37 collocations for adventures

Is there one, that, remembering the torments endured of groaning bodies, the dire wrongs of innocence shamed and trampled in the mirelives there a man that will not adventure life and limb and all he doth possess that such things may be smitten hence and made an end of for all time?

" "To adventure my body in battle with joyful heart," quoth Walkyn.

A minute study of the nervous system, and of the various forms of pain produced by wounds had inspired in him one profound resolution; and that waswhat think you?never, under any circumstances, to adventure his own person into the field of battle!

Mille et un jours: adventures de la belle Doudja.

In this voyage Drake had adventured almost all his fortune, which he in vain endeavoured to recover, both by his own private interest, and by obtaining letters from queen Elizabeth; for the Spaniards, deaf to all remonstrances, either vindicated the injustice of the viceroy, or, at least, forbore to redress it.

"Messire Beltane," quoth the friar, setting his rumpled frock in order, "are ye minded still to adventure breaking ope the dungeon of Belsaye?" "Aye, verily!"

She will adventure all her estate for such a night, for a nectarean, a balsam kiss alone.

I shall not adventure the expression of an opinion upon those questions of domestic policy which seem to have given rise to the unfortunate controversies between a portion of the citizens and the existing government of the State.

A merchant adventures his goods at sea, and though his hazard be great, yet if one ship return of four, he likely makes a saving voyage.

After a short pause, Mrs. Wilson continued, "Marriage is a fearful step in a woman, and one she is compelled, in some measure, to adventure her happiness on, without fitting opportunities of judging of the merit of the man she confides in.

I had carried through all my adventures a folding leather photograph-holder, containing portraits of my father and mother and of John Marshall Glenarm, my grandfather, and this I set up on the mantel in the little sitting-room.

"Queen of Ethiopia," said the Doctor, who sometimes adventured a very placid joke.

One could row and fish in sheltered bays, and adventure on board a gasoline launch into the northern wilds.

Early in the morning Muskwa began adventuring about a little in quest of food.

And it happed that of adventure the masons, that made the said stable, opened this cave.

They will adventure their lives with alacrity pro qua non metuam morinay more, pro qua non metuam bis mori, I will die twice, nay, twenty times for her.

Sometime he gains more by baubles than better stuffs, and rather than fail will adventure a false oath for a fraudulent gain.

" Pippo ventured this question as he had adventured his opinion; that is to say, recklessly, pretendingly, and with great indifference to any effect it might have, except as it was likely to establish his reputation with the crowd.

I adventured perils by sea and land; went near to starving; eat horse-flesh in Munster, and all to quell that man, who now smileth in peace at those who did hazard their lives to destroy him!" Sheriffs, judges, commissioners, all the new officials who now began to hurry to the north, shared in this sentiment, and all had their eyes set in wrathful animosity upon Tyrone, all were bent in finding him out in some new treason.

Also the affair pursues much the same hide-and-seek course that gave the former adventures their deserved popularity.

Close beside the edge of the fall stood a mud-walled cottage, untenanted and roofless, relic of a time when Farmer Tossell's father had adventured two or three hundred pounds in the fishery, and kept a man here with two grown sons to look after his nets.

This is Pompey the Little, whose life and adventures the book proceeds to recount.

That, since the proposal seemed well grounded in reason and sound argument, and was made by a man of wisdom and knowledge, who demanded no other reward but what might arise from his discoveries, and who was willing to bear a proportion of the charges, and to adventure his own personal safety on the event, her majesty ought certainly to make the attempt.

The immediate effect of the treaty upon ourselves will be felt in the security afforded to mercantile enterprise, which, no longer apprehensive of interruption, adventures its speculations in the most distant seas, and, freighted with the diversified productions of every land, returns to bless our own.

" "Nay," said Beltane, "Pentavalon's need of thee is greater e'en than mine, therefore will I adventure this thing alone.

37 collocations for  adventures