emprise

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At the moment when the tension becomes unbearable, the young man at the controls, face ashen with anxiety and exhaustion, slips on his helmet, slips the leash of fate and high emprise.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus was concluded the twelfth and final year of an archeological emprise which has revealed much about the Sumerians, oldest of known civilized peoples.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Elizabethan age, big with luxury, vanity, conquest and high emprise, also produced the English miniature.

From Time Magazine Archive

The night was beginning to fall and the shops to shine with lamps along the tree-beshadowed thoroughfares of Otto’s capital, when the Countess started on her high emprise.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

The house of life, the father, mother, and their child,—these were the sacred three, and it might be her high emprise to keep their union holy.

From Rose MacLeod by Brown, Alice