36 Metaphors for adventuring

The adventure must be the finding of your way out of this catacomb.

So if you ever wonder, dear Readers, that Fairy Gifts and Fairy Godmothers have gone out of fashion; you may conclude that the adventure of Ambrosia and Hermione is the reason.

The joint adventure was a failure, and except a little repining on the part of the one for the loss of his advance, and of grudging on that of the other for the waste of his time, no sharper feeling ought to have arisen between them.

She always wondered now if the sordid-looking adventure might not be at heart the divine adventure.

No one seemed to resent such action, for Californians admire the motion picture as enthusiastically as do the inhabitants of the Eastern states, so the girls' "adventure" was really a common incident.

Five bloody and cruel wars have I gone through, besides other adventures and experiences, such as becomes a humble subject to suffer meekly and in silence.

The Great Adventure, in short, is just this passionate pursuit of the soul of harmony in things, great and small, spiritual and material.

What strange adventure was this old man dragging him into?

In an age and situation where hard blows given and returned, desperate adventures and equal chances of life or death were the common-places of everyday existence, Wark was probably the place where these excitements were to be had oftener than anywhere else.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.

The adventures of King Arthur, the Cid, Robin Hood, and other half mythical heroes are history in the makingthe history that grew up when the world was young, and its great men were something like overgrown boys.

This Adventure was Matter of great Pleasantry to Isabella and her Spouse; and they had enjoyed it two Days before Escalus could recollect himself enough to form the following Letter.

The Open Road is for adventure; and adventure is not the food of life, but the spice.

To better men such an adventure would have been a solemn warning; such a tale, told by the ruined one herself, a sermon, every word of which would have clung to their memories.

This adventure was also a secret, and Una was to hear nothing of it.

" "An adventure by which, I hope, you will not be a loser, my hearty," put in the captain.

Adventure is a regular active-intransitive verb, from adventure, adventured, adventuring, adventured; found in the imperative mood, present tense, second person, singular (or it may be plural) number.

The first adventure in the book is Orlando's encounter with three giants in behalf of a good abbot, in whom he discovers a kinsman; and this goodness and relationship combined move the Achilles of Christendom to tears.

As for Reynard, he enjoyed great honor as long as he lived, and his adventures have long been the delight of the people, whom his tricks never failed to amuse.

Adventure was the compass, by Alma Heflin.

The first genuine literary adventure of Scott was his collection of a "Scottish Minstrelsy," printed for him by James Ballantyne, a former schoolfellow, who had been encouraged by Scott to open a shop in Edinburgh.

His hunting adventures have not been mere pleasure excursions.

On nights such as this lovers prospered, adventures were to the venturesome, brave rewards to the bold.

As she had no home she could not, even if it seemed best, invite him to call upon her at some future time; but she felt a stirring of regret that her travelling adventure was overquite overnow.

Then she knew that she was in her own little room, and that this frightful adventure was only the old, old dream, that came to her two or three times a year, as far back as she could rememberthe same always, without addition or curtailment.

36 Metaphors for  adventuring