emprise
Example Sentences
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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
The Elizabethan age, big with luxury, vanity, conquest and high emprise, also produced the English miniature.
From Time Magazine Archive
In countless thousands they responded to his call, even little children arising and pressing eastward on the great emprise.
From The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching by J. Dodd (James Dodd) Jackson
Professed libertine though he was, he was not the man for such perilous emprise.
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Mayne Reid
