hunt something out
hunt something down

Maybe Fort and those other writers who hunted out such stories had the right of it.

Ivory is finished it's all been hunted out long ago.

They've hunted out their own time, so they come here for game.

Hunting it out might require days or weeks of searching.

In the school library he hunted out books on politics.

Jackson himself did not impress me when I hunted him out.

As for those slaves, I have hunted them out once and presently will do so again.

There were few ground-insects here because the area was hunted out.

The stock got amongst them and had to be hunted out.

It was some time before the last ruffians were hunted out.