emprise
Example Sentences
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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
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
And first, the wise men and the magicians recommend that ye be all three sent forth upon an arduous emprise.
From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Israel Zangwill
Take little thought," said Siegfried, "of them and their emprise; Calm but your anxious spirit, and do as I advise.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
