venturer

Example Sentences

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Instantly the venturer was up and at the flap, peering outside.

From The Maid of the Whispering Hills by Roe, Vingie E. (Vingie Eve)

My father was an inveterate trader, and the year after our coming he joined with another venturer in buying the standing crop of wheat in Hoopa Valley, on the Trinity River.

From A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment by Murdock, Charles A. (Charles Albert)

With a daring heart the venturer from Grand Portage went in across the sill.

From The Maid of the Whispering Hills by Roe, Vingie E. (Vingie Eve)

"What it is to have sins upon one's conscience!" sighed the venturer.

From The Maid of the Whispering Hills by Roe, Vingie E. (Vingie Eve)

It was written, as were all the letters we received from this Cornish venturer, in a woman's hand, small and delicate, with upstrokes like spider's thread; written in French, too, quite easy and careless.

From Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir