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QuestSee Qwest and Quest disk. quest (in medieval romance) an expedition by a knight or company of knights to accomplish some prescribed task, such as finding the Holy Grail Quest Ahab, Captain pursues Moby Dick, the great white whale, even to the point of losing his own life. [Am. Lit.: Melville Moby Dick] Jason’s galley, on which the Argonauts sailed in search of the Golden Fleece. [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 47] young girl, lost in dream world, follows the Yellow Brick Road to find the Wizard of Oz. [Am. Lit.: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz] mythical land of gold treasures, object of Spanish expeditions. [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 159] pelt of winged ram sought by Jason and Argonauts. [Rom. Legend: Zimmerman, 113] its pursuit is central theme of some Arthurian romances. [Br. Lit.: Le Morte d’Arthur] girdle of secured after fight with Amazon queen; Hercules’ ninth Labor. [Gk. and Rom. Myth.: Hall, 149] set out to find the Holy Grail. [Br. Lit.: Le Morte d’Arthur] ship in which Captain Ahab pursued the great white whale. [Am. Lit.: Melville Moby Dick] (c. 1460–1521) Spanish explorer; sought the fountain of youth. [Span. Hist.: NCE, 2188] old fisherman in search of marlin. [Am. Lit.: The Old Man and the Sea] a seat at King Arthur’s Round Table for the knight destined to find the Holy Grail; it was fatal to any other occupant. [Br. Lit.: Morte d’Arthur; Benét, 929] young warrior looks everywhere for the father he has never known. [Br. Poetry: Arnold “Sohrab and Rustum”] relentlessly searches for father, Odysseus. [Gk. Lit.: Odyssey]
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A MAN who had been bitten by a Dog went about in quest of someone who might heal him. He who starts on a deliberate quest of adventure goes forth but to gather dead-sea fruit, unless, indeed, he be beloved of the gods and great amongst heroes, like that most excellent cavalier Don Quixote de la Mancha. He went in quest of sympathy - in quest of that droll article that we all suppose ourselves to want when in a strait, and have agreed to call advice; and he went, besides, with vague but rather splendid expectations of relief. |
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