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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 77 Boþe Cristen men and mysbileved men gadrede hem to gidres..and pursued after [?a1475 anon. tr. pursewede] þe Grees.

c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xix. 158 Peter..pursued [c1400 C text porsuede] after Bothe iames & Iohan, Ihesu for to seke.

c1425 (?a1400) Arthur (Longleat 55) 574 (MED) Þan fled he to Wynchester..And Arthour on gret haste Pursywed after hym faste.

c1450 (a1425) Metrical Paraphr. Old Test. (Selden) 1816 (MED) Pharo..commawndyd all men..aftur þat pepyll forto persew.

1560 Bible (Geneva) Exod. xiv. 9 And the Egyptians pursued after them.

1611 Bible (King James) Josh. x. 19 And stay you not, but pursue after your enemies. View more context for this quotation

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ix. 192 Left to be pursued after by hunger and cold.

1725 W. Douglas Eleven Serm. i. 25 When we were not seeking after him, but flying from him, then did he in a Manner pursue after us.

1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality I. v. 172 To take every horse he had..and to pursue after the fugitives.

1815 J. Cottle Messiah xxii. 399 Saul recalled, from pursuing after David, by the advance of the Philistines.

1835 R. M. Bird Hawks of Hawk-hollow II. vii. 68 He was still pursuing after his mistress, and had nearly reached the park-gate, when his ear was saluted by a piercing scream from behind.

1923 Trans. & Proc. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 54 122 He..leaves the body of Patroclus, and pursues after Automedon and the immortal horses.

1952 P. Wheeler tr. Sacred Script. of Japanese 45 Pursuing after him to the Level-Pass-of-the-Land-of-Night, and gazing on him from afar, Brave-Swift-Impetuous-Male called out to him.

1960 Times 24 Feb. 7/2 Oxford did not achieve its eminence by hurrying, panting, and pursuing after Cambridge.