emprise
Example Sentences
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The Elizabethan age, big with luxury, vanity, conquest and high emprise, also produced the English miniature.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
George Rogers Clark had the look and bearing of a man born for deeds of great emprise.
From Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman by Caldwell, Willie Walker
Where were now the high resolves—the lofty emprise of a short half-hour since?
From Nevermore by Bolderwood, Rolf
