8884 examples of adventure in sentences

But the boy was thinking of the care-free days and the banter; and of adventure and freedom and travel, high above the earth, that he should miss, and he actually bawled with grief.

Affairs were getting low with me in consequence of sundry seizures and a total wreck, and I took the adventure with the hope of sudden and great gain.

I know nothing of this second adventure.

The Road to Constantinople: Rumania and Bulgaria X. The Adventure of the Fifty Hostages XI.

And in the twilight of the quiet countryside these stern shapes that rode on without turning, lances upstanding from tired shoulders, became strange, grotesque, patheticagain the Germans, legions of the War Lord, come too late into a world which must crush them at last, Knights of the Frightful Adventure, riding to their death.

This feeling of adventure is heightened by the contrast between Tangiercosmopolitan, frowsy, familiar Tangier, that every tourist has visited for the last forty yearsand the vast unknown just beyond.

After leaving the macadamized road which runs south from Tangier one seems to have embarked on a petrified ocean in a boat hardly equal to the adventure.

Such an adventure initiates one at the outset into the stern facts of desert motoring.

The next morning the same spirit of adventure that had exiled her from the Berlin hospitals carried her with the blue-prints to the German embassy.

He had accomplished the Great Adventure.

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Some day next month I intend to swim across the lake, and you will, I think, appreciate this adventure.

I couldn't undertake the job, and for that began to believe I had a vocation for the priesthood; but I can see now that it was not piety that sent me to Maynooth, but a certain spirit of adventure, a dislike of the commonplace, of the prosaicthat is to say, of the repetition of the same things.

Last month he was full of courage, his nerves were like iron; to-day he was a poor vacillating creature, walking in a hazel-wood, uncertain lest delay had taken the savour out of his adventure, his attention distracted by the sounds of the wood, by the snapping of a dry twig, by a leaf falling through the branches.

Do we find life in adventure or by our own fireside?

It matters little to me whether life is to be found at home or abroad, in adventure or in habits and customs.

He had said that in flying from the monotony of tradition he would find only another monotony, and a worse onethat of adventure; and no doubt the journalist's life is made up of fugitive interests.

Not of adventure.

There is a comic side to every adventure,' he said, 'and a more absurd one it would be difficult to imagine.'

The two rhythms out of which the music of life is made, intimacy and adventure, would meet, would merge, and become one; and she, who was to-day an adventure, would become in the end the home of his affections.

The two rhythms out of which the music of life is made, intimacy and adventure, would meet, would merge, and become one; and she, who was to-day an adventure, would become in the end the home of his affections.

We had no charts, and only a very primitive compass, but we all had the antique love of adventure and indifference to danger.

The London adventure.

R118978, 15Oct53, Jeffery Farnol (A) The high adventure.

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