The so-called Spectre Huntsman of the Malay Peninsula is said to be a man who scours the firmament with his dogs, vainly seeking for what he could not find on earth - a buck mouse-deer pregnant with male offspring; but he seems to be a living man; there is no statement that he ever died, nor yet that he is a spirit.
Instead of confining himself to London he now scours the globe for the incidental.
This site is a broker of sorts, since it scours the Internet to find medical assistant job postings.
The reality TV series, which scours the United States in search of the most talented person alive, has had a string of offbeat winners.
The river when in flood, at which time it has a depth, of 40 ft., scours a channel through the bar, but the Orange is at all times inaccessible to sea-going vessels.