quest
noun
a search or pursuit made in order to find or obtain something.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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Quoth one of them, "We are of the Banu Hattál and are questing for plunder; our Emir is Samsam bin Al- Jiráh and we are five thousand horse."
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 06 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir