: the lagger, pursuer, potential one, and pioneer.
Doug appears in the doorframe, but first peers out into the corridor like a hunted fox searching for his pursuers.
His cunning, speed, condition, and endurance can tax the physique and patience of his pursuers to the utmost.
She made a sudden right turn off the road in order to escape her pursuers.
Once there, the gunman hoped to lose his pursuers in the maze of large buildings.
The XIT was the largest cattle ranch in the world, and its size likely appealed to that pursuer of gigantism, Seton-Karr. Bird Cloud
So perfect was his jockeyship, so clever his management of the animal he mounted, so intimately acquainted was he with every cross-road in the neighborhood of the metropolis -- a book of which he constructed, and carried constantly about his person --, as well as with many other parts of England, particularly the counties of Chester, York, and Lancaster, that he outstripped every pursuer, and baffled all attempts at capture. Rookwood
Then all four started running through the tunnel as Anthony, Mike, and Johnny took off in three different directions, trying to outrun their pursuers.
The thief and his pursuers were uncertain on their feet while they tried to traverse the unstable landscape.
Singlewood, 17, ran into the courtyard of Durham Castle in a desperate bid to shake off his pursuer.
The criminal jabbed at the pursuer with a knife.
The pursuer is the more rapid, however, and gains upon her, and his panting breath blows upon her hair. The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian
Terrified and panicking, he tried to kick in a glass door to escape his pursuers and, in doing so, fatally lacerated himself.
Thanks to agile footwork he always managed to escape his pursuers.
But a confidential document produced as a witness statement by one of his pursuers reveals that Hunter also considered bids for Woolworths, Somerfield and WH Smith.
It included all those who shared the pool this week, from his closest pursuers to the freestyler from the Congo who didn't know how to get up on the start blocks and had been training in a hotel pool back home. Lopresti: Golden boy Phelps is the center of USA's attention
MacDonald says that he threw his pursuers off his trail.
Only that a number of faceless pursuers were now on the beach—and had spotted the small boat scudding through the mirrorlike water toward the mouth of the cave. Shameless
It got so that I was pushing people out of my way, stumbling up the narrow escalator, and finally out into the open, but still walking fast, not wanting to turn around and see whether my pursuer had given up the chase.
He ducked and dodged around the buildings, trying to lose his pursuers but they managed to stay on his tail.
The quarry twisted, turned and doubled back at speed in an attempt to elude its pursuer.
She fell for me fairly quickly, and frankly, for the first two months of our relationship, she was the pursuer and I often complained that I felt smothered and overwhelmed by her.
That there are special circumstances in which a defender may be held responsible in law for injuries suffered by the pursuer through a third party's deliberate wrongdoing is not in doubt.
Through our glasses we made him out to be a bull -- an old greyhead, and probably a cunning fellow, one likely to try every dodge which a whale can think of to escape, and if failing to do that, and hard pressed, one who was likely to turn on his pursuers, and attack them with his open jaws or mighty flukes. Old Jack
Many of these couples who display the dance of pursuer/avoider are composed of a borderline partner married to a narcissist partner.
He constantly cross-cuts from pursuers to pursued to keep the pace up.
He realised now that he would never lose such a determined pursuer in these corridors.
The teacher looked behind to see if his pursuer would vanish, according to the rule.
These words drove all the heroic thoughts out of my brain, and I tried to look back to see how near our pursuers were; but I could not turn my head round, but only listen to the shouts, while _crack, crack, crack_ came the reports of rifles -- badly aimed by the mounted men, who fired from the saddle, holding their weapons pistol-wise -- the bullets from which went whizzing and buzzing past our ears. Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer
She could outsail her square-rigged pursuers, and she did. Sharpe's Siege
The risk of a double recovery by the pursuer is met, not through the court process, but at the later stage of the making of the compensation payment.
He was a devoted follower of the teachings of Epicurus—“that pleasure is the beginning and end of living happily”—although I hasten to add that he was an Epicurean not in the commonly misunderstood sense, as a seeker after luxury, but in the true meaning, as a pursuer of what the Greeks call ataraxia, or freedom from disturbance. Imperium
Knowing that she would never be able to outrun her pursuer, the girl quickly stepped behind a tree and crouched down.
A false helm at that, for the face within was less the visage of his pursuer than the intricate dragonhead crest was. LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM
Singlewood, 17, ran into the courtyard of Durham Castle in a desperate bid to shake off his pursuer.
Sometimes the chase is inconclusive: the fox outsmarts or outruns its pursuers and gets away.
She changed taxis to throw her pursuers off the scent.
It was hard to feel frightened of shadowy, nameless pursuers with the bright summer sunlight flooding the room.
Although he turned off into St Denys Road to elude his pursuer, he was hit from behind by a bottle and rugby-tackled to the ground.
There were no more trees with which to lose his pursuers, only a stretch of stone, snow dunes, and mountainside.
They are now very weather-worn, but it is still just possible to see that the running figure is a skeleton, and the pursuer is winged.
John ran the length of the pitch to touch down in the corner with his pursuers in his wake.
Huang is dead, managing to take some of his pursuers down with him. Darker than Black ep 24 « Undercover
We managed to shake off our pursuers in the crowd.
The separation between Livingston's two chief pursuers was perhaps unjust, but it lasted only until the 56th minute as Williamson's charges let down their guard.
Every nail thus produced was an infringement of the Pursuer's patents, the sale of which could have been interdicted, and would give a right of action against all concerned in its production and sale.
Following him as he assumes Greenleaf's personality and attempts to elude his pursuers after the murder is a riveting yet slightly chilly exercise.
When the appeal came before the Sheriff Principal on 11 November 1993 he was informed that the pursuer had exercised access to the child on two occasions while the Sheriff's decision was at avizandum.
So it was, exercising faculties that were no longer necessary, but that were still alive in him and clamorous for exercise, he followed the long-since passed wood-rat with all the soft-footed crouching craft of the meat-pursuer and with utmost fineness of reading the scent. CHAPTER XXIII
With ease the little creature outran his barking pursuer.
In all fairness, his preoccupation with glancing around this way and that like an insecure gazelle in an open savanna for his pursuers was justifiable given that he still had not quite yet deciphered where he had ended up.
The sparkling wavelets sported and capered with their grewsome burden, sometimes dashing it against some stray log, again bearing it far across the river as if purposely assisting it to elude its pursuer. The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old
They speed down one narrow side street, turn abruptly, then hurtle down another, but these maneuvers are not enough for them to elude her pursuers; she can see their headlights in the side-view mirrors, vanishing as they round a corner, only to reappear a split second later. William and Kate
He accelerated, hoping to outrun his three remaining pursuers and buy him enough time to seek safe passage.
She started her takeoff run, easily outdistancing her pursuers.
Whereas Woods had the luxury of laying up at the 13 th and 15th holes, his pursuers did not have that option.
A teacher pranced before the class in a red cloak, but it was her big-mouthed gator pursuer that … Literacy News – 76th Edition « News « Literacy News
Or the challenged ship, believing herself to be the faster craft of the two, clapped on all sail, caught an opportune "slatch of wind," and showed her pursuer a clean pair of heels, the tender's guns meanwhile barking away at her until she passed out of range. The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
On the contrary, it affirmed the principle that the onus of proving causation lies on the pursuer or plaintiff.
Their nearest pursuer is Cincinnati, eight games back. Edmonds quickly becomes key to Cards' success
By this time he had more men than his pursuers, but they were of low quality because the best troops were kept in European Russia in case of rebellion.
He had just outdistanced his surprisingly fast pursuers when he passed under a pedestrian overpass.
But it's not a happy ending for her canine pursuer.
The mountaineer is perplexed; an able man, a dead shot, who must undo the puzzle or lose faith in his skill, is a tremendous pursuer, and the mountaineer follows the steinbock ever. Vittoria — Volume 5
e.g. sawbill duck, and receives such additional strength that he soon escapes his pursuers (Frazer, "Totemism and Exogamy", III, p. 385). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
He said that if one had a clue this was the worst way; but if one had no clue at all it was the best, because there was just the chance that any oddity that caught the eye of the pursuer might be the same that had caught the eye of the pursued. The Complete Father Brown
He foxed his pursuers by taking another route.
Then flash after flash cut the darkness, and _crack, crack, crack_ came the reports of the rifles, as the men fired in what they believed to be my direction; but I heard no whistling bullet, and the firing ceased as quickly as it had begun, for there was the risk of my pursuers inflicting injury upon their fellows who led, and whom I could hear thundering along behind me, while with voice and knee I urged Sandho on at his greatest speed. Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer
He is said to have thrown off pursuers by pedaling across the Wisconsin state line.
But the adventurous moggy did not want to come down, and proceeded to play a game of cat and mouse with its pursuer.
Everyone spurred their horses on to try to outrun their pursuer.
Here the pursuers burst in with them, and after getting in were beaten out by the Syracusans, and some few of the Argives and Athenians slain; after which the whole army retired, and having demolished the counterwork and pulled up the stockade, carried away the stakes to their own lines, and set up a trophy. The History of the Peloponnesian War
When he went to the police, he told them his pursuers were a gang of human traffickers. Times, Sunday Times
He managed to elude his pursuers by escaping into a river.
Finding the swiftest pursuer close upon his heels, he threw off, first his blanket, then his silver-laced coat and belt of peag, by which his enemies knew him to be Canonchet and redoubled the eagerness of pursuit. The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon
He may or may not have eluded his pursuers physically, but he continues to surprise and discomfit them.
Singlewood, 17, ran into the courtyard of Durham Castle in a desperate bid to shake off his pursuer.
Using techniques he learned as a brilliant participant in MMORPGs, Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games, he easily eludes his pursuers and continues to track his victims, some of whom Kathryn is able to save, some not. Roadside Crosses by Jeffery Deaver: Book summary
She was 300ft away from her pursuers when she was last seen but a marksman was unable to tranquillise her. Times, Sunday Times
It evades capture by lodging itself inside the very muscles of the pursuer.
L. T.'s closest pursuer is Minnesota rookie Adrian Peterson, who has 1,305 yards after being held to just 27 yards on nine carries in a loss to Washington on Sunday night. USATODAY.com
Having seen off his pursuer, Turvey put on a spurt in the second half of the contest and set the race's fastest lap as he closed in on leaders Matt Howson and Sam Bird.
As long as is does not infringe on another, this pursuit of happiness as determined by the pursuer is the grail we have long lauded as our beacon. Palin and the right to privacy: Becoming what we hate
The children would gather in a noisy clump at the rear window to shout encouragement and offer coaching tips to their pursuer.
Silently moving from alley to well-known alley, Morgan eventually outran the sound of his pursuers.
It would have been another matter altogether if the pursuer had actually paid some third party, or had entered into a contract to pay some third party for this domestic assistance.
As he passed through he cast one last glance behind him to assure himself he was free of pursuers.
This early medieval Jewish cult has appealed to many writers and pursuers of curiosities over the years.
One rider famously scattered tacks into the path of his pursuers, while another took the low road, hitching a lift around one notorious mountain stage
The judge also agreed that press articles purporting to quote the pursuers' solicitor, Cameron Fyfe, gave rise to a risk of prejudice through ill founded or exaggerated claims.
The moment came when the pursuer was hovering about from left to right only a few yards beyond the groyne where the runner lay in hiding. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
The women squeezed into the corner in a vain attempt to escape her pursuer.
Finding a second wind, he rode away from his pursuers.
They managed to escape their pursuers.
The passengers must have seen the gun, but his pursuer was a professional. The Ark
These were the exact feelings of Joseph Smith who quickly eluded his pursuers.
Finding a second wind, he rode away from his pursuers.
Madra tripped and fell headlong in the leaf mould, and in an instant their pursuers were upon her.
Perhaps the reapers could help throw her pursuers further off her track.
The entire length of rope unwound directly from the reel or 'bollard' of the first launch, and the line of a second boat was attached forthwith; a third and a fourth were annexed, but the whale exhibited no sign of exhaustion, and dragged his pursuers like the wind. Tales of the Chesapeake
Madra tripped and fell headlong in the leaf mould, and in an instant their pursuers were upon her.
Although she has been sighted a few times, she has stayed more than a hoofbeat ahead of her pursuers. Times, Sunday Times
Among the future-piercing suggestions extolled by Mr. Shaw we may be sure that the author of Man and Superman was pleased to acknowledge Butlers prediscovery that woman is the pursuer. Samuel Butler: Diogenes of the Victorians
The pursuer himself will also require to contemplate the not inconsiderable pressure of having to give evidence and face cross-examination.
Police and a vet were called, but the distressed cow bolted across greens and fairways and out of reach of pursuers trying to corner it in order to sedate it.
We hid from our pursuers in an empty house.
They crash a police blockade and outrun pursuers in a chase.
She had hid for a time within the hollow of the oak tree as pursuers raced through the forest looking for her.
My own mother was as naive a little innocent as any who had ever lived, had nothing more than a vague idea as to what the more persistent of her pursuers wanted.
In many cases, the source of delay is not a dispute between the pursuer and the defender but between the defenders.
As November approaches, pursuers of salmon inevitably home in on those Scottish rivers with a reputation for providing a good back-end run.
His pursuers tracked him down with a bloodhound but the fugitive managed to kill the hound with an arrow and make good his escape.
But Lo! when we had passed the borders and entered the body thereof, to our utter astonishment and dismay, instead of pursuers we found ourselves waylayed by thirty or forty more of the same pale race of white The Blind African Slave, or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nick-named Jeffrey Brace. Containing an Account of the Kingdom of Bow-Woo, in the Interior of Africa; with the Climate and Natural Productions, Laws, and Customs Peculiar to That Place. With an Acco
There was a click and a hiss of compressed air as their pursuer reloaded.
We managed to lose our pursuers in the darkness.
A young cow went on the rampage after it escaped from a cattle trailer on the M60-and led pursuers through a housing estate, golf course and school.
Dr. Evil was a stereotypical villain; the megalomaniacal pursuer of world conquest who is always foiled by Powers.
She changed taxis to throw her pursuers off the scent.
Jack, every now and then, would throw an eye behind, as if to watch their pursuers, wherein, if the truth was known, it was to get a peep at the beautiful glowing face and warm lips that were breathing all kinds of _fragrancies_ about him. The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three
The General, seeing that his men were panic-struck when they found themselves chased, encouraged them to exertion by the assurance that the pursuers were not enemies, but only a boat endeavouring to outrow them. The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth
A manhunt started across central Italy but the murderer, riding a stolen motorcycle, succeeded in evading his pursuers until a week ago when he was spotted near Rome's main railway station.
It couldn't outrun a pursuer, it couldn't kill it, and with the light armor it carried, it couldn't survive a good hit.
As he passed through he cast one last glance behind him to assure himself he was free of pursuers.
He twisted and turned in a desperate attempt to shake off his pursuer.
The pursuer was attempting to unscrew a bolt which had not been lubricated for a year.
Shortly afterward his pursuers come pouring down the passage in full cry. Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
The "highflyer," as the second lieutenant called her every time he alluded to the blockade-runner, and the two pursuers, occupied the three angles of a triangle. A Victorious Union
Here for a moment it was lost in a damp hollow full of a high growth of mares-tail (_equisetum_), that curious whorled relic of ancient days; driven from that by a regular course of beating the ground, it led its pursuers upward among rough tumbled stones where the brambles tripped them, and here they lost it for a time. Cutlass and Cudgel
They had lost their pursuers for the moment, yet Luke had no doubt in his mind that as long as Jaid had the elixir of life in her possession that the deadly game of hide and seek would continue.
Finally, with help from his press handlers, the First Minister escaped, waving curtly to his pursuer as the doors closed.
Clearly tiring, she crashed and visibly slowed, as her pursuers sensed that she may be caught.
That allows you to consistently run at your peak, to consistently run the fast times, to stay clear of your pursuers.
Of course, cancelling a direct debit and then not paying the licence fee would alert the doziest of pursuers, but anyone moving home or not paying by direct debit can certainly contemplate not paying until an actual prosecution is imminent. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
As quietly as possible in such rocky terrain, we moved downslope so as to avoid appearing above the sheep - a sure way to spook an animal whose survival depends on climbing higher than any pursuer.
Several officers and his co-pilot were dead and all looked lost until he managed to hide in a cloud long enough to shake off his pursuers.
Disaster threatened until Captain Hull astutely towed, wetted sails, and kedged to draw the ship slowly ahead of her pursuers.
The Hearts captain, in possession, tried to check his run in the box and was bumped over by his pursuer.
We then put our boys and horses into a deep gully close by, and also stepped in ourselves, as soon as we had discharged one volley at our pursuers, who were then within short gunshot distance. The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth
Preoccupied with the need to outpace their pursuers, his captors did not turn back to chase Scott - but the teenager's woes were far from over.
The most important thing to do now was to second guess their pursuers and elude capture.
He twisted and turned in a desperate attempt to shake off his pursuer.
I had the sudden, sinking feeling that her pursuer might not have overlooked her so easily. NIGHT SISTERS
He managed to elude his pursuers by escaping into a river.
With his hair tinged by the sun's rays, he looked like a dog fox who'd out-witted his pursuers once again.
A wooden corner hit the pursuer in the bony face and Creed was relieved to observe it stagger.
I had that experience in the early 80s, when I spent five days racing around a maze eating spherical doughnuts, and waiting for my ghostly pursuers to turn blue.
The American Steve Stricker clinched his 10th PGA Tour title by one shot at the Memorial tournament on Sunday after holding off a birdie barrage from his closest pursuers with an ice-cool display. Steve Stricker holds his nerve to win the Memorial by one shot
Finding a second wind, he rode away from his pursuers.
the film jumped back and forth from the pursuer to the pursued
Scott Dunlap was the closest pursuer at the start of Saturday's third round as Woods tried to become only the second man in history to win three Majors in one year.
Finally, with help from his press handlers, the First Minister escaped, waving curtly to his pursuer as the doors closed.
The coursing over the two days was excellent with hares that were too good for their pursuers.
He was subsequently harassed by hordes of aggressive mice, and despite taking refuge in a tower in the middle of the Rhine, was eventually eaten by his pursuers.
He managed to elude his pursuers by escaping into a river.
A glance behind confirmed his fears. His pursuer was gaining ground on him rapidly.
The pursuit climax in the city's sewers is a little ordinary, but even then we have an extremely tense, claustrophobic sequence where Lime can hear his pursuers closing in through tunnels on all sides.
Tom darted a terrified glance over his shoulder at his pursuers.
The pursuer has accordingly failed to prove this averment.
His muscles began to give out as fatigue overcame him and he slowed, deciding to face his pursuers with little chance of outrunning them.
‘I was always the pursued never the pursuer, sweetie,’ Barrie says with a breezy flap of spiky false eyelashes.
Evie ran along treacherous clifftop paths, through tangled trees, always fleeing a nameless pursuer who was only a few paces behind.
They deliberately point pursuers toward nearby posts and garrisons of other federal troops.
After he ducked into a cave, a spider spun a web over the cave opening with such speed that his pursuers were sure that David could not be hiding within.
Thanks to agile footwork he always managed to escape his pursuers.
They dodged the blows aimed at them, and "jinked" round the bushes as if they had been trained to such work in a regular public school for human bipeds, and they struck out with their pinions, too, so deftly and with such force that the pursuers had to become extremely cautious as well as bold in their approaches. The Pioneers
Several officers and his co-pilot were dead and all looked lost until he managed to hide in a cloud long enough to shake off his pursuers.
And in seeking to evade an imaginary pursuer, I'd walked right into him. NIGHT SISTERS
They deliberately point pursuers toward nearby posts and garrisons of other federal troops.
Barbara Jean Bosworth, an Alexandria woman who apparently had been abducted from the Springfield shopping mall and forced into her own car by robbers was killed yesterday in Prince William County when the car crashed as the robbers fled from pursuers, authorities said. Matthew Yglesias » Rich Lawyers Boosting Traffic Jams and Calling It Charity
The Bills 'all-time leader with 171 sacks, Smith's closest pursuer is current DE Aaron DE rankings: Can anyone measure up with Reggie White?
He found the pursuer close at his heels.
a pursuer of truth
always before he had been able to outwit his pursuers
Sometimes the chase is inconclusive: the fox outsmarts or outruns its pursuers and gets away.

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