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tutkia An attempt to find something.
2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/nyregion/new-jersey-continues-to-cope-with-hurricane-sandy.html?hp," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):

At least eight people died, and officials expressed deep concerns that the toll would rise as more searches of homes were carried out.

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It sufficeth that they have once with care sifted the matter, and searched into all the particulars.

He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance.(..)But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again(..)she found her mother standing up before the seat on which she had sat all the evening searching anxiously for her with her eyes, and her father by her side.

To search the God of loue, her Nymphes she sent / Throughout the wandring forrest euery where(nb..).

For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.

Enough is left besides to search and know.

Now torne we to the xj kynges that retorned vnto a cyte that hyghte Sorhaute / the whiche cyte was within kynge Vryens / and ther they refresshed hem as wel as they myght / and made leches serche theyr woundys and sorowed gretely for the dethe of her peple

Now to the bottome dost thou search my wound.

Thus when they all had sorowed their fill, / They softly gan to search his griesly wownd(nb..).

His wife perceiving him to droope and languish away, entreated him she might leasurely search and neerely view the quality of his disease(nb..).