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I cast about for a suitable reply.
[1] The cornice seemed firm; still we cast about for some piece of rock which might shelter us from the destroyer should he leap from his lair.
I stood still, therefore, and cast about for some method of escape; and as I was so thinking, the recollection of my pistol flashed into my mind.
The king became convinced that he was the object of a Divine chastisement, and cast about for a cause to which his sufferings might reasonably be attributed.
Naturally man, the ever-greedy, began to cast about for ways by which to convert some product of that feathered host into money.
They cast about for a possible alternative to Nabonidus and found it in Cyrus the Persian, the ruler of the adjacent Median Empire.
They cast about for a possible alternative to Nabonidus and found it in Cyrus the Persian, the ruler of the adjacent Median Empire.
And I am come to this! Will it drive me out of my mind?" She cast about for any possible course which offered the least improvement on the existing state of things, and could find none.
I, therefore, cast about for some kinder Support; and I said, to myself, as the best Lover of earthly Happiness may say with [Page 71] great Truth; if there is not another State, to which this System of Things is merely preparatory; if there is not some infinite Good to be derived from this World of multiplied Evils; the Author thereof must have been some very malevolent or very petulent Being, who delights in the Misery and Anguish of others; or makes Sport of the Wretchedness of the Creatures of his Power.
GOOD MRS GWYLLIM, Heaven, for wise porpuses, hath ordained that I should change my name and citation in life, so that I am not to be considered any more as manager of my brother's family; but as I cannot surrender up my stewardship till I have settled with you and Williams, I desire you will get your accunts ready for inspection, as we are coming home without further delay.--My spouse, the captain, being subject to rummaticks, I beg you will take great care to have the blew chamber, up two pair of stairs, well warmed for his reception.--Let the sashes be secured, the crevices stopt, the carpets laid, and the beds well tousled.--Mrs Loyd, late Jenkins, being married to a relation of the family, cannot remain in the capacity of a sarvant; therefore, I wish you would cast about for some creditable body to be with me in her room--If she can spin, and is mistress of plain-work, so much the better--but she must not expect extravagant wages--having a family of my own, I must be more occumenical than ever.
I must cast about for an expedient.
At length, they found [Page 2] so few charms in vegetable nature and still life, that they cast about for new sources of entertainment.
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