delve for

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“The Debrief” wrapped up its run in January when Sherman departed BoF, but the back catalog is well worth the delve for anyone seeking a better understanding of modern fashion.

From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2023

“The younger generation doesn’t delve for credentials,” she says.

From Washington Post • Jan. 6, 2015

If there is nothing better than to delve for clothes and wooden palaces, it were as well that there should be more moulting.

From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by Bartlett, William Chauncey

The Andes mountains will give us that opportunity, where, instead of gray tin, we may delve for yellow gold.

From Our Young Folks, Vol 1, No. 1 An Illustrated Magazine by Hamilton, Gail

The sophist’s rope of cobweb he shall twine; Mope o’er the schoolman’s peevish page; or mourn, And delve for life, in Mammon’s dirty mine; Sneak with the scoundrel fox, or grunt with glutton swine.

From The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems by Beattie, James