venturer

Example Sentences

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A magic in that gaze Draws me, mad venturer!

From Enamels and Cameos and other Poems by Lee, Agnes

"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

He had gone in a tubby wooden craft, the winds his carrier, across oceans that were pathless, except to the venturer.

From The Romance of a Pro-Consul Being The Personal Life And Memoirs Of The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, K.C.B. by Milne, James

Through the open window the suspicious venturer saw the recreant ambassadors, gay with laughter.

From Pipefuls by Morley, Christopher