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
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
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
It came upon him, like the lighting of a great fire, that this was a call for high emprise.
From Rose MacLeod by Brown, Alice
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
